The peaceable kingdom of Christ. CHAPTERS XI, XII, XIII. 31 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee. Before CHRIST CHRIST cir. 713. q Judg. 18. 7. r Josh. 21. s Josh. 15. 10. Zech. 10. 32 As yet shall he remain t at Nob that day: he shall u shake his hand against the mount of x the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jeru-1 Sam. 21. salem. 1. & 22. 19. 33 Behold, the Lord, the LORD of Neh. 11. 32. hosts shall lop the bough with ter-u ch. 13. 2. x ch. 37. 22. ror and y the high ones of stature y See Amosings. shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled. 2.9 The calling of the Gentiles. recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, q from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. 12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gar John 7. 35. ther together the dispersed of JuJam. 1. 1. dah from the four † corners of the Heb. earth. s Jer. 3. 18. Ezek. 37. 16, 17, 22. Hos. 1. 11. Heb. the children of the east. t Dan. 11.41. 23. ver. 10. c ch. 4. 2. 33. & 3. 34. ju ch. 60. 14. y Rev. 16. 3 And shall make him of quick tunderstanding in the fear of the + Heb. scent, 12, LORD: and he shall not judge afor, smell. ter the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his Heb. in z ch. 19. 23. e Ps. 72. 2, 4.63. 12, 13. 13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. 14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoilt them of the east together: tfthey shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; † and the children of Ammon u shall obey them. 15 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty windshall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, y and make men go over † dry-shod. 16 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; a like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land or Egypt. with equity for the ane krepov for, argue. a ch. 2. 11 AND Lon that day thou shalt say: carth and he shall fsmite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shali he slay the wicked. f Job 4. 9. Rev. 1. 16. 19. 15. b Ps. 83. 18. though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me. 2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. 5 And g righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithful-g See Eph. ness the girdle of his reins. 6. 14. h ch. 65. 25. Ezek. 34. 25. d John 4.10 draw d water out of the wells of 3 Therefore with joy shall ye Hos. 2. 18. 8 And they shall be afraid; pangs and sorrows shall take hold i Ps. 48. 6. of them; they shall be in pain as ch. 21. 3. a woman that travaileth: they shall t be amazed † one at another; their + Heb. won-|| faces shall be as flames. der. 9 Behold, the day of the LORD + Heb every cometh, cruel both with wrath and man this neighcour. fierce anger, to lay the land deso-+ Heb. faces late and he shall destroy the sin ners thereof out of it. 10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be in darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. 11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; n and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. 12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir. of the flames. k Mal. 4 1. Prov. 2. 22. 1 Ps. 104. 35. m ch. 24. 21, 23. Ezek. 32. 7. Joel 2. 31. Matt. 24. 29. & 3. 15. Mark 13. 24. Luke 21. 25. n ch. 2. 17. The triumph of Before God overthrew u Sodom and GoCHRIST morrah. cir. 712. u Gen. 19. 24, 25. Deut. 29. 23. Jer. 49. 18. & 50. 40. x Jer. 50. 3. y ch. 34. 11, 15. Rev. 18. 2. + Heb. Ziim. + Heb. Ochim. Or, ostriches. ↑ Heb. daughters of the owl. + Heb. Iim. Or, palaces. z Jer. 51. 33. 20 x It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there : 21 y But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of † doleful creatures; and fowls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. 22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their || desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: z and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged. CHAPTER XIV. 1 God's merciful restoration of Israel. 3 Their triumphant insultation over Babel. 24 God's purpose against Assyria. 29 Palestina is threatened. FOR the LORD a will have mercy on Jacob, and b will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: c and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. 2 And the people shall take them, d and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; e and they shall rule over their oppressors. 3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve, 4T That thou f shalt take up this proverb against the king of BaOr, taunt-bylon, and say, How hath the opHag. 2. 6.ing speech. pressor ceased, the g golden city Or, exacceased! tress of gold. Rev. 18. 13 Therefore I will shake the o heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in P the day of p Ps. 110. 5. his fierce anger. Lam. 1. 12. 16. h Ps. 125. 3. ↑ Heb. a Jer. 50. 16. 14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: q they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee & 51. 9. every one into his own land. 15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword. 16 Their children also shall be r dashed to pieces before their eyes;r Ps. 137. 9. their houses shall be spoiled, and Nah. 3. 10. Zech. 14. 2. their wives ravished. 17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it. 18 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children. s ch. 21. 2. Jer. 51. 11, 28. Dan, 5. 28, 31. t ch. 14. 4, 29. + Heb, as the over 19 t And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be † as when throwing. 