an offering. 1 Pet. 2. 24. Rom. 6.9. r2 Cor. 5.21. tEph.1.5,9. 2 Thess. 1. 11. u John 17.3. 2 Pct. 1. 3. * 1 John 2.1. y ch. 42. 1. & 49.3. 83 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. 4 9 P And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his 5 death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. r 10 ¶ Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: 6 when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. 6 11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: "by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall Rom.5.18, bear their iniquities. 19. a ver. 4, 5. d Mark 15. e Luke 23. 34. Rom. 8. 34. Heb. 7.25. & 9. 24. 1 John 2.1. a Zeph.3.14. Gal. 4. 27. b с y 12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. CHAPTER LIV. 1 The prophet, for the comfort of the Gentiles, prophesieth the amplitude of their church, 4 their safety, 6 their certain deliverance out of affliction, 11 their fair edification, 15 and their sure preservation. SING ING, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not b1 Sam. 2.5. travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith b 2 Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes; 3 For thou shalt break forth on the dch.55.5.& right hand and on the left; d and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited. 4 Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou con 10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but Matt. 6. 18. my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee. 11 ¶ O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and laythy foundations with sapphires. 12 And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones. 13 And all thy children shall be P taught of the LORD; and a great shall be the peace of thy children. 14 In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee. 15 Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake. 16 Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy. 2 Heb. weigh. © Matt. 11. 28. d ch. 54.8. & 61.8. Jer. 32. 40. b every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Exhortation to sanctification. the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD a for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off. 1 CHAPTER LVI. The prophet exhorteth to sanctification. 3 He promiseth it shall be general without respect of persons. 9 He inveigheth against blind watchmen. HUS saith the LORD, Keep ye BEFORE CHRIST cir. 712. ■ Jer. 13. 11. 2 Wherefore do ye 2 spend money judgment, and do justice: for 20r, equity. for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. 3 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the e2 Sam.7.8, mercies of David. &c. Ps. 89. 28. h ch. 52. 15. Eph. 2. 11, 12. 1 ch. 60. 5. k ch. 60. 9. Acts 3. 13. 1 Pa. 32. 6. Matt. 5. 25. & 25.11. John 7. 34. & 8. 21. 2 Cor. 6.1,2. Heb. 3. 13. m ch.1.16. 3 Heb. the man of iniquity. sure 4 Behold, I have given him for fa witness to the people, & a leader and commander to the people. i 5 Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; * for he hath glorified thee. 6 ¶ 1Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: 7 m Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man "his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy a Zech.8.17. upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. o Ps. 130.7. Jer. 3. 12. 4 Heb. he will multiply to pardon. P2Sam.7.19. q Ps. 103.11. r.Deut. 32.2. sch. 54.9. t ch. 35. 10. & 65. 13, 14. u P8. 06. 12. & 98.8. ch. 14. 8. & 35. 1, 2. & 42. 11. x 1 Chr. 16. 38. ych. 41. 19. z Mic. 7. 4. 8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. 10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: 11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. 2 Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; "that keepeth the sabbath bch. 58. 13. from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil. 3 ¶ Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree. 4 For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; 6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from pollutingit, and taketh hold of my covenant; 7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: & their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people. 8 The Lord God which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him. 9 All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest. 10 His watchmen are "blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. A 1 John 3. 1. 11 Yea, they are 5 P greedy dogs which can never have enough, and strong of they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter. 12 Come ye, say they, I will fetch p Mic. 3. 11. • Heb.know not to be satisfied. q Ezek. 34. 2,3. r Ps. 10. 6. Prov. 23.35. ch. 22. 13. Luke 12. 19. 1 Cor. 15.32. cir. 698. 2 Heb. men or, godliness. a Ps. 12. 1. Mic. 7.2. CHAPTER LVII. 1 The blessed death of the righteous. 3 God reproveth the Jews for their whorish idolatry. THE righteous perisheth, and 2 a merciful men are taken away, of kindness, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come. 2 He shall enter into peace: they b1 Kings 14. shall rest in their beds, each one See 2 Kings walking 5 in his uprightness. 3 ¶ But draw near hither, dye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore. 13. 22.20. 3 Or, from that which is evil. 4 Or, go in peace. Luke 2. 29. c2 Chr. 16. 14. 5 Or, before him. d Matt. 16.4. 6 Or, among the oaks. ch. 1. 29. 4 Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood, 5 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the e2 Kings 16. children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks? 4. & 17. 10. Jer. 2. 20. fLev. 18. 21. & 20. 2. 2 Kings 16. 3. & 23. 10. Jer. 7.31. Ezek.16.20. & 20. 20. g Ezek. 16. 16, 25. h Ezek. 23. 41. 7 Or, hewed it for thyself larger than their's. i Ezek. 16. 26, 28. & 23. 2-20. 8 Or, thou providedst room. 0 Or, thou 6 Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these? g h 7 Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice. 8 Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thy self to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; 1 thou lovedst their bed 8 where thou sawest it. 9 And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase respectedst thyself even unto hell. the king. k ch. 30. 