Judah's calamities foreshewn. Bejore CHRIST cir. 760. A Lev. 26, 26. Amos 8, 11. b Hos. 7, 7. 13. Amos 5, d Eccl. 10,6. CHAPTER III. The great confusion which cometh by sin FOR, behold, the Lord, the LORD of ISAIAH hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem, and from Judah, the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, 2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, 3 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator. 4 And I will give children to be their princes, and Heb. men † babes shall rule over them. 1 Kings 22, 22. 1, 5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the Christ's kingdon a sanctuary. instead of a stomacher, a girding of sackcloth; and Before CHRIST cir. 760. 26 And her gates shall lament and mourn : and k Lam. 1,4 she, being desolate, shall sit upon the ground. Jer. 14, 1. 1 Luke 19, 44. a ch. 3, 24. b 2 Thes. 3. of one man, saying, We will eat bour own 12. c Luke 1,25. bread, and wear our own apparel; only let us be Micah 3, child shall behave himself proudly against the an-caped of Israel. fch. 24, 2. g John 6,15. 4,5. cient, and the base against the honourable. 6 When a man shall take hold of his brother, of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be h Judg. 11, thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand: 7 In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people. i Micah 3, 12. à ch. 5, 19. 1 Jer. 3, 3. 5. 8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory. 9 The 'shew of their countenance doth witness Gen. 19, against them, and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not: wo unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves. e Jer. 23, 5. f Eph. 5, 26. g 2 Pet. 1,4. 3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among h ch. 60, 21. the living in Jerusalem : i Rev. 3, 5. 4 When the LORD shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof, by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning. Ki Pet. 4, 5 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling- 17. place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a de- 1 Zech. 2,5 fence. 6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for m TM a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from " rain. and women rule over them. O my people, they NOW will I sing to my * well-beloved a song of which lead thee'cause thee to err, and destroy way of thy paths. 13 The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people. 14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the " princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses. 15 What mean, ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts. my beloved touching his vineyard. My well beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: Deut. 22 Psal. 84, S. chap. 25, 4 Heb. 6, 18. n Mat. 7,25. a John 3, 29. b Jer. 2, 21 2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring e Mat. 21, forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. 34. 6. 3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men d Deut. 32, of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my ca. 1, 2, 3 vineyard. 4 What could have been done more to my vineyard 16 Moreover, the LORD saith, Because the daugh-that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I lookters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched-ed that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth forth † necks and wanton eyes, walking, and min-wild grapes ? Pet. 3, 5. cing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: 17 Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts. 2 Pet. 2,14. b Mat. 14, 6. c Deut. 28, 27. Rev. 16, 2. d Jer. 13,22. Nah. 3, 5. Rev. 18, 23 21. 18 In that day the LORD will take away the brave- 19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, Judges &, the head-bands, and the tablets, and the ear-rings, f Gen. 24, 22. g Judg. 14, 12. Η ΓΓ. 23, 21 16 21 The rings, and nose-jewels, mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping-pins, 24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell, there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle, a lucah, rent; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and e 2 Sam. 12, Mic. 6, 3, 5. f Mat. 23, 37. & 24, 40, Amos 3, 6. h Deut. 28, 7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; k Luke 18, for righteousness, but behold a cry. 7 Hab. 2, 12. m Ezek. 11, 15. 8 Wo unto them that 'join house to house, that lay Mic. 2,2 field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! 9 In mine ears, said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth, cars, houses shall be desolate, great and fair. without inhabitant. many even n ch. 7, 23. Amos 5, 12 & 6.9 4 n Ps. 36, 4. Micah 2, 1. b Jer. 9, 4. e Ps. 14, 1. d Ezek. 12, 13. e Jer. 17,15. fAmos 5,10. 22. 18 Wo unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart-rope! 19 That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it! 20 Wo unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 21 Wo unto them that are & wise in their own eyes, Rom. 1, and prudent in their own sight! 22 Wo unto them that are mighty to drink wine, Hab. 2,15. and men of strength to mingle strong drink : John 18, 40. 16. 23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! 24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and k Hosea 9, the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust : because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. 25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. " For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. 12 Kings 13, 3. m Lev. 26, 14. Heb. 10, 31. n ch. 11, 12. o Deut. 28, 49. Psal. 72, 8. Jer. 5, 15. Mal. 1, 11. 26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly. Isaiah's vision. land, behold darkness and sorrow; and the light is CHAPTER VI. Isaiah's vision of the Lord's glory. TN the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Before CHRIST cir. 754. t ch. 8, 22. u Deut. 32, 2. & 33, 25. LORD sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, 2 Sam. 23, and his train filled the temple. Psal. 72, 1. Prov. 29, 22 2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six a 2 Kingwings; with twain he covered his face, and with 15,2. twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. b1 Kings 3 And e one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth 15 full of his glory. 