Shebna's downfall prophesied.

Before

10 And ye have numbered the CHRIST houses of Jerusalem, and the houses about 712. have ye broken down to fortify the wall.

i Neh. 3. 10.

k See ch. 37. 23.

1 Joel 1. 13.

ma See Eara 9. 3.

ch. 15. 2.

Mic. 1. 16.

a eh. 46. 12. 1 Cor. 15. 32.

ch. 5. 9.

11 i Ye made also a ditch between

the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto k the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.

12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts I call to weeping, and to mourning, and in to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: "let us cat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.

14 And it was revealed in mine cars 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.

a. 21. 13.

Or, the LORD who covered thee with an

excellent cor

ering, and clothed thes gorgeously shall surely, fe. ver. 18. + Heb, the captivity of

a man. + Esth. 7.8.

+ Heb. large of spaces.

2 Kin. 18.18.

x Job 12. 14. Rev, 3. 7.

y Ezra 9. 8.

Or, instruments of viols.

17 Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with fa mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee.

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 T And it shall come to pass in tliat 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.

22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut: and he shall shut, and none shall open.

23 And I will fasten him as a 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.

25 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden

The miserable overthrow of Tyre.

that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken it.

CHAPTER XXIII.

1 The miserable overthrow of Tyre. 17 Their unhappy return.

THE burden of lyre. How d ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.

2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.

3 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.

4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins.

Before CHRIST about 712.

about 715. Jer. 25.22.&

47.4.
Ex. 26. & 27.
&23.
Amos 1. 9.
Zech. 9. 2, 4.

ver. 12.
Heb. silone.

e Es. 27, 3.

5d As at the report concerning deh. 19. 16. Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.

6 Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.

7 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her fafar off to sojourn.

. 22, 2.

+ Heb. from ajar of.

12

8 Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, fthe crowning city, fee Ea. 28.2, 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, Heb. to pol 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.

+ Heb. girdle.

11 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to de- 10r, concernstroy the strong holds thereof.

ing a mer chantman.

+ Heb. Санаап.

12 And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, b pass Or, over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest.

13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for ithem that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and lie brought it to ruin.

strengths. g Rev. 18. 22. hver. 1.

P. 72.9.

14 k Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for kver. 1. your strength is laid waste.

15 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years tshall Tyre sing as a harlot.

16 Take a harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweetmelody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.

Es. 27, 25,30,

+ Heb. it shall be unto Tyre as the song of a harlot,

God's judgments upon the land.

Before

1 Rev. 17. 2.

21.

18 And her merchandise and her m Zech.14.20, hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for † durable clothing.

↑ Bob, old.

about 712.

+ Heb. per verteth the

face thereof.

Or, prince. a Hos. 1. 9.

2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; b Es. 7. 12, 13. has 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. 3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.

↑ Heb. the height of the people.

e Gen. 3. 17.

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 Nam. 35. 33. the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

d Mal. 4. 6.

e ch. 16. 8. 9. Joel 1. 10,12,

fJer. 7. 84. &

E. 26. 13. Нов, 2, 11. Rev. 18. 22.

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 vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.

8 The mirth fof fabrets ceaseth, 16.9. & 25.10. 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.

ch. 17, 5, 6.

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 T When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, 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

15 Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.

Before CHRIST about 712.

| Or, valleys. h Mal. 1. 11.

16 From the futtermost part of tHeb, wing. the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said,

My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the 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 fear shall fall into the pit; and he

that cometh up out of the midst of

the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.

+ Heb. Leanness to me, or, My meret to me.

Jer. 5. 11.

Bee 1 Kin.

19. 17. Jer.48.43.41. Amos 5. 19.

1 Gen. 7. 11. mPs. 18, 7.

Jer. 4.23.

19 The earth is utterly broken 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, Pand the kings of the carth 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.

A song inciting to

about 712.

Before 5 Thou shalt bring down the noise CHRIST of strangers, as the heat in a dry place: eren the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low. 6 And in this mountain shall bthe LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lecs well refined.

geh. 2. 2, 3. h Prov. 9. 2. Matt. 22. 4. i Dan. 7. 14. Matt. 8. IL

+ Heb. swallow up. ↑ Heb. covered,

k2 Cor. 3. 15. Eph. 4. 18.

1 Fom 13. 14

1 Cor. 15. 54.

7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering tcast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations. 8 He will swallow 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. 9 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.

21. 4.

m Rev. 7. 17. & 21. 4.

Tit. 2. 13.

Fs. 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, thrashed in Madmenak.

peh, 28. 5.

about 712. a ch. 2. 11. bch. 60, 18,

e Ps. 118. 19. 20.

+Heb. truths. + Heb. peace, peace,

ch. 57. 19. Or, thought, or, imagination.

d eh, 45. 17. ↑ Heb. the rock of age, Deut. 32, 4. ech. 25, 12, & 32. 19.

f Ps. 37. 23.

gch. 64. 5.

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 fortress 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.

IN N that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; bsalvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. 2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.

3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect 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 teverlasting strength.

5 T For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; 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, eren the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.

7 The way of the just is uprightness: fthou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.

8 Yen, in the way of thy judg ments, O LORD, have we waited

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 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn rightcousness in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.

