ated, or, separated, Ps. 58. 3. h ch. 9. 13. Jer. 2. 30. & 5.3. ↑ Heb. increase revolt. backward. 5hWhy should ye be stricken any more? ye will trevolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. 6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with Iointment. 7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is des+ Heb. as the olate, tas overthrown by stranoverthrone of strangers. gers. i Jer. 8. 22. | Or, oil. k Deut. 28.51, 52. 1 Job 27. 18. Lam. 2. 6. m Jer. 4. 17. n Lam. 3. 22. Rom. 9. 29. 8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, mas a besieged city. n 9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of the goats. 12 When ye come trto appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? 22. Ps. 50, 8, 9. & 51. 16. Prov. 15. 8. & 21. 27. ch. 66. 3. Jer. 6. 20. & 7.21. Amos 5. 21, 22. Mic. 6. 7. Heb. great Heb. he goats. to be seen. 34. 23. obla-Ex. 23. 17. & Matt. 15. 9. 13 Bring no more vain tions; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, t the calling of assem-t Joel 1. 14. & blies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meet-Or,grief. ing. 2. 15. Num. 28.11. Lev. 23. 2, &c. Lam. 2. 6. Y ch. 43. 24. 14 Your "new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; y I am weary to bear them. 15 And when ye spread forth Job 27.9. your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye +make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of Ps 66. 18. btblood. Ps. 134. 2. Prov. 1. 28. ch. 59. 2. Jer. 14. 12. Mic. 3. 4. 1 Tim. 2. 8. † Heb. multiply prayer. bch. 59. 3. bloods. d Ps. 34. 14. & 37.27. Amos 5. 15. Rom. 12.9. 1 Pet. 3. 11. e Jer. 22.3, 16. Mic, 6, 8, Zech. 7. 9. & 8. 16. 18 Come now, and flet us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow ; though they be red like crimson, f. 43. 26. they shall be as wool. 19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: 1 Or, righten. Mic. 6. 2. Ps. 51. 7. Rev. 7. 14. Isaiah prophesieth the Before CHRIST about 760. Num. 23. 19. Tit. 1. 2. i Jer. 2. 20, 21. k Jer. 6. 28, 30. 1 Hos. 9. 15. im Prov. 29. 24. ISAIAH. 20 But if ye refuse and rebel, 22 Thy silver is become dross, n Jer. 22. 17. Ez. 22. 12. Hos. 4. 7.3. • Jet. 5. 23. Zech. 7. 10. 24 Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the Mighty One P Deut. 28.63. of Israel, Ah, PI will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies. Ez. 5. 13. ↑ Heb. ac cording to pureness. 25 ¶ And I will turn my hand upon thee, and tapurely purge away thy dross, and take away 9 Jer. 6.29. & all thy tin: 9.7. Mal. 3. 3. r Jer. 33. 7. $ Zech. 8. 3. Or, they that return of her. t Job 31. 3. 6. & 73. 27. & 92. 9. & 104. 35. ↑ Heb. breaking. uch. 57.5. Xel. 65. 3. & 66. 17. Y Ez. 32. 21. zch. 43. 17. Or, and his work. a Mic. 4. 1, &c. b Gen. 49. 1. Jer. 23. 20. © Ps. 68, 15, 16. 1Or, prepared. Before coming of Christ's kingdom. mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; dand all nations CHRIST shall flow unto it. about 760. d Ps. 72. 8. ch. 27. 13. Jer. 31. 6. & 50. 5. 23. 3 And many people shall go and say, e Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: ffor out of Zion shall go f Luke 24. 47. forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. 4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat Ps. 46. 9. their swords into ploughshares, Zech. 9. 10. and their spears into pruning-Or, scythes. hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither h Ps. 72. 3, 7. shall they learn war any more. Hos. 2. 18. 5 O house of Jacob, come ye, 6 Therefore thou hast for- 27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness. 28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed. 29 For they shall be ashamed of "the oaks which ye have desired, x and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen. 30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water. 31 y And the strong shall be zas tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them. CHAPTER II. 1 Isaiah prophesieth the coming of Christ's HE word that Isaiah the son 7 n Their land also is full of ver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots: 8 Their land also is full of Jer. 2. 28. idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made: 9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not. 10 PEnter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of, the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty. Tof Arnoz saw Concerning Ju- Lebanon, that are high and lifted 13 And upon all the cedars of 12. dah and Jerusalem. 2 And it shall come to pass bin the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be Iestablished in the top of the up, and upon all the oaks of Ba- 14 And upon all the high y ver. 11. 1 Or, the idols shall 17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low; and the LORD alone shall be exalted y in that day. 18 And the idols he shall ut utterly pass terly abolish. away. z ver. 10. Hos. 10. 8. 19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of Rev. 6. 16. & the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. 9.6. † Heb. a2 Thess. 1.9. beh. 30. 32. Heb. 12. 26. 20 In that day a man shall cast Hag. 2.6.21. this idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats; c ch. 30. 22. & 31. 7. † Heb. the idols of his silver, &c. Or, which they made for him. d ver. 19. • ver. 10, 19. f Ps. 146. 3. Jer. 17. 5. 8 Job 27.3. a Jer. 37. 21. & 38.9. 21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. 22 Cease ye from man, whose gbreath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of? CHAPTER III. 1 The great confusion which cometh by sin. 9 The impudency of the people, 12 The oppression and covetousness of the rulers. 