NOME down, and sit in the

C dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate. 2 Take the millstones, and grind Matt. 24.41. meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over

© Ex. 11. 5. Judg.16. 21.

d ch. 3. 17. & 20. 4. Jer. 13. 22, 26.

Nah. 3. 5.

e Rom. 12. 19.

fch. 43. 3, 14. Jer. 50. 34.

g1 Sam. 2.9.

h ver. 7.
ch. 13. 19.
Dan. 2. 37.
1 See

2 Sam. 24.
14.

2 Chr. 28.9.

Zech. 1. 15. kch. 43. 28.

1 Deut. 28. 50.

m ver. 5. Rev. 18.7.

n ch.46.8.

o Deut. 32. 29.

the rivers.

d

3 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.

4 As for four redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.

5 Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: h for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.

6 T'I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; 1upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

7 And thou saidst, I shall be ma lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it.

n

r ch. 51. 19. .1 Thess. 5.

3.

9 But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their Nah. 3. 4. perfection for the multitude of thy Sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments. 10 ¶ For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None Ezek. 8. 12. seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy 2 Or, caused knowledge, it hath 2 perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am and none else beside me.

a Ps. 52.7. x ch. 29. 15.

& 9.9.

thee to turn

away. y ver. 8.

upon Babylon.

ments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.

BEFORE CHRIST cir. 712.

b ch.44. 25. Dan. 2. 2.

13 a Thou art wearied in the ch.57.10. multitude of thy counsels. Let now b the 2 astrologers, the stargazers, 3 the monthly prognosticators, stand up and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.

2 Heb.viewers of the & Heb. that give knowledge

heavens.

the months.

Nah. 1.10. Mal. 4. 1. their souls.

4 Heb.

14 Behold, they shall be as stub-concerning ble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.

15 Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even athy merchants, from thy youth: a Rev.18.11. they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.

CHAPTER XLVIII.

1 God, to convince the people of their foreknown obstinacy, revealed his prophecies. 9 He saveth them for his own sake. 12 He exhorteth them to obedience, because of his power and providence. 16 He lamenteth their backwardness. 20 He powerfully delivereth his out of Babylon.

2 For they call themselves a of the | holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name.

3'I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, 8 and they came to pass.

h

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 begin-1 ver. 3. ning 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, hath 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.

7 They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.

1 Ps. 79. 9. & 106. 8. ch. 43. 25. ver. 11. Ezek. 20.9, 14, 22, 44. m Ps. 78. 38.

n Ps. 66. 10. 2 Or, for silver. See Ezek. 22.20,21,22. p ver. 9.

q See Deut. 32. 26, 27. Ezek. 20. 9. r ch. 42. 8.

. Deut. 32. 39.

t ch. 41. 4.

& 44. 6.

Rev. 1. 17.

& 22. 13.

9 For my name's sake m will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.

a Pa. 102.25. right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.

3 Or, the palm of my right hand hath spread out. x ch. 40. 26. y ch. 41. 22. & 43. 9. & 44.7. & 45. 20, 21.

z ch. 45. 1. ach. 44. 28.

&C.

14 All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these things? The LORD hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.

15 I, even I, have spoken; yea, b ch.45.1,2, b I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.

c ch. 45. 19.

d ch. 61. 1. Zech. 2. 8, 9, 11.

e ch. 43. 14. & 44. 6, 24. ver. 20.

f Ps. 32. 8.

g Deut. 32. 29.

Ps. 81. 13.

16 ¶ Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now d the Lord God, and his Spirit, hath sent me.

17 Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.

f

18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had Ps.119.165. thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea: 19 Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

1 Gen. 22.17. Hos. 1. 10.

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 ch.44.22,23. his servant Jacob.

1 Ex. 19. 4, 5, 6.

m See ch.41. 17. 18.

n Ex. 17. 6. Num.20.11. Ps. 105. 41.

21 And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the

Christ sent to the Gentiles.

rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

22 There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.

CHAPTER XLIX.

1 Christ, being sent to the Jews, complaineth of them. 5 He is sent to the Gentiles with gracious promises. 13 God's love is perpetual to his church. 18 The ample restoration of the church. 24 The powerful deliverance out of captivity.

a

BEFORE CHRIST cir. 712.

och. 57. 21.

LISTEN, O isles, unto me; and ch.41.1.

hearken, ye people, from far;

b The LORD hath called me from the
womb; from the bowels of my mother
hath he made mention of my name.
2 And he hath made my mouth
like a sharp sword; in the shadow
of his hand hath he hid me, and
made me a polished shaft; in his
quiver hath he hid me;
3 And said unto me,
f Thou art
my servant, O Israel, & in whom
will be glorified.

4 Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and 2 my work with my God.

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. 7 Thus saith the LORD, the Re- & 26. 18. deemer of Israel, and his Holy One, m6to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers," Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, in soul. because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.

