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God's church comforted.

ISAIAH.

21 This people have 1 formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.

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The vanity of idols. me, the dragons and the owls: because I their own witnesses; they see not, nor give waters in the wilderness, and rivers know, that they may be ashamed. in the desert, to give drink to my people, 10 Who hath formed a god, or molten my chosen. graven image that is profitable for nothing? 11 Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of 22 T But thou hast not called upon me, men: let them all be gathered together, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, O'Israel. and they shall be ashamed together. 23 Thou hast not brought me the small 12 The smith with the tongs both workcattle of thy burnt-offerings; neither hast eth in the coals, and fashioneth it with hamthou honoured me with thy sacrifices. Imers, and worketh it with the strength of have not caused thee to serve with an his arms; yea, he is hungry, and his strength offering, nor wearied thee with incense. faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint. 24 Thou hast bought me no sweet cane 13 The carpenter stretcheth out his with money, neither hast thou filled me rule; he marketh it out with a line; he with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast out with the compass, and maketh it after wearied me with thine iniquities. the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.

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

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, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.

CHAP. XLIV.

Ysrael, whom I have chosen:

ET now hear, O Jacob my servant;

2 Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen. 3 For I will pour water upon him tha 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 water-courses.

14 He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself 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 warın himself; yea, he kindlethit, 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 warme th himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire:

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17 And the residue thereof he maketh 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.

18 They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that 5 One shall say, I am the LORD's; and they cannot see; and their hearts, that another shall call himself by the name of they cannot understand.

Jacob; and another shall subscribe with 19 And none considereth in his heart, his hand unto the LORD, and surname him- neither is there knowledge nor understandself by the name of Israel. ing to say, I have burned part of it in the

6 Thus saith the LORD the King of Is-fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon rael, and his Redeemer the LORD of hosts; the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, I am the first, and I am the last; and be- and eaten it: and shall I make the resisides me there is no God. due thereof an abomination? shall I fall

7 And who, as I, shall call, and shall de-down to the stock of a tree? clare it, and set it in order for me, since I 20 He feedeth on ashes: a deceived appointed the ancient people? and the heart hath turned him aside, that he canthings that are coming, and shall come, let not deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a them shew unto them. lie in my right hand?

8 Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have 21 Remember these, O Jacob and not I told thee from that time, and have Israel; for thou art my servant: I have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. formed thee; thou art my servant: 0 IsIs there a God besides me? yea, there is rael, thou shalt not be forgotten of me. no God; I know not any. 22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud,

9 They that make a graven image thy transgressions, and as a cloud, thy sins: are all of them vanity; and their delecta- return unto me; for I have redeemned thee. ble things shall not profit; and they are] 23 Sing, Oye heavens; for the LORD

God's mercy to Israel.

CHAP. XLV.

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The omnipotence of Gort.

hath done it shout, ye lower parts of the to him that fashioneth it, What makest earth: break forth into singing, ye moun- thou? or thy work, He hath no hands? tains, O forest, and every tree therein: 10 Wo unto him that saith unto his fafor the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ther, What begettest thou? or to the woglorified himself in Israel. man, What hast thou brought forth?

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24 Thus saith the LORD thy Redeemer, 11 Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One and he that formed thee from the womb, Iof Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things am the LORD that maketh all things; that to come concerning my sons, and concernstretcheth forth the heavens alone that ing the work of my hands command ye me. spreadeth abroad the earth by myself: 12 I have made the earth, and created 25 That frustrate th the tokens of the man upon it: I, even my hands, have liars, and maketh diviners mad; that stretched out the heavens, and all their turneth wise men backward, and maketh host have I commanded. 13 I have raised him up in righteous

their knowledge foolish;

26 That confirmeth the word of his ser-ness, and I will direct all his ways: he vant, and performeth the counsel of his shall build my city, and he shall let go my messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou captives, not for price nor reward, saith shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Ju- the LORD of hosts.

dah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up 14 Thus saith the LORD, The labour of the decayed places thereof: Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and 27 That saith to the deep, Be dry, and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come I will dry up thy rivers: over unto thee, and they shall be thine: 28 That saith of Cyrus, He is my shep-they shall come after thee; in chains they herd, and shall perform all my pleasure: shall come over, and they shall fall down even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be unto thee, they shall make supplication built; and to the temple, Thy foundation unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; shall be laid. and there is none else, there is no God. 15 Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.

CHAP. XLV.

