20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of Heb. houfes of the legs, and the head-bands, and the ‡ tablets, and the ear-rings,

The foul.

21 The rings, and nofe-jewels,

22 The changeable fuits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crifping-pins,

23 The glaffes, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.

24 And it fhall come to pass, that in ftead of fweet fmell, there fhall be stink; and in ftead of a girdle, a rent ; and in ftead of well fet hair, baldness; and in ftead of a stomacher, a girding of fackcloth; and burning in ftead of beauty.

25 Thy men fhall fall by the fword, and Heb. might. thy mighty in the war. *

Lam. 2. 10.

Or, emptied.

26 And her gates fhall lament and mourn; * and the being t‡ defolate, fhall fit upon

Heb. cleaned. the ground.

Chap. 2. 11,

CHAP. IV. .

In the extremity of evils, Chrifts kingdom fhall be a fanctuary.

Nd in that day feven women fhall take hold of one man, faying, We will eat our own bread, and wear own apparel: on* let us be called by thy name, † to take away our reproach.

Heb. let thy ly

me be called

on us.

Or, take thou

way.

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2 In that day fhall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comeHeb. beauty ly for them that are escaped of Ifrael.

Luke 1.25. Zech. 3.8. 6. 12.

d glory. Heb. for the

3 And it fhall come to pass, that he that is aping of fraal, left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerufalem, fhall be called holy, even every one that that is written † among the living in · Jerufalem :

Dr, to life.

Mal. 3.2, 3.

-Exod.13.21.

4 When the Lord fhall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and fhall have purged the blood of Jerufalem from the midft thereof, by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

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5 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling-place of mount Zion, and upon her affemblies a cloud, and fmoke by day, and the fhining of a flaming fire by night for upon all the glory shall be * a Heb. a covering, defence. Chap. 8.14.

Or, above.

6 And there fhall be a tabernacle for a fhadow in the day-time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from ftorm and from rain.

12 And the harp and the viol, the ta bret and pipe, and wine are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the Job 34. 27. LORD, neither confider the operation of Pfal. 28. 5. his hands.

13 Therefore my people are gone Hof. 4. 6. into captivity, because they have no knowledge and † their honourable men are fa- +Heb. their glory mished, and their multitude dried up with are men of fathirst.

14 Therefore hell hath enlarged her felf, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoyceth fhall defcend into it. 15 And

cir. 760. humbled.

I Chap. 2. 9,
II, 17.

Or, the holy
Heb. the God

God.

the holy.

Chap. 66. 5. Jer. 17.15. Amos 5 18.

16 But the LORD of hosts fhall be exalted in judgment, and * God that is holy, fhall be fanctified in righteousnefs.

17 Then fhall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones fhall ftrangers eat.

18 Wo unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and fin as it were with a cart-rope :

19 m That fay, Let him make speed, and haften his work, that we may fee it and 2Fct, 334 let the counsel of the holy One of Ifrael draw nigh and come, that we may know it.

† Heb. that fay

20 Wo unto them † that call evil good, concerning evil, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for fweet, and fweet for bitter.

it is good, &c.

- Prov. 3. 7. Rom. 12. 16.

Heb.before their face.

•Ver. II.

P Prov. 17. IS. & 24. 24.

9 Exod. 15. 7.

of fire.

21 Wo unto them that are wife in their own eyes, and prudent ‡ in their own fight.

22 Wo unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of ftrength to mingle ftrong drink :

23

Which P juftifie the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him.

24 Therefore 9 as * the fire devoureth *Heb. the tongue the ftubble, and the flame confumeth the chaff, fo their root fhall be as rottennefs, and their bloffom fhall go up as duft: because they have caft away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the holy One of Ifrael.

Job 18. 16. Amos 2. 9.

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25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath ftretched forth his hand against them, and hath fmitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcafes were † torn in the midft of the ftreets: For all this his anger 17.21.10.4. is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out ftill.

* Jex. 4. 24. tor, a dung. * Chap. 9. 12,

Chap. 7.18. T

Dan.s.C

y Chap. 8.22. Jer. 4.23.

Lam. 3.2.

Ezek. 32.7,8,

+Or, distress. *Or, when it is light, it shall be

dark in the deBraitions thereof.

26 And he will lift up an enfign to the nations from far, and will" hifs unto them from the end of the earth: and behold, they fhall come with speed swiftly.

27 None shall be weary nor ftumble amongst them: none shall flumber nor fleep: neither fhall the girdle of their loyns be loofed, nor the latchet of their fhoes be broken.

28 Whofe arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horfes hoofs fhall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind.

29 Their roring fhall be like a lion, they fhall rore like young lions: yea, they shall rore and lay hold of the prey, and fhall carry

it away fafe, and none shall fhall deliver it.

30 And in that day they fhall rore against them, like the roring of the fea and if oney look unto the land, behold darkness and ‡ forrow,* and the light is darkned in the heavens thereof.

CHAP. VI.