4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. 22, 19. c Ps. 101, 4. d & Kings 19, 13. e Rev. 4, 8. f Ps. 72, 19. g ch. 5, 25. 5 Then said. I, Wo is me! for I am undone ; because I am a man of * unclean lips, and I dwell in h Rev. 13,8 the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. Hab. 3, 16. k Jam. S, 2. 6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with Ps. 103, 20. the tongs from off the altar; 7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips, and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. m Heb. 13, 10. 41. 8 Also I heard the voice of the LORD, saying, John 12, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; Psend me. Gen. 1, 26. 9 And he said, Go, and tell this people,Hear ye PEx 3,11. indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but q. Mat. 22, perceive not. 19. r Mark 4. sch. 28, 18. 10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make 12 their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; 'lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and under- 2 Cor. 2, 10. stand with their heart, and convert, and be healed. - Deut. 28,2. 11 Then said I, LORD, how long? And he answered, Until the "cities be wasted without inhabitant, ul Kings and the houses without man, and the land be utterly 24, 9. desolate; that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up towards Jerusalem towar against it, but could not prevail against it. Ps. 83, 3, 2. And it was told the house of David, saying, ePs. 125, 2. 27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; } Syria is confederate with Ephraim : and his heart none shali slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle pJoel 2,7,8. of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken: Christ promised. Before CHRIST cir. 742. i Pr. 1, 10. k Pr. 21, 30. chap. 8,10. 12 Kings 16, 10. Ezra 4, 2. m ch. 14, 15. 6 Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let 3 And I went unto the prophetess; and she con us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in 7 Thus saith the Lord God, it shall, not stand, 3 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people. 9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the n 2 Kings head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not 16,5. o 2 Chr. 20, 20. p Judg. 6, 38. 4 Mat. 5, 45. r Mat. 12, 38. & Amos 2,13. believe, surely ye shall not be established. 10 Moreover, the Lord spake again unto Ahaz, saying, 11 Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God: "ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. 12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD. 13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also ? 14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a Before CHRIST ceived and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, cir. 742. Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz: e Lev. 18, 8. f ch. 7, 16. 4 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus, and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away 29 before the king of Assyria. g 2 Kings 741. 51 The LORD spake also unto me again, saying, 6 Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of.. Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and h John 9,7. Remaliah's son; 1 ch. 7, 1, 2, 7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up 6. upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, k Deut. 23, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he 47. shall come up over all his channels, and go over all 1 ch. 10 15. his banks: 9a Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far coun- Rev. 16, 13. Mat. 1, 23. sign: Behold, ta Virgin shall conceive, and bear atries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; o Psal. 2, 3. son, and shail call his name || Immanuel. 17 The LORD shall bring * upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria. 18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria: 19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, Jer. 16, 16. and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes. 15 And many among them shall stumble and 25. fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken. b Mat. 21, 16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among 44. my disciples. c John 6,45. 17 And I will wait upon the LORD, thathideth d Dan. 12,4. his face from the house of Jacob, and I will & look e Acts 11, for him. 26. 22 And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of 18 Behold, I, and the children whom the LORD fch. 54, 8. milk that they shall give, he shall eat butter: forhath given me, are for signs and for wonders in g Hab. 2,3. 2ch. 6, 11, & butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land. MOREOVER the LORD said unto me, Take theehold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and c 2 Cor. 13, concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz. 1. d 2 Kings 16. 11. 2. And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jebere Tim 10. chiah they shall be driven to darkness. CHAPTER IX. q Rev. 16, 10. 10. rzeph. 1,5. s 2 Chr. 15, 5. a ch. 8, 22. Christ's birth and kingdom. Before b lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is CHIPSST Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict stretched out still. cir. 738. her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee CHAPTER X. 2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. 3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not in-prescribed : creased the joy: they joy before thee according to e Eph. 5,14. the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they t ch. 37, 31. h divide the spoil. d Mat. 4, 16. g ch. 35, 10. Ezek. 37, 4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppresh Luke 11, sor, as in the day of *. Midian. 11. 22. i ch. 10, 5. 