Israel reproved for unbelief.

Before CHRIST

about 712.

† Heb. into straightness.

& Ps. 97.7.

ch. 1. 20. & 41. 11. & 45.

16.

t ch. 43. 8.

Ez. 12. 2.

Seo John 9.

39, 41.

u Rom, 2, 21.

Or, him,

Or, in snar

ing all the

young men of them.

+ Heb. a

treading.

† Heb. for the after time!

16 And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things † straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.

17 They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.

18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.

19 t Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD'S servant?

20 Seeing many things, "but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.

21 The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make || it honourable.

22 But this is a people robbed and spoiled; || they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for ta spoil, and none saith, Restore.

23 Who among among you you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear † for the time to come?

24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.

25 Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the x2 Kin. 25. 9. strength of battle: Xand it hath set y Hos. 7. 9. him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.

2o When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou & walkest

g Dan.3.25,27. through the fire, thou shalt not be

& 21, 18,

The fall of Babylon foretold.

I give men for thee, and people for thy || life.

5 i Fear not; for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west:

6 I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;

Before CHRIST about 712.

Or, person.

i ch. 41. 10, 11. & 44. 2. Jer. 30.10,11. & 46. 27, 28,

James 2.7.

7 Even every one that is kcalled by kch. 63. 19. my name: for 11 have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.

1 Pz. 100. 3. ch. 29. 23. John 3.3, 5. 2 Cor. 5. 17.

8 of "Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that Eph. 2. 10. have ears.

m ver. 1.

nch. 6. 9. &
49. 19.
Ez. 12. 2,

o eh. 41.21,22,

9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: "who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let | 26. them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.

p ch. 44. 8.

55.4.

10 P Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I qch. 42. 1. & have chosen; that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was || no God formed, neither shall there be after me.

11 I, even I, & am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.

rch. 41. 4. &

44.6.

Or, nothing formed of God.

sch. 45. 21.

Hos. 13. 4.

12 I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: "there-t Deut. 32, 16. fore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God.

13x Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall flet it?

P. 81. 9.

u ch. 44. 8. ver. 10,

xPx. 90. 2.

John 8. 58.

+ Heb, turn it back?

ch. 11.

14 T Thus saith the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; Job 9.12. For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose + Heb. bars.

cry is in the ships. 15 I am the LORD, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King. 16 Thus saith the LORD, which "maketh a way in the sea, and a z Ex.14.16,22.

Ps. 77. 19.
ch. 51. 10,

a Josh. 3. 13, 16.

a path in the mighty waters; 17 Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they b Ex. 14. 4shall not rise: they are extinct, they requenched as tow.

Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. 19 Behold, I will do a dnew thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a the desert.

3 For I am the LORD thy God, the

h Prov. 11.8. Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.

4 Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will

20 The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the || owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.

9. 25.

c Jer. 16.14. 23. 7.

d2 Cor. 5. 17. Rev. 21. 5. e Ex. 17. 6. Num. 20, 11, Deut. 8. 15. Ps. 78. 16. ch. 35. 0, & 41.18.

Or, ostriches. † Heb. daughters of the owl.

fch. 48. 21.

g Ps. 102, 18.

ver. 1, 7.
Luke 1. 74,
75.

21 & This people have I formed for Eph. 1. 5, 6.

:

t. Heb. made medrunk, or, abundantly moistened.

k ch. 1. 14.

Mul. 2. 17.

1 ch. 44. 22. & 48.9.

Jer. 50. 20.

Acts 3.19.

m Ez. 36. 22, &c.

nch. 1. 18.

Jer. 31. 34.

+ IHeb.

interpreters,

Mal. 2. 7,8.

o ch. 47. 6.

Lam.2.2,6,7,

Or, holy

princes.

1) Ps. 79. 4.

Jer. 24. 9.

Dan. 9. 11.

Zech. 8. 13.

about 712.

a ver. 21.

ch. 41. 8. & 43.1.

Jer. 30. 10. & 46, 27, 28.

bch. 43. 1, 7.

c Deut. 32, 15.

d ca. 35. 7.

Joel 2. 28.
John 7. 38.

Acts 2. 18.

e ver. 24.

