The Jews' hypocrisy threatened. Before CHRIST about 712. t Col. 2. 22. u Hab. 1.5. + Heb. I will add. x Jer. 49. 7. Obad. 8. 1 Cor. 1. 19. y ch. 30. 1. Ps. 94. 7. ach. 45. 9. Rom. 9. 20. b ch. 32. 15. e ch. 35. 5. d ch. 61. 1. • James 2. 5. ISAIAH. fear toward me is taught by the precept of men: 14 Therefore, behold, †I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid. 15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us? 16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay for shall the a work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding? 17 Is it not yet a very little while, and bLebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest? 18 T And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of dark ness. 19 d The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. 20 For the terrible one is brought fch. 28. 14.22. to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that 5 watch for iniquity are cut off: Mic, 2. 1. h Amos 6. 10. 12. iProv. 28. 21. 21 That make a man an offender for a word, and blay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just i for a thing of nought. 22 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Josh. 24. 3. k who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale. 23 But when he seeth his chil1 ch. 19. 25. &dren, the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel. about 713. a ch. 29. 15. b Deut. 29.19. c ch. 31. 1. d Num. 27.21. Josh, 9, 14. 1 Kings 22.7. Jer. 21. 2. & 42, 2,20, trine. CHAPTER XXX. 1 The prophet threateneth the people for their confidence in Egypt, 8 and contempt of God's word. 18 God's mercies towards his church. 27 God's wrath, and the people's joy, in the destruction of Assyria. W X7OE to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me and that cover with a covering, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin: 2 That walk to go down into Egypt, and d have not asked at my Confidence in Egypt reproved. mouth; to strengthen themselves Before CHRIST about 713. e ch. 20. 5. Jer. 37. 5, 7. g Jer. 2. 30. 4 For his princes were at fZoan, fel. 19. 11. and his ambassadors came to Hanes. 5 They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach. h ch. 57. 9. Hos. 8. 9. & 12. 1. 6 h The burden of the beasts of the south: Into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, ithe viper i Deut. & 15. and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them. 7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still. 8 T Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for † the time to come for ever and ever: 12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression Or. fraud. and perverseness, and stay thereon: 13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant. 14 And she shall break it as the breaking of t the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit. q Pr. 82. 3. rch. 99. 5. SPL 2.9 Jer. 19. 11. + Heb, the bottle of potters. ch. 7. 4. u Matt. 23.37. 15 For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel; In return-tver. 7. ing and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: "and ye would not. 16 But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride. upon the swift; therefore shall they that Lev. 26. & pursue you be swift. 17 One thousand shall fice at the rebuke of one: at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on a hill, Deat, 28, 25. & 32. 30. Josh, 23, 10 Or, a tre bereft of branche or, boughs: or, a man. 18 And therefore will the LORD CHRIST wait, that he may be gracious unto about 713. you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him. 7. 2. 12. & ach. 65. 9. Ps. 127. 2. 19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry: when he shall hear it, he will answer thee. 20 And though the Lord give you a1 Kin 22.27. the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not bthy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: non. b Pa. 74 9. Amos 8. 11. e Jean. 1. 7. d2 Chr. 31. 1. ch. 2. 20. & 31.7. + Heb. the graven im ages of thy silver. + Heb scatter. • Нов. 14. 8. f Matt, 6. 33. 1 Tim. 4. 8. 21 And thine cars shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. 22 d Ye shall defile also the covering of i thy graven images of silver, and Before CHRIST about 713. The folly of trusting in Egypt. shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, Pand hailstones. pch. 28. 2. & 32. 19. 31 For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten eh. 37. 3, down, which smote with a rod.. 32 And tin every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall flay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it. 33 For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it. God. He exhorteth to conversion. Egypt for help; and stay on rch. 10, 5, 24. + Heb, every passing of the rod founded. + Heb.cause to rest upon kim. ch. 11. 15. & 19 16. ¡Or, against them. Jr. 7. 31. & 19.6, &e. Heb. from yesterday. about 713. a ch. 30. 2. & ch. 36. 9. e Dan. 9. 13. Hos. 7. 7. ↑ Heb.remove. the ornament of thy molten images 24 The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat ¡Or, savoury.t clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan. 26 Moreover h the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound. 27 T Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is theavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire: 28 And his breath, as an overflow2 Thess. 2.8. ing stream, k shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be la bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err. men, P. 146. 3, 5. 4 For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, fLike as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof. 5 As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; i defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it. 6 T Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have k deeply revolted. 7 For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and this idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for ma sin. 8 Then shall the Assyrian "fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee Il from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited. 9 And the shall pass over to his Pa. 91. 4. iPs. 37. 40. klos. 9. 9. 1 ch. 2, 20, & 30, 22. Heb. the idols of his gold. m 1 Kings 12. n See 2 Kings 10, for fear ↑ Heb. fur melting, or, tribute. och. 37. 37. + Heb. his rock shall ran away for fear. [Or, kis strength. The blessings of Christ's kingdom. Before ISAIAH. strong hold for fear, and his princes CHRIST shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem. about 713. a Pa. 45. 1, &c. bch. 4. 6. & 25.4. CHAPTER XXXII. 1 The blessings of Christ's kingdom. 9 Brighteousness, and princes shall 2 And a man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and ba covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a t Heb. heavy. great rock in a weary land. ech. 20. 18. & 35. 5, 0. † Heb. hasty. elegantly. JOr, when d Amos (. 1. 3 And the eyes of them that see The enemies of Zion threatened. shall be peace; and the effect of right- 18 And my people shall dwell in a 191 When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place. 20 Blessed are ye that sow beside all CHAPTER XXXIII. Before CHRIST about 713. Ich. 30. 30. Or, and the city shall be utterly abased. n ch. 30. 24. about 713. Hab. 2.8. b Rev. 13. 10. WOE to thee "that spoilest, and 5 The vile person shall be no more 7 The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right. 