1 Job 5. 12.

m ch.7.7. n ch.7.14. Acts 5. 38, 39.

Rom. 8. 31. 4 Heb. in strength of hand.

o ch. 7. 2. p1 Pet.3.14, 15.

q Num. 20. 12.

r Ps. 76. 7. Luke 12. 5.

. Ezek. 11. 16.

t ch. 28. 16. Luke 2. 34. Rom. 9. 33. 1 Pet. 2. 8.

10 'Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, m and it shall not stand: "for God is with us.

11 ¶ For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,

12 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall A confederacy; P neither fear ye say, their fear, nor be afraid.

13 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

15 And many among them shall " stumble, and fall, and be broken, Luke 20. 18. and be snared, and be taken.

u Matt. 21. 44.

Rom. 9. 32.

& 11. 25.

I ch. 54.8.

y Hab. 2. 3. Luke 2.25,

38.

■ Ps. 71. 7. Zech. 3. 8.

16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

17 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

18 Behold, I and the children Heb. 2.13. whom the LORD hath given me a are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.

Christ's birth and kingdom.

CHAPTER IX.

8 The

1 What joy shall be in the midst of afflictions, by the kingdom and birth of Christ. judgments upon Israel for their pride, 13 for their hypocrisy, 18 and for their impenitency. & dimness

BEFORE CHRIST cir. 740.

cir. 740.

b Kings

NEVERTHELESS & the dim less ach. 5.-22. vexation, when at the first he light-12 Ki ly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee 2 of the nations.

2 Chr. 16. 4. Lev. 26.24. 5,6

2 Kings 17.

1 Chr. 5. 26. cir. 771. cir. 740.

d Matt. 4.16.

2 The people that walked in dark- 2 Or,. ness have seen a great light: they populous. that dwell in the land of the shadow Eph.5.8,14. of death, upon them hath the light shined.

3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

44 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.

7 Of the increase of his govern-m ment and peace Pthere shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to esta-Dan.2.44. blish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.

9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,

10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

33.

92 Kings

19.31. ch. 37. 32. cir. 738.

11 Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together; 8 Heb. 12 The Syrians before, and the mingle. Philistines behind; and they shall de-Heb. vour Israel with open mouth. For mouth. all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

13 ¶ For the people turneth not

with whole

rch. 5. 25.

10.4.

Jer. 4. 8. . Jer. 5. 3.

Hos. 7. 10.

| Assyria for his pride

BEFORE CHRIST cir. 738.

t ch. 10. 17. Rev. 18. 8.

a ch. 3. 12. 2 Or, they that call them blessed.

3 Or, they that are called blessed of them.

17 Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless Heb.sal and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh 'folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his 50r,villany hand is stretched out still.

lowed up.

x Ps. 147. 10, 11.

y Mic. 7. 2.

z ver. 12, 21. ch. 5. 25. & 10. 4.

a ch. 10. 17. Mal. 4. 1.

b ch. 8. 22.

Heb.meat.
Mic. 7.2.6.

7

18 For wickedness a burneth as the fire it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall | mount up like the lifting up of smoke. 19 Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the 'fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother. 20 And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he a Lev. 26.26. shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm: 21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they togefver. 12,17. ther shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

7 Hcb. cut.

• cli. 49. 26. Jer. 19.9.

ch. 5. 25. &

10. 4.

shall be broken.

mine anger, 2 and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.

an

6 I will send him against f hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

7 h Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.

8' For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?

9 Is not Calno 1as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

m

10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount 2 Kings Zion and on Jerusalem, I will 'pun-Jer. 50.18. ish the fruit of the stout heart of 4 Heb. visit upon. the king of Assyria, and the glory of 6 Heb. of the his high looks. greatness of the heart.

13 For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:

14 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped. 15 Shall the axe boast itself against Jer. 51. 20. him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.

8

16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.

17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: tand it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day; 18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of "his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth.

4 Without me they shall bow 9. 12, 17,21. down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. d For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. 5 Assyrian, the rod of

9 Or,
Woe to the
Assyrian.

2 Heb.
Asshur.

• Jer. 51. 20.

19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.

20 T And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house

Christ's peaceable kingdom.

34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one. CHAPTER XI.

1 The peaceable kingdom of the Branch out of

16. 7.

2Chr.28.20. upon him that smote them; but shall

y ch. 7.3.

* Rom.9. 27. a ch. 6. 13. 8 Heb. in,

or, among.

stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

21 y The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.

22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the

b ch. 23. 22. consumption decreed shall overflow ♦ with righteousness.

4 Or, in.

• ch. 28. 22. Dan. 9. 27. Rom. 9. 28.

d ch. 37. 6.

5 Or, but he shall lift up his staff for thee.

• Exod. 14. (ch. 54.7.

Dan.11.36.

b2 Kings 19.

35.

23 For the Lord GoD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land. 24 Therefore thus saith the Lord Gon of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of e * Egypt.

25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.

26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was Ex. 14. 26, upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.

Judg.7.25. ch. 9. 4.

27.

1 ch. 14. 25. 6 Heb. shall remove.

m Pa.105.15. Dan. 9. 24. 1 John 2. 20.

n1 Sam. 13. 23.

olSam.11.4.

7 Heb. Cry shrill with thy voice.

p 1 Sam. 25. 44.

qJudg. 18.7.