The folly of idol makers.

are even my witnesses. Is there Beforo a God besides me? yea, kthere is CHRIST no God; I know not any. about 712.

9 T 1 They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their † delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; mthey see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.

k Deut. 4. 25. 39. & 32. 39. 1 Sam. 2. 2. 2 Sam. 22.32. ch. 45. 5.

+ Heb, rock, Deut. 32. 4.

10 Who hath formed a god, or leh. 41.24,29.

molten a graven image profitable for nothing?

that is

11 Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed; and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be

with thine iniquities.

25 I, even I, am he that I blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, not remember thy

sins.

and will

26 Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.

27 Thy first father hath sinned, and thy + teachers have transgressed against me.

28 Therefore I have profaned the || princes of the sanctuary, Pand have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.

CHAPTER XLIV.

1 God comforteth the church with his promises. 7 The vanity of idols, 9 and folly of idol makers. 21 He exhorteth to praise God for his redemption and omnipotency. ET

Y

now hear, * O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:

2 Thus saith the LORD that made thee, band formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

3 For I will dpour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:

4 And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.

5 One shall say, I am the LORD'S; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.

6 Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his Redeemer the

ch. 43. 1, 14. LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.

fch. 41. 4. Sc 49. 12. Rev. 1. 8, 17. & 22. 13.

& 45. 21.

7 And & who, as I, shall call, and

gch. 41. 4, 22. shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and shall come, let them shew unto them.

8 Fear ye not, neither be afraid: hhave not I told thee from that i ch. 43.10.12. time, and have declared it? iye

up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together.

and

12 The smith || with the tongs both worketh in the coals, fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.

13 The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.

† Heb; desirable.

In Ps. 115. 4, &c.

n Jer. 10, 5. Hab. 2. 18.

o Ps. 97. 7. ch. 1. 29. & 42. 17. & 45. 16.

pch, 40, 19, & 41. 6. Jer.10.3, &c.

|| Or, with an

axe.

14 He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he || strengtheneth for him- Or. taketh self among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.

15 Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.

16 He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire:

17 And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god.

Idols not comparable to God.

CHRIST unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me

about 712.

m Ps. 19. 8. &

119. 137, 138.

in ch. 44.17,18.

19. & 46.7. &

48, 7.

Rom. 1. 22, 23.

o ch. 41. 22. &

43.9. & 44.7.

& 46.10.& 48

14.

pver. 5,14.18.

ch. 44 8.446.

9. & 48.3,&c.

65. 5.

in vain: I the LORD speak rightcousness, I declare things that are right.

20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: "they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.

21 Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from

q Ps. 22. 27. & that time? have not I the LORD? Pand there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.

r Gen. 22. 16. Heb. 6. 13.

s Rom. 14. 11.

Phil. 2. 10.

t Gen. 31.03.

Deut. 6. 13.

Ps. 63, 11.

ch. 65. 16.

22 9 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.

23 I have sworn by myself, the Or, Surely, he word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.

shell say of
me, In the

LORD is all

righteousness

andstrength.

u Jer. 23.5.

1 Cor. 1. 30.

† Heb. right

cousinesses,

x ch. 41. 11.

y ver. 17.

x 1 Cor. 1. 31.

about 712.

a ch. 21. 9.

Jer. 50. 2. & 51.44.

b Jer. 10. 5.

e Jer. 48. 7.

+ Heb, their soul,

d Ex. 19. 4.

Deut. 1.31.&

32. 11.

Ps. 71. 6.

ch. 63. 9.

a Ps. 102. 27.

Mal, 3, 6,

f Ps. 48. 14. & 71.18.

g ch. 40.18,25.

h ch. 10. 19. &

12, 19. Jer. 10. 3.

e

24 || Surely shall one say, In the LORD have I utrighteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.

25 In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and "shall glory. CHAPTER XLVI.

1 The idols of Babylon could not save themselves, 3 God saveth his people to the end. 5 Idols are not comparable to God for power, 12 or present salvation.

a boweth down, Nebo stoopeth; their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy laden; bthey are a burden to the weary beast.

2 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but † themselves are gone into captivity.