Before CHRIST about 712.

h P. 63. 6. Cant. 3. 1.

iEee, R. 12. Rom. 2. 4.

kPa. 143. 10.

Ps. 28. 5. b. 5. 12. 1 Or, toward thy people.

11 LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they 1Job 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.

20 T Come, my people, enter Ex. 12.22,23. thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, P. 30. 5. until the indignation be overpast.

21 For, behold, the LORD "cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

CHAPTER XXVII.

1 The care of God over his vineyard. 7 His chastisements differ from judg ments. 12 The ohurch of Jews and Gentiles.

ch. 54, 7, 8. 2 Cor. 4. 17. u Mic. 1. 3. Jude 14.

↑ Heb, bloods.

God's care of his vineyard.

Before CHRIST about 712.

¡Or, crassing like a bar.

a Pa. 71.13,11. beh. 51.9. Ez. 29, 3, & 32. 2. e ch. 5. 1. a Pa. 80. 8. Jer. 2. 21.

ePa. 121, 4, 5. 12 Sam. 23. 6. ch 9, 18. JOr, march against. gch. 25, 4. h Job 22. 21.

i ch. 37. 31. Hos. 11, 5, 6.

+ Heb, ac cording to the stroke of those.

k Job 23. 6. Ps. 6. 1.

N that day the LORD with his sore

punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked

Ephraim threatened.

Before

on that is in the sea.

2 In that day sing ye unto her, d A 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 fthe 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 make 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.

7 Hath he smitten him, tas he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?

8 In measure, when it shooteth Jer. 19. 24. & forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

30. 11. & 46. 28.

1 Cor. 10. 13.
Or, when

thou sendest
it forth.
Or, when
he removeth
tt,

1 Pa. 78. 38.
Or, sun
images.

m See-ch. 17. 2. & 32, 14.

n Deut. 32.28. ch. 1.3. Jer. 8. 7.

o Deut. 33, 18. ch. 43, 1, 7, & 44.2,21,24.

p ch. 2. 11. q Matt. 24.31. Rev. 11. 15.

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 : in there 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; for " it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and "he that formed them will shew them no favour.

12 T 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 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 Jeru

salem.

CHAPTER XXVIII.

1 The prophet threateneth Ephraim for their pride and drunkenness. 5 Theresidue shall be advanced in the kingdom of Christ. He rebuketh their error. 9 Their untowardness to learn, 14 and their security. 16 Christ the sure foun

A ver. 3.

whose bglorious beauty is a fading bver. flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are t over-t Hob.broken. come with wine!

Ea, 13, 11.

2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest ech. 30. 30. of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.

3d The crown of pride, the drunk- d ver. 1. ards of Ephraim, shall be trodden † under feet:

4 And the glorious beauty, which 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 teateth it up.

5T 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.

7 T 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. with feet. e ver. 1.

+ Heb. swalloweth,

Prov, 20. 1.

Hos. 4. 11.

goh. 50,10,12

10 For precept ||must be upon pre-or cept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

11 For with ftistammering lips and another tongue || will he speak to this people.

12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary 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; líne 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 T 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

+ Heb. stam merings of lipe.

11 Cor. 14. 21 Or. he hath spoken.

made a covenant with death, and CHRIST with hell are we at agreement: when 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:

k Amen 2. 4.

1 Gen. 49. 24. Ps. 118. 22. Matt. 21. 42. Aets 4. 11. Rom. 9.33, & 10. 11. Eph. 2. 20.

8.

m ver. 15.

16 T Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation la stone. a tried stone, a precious corner stove, a sure foundation he that believeth shall not make haste.

17 Judgment also will I lay to the 1 Pt. 2 6,7, 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 trodden down by it.

+ Heb.

a treading down to 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 report.

shall make

you to understand doetrine.

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 mount" Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, Phis strange work; 2 Sam, 5, 25. and bring to pass his act, his strange

28am. 6. 20. 1 Chr. 14. 11. o Josh, 10, 10, 12.

1 Chr. 14. 16. p Lam. 3. 33.

Dan. 9. 27.

act.

22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD qgh. 10. 22.23. of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth. 23T 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?

1Or, the wheat in the princi pal place, and barley in the appointed place. 1 Or, spelt.

+ Heb.
border.
Or, And he
bindeth it in
such sort as
his God doth
teach him.

r P. 92. 6. Jer, 32, 19,

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 † 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.

1

The siege of Jerusalem foretold.

CHAPTER XXIX. God's heavy judgment upon Jerusalem. 7 The unsatiableness of her enemies. 9 The senselessness. 13 and deep hypoerisy of the Jews. 18 A promise of saneti. fication to the godly.

Before CHRIST about 712.

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, out of the ground, and thy speech ceb. & 19. shall whisper out of the dust.

5 Morcover the multitude of thy d strangers 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.

+ Heb. perp. or, chirp.

deb. 25. 5.

Job 21. 18.

eh. 17. 13. fch. 30. 13. ch. 28. 2. & 30.30.

7 T And the multitude of all the heh, 37, 36. nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be i as a dream of a night vision.

8k It shall even be as when a hungry 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.

1 Job 20. 8. kPa, 73:20.

pleasure, and riot. 18ee ch. 28.7,

9 T Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are Or.take your 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.