Shebna's downfall prophesied. Before ISAIAH. The miserable overthrow of Tyre. 10 And ye have numbered the | that was upon it shall be cut off: for CHRIST houses of Jerusalem, and the houses the LORD hath spoken it. about 712. 1 Neh. 3. 16. k See ch. 37. 26. 1 Joel 1. 13. have ye broken down to fortify the 11 i Ye made also a ditch between re 12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts Icall to weeping, and m See Ezra 9. to mourning, and m to baldness, and 3. Mic. 1. 16. n ch. 56. 12. 1 Cor. 15. 32. o ch. 5. 9. to girding with sackcloth: 13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: "let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die. 14 °And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely p1 Sam. 3. 14. this iniquity Pshall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord GOD of hosts. Ez. 21. 13. q 2 Kin. 18.37. ch. 36. 3. r1 Kings 4. 6. Or, O he. & See 2 Sam. 18. 18. Matt, 27. 60. Or, the LORD who covered thee with an excellent cOU ering, and clothed thee gorgeously, shall surely, fc, ver. 18. + Heb. the captivity of a man. t Esth. 7.8. † Helb. targe of spaces. u 2 Kin.18.18. x Job 12. 14. Rev. 3. 7. y Ezra 9. 8. Or, instruments of viols. 15 T Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto 4 Shebna, which is over the house, and say, 2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the 3 And by great waters the seed of 4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for c Ez. 27, 3. 5 dAs at the report concerning d ch. 19. 16. 6 Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, 7 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her fafar off to 16 What hast thou here, and whom 17 Behold, || the LORD will carry 18 He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house. 19 And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down. 20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant "Eliakim the son of Hilkiah: 21 And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. 8 Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth? 9 The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth. 10 Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more f strength. e eh. 22. 2. + Heb. from ajur off. fSee Ez. 28. 2, 12. ↑ Heb. to polLute, † Heb. girdle. ing a merchantman. 11 He stretched out his hand over 22 And the key of the house of Da-13 Behold the land of the Chal- open. 23 And I will fasten him as ya nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house. 24 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the || vessels of flagons. deans; this people was not, till the † Heb. Canaan. Or. "strengths. g Rev. 18.22. hver. 1. i Ps. 72.9. 14 k Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for k ver. 1. 15 And it shall come to pass in that 25 In that day, saith the LORD of Ez. 27. 25,30. † Heb. it shall be unto Tyre as the song of a harlot. about 712. + Heb. per verteth the face thereof. CHAPTER XXIV. 1 The doleful judgments of God upon the land. 13 A remnant shall joyfully praise him. 16 God in his judgments shall advance his kingdom. His kingdom shall be set up. LORD, they shall cry aloud from the Before CHRIST about 712. j Or, valleys. h Mal, 1. 11. 16 From the futtermost part of Heb. wing. the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe + Heb. unto me! ithe treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously. 17 k Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. 18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the BEHOLD, the LORD maketh the fear shall fall into the pit; and he empty, and maketh it waste, and † turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. 2 And it shall be, as with the peo| Or, prince. ple, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; a Hos. 4. 9. b Ez. 7. 12, 13. b as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. † Heb, the height of the people. c Gen. 3. 17. Num. 35.33. d Mal. 4. 6, ech. 16,8,9. 3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word. 4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish. 5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore hath d the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. 7 The new wine mourneth, the Joel 1.10.12. vine languisheth, all the merry fJer. 7. 34. & 16.9. & 25.10. Ez. 26. 13. Hos. 2. 11. Rev. 18. 22. hearted do sigh. 8 The mirth fof tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth. 9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. 10 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in. 11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone. 12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. 13 When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, gch. 17.5, 6. & there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done. 14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the Leanness to me, or, My secret to me, iJer. 5. 11. kScel Kin. 19. 17. Jer.48.43.44. Amos 5. 19. 1 Gen. 7. 11. that cometh up out the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for 1 the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the m Ps. 18.7. earth do shake. 19 The earth is utterly broken n Jer. 4. 23. down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly. 20 The earth shall reel to and och. 19. 14. fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again. 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall + punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth. 22 And they shall be gathered together, tas prisoners are gathered in the || pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be || visited. 23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and || before his ancients gloriously. CHAPTER XXV. 1 The prophet praiseth God, for his judgments, 6 for his saving benefits, 9 and for his victorious salvation. † Heb. visit ироп. pFs. 76. 