The ample restoration

BEFORE CHRIST cir. 712.

• Ps. 121. 6. t Ps. 23. 2.

a ch. 40. 4.

x ch.43.5,6.

y ch.44. 23.

z See ch. 40. 27.

a See

Ps. 103. 13. Mal. 3. 17. Matt. 7.11. 2 Heb. from having compassion. b Rom. 11. 29.

• See Ex. 13. 9.

Cant. 8. 6.

d ver. 19.

e ch. 60. 4.

u

11 " And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.

12 Behold, these shall come from far and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.

13 Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.

14 But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.

15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, 2 that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, byet will I not forget thee.

C

16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.

d

17 Thy children shall make haste; athy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.

е

18 Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them Prov. 17.6. all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.

21 Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?

22 Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring 1Ps. 72.11. thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.

of the church.

queens thy nursing mothers they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and m lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for "they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.

24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?

25 But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.

Rev. 14. 6or, new wine.

20. & 16.6.

r Ps. 9. 16. ch. 60. 16.

Tthe bill of your mother's die Deut.24.1.

Jer. 3. 8.

Hos. 2. 2.
See

2 Kings 4. 1.

vorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for Matt. 18.25. your iniquities have ye sold your-ch. 52. 3. selves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

d

2 Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, fat my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.

1

3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

4 m The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is a weary: he Matt. 11. wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.

28.

o Ps. 40.6,7,

8.

p Matt. 26.

5 ¶ The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not Prebellious, 39. neither turned away back.

6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

a

John 14. 31..
Phil. 2. 8.
Heb. 10. 5,
&C.

Matt. 26.
27.29.

John 18.

r Lam. 3.30.

Exhortation to trust in Christ.

BEFORE CHRIST cir. 712.

. Ezek. 3. 8, 9.

t Rom. 8.32, 33, 34.

2 Heb. the master of my cause?

☐ Job 13. 28. Ps. 102. 26. ch. 51. 6.

I ch.51. 8.

> Ps. 23. 4. z 2 Chr. 20. 20.

Ps. 20.7.

7 For the Lord God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I

shall not be ashamed.

8 tHe is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is 2 mine adversary? let him come near to me.

и

9 Behold, the Lord God will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up. 10 ¶ Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.

11 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have John 9.39. kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.

b Ps. 16.4.

He will defend his own.

ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.

7 ¶ Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.

8 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.

9 ¶ Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the ⚫ dragon?

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10 Art thou not it which hath a dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?

BEFORE CHRIST cir. 712.

rver. 1.
■ PB. 57.81.

Hatt. 10.
Acts 5.41.

28.

"ch. 50.9.

11 Therefore the redeemed of the ch. 35. 10. LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

f ver. 3.

2 Cor. 1.3.

12 I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that 8 Ps. 118.6. shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made 1as grass;

13 And forgettest the LORD thy maker, 'that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?

14 The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he 1Zech.9.11. should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.

m

15 But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts is his Jer. 31. 35.

name.

16 And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, P that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people. 17 ¶ Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out. 18 There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath

8

m Job 26.12. Ps. 74. 13.

He persuadeth the church to

BEFORE CHRIST

cir. 712.

t ch. 47.9. 2 Heb. happened.

brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up.

19 t These two things 2 are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, Amos 7.2. and the famine, and the sword: " by whom shall I comfort thee?

3 Heb. breaking.

Lam.2. 11, 12.

> See ver. 17. Lam. 3. 15.

Χ

u

20 Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.

21 T Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, 5 but not with wine:

22 Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, Jer. 50.84. and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:

а

b

23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over. CHAPTER LII.

1 Christ persuadeth the church to believe his free redemption, 7 to receive the ministers thereof, 9 to joy in the power thereof, 11 and

to free themselves from bondage. 13 Christ's

kingdom shall be exalted.

a

believe his free redemption.

BEFORE CHRIST cir. 712.

1 Ps. 93. 1. &

the 96.10.897.1.

peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, 'Thy God reigneth! 8 Thy watchmen shall lift up voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion. 9 ¶ Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his mch. 51. 3. people, "he hath redeemed Jerusalem.nch. 48. 20. 10 The LORD hath made bare his Ps. 98.2,3. holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and Pall the ends of the earth ach. 48. 20. shall see the salvation of our God.

11 ¶¶Depart ye, depart ye, gọ ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.

12 For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: 'for the LORD will go before you; " and the God of Israel will be your rereward.

bch.49.7, 23. • ch. 55. 5.

strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.

0

2 Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: floose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

3 For thus saith the LORD, & Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and shall be redeemed without money. ye 4 For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Gen. 46.6. Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

Acts 7.14.

I Ezek. 36. 20, 23. Rom. 2. 24.

k Nah. 1.15. Rom. 10.15.

h

5 Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is 'blasphemed.

6 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.

7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth