† Heb. this cried to this. d Rev. 4. 8. ↑ Heb. his glory is the fulness of the whole earth. e Ps. 72. 19. ↑ Heb. thresholds. f Ex. 40. 34.

1 Kings 8. 10. Ex. 4. 10. &

6.30. Judg. 6. 22. & 13. 22. Jer. 1. 6. ↑ Heb. cut off.

5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. 6 Then flew one of the seraphim unto me, † having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off hthe altar: 7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine inDan. 10. 16. iquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.

↑ Heb. and in his hand

a live coal.

h Rev. 8. 3.

† Heb.

caused it to touch. iSee Jer. 1. 9.

* Gen. 1. 26.
& 3. 22. &
11.7.
† Heb.
Behold me.
1ch. 43. 8.

Matt. 13. 14.
Mark 4. 12.

Luke 8. 10. John 12. 40. Acts 28, 26. Rom. 11. 8. 1 Or, with

&c.

† Heb. hear ye in hearing, &c. + Heb.

8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for kus? Then said I, Here am I; send me. 9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye tindeed, but understand not; and see ye tindeed, but perceive not.

10 Make mthe heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; a lest out ceasing, they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed. in seeing. 11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be tutterly desolate,

m Ps. 119. 70. ch. 63. 17.

n Jer. 5. 21. • Mic. 3. 12.

† Heb. desolate with desolation.

P 2 Kings 25. 21.

I Or, when it

and hath

cd.

12 P And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

13 But yet in it shall be a is returned, tenth, and it shall return, and been brows shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose Isubstance is in them, when they cast their leaves so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof. CHAPTER VII.

Or, stock, or, stem.

9 Ezra 9. 2. Mal. 2. 15. Rom. 11.5.

about 742.

a2 Kings 16.5.'

2 Chr. 28. 5,

6.

1 Ahaz, being troubled with fear of Rezin and Pekah, is comforted by Isaiah. 10 Ahaz, having liberty to choose a sign. and refusing it, hath for a sign, Christ promised. 17 His judgment is prophesied to come by Assyria.

Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king' Before of Judah, that Rezin the king about 742. of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.

resteth on Ephraim.

2 And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria tis confed-† Heb. erate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.

That is, The rem nant shall return: See ch. 6. 13. & 10. 21. 2 Kings 18. 17.

3 Then said the LORD unto! Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, band Shear-jashub b ch. 10. 21. thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, in the highway of the fuller's field; 4 And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, t neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,

ch. 36. 2.

1 Or.

AND it came to pass in the

34.

Christ promised for a sign.

Before CHRIST about 742.

i ch. 9. 6. Or, thou, O virgin, shalt call: See Gen. 4. 1,25. & 16.

11. & 29. 32. & 30. 6, 8.

k ch. 8.8.

a virgin shall conceive, and bear 1a son, and Ishall call his name k Immanuel.

15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

1

God's CHAPTER VIII. In Maher-shalal-hash-baz, he prophesieth that Syria and Israel shall be subdued by Assyria. 5 Judah likewise for their infidelity. 9 God's judgments shall be unresistible. 11 Comfort shall be to them that fear God. 19 Great afflictions to idolaters.

I's purposes irresistible.

OREOVER the LORD

1 See ch. 8. 4.

m2 Kings 15. 30. & 16. 9. n2 Chr. 28. 19.

01 Kings 12. 16.

P ch. 5. 26.

9 ch. 2. 19. Jer. 16. 16.

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 Pshall 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 a the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all I bushes. 20 In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is Chr. 28. 20, hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet and it shall also consume the beard.

1 Or. commenda ble trees. r2 Kings 16. 7,8.

21.

See Ez. 5. 1.

t'Heb.

in the midst of the land.

ch. 5. 6.

21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow and two sheep;

22 And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give, he shall eat but ter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left fin the land.

23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, sit shall even be for briers and thorns.

24 With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.

25 And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of

lesser cattle.

roll, and a write in it with a man's pen concerning † Mahershalal-hash-baz.

2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.

Before CHRIST about 742.

a ch. 30. 8. Hab. 2. 2. † Heb. In making speed to the spoil he hasteneth the prey, or, Make speed,

&c. b 2 Kings 16.

approached unto.

3 And I went unto the proph-10. etess; and she conceived, and † Heb. bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalal-hash-baz.

4 For before the child shall See ch.7.16. have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the Or, he that riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria. 5 The LORD spake also unto

me again, saying,

1 before the king of Assyria shall take away the riches, &c.

about 741. d 2 Kings 15. 29. & 16. 9. ch. 17. 3.

6 Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah Neh. 3. 15. that go softly, and rejoice fin Rezin and Remaliah's son;

John 9. 7. fch. 7. 1, 2, 6.

7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of As-8 ch. 10. 12. syria, and all his glory and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:

8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.

t

hch. 30. 28. Heb. the fulness of the breadth of thy land shall be the stretching out of his wings.

ich. 7. 14. Joel 3.9, 11. 10r, yet.

9 Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. 10 Take counsel together, and Job 5. 12. it shall come to nought; speaki the word, mand it shall not stand: nfor God is with us.

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

about 741.

4 Num. 20. 12. Luke 12. 5.

Ps. 76. 7.

Ez. 11. 16. tch 28 16. Luke 2. 34. Rom. 9. 33. 1 Pet. 2. 8.

"Matt. 21. 44. Luke 20. 18.

Rom. 9. 32.
& 11. 25.

xcl. 54. 8. y Hab. 2. 3. Luke 2. 25, 33.

* Heb. 2. 13.

a Ps. 71. 7. Zech. 3. 8.

about 741.

13 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. 14 And she 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, and be snared, and be taken. 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 y will look for him.

18 z Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me aare for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion. 19 And when they shall say b1 Sam. 28. 8. unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep and that mutter: should not a people seck unto their God? for the d Ps. 106. 28. living d to the dead?

ch. 19. 3.

c ch. 29. 4.

Luke 16. 29.

f Mic. 3. 6. † Heb. no morning.

20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they Rev. 16. 11. shall fret themselves, and s curse their king and their God, and look upward.

h ch. 5. 30.

i cl. 9. 1.

about 940.

a ch. 8. 22.

b 2 Kings 15.

29.

2 Chr. 16. 4. © Lev. 26. 24. 2 Kings 17. 5,6

1 Chr. 5. 26. about 771. about 740. I Or, populous. d Matt. 4. 16. Eph. 5. 8, 14.

22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.

Judgments upon Israel for pride, darkness have seen a great light:¦ Before they that dwell in the land of CHRIST the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

about 740.

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

4 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 5 Midian.

Judg. 5. 30.

or,

When thou brukest.

fch. 10. 5. & 14.5.

5 Judg. 7. 22. Ps. 83. 9. ch. 10. 26.

5 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and or, When garments rolled in blood; hibut this shall be with burning and t fuel of fire.

6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a kson is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called m Wonderful, Counsellor, "The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

the whole battle of the warrior was, &c. h ch. 66. 15, 16.

Or. and it Heb. meat. ich. 7. 14.

was, &c.

1

Luke 2. 11.

k John 3. 16.

Matt 28. 18.
Cor. 15. 25.

m Judg. 13.18. n Tit. 2 13

Eph. 2. 14. P Dan. 2. 44.

Luke 1. 32,

33.

7 Of the increase of his government and peace Pthere shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judg ment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will 42 Kings 19. 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 sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

31. ch 37. 32. about 738.

11 Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his en- t Heb. emies together;

12 The Syrians before, and the

ness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the bfirst he lightly 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 of the nations. 2 The people that walked in

shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand, is stretched out still.

13 For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.

14 Therefore the LORD will cut

A

mingle.

+ Heb.

with whole mouth.

ch. 5. 25. &

10 4. Jer. 4. 8.

Jer. 5. 3.

Hos. 7. 10.