6. Ezek. 16.33. & 23. 16. Hos. 7. 11. & 12. 1. 10 Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; 'yet saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore 2 Or, living. thou wast not grieved. 1 Jer. 2. 25. m ch. 51. 12, 13. 11 And m of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor Ps. 50. 21. laid it to thy heart?" have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not? 12 I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee. Promises to the penitent. 13 When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain; : BEFORE CHRIST cir. 698. & 62. 10. 14. And shall say, "Cast ye up, cast och. 40.3. ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my г 15 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, P whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. 16 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls "which I have made. 17 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on 2frowardly in the way of his heart. 18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to mourners. с his 19 I create the fruit of the lips Peace, peace to him that is far off, Acts 2.39. and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him. 20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. 21 There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. CHAPTER LVIII. 1 The prophet, being sent to reprove hypocrisy, 3 expresseth a counterfeit fast and a true. 8 He declareth what promises are due unto godliness, 13 and to the keeping of the sabbath. 3 CRY aloud, spare not, lift up thy 3 Heb. with voice like a trumpet, and shew the throat. my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. 2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God. 3 Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your 45 labours. Hypocrisy is reproved. BEFORE CHRIST cir. 698. d Zech. 7. 5. eLev. 16.29. 2 Or, to af flict his soul for a day? ISAIAH, LIX. do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. 5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? 2 a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth Esth. 4.3. and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD? Job 2. 8. Dan. 9. 3. Jonah 3. 6. n Ex. 14. 19. ch. 52. 12. Heb. shall gather thee up. • Ps. 12. 2. 7 Heb. droughts. 8 Heb. lie, or, deceive. p ch. 61. 4. q ch. 56. 2. r Job 22. 26. . Deut. 32. 13. & 33, 29. t ch. 1. 20. & 40.5. Mic. 4. 4. 1 8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward. n 9 Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity; 10 And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day: 11 And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in 'drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. 12 And they that shall be of thee P shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in. 13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: The sins of the Jews. BEHOLD, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot h. 50.2. hear: 2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins 2 have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. 3 For byour hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. 4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. 5 They hatch 3 cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and 'that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. 6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. 7° Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths. 9 ¶ Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but & Jer. 8. 15. behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. 10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men. 11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us. 12 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them; 13 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. 14 And judgment is turned away ■ Eph. 5. 14. C Or, be enlightened; for thy light cometh. b Mal. 4. 2. c ch.49.6,23. Rev. 21. 24. d ch. 49. 18. 21, & 66. 12. 21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever. CHAPTER LX. 1 The glory of the church in the abundant access of the Gentiles, 15 and the great blessings after a short affliction. the access of the Gentiles. dance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the 2 forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee. 6 The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the LORD. BEFORE CHRIST cir. 698. 2 Or,wealth. ver. 11. ch. 61.6. Gen. 25. 4. Ps. 72. 10. ch. 61. 6. Matt. 2. 11. 7 All the flocks of k Kedar shall Gen.25.13. be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and 'I will 1Hag.2.7,0. glorify the house of my glory. 8 Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows? 9 m Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, "to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, Punto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee. m PB. 72. 10. ch. 42. 4. & 81.5. Gal. 4.26. • Ps. 68. 30. Zech. 14.14. p Jer. 3. 17. ach. 55. 5. rZech.6.15. ch.49.23. Rev. 21. 24. 10 And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for tin mytch. 57.17. wrath I smote thee, "but in my favour have I had mercy on thee. ch.54. 7,8. Rev.21.25. 11 Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Or, wealth. Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought. 3 12 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted. ver. 5. Zech. 14. Matt.21.44. 17, 19. & 41. 19. 13 The glory of Lebanon shall ch. 35.2. come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious. 14 The sons also of them that af ARISE, & shine; for thy light is flicted thee shall come bending unto come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. 2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. 3 And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. с 4 d Lift up thine eyes round about, and see all they gather themselves 24920, together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side. 7 Or,noise of 5 Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, towardthee. and be enlarged; because the 'abun f Rom. 11. 25. the sea shall be turned See 1 Chr. Ps. 132. 7. 28.2. |