1 Isaiah in a vifion of the Lord in his glory, 5 being terrified, is confirmed for his message. 9 He fheweth the obstinacy of

10 Make the heart of this people and make their ears heavy, and fhut their tor, without eyes left they fee with their eyes, and : I hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert and be healed.

11 Then faid I, Lord, how long? And he anfwered, Until the cities be wafted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly defolate,

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

*

Heb.bear ye in bearing, &c.

† Heb. in feeing. k Pfal. 119.7. Chap. 63. 17. 1JCLs.21.

Heb. defolate with defolatien

or, when it is returned and bath

been broused. tor, Stock, or,

13 ¶ But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it fhall return, and fhall be eaten as a teiltree, and as an oak whofe † substance is in t them, when they caft their leaves: fo the m holy feed fhall be the fubftance thereof. CHAP. VII.

1 Abaz being troubled with fear of Rezin and Pekah, is comforted by Ifaiah. 10 Ahaz, having liberty to chufe a fign, and refusing it, bath for a fign, Chrift promifed. 17 His judgment is prophefied to come by Affyria. A the fon of Jotham, the fon qf Uzziah

Nd it came to pafs in the days of Ahaz

2 And it was told the house of David, faying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. *Heb. refethe And his heart was moved, and the heart of Ephraim. his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind. 3. Then

Ahaz comforted,

b

Before 3 Then faid the LORD unto Ifaiah, Go Christ forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jafhub thy fon, at the end of the con742. duit of the upper pool in the high-way of Chap. 10. 21. the fullers field:

That is,

The remnant shall

4 And fay unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, * neither be faint-hearted for the two tails of these smoking fire-brands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah :

5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the fon of Remaliah have taken evil counsel against thee, faying,

6 Let us go up against Judah, and † vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and fet a king in the midst of it, even the fon of Tabeal.

7 Thus faith the Lord GoD, It fhall not stand, neither fhall it come to pass.

d

8 For the head of Syria is Damafcus, and the head of Damafcus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years fhall Eph

raim be broken, ‡ that it be not a people.

9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliahs fon : If ye will not believe, furely ye fhall not

Or, Doyent be eftablished.

Believe? it is be ause ye are not Rable.

Heb. And the 10RD added to speak.

Or, make thy Detition deep.

10 ¶ Moreover, the LORD fpake again unto Ahaz, faying,

II Ask thee a fign of the LORD thy God, ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.

12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.

13 And he faid, Hear ye now, O house of David, Is it a fmall thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God alfo? 14 Therefore the Lord himself fhall give Matth. 1.23. you a fign, Behold, a virgin fhall conceive, Luke 1.31.. and bear a fon, and fhall call his name Immanuel.

8 Chap. 9. 5.

* OI, thon, O

virgin, balt call. See Gen. 41, 25. & 16.11. & 29.32. & 30. 6, 8.

1 Sam. 4.21. Chap. 8. 8.

*

h

15 Butter and hony fhall he eat, that he may know to refufe the evil, and choose the good.

18 For before the child fhall know to See Chap. 8. 4. refufe the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest fhall be forfaken of k both her kings.

k2 Kings 15. 30. & 16.9%

11 Kings 12. 16.

Chap. s. 26.

tor, commen dable trees.

2 Kings 16.

17 The LORD fhall bring upon thee and upon thy people, and upon thy fathers house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Affyria.

1

m

18 And it fhall come to pafs in that day, fhall hifs for the fly, that that the LORD fhall hifs for the fly, that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Affyria.

19 And they fhall come, and fhall rest all of them in the defolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all † bushes.

20 In the fame day fhall the Lord fhave with a " rasor that is hired, namely by them 7,8. & 19.35. beyond the river, by the king of Affyria, 2 Chr. 28.20. the head, and the hair of the feet and it fhall also confume the beard.

Sec Ezek, s. 1.

21 And it fhall come to pafs in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two fheep: 22 And it shall come to pafs for the abundance of milk that they fhall give, he

fhall eat butter for butter and hony fhall 2efore every one eat that is left in the land.

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

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

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

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

771.

740. * Or, populous.

Matth. 4. 16.

Eph. 5.14.

tor, to him.

+ Or, When thou brakeft.

d Judg. 7.22. Pfal. 83.9. Chap. 10. 26. *Or, When the

NEV

2

b

Evertheless, the dimnefs shall not be fuch as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun, and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the fea, beyond Jordan in Galilee * of the nations.

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2 The people that walked in darkness, have feen a great light : they that dwell in the land of the fhadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

3 Thou haft multiplied the nation, and † not increased the joy: they joy before thee, according to the joy in harvelt, and as men rejoyce when they divide the spoil.

4 For thou haft broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his fhoulder, the rod of his oppreffor, as in the day of d Midian.

5 * For battle of the warrior is with every whole battle of confused noise, and garments rolled in blood, † but this fhall be with burning and ‡ fuel

the warrior

&c.

was, e

Ifa. 66. 15,16. of fire.

+Or, and it was,

&c.

+ Heb. meat.

Chap. 7.14. Luke 2. 11. John 3. 16.