3 Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, dwhich are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:

4 And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs fwill I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.

55 To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?

6 h

They lavish gold out of the bag, 41. 6. & & 44. and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.

7 i They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, kone shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.

Before

selves men: I bring it again to mind, CHRIST O ye transgressors.

9 m Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,

10o Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, P My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

11 Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.

4 As for four Redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of feh. 43. 3, 14. Israel.

5 Sit thou & silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: hfor thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.

6il was wroth with my people, kI have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; lupon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

711 And thou saidst, I shall be ma lady for ever: so that thou didst not "lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it.

8 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, PI am, and none else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:

The intent of prophecy.

Before

they shall come upon thee in their CHRIST perfection for the multitude of thy about 712. sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.

t Nah. 3. 4.

u Ps. 52. 7.

x ch. 29. 15.

Ez. 8. 12. &

9.9.

Or, caused

thes to turn

away.

y ver. 8.

† Heb. the

morning
thereof.

+ Heb.

rxpiate.

10 For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath || perverted thee; Y and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else besides me.

11 Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which

1 Thess, 5.3. thou shalt not know.

a ch. 57, 10.

b ch. 44. 25.

Dan. 2. 2.

† Heb.

viewers of the heavens.

† Heb.

that give
knowledge
concerning

the months.

c Nah. 1. 10,

Mal. 4. 1.

+ Heb.

their souls.

dRev. 18.11.

АРЯ, 68. 26.

b Deut. 6. 13.

eh. 65. 16.

Zeph. 1. 5.

c Jer. 4. 2. & 5.2.

dch. 52. 1.

o Mic. 3. 11.

Rom, 2. 17.

12 Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.

13 a Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the †astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.

14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.

15 Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even dthy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.

CHAPTER XLVIII.

1 God, to convince the people of their foreknown obstinacy, revealed his prophecies. 9 He saveth them for his own sake. 12 He exhorteth them to obedience, because of his power and providence. 16 He lamenteth their backwardness. 20 He powerfully delivereth his out of Babylon.

H

EAR ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.

2 For they call themselves dof the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel: The LORD of hosts is his name.

3 f I have declared the former things 443.9& from the beginning; and they went

fch. 41. 22. 42.9.443.9.. 44. 7, 8. & 4.5. 21. & 46.9,10.

gJosh. 21.45.

† Heb. hard.

h Ex. 32. 9. Deut. 31. 27.

forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.

4 Because I knew that thou art †obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

5 il have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them; and my graven image, and

Exhortation to obedience.

my molten image, hath commanded them.

6 Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.

7 They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.

8 Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called ka transgressor from the womb.

9For my name's sakem will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.

10 Behold, "I have refined thee, but not || with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

11 °For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.

12 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the "first, I also am the last.

13 Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and || my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when "I call unto them, they stand up together.

14 * All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these things? The LORD hath loved him: "he will do his

pleasure on Babylon, and his arm

Before CHRIST about 712.

kPs. 58. 3.

1 Ps. 79. 9. &

106,8.

ch. 43. 25. ver. 11.

Ez. 20, 9, 14, 22, 44.

m Ps. 78. 38.

n. Ps. 66, 10.

1 Or, for

silver:
See Ez,22,20,

21, 22.

o ver. 9.

See Deut.

32. 26, 27.
Ez. 20. 9.

qch. 42.8.

r Deut. 32.39.

sch. 41. 4. & 44. 6.

Rev. 1. 17. & 22. 13.

t Ps. 102, 25.

Or, the palm of my right hand hath spread out.

uch. 40.26.

x ch. 41. 22. & 43. 9. & 44.7. & 45. 20, 21. y ch. 45. 1.

shall be on the Chaldeans. 15 I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way zeh. 44. 28. prosperous.

ach. 45. 1, 2, &c.

bch. 45. 10.

16 IT Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; bI have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord God, and his Spirit, hath ech. 01. 1. sent me.

C

Zech. 2, 8, 9, 11.

dch. 43. 14. &

44. 6, 24. ver. 20.

17 Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee Ps. 32. 8. by the way that thou shouldest go.

18 fo that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy rightcousness as the waves of the sea: 19 h Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.