5 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall k Judg. 7, be with burning and fuel of fire. 22 b 2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless! C Before CHRIST cir. 713. a John 3,22. Rev. 3, 16. b Esthers, 12, 15. Dan. 6, 8,9 c Luke 11, 11. 3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, d Hosea 9, and in the desolation which shall come • from far? Luke 19,44. to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye o leave your glory? 2 Thess. 1, e Luke 19, 4 || Without me they shall & bow down under the 12. prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For (John 6,68. all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is Or, But 6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is 1 Rev. 16, 6. o given; and the government shall be upon his shoul2 Thess. der: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Coun-stretched out still. for me, Lam. 3, 2. g 2 Kings 18, 14. h chap. 9,4 6 I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him ich. 3, 17. a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and k Jer. 34, to tread them down like the mire of the streets. 22. 7 Howbeit 'he meaneth not so, neither doth his 1ch. 45,4 heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and 18, 24. 8 For he saith, Are not my princes altogether T 2 Kings kings? 9 Is not Calno as Carchemish ? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus ? 10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the n Job 31, idols, and whose graven images did excel them of 25. Jerusalem and of Samaria; 11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols? 02 Sam. 14, 14. 18. 12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that, when the 1 Pet. 1, 17. LORD hath performed his whole work upon mount p. Jer. 25, Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of 1 Pet. 4,12. the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory a Jer. 30, Hosen 7, teth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts. { of his high looks. 14 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel dhead and tail, branch and rush, in one day. 15 The ancient and honourable, he is the head; * Rev. 18,8. and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail. 16 For the leaders of this people cause them to Mal. 2, 8, err; and they that are led of them are destroyed. f2 Pet. 2,1. 9. h Lam. 2, 14. i Ps. 147, 10, 11. 18. Rev. 13, 20. r Dan. 4,30. s Hab. 1, 15. 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 Acts 17, 26. the inhabitants like a valiant man : 14 And my hand hath found, as a "nest, the riches 17 Therefore the LORD shall have no joy in their of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, young men, neither shall have mercy on their fath-have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped. erless and widows: for every one is a hypocrite and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaketh folly. Ezek.3; For all this his anger is not turned away, but his 9ver. 12, 17. 19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them. e Rev.18 20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the CHRIST remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. (Rev. 12. 17. я Поб. 14, 4. h ch. 9, 6. Dan. 12, 2. 161. 21 The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God. 22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of i Rom. 9,27. the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the conkosal. 119, sumption decreed shall overflow * with righteousness. Dan. 9, 4, 7. 23 For the Lord God of hosts shall make a con1 ch. 28, 22. sumption, even determined, in the midst of all the m ch. 5, 5. land. &1o,22. 24 Therefore thus saith the Lord Gon of hosts, O n ch. 37, 6. 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 Egypt. o ch. 54, 7. p ch. 27, 4. q Est. 7, 10. r2 Kings 19, 25. Rev. 13, 19. 25. A thanksgiving for mercies. ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat 8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of Before CHRIST cir 713. 25, 9. 9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy kich. 2, 4. mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowl- Hos. 2, 18. edge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea. 1 Rev.18, 1. 10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it m Rom. 15 shall the Gentiles seek : and his rest shall be glorious. Rev. 5, 5. 11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the nch. 66, 1. LORD shall set his hand again the second time to o Jer. 16, recover the remnant of his people, which shall be 14 left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. 25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger, in their destruction.tions, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and 9 Acts 13. 12 And he shall set up an ensign for the na- p John 3, 4 r 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 upon the sea, Julges 9, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt. t Ex. 14, 28, 29. 7. 27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his "burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall Rev. 13, be destroyed because of 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 the passage: they have Art220, taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Rev. 17, 14. Gibeah of Saul is fled. 30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim; cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth. 31 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee. 16 And there shall bea highway for the remnant e ch. 35, 8. of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like A roots: 2 And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom 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 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 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 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and 7212 the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf, Acts 3. 19. and the young lion, and the fatling together; and a . 8, 20. little child shall lead them. Hev. 22. 3. 7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young |