To Cyrus, whose right hand I have HUS saith the LORD to his anointed, 16 They shall be ashamed, and also conholden, to subdue nations before him; and founded, all of them: they shall go to conI will loose the loins of kings, to open be- fusion together that are makers of idols. fore him the two-leaved gates, and the 17 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD gates shall not be shut; with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not 2 I will go before thee, and make the be ashamed nor confounded world without crooked places straight: I will break in end. pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder 18 For thus saith the LORD that created the bars of iron: the heavens; God himself that formed the

3 And I will give thee the treasures of earth and made it; he hath established it, darkness, and hidden riches of secret he created it not in vain, he formed it to places, that thou mayest know that I, the be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there LORD, which call thee by thy name, am is none else.

the God of Israel.

19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark 4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Is- place of the earth: I said not unto the rael mine elect, I have even called thee by seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the thy name: I have surnamed thee, though LORD speak righteousness, I declare things thou hast not known me. that are right.

5 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God besides me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:

6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none besides me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.

7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

20 T 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 that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else besides me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none be

8 Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: sides me. let the earth open, and let them bring forth 22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all salvation, and let righteousness spring up the ends of the earth: for I am God, and together; I the LORD have created it. there is none else.

9 Wo unto him that striveth with his 23 I have sworn by myself, the word is Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the gone out of my mouth in righteousness, potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say and shall not return, That unto me every

Idols not comparable to God.

ISAIAH. God's judgments upon Babylon.

knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. Juncover thy locks, make bare the leg, un24 Surely, shall one say, In the LORD cover the thigh, pass over the rivers. have I righteousness and strength: even 3 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, to him shall men come; and all that are yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take incensed against him shall be ashamed. vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a 25 In the LORD shall all the seed of Is-man. rael be justified, and shall glory.

CHAP. XLVI.

EL boweth down, Nebo stoopeth,

4 As for our Redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel. 5 Sit silent, thee into dark

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upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy thou shalt.no more be called, The lady of loaden; they are a burden to the weary kingdoms. 6 I was wroth with my people, I 2 They stoop, they bow down together; have polluted mine inheritance, and given they could not deliver the burden, but them into thine hand: thou didst shew themselves are gone into captivity. them no mercy; upon the ancient hast 3 Hearken unto me, O house of Ja-thou very heavily laid thy yoke. cob, and all the remnant of the house of 7 ¶ And thou saidst, I shall be a lady Israel, which are borne by me from the for ever: so that thou didst not lay these belly, which are carried from the womb things to thy heart, neither didst remem4 And even to your old age I am he; ber the latter end of it. and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.

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

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

6 They lavish gold out of the bag, and 9 But these two things shall come to weigh silver in the balance, and hire a thee in a moment in one day, the loss of goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they children, and widowhood: they shall come fall down, yea, they worship. upon thee in their perfection, for the mul7 They bear him upon the shoulder, titude of thy sorceries, and for the great they carry him, and set him in his place, abundance of thine enchantments. and he standeth; from his place shall he 10 For thou hast trusted in thy not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth yet can he not answer, nor save him out of me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it his trouble. hath perverted thee; and thou hast said 8 Remember this, and shew yourselves in thine heart, I am, and none else besides men bring it again to mind, Ổ ye trans-me.

gressors. 11 Therefore shall evil come upon thee; 9 Remember the former things of old: thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: for I am God, and there is none else; Iam and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou God, and there is none like me, shalt not be able to put it off: and desola10 Declaring the end from the begin- tion shali come upon thee suddenly, which ning, and from ancient times the things thou shalt not know.

that are not yet done, saying, My counsel 12 Stand now with thine enchantments, shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: and with the multitude of thy sorceries,

11 Calling a ravenous bird from the wherein thou hast laboured from thy east, the man that executeth my counsel youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, if so be thou mayest prevail.

I will also bring it to pass; I have pur- 13 Thou art wearied in the multitude of posed it, I will also do it. thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, 12 T Hearken unto me, ye stout-heart- the star-gazers, the monthly prognosticaed, that are far from righteousness : tors, stand up, and save thee from these 13 I bring near my righteousness; it things that shall come upon thee. shall not be far off, and my salvation shall 14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the not tarry and I will place salvation in fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver Zion for Israel my glory. themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor

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CHAP. XLVII.