12. + Heb. with the gathering of prisoners. or, dungeon. || Or, found wanting. qch. 13. 10. & 60. 19. Ez. 32. 7. Joel 2. 31. & 3. 15. Rev, 19. 4,6. s Heb. 12. 22. Or, there shall be glory before his ancients. about 712. a Ex. 15. 2. Ps. 118. 28. bPs, 98. 1. cNum. 23.19. dch. 21.9. & 2:3, 13. 3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the e Rev. 11. 13. terrible nations shall fear thee. 4 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, fa refuge fch. 4. 6. from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. A song inciting to Before about 712. ISAIAH. 5 Thou shalt bring down the noise CHRIST of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low. goh. 2, 2, 3, h Prov. 9. 2. Matt. 22. 4. i Dan. 7. 14. Matt. 8. 11. + Heb. swallow up. + Heb. covered. k 2 Cor. 3. 15. Eph. 4. 18. 1 Hos. 13. 14. 1 Cor. 15. 54. 21.4. m Rev. 7. 17. & 21. 4. 6 And in this mountain shall hthe LORD of hosts make unto iall people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. 7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering tcast over all people, and k the vail that is spread over all nations. 8 He will 1swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all Rev. 20.14.& faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it. 911 And it shall be said in that n Gen. 49. 18. day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us : this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. Tit. 2. 13. o Ps. 20, 5, 10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab || Or, threshed. shall be || trodden down under him, even as straw is || trodden down for the dunghill. Or, threshed in Madmenah. pch. 26. 5. about 712. a ch. 2. 11. bch, 60. 18. c Ps. 118. 19, 20. +Heb. truths. † Heb. peace, peace, ch. 57. 19. || Or, thought, or, imagina tion. d ch. 45. 17. † Heb, the rock of ages, Deut, 32, 4. ech, 25, 12, & 32. 19. 11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that_swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands. 12 And the Pfortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust. CHAPTER XXVI. 1 A song inciting to confidence in God, 5 for his judgments, 12 and for his favour to his people. 20 An exhortation to wait on God. 3 Thou wilt keep him in fperfect peace, whose || mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. 4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: d for in the LORD JEHOVAH is † everlasting strength. 5T For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; e the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust. 6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy. confidence in God. for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee. 9h With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. 10 i Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in kthe land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD. Before CHRIST about 712. h Ps. 63. 6. Cant. 3. 1. i Ecc. 8. 12. Rom. 2. 4. k Ps. 143. 10. Ps. 28. 5. eh. 5. 12, 11 LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, Ithey will not see: but they 1 Job 34. 27. shall see, and be ashamed for their envy || at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them. 12 LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works || in us. 13 O LORD Our God, mother lords besides thee have had dominion over us; but by thee only will we make mention of thy name. 14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish. 15 Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation; thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth. 16 LORD, "in trouble have they visited thee; they poured out a 18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have Pthe inhabit- p Ps. 17. 14. ants of the world fallen. 199 Thy dead men shall live, to- q Ex. 37.1, &c. gether with my dead body shall they arise. "Awake and sing, ye r Dan, 12, 2. that dwell in dust for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. 20T Come, my people, Senter & Ex. 12.22,23, thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, tPs. 30. 5. until the indignation be overpast. 7 The way of the just is uprightness: f thou, most upright, dost weigh 1 The care of God over his vineyard. 7 u Mic. 1. 3. Jude 14. CHAPTER XXVII. His chastisements differ from judgments. 12 The church of Jews and Gentiles. God's care of his vineyard. Before CHRIST about 712. [Or, crossing like a bar. a Ps. 74.13,14. bch. 51.9. Ez. 29. 3. & 32.2. cch. 5. 1. d Ps. 80. 8. Jer. 2. 21. ePs. 121, 4, 5, f2 Sam. 23.6 ch 9. 18. Or, mareh gch. 25, 4. h Job 22. 21. i ch. 37. 31. Hos. 14. 5, 6. † Heb. ac cording to the stroke of those. k Job 23. 6. Ps. 6. 1. Jer. 10, 24. & 30. 11. & 48. 28. 1 Cor. 10, 13. Or, when thou sendest it forth. | Or, when he removeth 11. 1 Ps. 78. 38. Or, sun images. mSee ch. 17. 2. & 32. 14. ISAIAH. IN that day the LORD with his sort and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the || piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay bthe dragon that is in the sea. 2 In that daysing ye unto her, dA vineyard of red wine. 3 I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. 4 Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would || go through them, I would burn them together. 5 Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may hmake peace with me; and he shall make peace with me. 6 He shall cause them that come of Jacob i to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit. 71 Hath he smitten him, fas he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him? 8 k In measure, || when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: || The stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind. 9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and || images shall not stand up. 10 Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness : mthere shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof. 11. When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire; n Deut. 32.28. for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and ch. 1.3. Jer. 8. 