God's favour to his people. BEFORE CHRIST cir. 712 Ps. 37.23. 8 ch. 64. 5. h Ps. 63. 6. Cant. 3. 1. 1 Eccles. 8. 12. Rom. 2. 4. Ps.143.10. 1 Job 34. 27. 1's. 28.5. ch. 5. 12. 2 Or, toward thy people. 8 Or, for us. m 2 Chr. 12. 8. n Hos. 5. 15. 4 Heb. secret speech. o ch. 18. 8. even to the ground; he bringeth it | dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast even to the dust. out the dead. 6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy. 7 The way of the just is uprightness: f thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just. 8 Yea, & in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee. 9 h 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. k 10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD. 11 LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them. 2 1 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 beside 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. n 16 LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a 'prayer when thy chastening was upon them. 17 Like as о a woman with child, John 16.21. that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD. 18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the neither have P the inhabitants PPs. 17.14. earth; q Ezek. 37. 1, &c. of the world fallen. 19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they Awake and sing, ye that Dan. 12. 2. arise. Ephraim is threatened. BEFORE CHRIST cir. 712. n Deut. 82. 28. ch. 1. 3. Jer. 8.7.. • Deut. 32. 18. ch. 43.1, 7. & 44. 2, 21, 24. p ch. 2. 11. q Matt. 24. 31. Rev. 11. 15. cir. 725. a ver. 8. b ver. 4. 2 Heb. broken. c ch. 30. 30. Ezek. 18.11. d ver. 1. 8 Heb. with feet. . ver. 1. 4 Heb. swalloweth. f Prov. 20.. Hos. 4. 11. 12. ISAIAH, XXVIII. fire: for it is a people of no under- 12 ¶ And it shall come to pass in 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 Jerusalem. CHAPTER XXVIII. 1 The prophet threateneth Ephraim for their rebuketh their error. 9 Their untowardness OE to the crown of pride, to Christ is promised. 8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean. 2 BEFORE CHRIST cir. 725. 9 ¶ Whom shall he teach know-b Jer. 6. 10. ledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. 3 10 For precept must be upon pre- hath been. cept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little : 11 For with 41 stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. Heb. ings of lips. stammer 1 1 Cor. 14. 21. 5 Or, he hath 12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the spoken. 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; line 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 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule WOE the crow off Ephraim, this people which is in Jerusalem. 2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand. 3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden 3 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 eateth it up. 5 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 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong ch. 56. 10. 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. 15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us; for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: 16 T Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste. 17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away m 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. in mount "Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, Phis strange 1 Chr. 14.11. work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act. • Josh. 10. 10, 12. 2 Sam. 5. 25. 1 Chr. 14.16. p Lam. 3.33. 23. Dan. 9. 27. 22 Now therefore be ye not mockyour bands be made strong: ers, lest for I have heard from the Lord GOD ach. 10. 22, of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth. 23 ¶ Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech. 24 Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground? 2 Or, the wheat in the principal place, and barley in the appointed place? 8 Or, spelt. 4 Heb. border! 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 rie 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 Or Ahe is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod. bindeth it in such sort as his God doth teach him. Ps. 92, 5. Jer. 32. 19. cir. 712. 6 Or, O Ariel, that is, the lion of God. . Ezek. 43. 15, 16. 7 Or, of the city. D2 Sam. 5.9. 8 Heb. cut off the heads. 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. CHAPTER XXIX. 1 God's heavy judgment upon Jerusalem. 7 The unsatiableness of her enemies. 9 The senselessness, 13 and deep hypocrisy of the Jews. 18 A promise of sanctification to the godly. b "WOE 3 And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee. 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 shall Heb, peep, whisper out of the dust. • ch. 8. 19. or, chirp. 4 ch. 25. 5. Job 21. 18. ch. 17. 13. f ch. 30. 13. 8 ch. 28. 2. & 30. 30. 9 5 Moreover the multitude of thy 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 upon Jerusalem LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire. BEFORB CHRIST cir. 712. i Jób 20. 8. k Ps. 78. 20. 7 And the multitude of all the ch. 37. 36. nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision. 8 It shall even be as when an 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. 9 ¶ Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are 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 3 rulers, P the seers hath he ch. 6. 10. covered. 8 ch. 28. 14, 22. h Mic. 2. 1. 12. k Prov. 28. 21.. 20 For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off: 21 That make a man an offender Amos 5.10, for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought. 22 Therefore thus saith the LORD, 1Josh. 24.3. who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale. m ch. 19. 25. & 45. 11. & 10.21. Ephes. 2.10. n ch. 28.7. 23 But when he seeth his children, m the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel. 3 24 They also that erred in spirit 3 Heb. shall shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine. know understanding. their confidence in Egypt. the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them. 7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried 2 concerning this, 'Their strength is to sit still. m BEFORE CHRIST cir. 713. k Jer. 37.7. Or, to her. 1 ver. 15. ch. 7. 4. Hab. 2. 2. 8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for 3 Heb. the ever and ever: 9 That "this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD: 10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, Pspeak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits: 11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. latter day. D Deut. 32. 20. ch. 1. 4. ver. 1. Jer. 11.21. &7.13. Amos 2.12. Mic. 2. 6. p1 Kings22. 13. Mic. 2. 11. 12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression Or, fraud. and perverseness, and stay thereon: 13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swell- a Ps. 62. 3. ing out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant. 8 14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit. 15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: u and would not. ye 16 But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift. Ps. 2. 3. Jer. 19. 11. bottle of potters. 17 One thousand shall flee at the Lev. 26.8. rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as beacon upon the top of a mountain, bereft and as an ensign on an hill. 18 T And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him. 19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee. 20 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not 6 The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon a Deut.28.25. & 32.30. Josh. 23.10. 6 Or, a tree branches, or, boughs: or, a mast. Ps. 2.12. Prov. 16.20. ch.65.9. & 34.8. Jer. 17.7. al Kings22. Ps. 127. 2. 7 Or, oppression. God's wrath in the BEFORE CHRIST cir. 718. b Ps. 74.9. Amos 8.11. Josh. 1.7. d2 Chr.31.1. ch. 2. 20. & 31.7. 2 Heb. the graven images of thy silver. 3 Heb. scatter. • Hos. 14. 8. ? Matt. 6.38. 1 Tim. 4.8. 4 Or, savoury. 6 Heb. leavened. 8 ch. 2. 14, 15. & 44.8. 6 Heb. lifted up. h ch. 60. 19, 20. 7 Or, and the griev ousness of flame. 8 Heb. heaviness. 1 ch. 11. 4. k ch. 8.8. ISAIAH, XXXI. bthy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: 21 And thine cars shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. 2 22 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence. 23 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures. 24 The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan. 25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. h 26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound. 27 T Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire: 28 And his breath, as an over2 Thess. 2.8. flowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err. 1 ch. 37.29. 29 Ye shall have a song, as in the Ps. 42. 4. night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the 'mighty One of Israel, a ch. 2. 3. • Heb. Rock, Deut. 32. 4. • ch. 29. 6. 3 Heb. the voice. 30° And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall glory of his shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, p ch. 28. 2. & 32. 19. a ch. 37.36. P and hailstones. destruction of Assyria. LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod. r 3 32 And 2 in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of $ shaking will he fight 4 with it. 33 For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it. CHAPTER XXXI. BEFORE CHRIST cir. 713. 1 The prophet sheweth the cursed folly in trust- yesterday. ing to Egypt, and forsaking of God. 6 He exhorteth to conversion. 8 He sheweth the fall of Assyria. W° OE to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD! cir. 713. a ch. 30. 2. & 36. 6. Ezek. 17.15. Ps. 20.7. ch. 36. 9. • Dan. 9. 13. Hos.7.7. 19. 2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and a will not call back a Num. 23. his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity. 6 Heb. remove. 5. 3 Now the Egyptians are men, Ps. 146. 3, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together. 4 For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof. 5 As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; 1 defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it. 6 Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted. 31 For through the voice of the |