OME down, and sit in the dust, O tire to sit before it. virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on 15 Thus shall they be unto thee with the ground: there is no throne, O daugh- whom thou hast laboured, even thy merter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no chants, from thy youth: they shall wander more be called tender and delicate. every one to his quarter; none shall save

2 Take the millstones, and grind meal : thee.

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God reveals his prophecies. CHAP. XLVIII, XLIX. Christ complains of the Jews. there am I: and now the Lord God, and

CHAP. XLVIII.

Hare called by the name of Israel, and

TEAR ye this, O house of Jacob, which his Spirit, hath sent me.

17 Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, are come forth out of the waters of Judah, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy which swear by the name of the LORD, God which teacheth thee to profit, which and make mention of the God of Israel, but leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldnot in truth, nor in righteousness. est go.

2 For they call themselves of the holy 18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my city, and stay themselves upon the God of commandments! then had thy peace been Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name. as a river, and thy righteousness as the

31 have declared the former things from waves of the sea: the beginning; and they went forth out of 19 Thy seed also had been as the sand, my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them and the offspring of thy bowels like the 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 I 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 my molten image, bath 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.

gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

20 ¶ Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob.

21 And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out. 22 There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked. CHAP. XLIX.

7 They are created now, and not from LISTEN, O isles, untome; and hearken, the beginning; even before the day when ye people, from far; The LORD hath thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest called me from the womb; from the bowsay, Behold, I knew them. els of my mother hath he made mention of my name.

8 Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine 2 And he hath made my mouth like a ear was not opened: for I knew that thou sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand wouldest deal very treacherously, and hath he hid me, and made me a polished wast called a transgressor from the shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me; womb.

9 For my name's sake 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.

3 And said unto me, Thou art my ser vaht, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified. 4 Then I said, I have laboured in vain, have spent my strength for nought, and in vain; yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.

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5 T And now, saith the LORD that form11 For mine own sake, even for mine ed me from the womb to be his servant, to own sake, will I do it: for how should my bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel name be polluted? and I will not give my be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in glory unto another. the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength.

12 T 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.

6 And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth. 14 All ye, assemble yourselves and hear; 7 Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer which among them hath declared these of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom things? The LORD hath loved him: he will man despiseth, to him whom the nation do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings 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 prosperous.

shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.

16 Come ye near unto me, hear ye 8 Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptathis; I have not spoken in secret from the ble time have I heard thee, and in a day of beginning; from the time that it was, salvation have I helped thee: and I will

The Israelites provoke God's anger. PSALMS.

The desolution of Jerusalem.

the day when he delivered them from the out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.

enemy.

43 How he had wrought his signs in 66 And he smote his enemies in the Egypt, and his wonders in the field of hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual Zoan: reproach.

44 And had turned their rivers into 67 Moreover he refused the tabernacle blood: and their floods, that they could of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of not drink.

Ephraim:

45 He sent divers sorts of flies among 68 But chose the tribe of Judah, the them, which devoured them; and frogs mount Zion which he loved. which destroyed them.

69 And he built his sanctuary like high

46 He gave also their increase unto palaces, like the earth which he hath esthe caterpillar, and their labour unto the tablished for ever. locust.

47 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore-trees with frost.

48 He gave up their cattle also to the bail, and their flocks to hot thunder-bolts 49 He cast upon them the fierceness of nis anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them. 50 He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

70 He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds :

71 From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

72 So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.

PSALM LXXIX.
TA Psalm of Asaph.

51 And smote all the first-born in Egypt; GOD, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have the chief of their strength in the taberna- they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on cles of Ham:

heaps.

52 But made his own people to go forth 2 The dead bodies of thy servants like sheep, and guided them in the wil- have they given to be meat unto the fowls derness like a flock. of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.

53 And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

54 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.

55 He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

56 Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimo

nies:

57 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow."

3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.

4 We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

5 How long, LORD, wilt thou be angry? for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

6 Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy

name.

7 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling-place.

8 O remember not against us former 58 For they provoked him to anger iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedwith their high places, and moved him toily prevent us for we are brought very jealousy with their graven images.

59 When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among

men;

61 And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand. 62 He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.

low.

9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.

10 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed:

11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness 63 The fire consumed their young men; of thy power preserve thou those that are and their maidens were not given to mar-appointed to die; riage.

12 And render unto our neighbours se

64 Their priests fell by the sword; and ven-fold into their bosom their reproach, their widows made no lamentation. wherewith they have reproached thee, O

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