16 The judgments which shall be for the pride of the women. FOR, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, adoth take away from Jerusalem and from b Lev. 26. 26. Judah bthe stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, * See 2 Kings 24. 14. + Heb. a man eminent in countenance. Or, skilful of speech. d Ecc. 10. 16. 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 babes shall rule over them. 5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable. 6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of Calamities coming upon Judah. CHRIST about 760. Heb. lift up his father, saying, Thou hast! Before clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand: 7 In that day shall he tswear, saying, I will not be a thealer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people. the hand, Gen. 14. 22. † Heb. binder up. 8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Mic. 3. 12. 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 against them; and they declare their sin as fSodom, they hide it not. Gen. 13. 13. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves. 10 Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: h for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. The blessings of Christ's kingdom. $ ch. 22. 12. Mic. 1. 16. 19 The chains, and the brace- | nacle for a shadow in the day- 21 The rings, and nose jewels, 22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins, 23 The glasses, and the CHAPTER V. 1 Under the parable of a vineyard God I well linen, and the hoods, and the N beloved a song of my be vails. loved touching his vineyard. Before CHRIST about 760. k cli. 25. 4. Ps. 80. 8. ch. 27. 2. Cant. 8. 12. Jer. 2. 21. Mark 12. 1. Luke 20.9. † Heb. the horn of the son of oil. 1 Or, made a wall about it. 24 And it shall come to pass, 25 Thy men shall fall by the Heb. might. sword, and thy tmighty in the t Jer. 14. 2. u Lam. 2. 10. a cli. 2. 11, 17. b2 Thess. 3. 12. + Heb. let thy name be call ed upon us. I Or, take thou away. C Luke 1. 25. d Jer. 23. 5. war. 26 And her gates shall lament CHAPTER IV. A shall be a sanctuary. 2 In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and Zech. 3. 8. & glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and come 6. 12. † Heb. beauty and glory. † Heb. for the escaping of Israel e ch. 60. 21. h Ex. 13. 21. i Zech. 2. 5. Or, above. † Heb. a covering, ch. 8. 14. ly for them that are escaped 3 And it shall come to pass, 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. 7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah this pleas-t Heb. ant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold toppres-Heb. sion; for righteousness, but behold a cry. 8 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! 9 In mine cars said the LORD of hosts, †Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant. And the LORD will create ISAIAH. covetousness, riot, profaneness, Before seed of a homer shall yield an CHRIST ephah. about 760. h Prov. 23. 29, 30. 1Or, pursue them. i Amos 6.5, 6. k Job 34. 27. Ps. 28. 5. 1 Hos. 4. 6. mch. 1.3. Luke 19.44. † Heb. their glory are men of famine. A ch. 2. 9, 11, 17. 11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them! 12 And the harp and the viol, the tabret and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands. 13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, m because they have no knowledge: and +their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. 14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it. 15 And "the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled: 16 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and Or, the holy God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness. God. † Heb. the God the holy. cli. 10. 16. Peh. 66. 5. Jer. 17. 15. 2 Pet. 3, 3, 4. 17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat. 18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: 19 P That say, Let him make Amos 5. 18. 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! † Heb, that say on ing evil, It is good, &c. 9 Prov. 3. 7. Rom. 1. 22. & 12. 16. ↑ Heb. before their face. r ver. 11. Prov. 17, 15. & 24. 24. t Ex. 15. 7. † Heb. the tongue of fire. 20Woe 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 Woe unto them that are qwise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! 22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: 23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! 24 Therefore tas the fire de excess, and injustice. voureth the stubble, and the| flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as 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. Before CHRIST about 760. u Job 18. 16. Amos 2. 9. Hos. 9. 16. 13, 17. 25 Therefore is the anger of 2 Kings 22. 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 Jer. 4. 24. their carcasses were torn in 10r the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. as dung. z Lev. 26. 14, &c. ch. 9. 12, 17, 21. & 10. 4. ach. 11. 12. b ch. 7. 18. 26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will bhiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, be-Deut. 28.49. hold, they shall come with speed swiftly: Ps. 72. 8. Mal. 1. 11. d Joel 2. 7. 27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their Dan. 5. 6. loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken: 28 Whose arrows are sharp, Jer. 5. 16. and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind: 29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions; yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it. |