8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand. 9 T Rise up, ye women d that are at case; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give car unto my speech. ↑ Heb. Days 10 Many days and years shall ye above a year. be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come. + Heb. the fields of deaire. e ch. 31. 13. loa. 9. G. Or, burning upon, fc. fch. 22. 2. g ch. 27. 10. Or, cliffa and watch towers. h Ps. 104. 30. Joel 2. 28. ich. 29. 17. & 35. 2. James 3.18. 13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city: 14 6 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks; 15 Until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high, and i the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest. 16 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field. 17 And the work of righteousness away. 10 i Now will I rise, saith the LORD; Pa. 12. 6. now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself. ch. 50.4 11k Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall P. 7. 14 12 And the people shall be as the 14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; o Ps. 119. 37. + Heb. keights, OT, high places. 1 Heb. the land of far distances. pl Cor. 1. 20. + Heb. weigher. q 2 Kin.19.33. Deut. 28. 49, 50. Jer. 5. 15. Or. ridiculous, SPs. 48, 12. t Ps. 46. 5. & 125, 1, 2. u eh, 37, 33. zch. 5. 2. + Heb, broad 17 Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty: they shall behold t the land that is very far off. God avengeth his church. Before CHRIST about 713. i Jer. 49.7. &e. Mal. 1. 4. 5 For b my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it ishall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. 6 The sword of the LORD is filled Jr. 46. 10. with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for k the LORD hath a sacri-keh. 63. 1. fice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter Jer. 49. 13. Zeph. 1. 7. in the land of Idumea. m See Deut. 29. 23. 18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. 8 For it is the day of the LORD'S 20Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; "not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken. 21 But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place t of broad rivers of spaces, or, and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby. hands. 22 For the LORD is our judge, the y James 4. 12. LORD is our flawgiver, the LORD is our King; he will save us. + Heb.statutemaker. > Ps. 89. 18. Or, They have forsak en thy tacklings. a Jer, CO, 20. 23 Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast; they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey. 24 And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity. CHAPTER XXXIV. 1 The judgments wherewith God revengeth his church. 11 The desolation of her enemies. 16 The certainty of the prophecy. YOME near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people blet the earth hear, and fall that is therefulness there in the world, and all things that come forth of it. a Ps. 49. 1. of. e Joel 2, 20. "COME 2 For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter. 3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcasses, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood. 4 And d all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall at trolled together as a scroll; fand all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as la falling fig from the fig tree. 11 TP But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line, pian of confusion, and the stones of emp- Lam. 2.8. tiness. 12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing, 13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall be a habitation of dragons, and a court for owls. 14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest. 15 There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate. q2 Kin.21.13 rch. 32. 13. ch.13.21,&o. Hoa, 9. C. | Or, ostriches. + Heb. daughters of the owl. + Heb. Ziin. + Heb. Ijim. [Or, night monster. 16 T Seek ye out of the book of the Mal. 3, 16. LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them. 17 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein. CHAPTER XXXV. 1 The joyful flourishing of Christ's king- 2 b It shall blossom abundantly, and CHRIST rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon; they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God. c Job 4.3, 4. Heb. 12. 12. ↑ Heb. hasty. d ch. 29. 19. & 32. 3, 4, & 42. 7. Matt. 9. 27, &o. & 11.5.& 12, 22. & 20. 30, &c. & 21. 14. John 9. 6, 7. e Matt. 11. 5. Mark 7. 32, &c. f Matt. 11. 5. & 15. 30, & 21. 11. 3 TStrengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. 4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense; he will come and save you. 5 Then the deyes of the blind shall be opened, and the cars of the deaf shall be unstopped. 6 Then shall the flame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb John 5. 8. 9. sing: for in the wilderness shall Acts 3.2, &c.h waters break out, and streams in & 8.7. & 14. 8, &c. gch. 32. 4. Matt. 9. 32, the desert. 7 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land 333022 springs of water: in ithe habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes. & 15. h ch. 41. 19. & 43, 19. John 7. 38, 39. i ch. 31. 13. Or, a court fur reade, fc. k ch. 62. 1. Joel 3. 17. Rev. 21. 27. Or, for he shall be with them. 1 Lev. 20. 6. eh. 11. 9. Ex. 34. 25. m eh. 51. 11. uch. 25. 8. & Rev. 7. 17. & 65. 19. 21. 4. 713. 2 Kings 18. 13, 17. 2 Chr. 32. 1. 710. 8 And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not crr therein. 9 No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there: 10 And the "ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and "sorrow and sighing. shall flee away. N CHAPTER XXXVI. 1 Sennacherib invadeth Judah. 4 Rabsha keh, sent by Sennacherib, by blasphemous persuasions soliciteth the people to revolt. 22 His words are told to Hezekiah. TOW it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them. 2 And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field. 3 Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was over Or,secretary. the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder. 4 TbAnd Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest? b2 Kin.18.19, &c. + Heb. a word of lips. Or, but counsel and strength are for the war. 5 I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me? Rabshakeh's blasphemous speech. 710. 6 Lo, thou trustest in the staff of Before this broken reed, on Egypt; where- OHRIST on if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him. 7 But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar? CEL. 29, 6, 7. 8 Now therefore give pledges, I Or, hostages. pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them. 9 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen ? 10 And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it. 11 Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall. 12 T But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you? 13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said, Hear ye the Words of the great king, the king of Assyria. 14 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you. 15 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. 16 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: dand eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;" 17 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards. 18 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? 19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods 10r, Seek my favour by a present. + Heb. Naks with me a bearing. d Zach. 3. 10. |