7. o Deut. 32. 18. he that formed them will shew ch. 43. 1, 7. & 44.2,21,24. pch. 2. 11. Rev. 11. 15. them no favour. 12 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel. 13 P And it shall come to pass in q Matt. 24.31. that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem. CHAPTER XXVIII. 1 The prophet threateneth Ephraim for their pride and drunkenness. 5 Theres idue shall be advanced in the kingdom of Christ. 7 He rebuketh their error. 9 Thoir untowardness to learn, 14 and their security. 16 Christ the sure foun Ephraim threatened. Before dation is promised. 18 Their security shall be tried. 23 They are incited to CHRIST the consideration of God's discreet providence. WOE to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose bglorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are tovercome with wine! about 725. a ver, 3, bver. 4. Heb. broken. 2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest cch. 30. 30. of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand. Ex. 13. 11. 3 d The crown of pride, the drunk- d ver. 1. ards of Ephraim, shall be trodden † under feet: † Heb, with e ver. 1. 4 And the glorious beauty, which feet. is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he feateth + Heb. it up. 5 In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people, 6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate. 797 But they also fhave erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; & the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment. 8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean. + Heb, stammerings of Γίρις. il Cor. 14. 21. || Or, he hath 12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary spoken. to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear. 13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. 14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. 15 Because ye have said, We have Christ is promised. Before ISAIAH. The siege of Jerusalem foretold. CHAPTER XXIX. made a covenant with death, and CHRIST with hell are we at agreement; when 1 God's heavy judgment upon Jerusalem. about 725, k Amos 2. 4. 1 Gen. 49. 24. Ps. 118. 22. Matt. 21, 42. Rom. 9.33. & 10. 11. Eph. 2. 20. 1 Pet. 2. 6, 7, 8. mver, 15, † Heb. a treading down to it, the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: k for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: 16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation la stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste. 17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away in the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. 18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be ftrodden down by it. 19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexaOr, when he tion only to understand the re shall make you to un derstand doctrine. 1 Chr. 14. 11. port. 20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. 21 For the LORD shall rise up as in 2 Sam 5.20. mount "Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, Phis strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange o Josh. 10. 10, 13. 2 Sam. 5, 25. 1 Chr. 14. 16. p Lam, 3, 33, act. 22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD qch. 10.22.23. of hosts la consumption, even de Dan, 9. 27. Or, thewheat in the princi pal place, and barley in the appointed place, || Or, spelt. † Heb. border. || Or, And he bindeth it in such sort as his God doth teach him. r Ps. 92. 5. Jor, 32. 19. termined upon the whole earth. 23 11 Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech. 24 Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground? 25 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in || the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the || rye in their f place? 26 || For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him. 27 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod. 28 Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen. 29 This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working. || the b where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them † kill sacrifices. 2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel. 3 And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee. 4 And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, Cout of the ground, and thy speech shall † whisper out of the dust. 5 Moreover the multitude of thy dstrangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be fat an instant suddenly. 6 & Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire. Before CHRIST about 712. Or. O Ariel, that is, the lion of God. a Ez. 43.15, 16, Or, of the city. 12 Sam. 5.9. † Heb, cut off the heads, ech. 8. 19. + Heb, peep, or, chirp. deh. 25. 5. eJob 21. 18. ch. 17. 13. fch. 30, 13. geh. 28. 2. & 30. 30. i Job 20. 8. 7 And the multitude of all the hch. 37.36. nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be ias a dream of a night vision. 8k It shall even be as when a hun- k Ps. 73.20. gry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion. 9 Stay yourselves, and wonder; ||| cry ye out, and cry: 1they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. 10 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your † rulers, the seers hath he covered. 11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a || book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: "and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed: 12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned. |