6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a 8 fon is given, and the government fhall be upon his fhoulder and his name shall be

h

Judg. 13.18. called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlafting Father, i The Prince

1 Eph. 2. 14.

of peace.

17 Therefore the LORD fhall have no joy of them. in their young men, neither shall have mer-ed up. cy on their fatherlefs and widows: for every one is an hypocrite, and an evil doer, and every mouth fpeaketh folly : P for all this tor, villany, his anger is not turned away, but his hand Chap. 3.25. & is ftretched out ftill.

18 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it fhall devour the briers and thorns, and fhall kindle in the thickets of the foreft, and they fhall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

3 And what will ye do in the day of vifitation, and in the defolation which fhall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

4

1

20 ¶ And it fhall come to pafs in that Before day, that the remnant of Ifrael, and fuch as Chilt are efcaped of the houfe of Jacob, ' fhall no more again stay upon him that fmote them See 2 Kings but fhall stay upon the LORD, the holy One 16. 7. of Ifrael, in truth.

21 m

m

cir. 713.

2 Chr. 28.20.

The remnant fhall return, even the Chap. 7.3. remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.

n

9. 12, 17, 21.

tor, Wo to the Affyrian

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5¶† O‡ Affyrian, the rod of mine Heb. Aur anger, and the flaff in their hand is mine indignation.

As bur.

•Jer. 51. 20. *Or, though.

6 I will fend him against an hypocritical nation; and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge to take the fpoil, Heb. to lay them and to take the prey, and t to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

a treading.

7 Howbeit, he meaneth not fo, neither doth his heart think so, but it is in his heart to destroy, and cut off nations not a few.

8 For he faith, Are not my princes altogether kings?

9

Is not & Calno, has Carchemish? is not Hamath, as Arpad? is not Samaria, i as Damascus ?

10 As my hand hath found, the kingdoms of the idols, and whofe graven images did excel them of Jerufalem, and of Samaria :

II Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, fo do to Jerusalem and her idols?

12 Wherefore it fhall come to pafs, that when the Lord hath performed his whole upon mount Zion, and on Jerufawork k Heb. vifit upon, lem, I will punish the fruit of the ftout heart of the king of Affyria, and the glory of his high looks.

13 For he faith, By the ftrength of my hand I have done it, and by my wifdom' for I am prudent and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man.

14 And my hand hath found as a neft the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth, and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.

15 Shall the ax boaft it felf against him that heweth therewith? or fhall the faw magnifie it self against him that shaketh it? as if the rod fhould fhake it felf against them that lift it up, or as if the ftaff fhould that lift it up. lift up* it felf, as if it were no wood. *Or, that which is not wood,

For though thy people Ifrael be as "Rom. 9. x7. the fand of the fea, yet a remnant of Chap. 6. 13. them shall return: P the confumption de- *Heb. in, or, creed fhall overflow † with righteoufnels. P Chap. 28.226 23 For the Lord GoD of hosts fhall tor, in. make a consumption, even determined in the midst of all the land.

24 Therefore thus faith the Lord GoD of hofts, O my people that dwelleft in Zion," be not afraid of the Affyrian : he shall smite thee with a rod, and fhall lift up his ftaff against thee, after the manner of Egypt. 25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation fhall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.

Chap. 28. 22.

Dan. 9. 27.

Rom. 9. 28.

fot, but he thal

lift up bis ftaff

for thee

Exod. 14.

Dan. 11. 36.

t 2 Kings 19.358

"Judg. 7. 25. Exod. 14.26,

Y

Chap. 9.4.

278

*Heb. Shall rea

27 And it fhall come to pafs in that day, that y his burden* fhall be taken away from Chap. 14.25. off thy fhoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke fhall be destroyed because of the anointing.

28 He is come to Aiath, he is paffed to Migron: at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages.

move.

29 They are gone over the paffage: they 1 Sam. 13.23. have taken up their lodging at Geba, Ramah is afraid, Gibeah of Saul is fled.

a

с

a1 Sam. 11.4.

30+ Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Heb. cry brill Gallim: cause it to be heard unto O poor Anathoth.

d

с

f

1 Sam. 25. 44.

Judg. 18.7. d Joth. 21. 18.

31 Madmenah is removed, the inhabi- josh, 15. a1. tants of Gebim gather themselves to flee. 32 As yet fhall he remain at Nob that 1 Sam. 21. T. day he fhall shake his hand against the & 22. 19. mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerufalem.

33 Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts fhall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of ftature ball be hewn down, and. the haughty shall be humbled.

34

And he fhall cut down the thickets of the forefts with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

CHAP. XI.

1. The peaceable kingdom of the branch out of the root of Feffe. 10 The victorious reftauration of Ifrael, and vocation of the Gentiles.

Neh. 11.324

Or, mightily,

Chap. 5 3. 2. Zech. 6. 12.

Rev. 5. 5. bA&s 13. 230 Chap. 4. 2.

Jer. 23. s. Chap. 61. 1.

3 And shall make him of* quick under- *Heb. feent, o5% ftanding in the fear of the LORD, and he smell..

fhall