27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that 'his burden shall be taken from off thy shoulder, and away his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of m the anointing.

28 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:

29 They are gone over n the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; • Gibeah of Saul is fled.

7

30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter Pof Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.

31 Madmenah is removed; the Josh.21.18. inhabitants of Gebim gather them

Josh.15.31.

t1Sam.21.1. & 22. 19.

selves to flee.

32 As yet shall he remain tat Nob Neh. 11. 32. that day he shall "shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

u ch. 13. 2. x ch.37.22.

the root of Jesse. 10 The victorious restoration of Israel, and vocation of the Gentiles. ND & there shall come forth a rodach. 53. 2. out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: 2 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wis-Jer. 23. 5. dom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; 3 And shall make him of 3 quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: 4 But with righteousness shall P8.72.2, 4. he judge the poor, and 'reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.

6 h The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.

9 'They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

10 ¶ 'And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.

or, smell.

11 And it shall come to pass Pin &c. that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, a from Assyria, and Zech. 10. from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

A joyful thanksgiving.

BEFORE CHRIST

cir. 713.

. Jer. 3. 18.

17,22. Hos. 1. 11.

2 Heb. the children of the east. t Dan.11.41. 3 Heb. Edom and Moab shall bethe laying on of their hand.

4 Heb. the children of Ammon their obcdience. u ch. 60. 14. I Zech. 10. 11.

y Rev.16.12. 5 Heb. in shoes.

2 ch. 19. 23. a Ex. 14. 29. ch. 51. 10. & 03. 12, 13.

a ch. 2. 11.

b Ps. 83. 18. © Ex. 15. 2. Ps. 118. 14.

14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil 2 them of the east together they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon "shall obey them. 15 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over 5 dryshod.

16 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; alike as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

CHAPTER XII.

A joyful thanksgiving of the faithful for the mercies of God.

A LORD, I will praise thee: though ND in that day thou shalt say, thou wastangry with me, thine angeris turned away, and thou comfortedst me. 2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my

dJohn 4.10, Salvation.

14. & 7.37, 38.

el Chr.16.8. Ps. 105. 1.

6 Or, proclaim his name.

с

5 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land. 6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.

7 Therefore shall all hands 2 be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:

BEFORE CHRIST cir. 712.

Zeph. 1.7.

Rev. 6. 17. h Job 31. 23.

Joel 1.15. 2Or, fall

down.

1 ch. 21.3.

8 And they shall be afraid: 'pangs Pa, 48.6. and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed 1one at another; their faces shall be as 'flames.

k

3

9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate : and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

1

& Heb. Heb.every

wonder.

man at his neighbour.

Heb.faces of the flames.

k Mal. 4. 1.

Pa. 104.35.

Prov. 2. 22.

10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give right songs worth, and the moon their light: the sun shall be darken-mch. 24. 21,

shall not cause her light to shine.

11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; " and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

Ps. 145. 4, name,

5, 6.

g Ps. 34. 3.

h Ex. 15. 1, 21.

Ps. 68. 32. & 98.1.

ich. 54. 1.

Zeph. 3. 14. 7 Heb.

h

5 Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth.

in

6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitress. habitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee. CHAPTER XIII.

k Ps. 71. 22. & 89. 18.

ch. 41.14,16.

Ezek. 32. 7. Joel 2. 31. & 8. 15.

Matt. 24.29. Luke 21.25.

Mark 13.24.

n ch. 2. 17.

a Ps. 102. 13.

b Zech. 1.17. & 2. 12.

10..

ceh. 60.4, 5, Ephes.2.12,

18, &c.

d ch. 49.22. & 60. 9. & 66. 20.

9 Heb. that had taken them captives.

e ch. 60. 14.

r ch. 13. 19. Hab. 2. 6.

ing speech.

1 God's merciful restoration of Israel. 4 Their triumphant insultation over Babel. 24 God's purpose against Assyria. 29 Palestina is threatened.

NOR the LORD a will have mercy

over Babel.

unto

10 All they shall speak and say thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?

11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.

12 'How art thou fallen from hea-1 ch. 34. 4. ven, 20 Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

m Matt. 11. 23.

a Dan. 8. 10.

13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the Ps. 48. 2. sides of the north:

14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; PI will be like the pch. 47. 8. most High.

2 Thess. 2.4.

23.

Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

2 And the people shall take them, dand bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,

4 T That thou shalt take up this 2Or, tant proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! 5 The LORD hath broken "the staff h Pa. 125. 3. of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.

3 Or, exactress of gold. 8 Rev. 18.16.

4 Heb. a stroke without removing.

ich. 55. 12. Ezek. 31.10.

* Ezek. 32. 21.

6 Or, The grave.

G Heb. leaders.

7 Or, great goats.

6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.

7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing. 8' Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.

9 ks Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the 7 chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.

19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.

20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.

r

21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

t

30r, did not

let his prisoners loose home

wards!

Job 18. 19. & 109. 13.

Ps. 21. 10. & 37. 28.

. Ex. 20.5. Matt. 23.35.

22 For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and "rem-Prov. 10.7. nant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD.

23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.

24¶ The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

25 That I will break the Assyrian

Jer. 51. 62. " I Kings 14. 10.

* Job 18. 19. 7 ch. 34. 11. Zoph. 2. 14.