5 The LORD hath broken h the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers. 6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he stroke with- that ruled the nations in anger, is out removing. persecuted, and none hindereth. i ch. 55. 12. 7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing. 8 Yea, the fir-trees rejoice at Ezek. 31. 16. thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us. k Ezek. 32. 21. Or, The grave. : 9k|| Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coning it stirreth up the dead for Heb. lead-thee, even all the fl chief ones of the earth it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. ers. Or, great goats. 10 All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we ? Art thou become like unto us ? 11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee. ch. 34. 4. Or, adder. Or, O day-d2 Kings 18. 8. star. m Matt. 11. 23. 13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, n I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, o ino Ps. 48. 2. the sides of the north: 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; FI will be like the Most High. 15 Yet thou a shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. 16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms: 17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof: that opened not the house of his prisoners? 18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house. 19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcass trodden under feet. n Dan. 8. 10. p ch. 47. 8. 2 Thess. 2.4. Matt. 11. 23. Or, he shall not be alone. Or, assemblies. je Ps. 87. 1, 5. & 102. 16. f Zeph. 3. 12. Zech. 11. 11. Or, betake themselves unto it. cir. 726. a Jer. 48. 1, Or, did not &c. Ezek. let his prisoners loose homewards. 25. 8,-11. Amos 2. 1. Num. 21. 28. Or, cut off. c ch. 16. 12. d See Lev. 48. 1, 37, 38. + Heb. de ||scending in 20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people r the seed of evil-doers shallr Job 18. 19. never be renowned. Ps. 21. 10.&to weeping, 37. 28. & 109. 13. Matt. 23, 35. 21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities. 22 For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, s Ex. 20. 5. or, coming down with weeping. f ch. 16. 9. g ch. 16. 11. Jer. 48. 31. Or, to the borders and cut off from Babylon t the Prov. 10,7. thereof, even name, and remnant, x and son, and nephew, saith the LORD. Jer. 51. 62. ul Kin. 14. 10. 23 y I will also make it a posses-x Job 18. 19. sion for the bittern, and pools of y ch. 34. 11. water and I will sweep it with the Zeph. 2. 14. besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts. 24 The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass and as I have purposed, so shall it stand: 25 That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off z ch. 10. 27. them, and his burden depart from as a heifer. h ch. 16. 14. Jer. 48. 5. Jer. 48. 34. Heb. breaking. k Num. 32. 36. Heb. desolations. Or, valley of the Arabians. + Heb. addi tions. 2 Chr.20.6.2 Kings 17. Job 9. 12. & 25. 23. 13. Ps. 33. 11. Prov. 19. 27 For the LORD of hosts hath a purposed, and who shall disannul 21. & 21.30. it? and his hand is stretched out,ch. 43. 13. and who shall turn it back? Dan. 4. 31, 28 In the year that king Ahaz 35. died was this burden. b 2 Kings 16. 20. 726. a 2 Kin. 3. 4. b 2 Kings 14. 7. + Heb. 29 Rejoice not thou, whole PaOr, Petra. lestina, because the rod of him e 2 Chr. 26.6.la rock. The lamentable state of Moab. that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, d and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent. 30 And the first-born of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant. 31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved for there shall come from the north a smoke, and || none shall be alone in his | appointed times. 32 What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That e the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall || trust in it. The lamentable state of Moab. a burden of Moab. cause in the night b Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; 2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: don all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off. 3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: e on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, † weeping abundantly. even 4 And Heshbon shall cry, f and Elealeh; their voice shall be heard unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shail cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him. 5 g My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an h heifer of three years Luhith with weeping shall they go old: for by the mounting up of it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of † destruction. 6 For the waters k of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing. 7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows. 8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab, the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beer-elim. 9 For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land." CHAPTER XVI. 1 Moab is exhorted to yield obedience to Christ's kingdom. 6 Moab is threatened for her pride. 9 The prophet bewaileth her. 12 The judgment of Moab. The judgment of Moab. 2 For it shall be, that, as a wan-| Before ISAIAH. Before Syria and Israel threatened. dering bird cast out of the nest, CHRIST CHRIST THE a burden of Damascus. Be so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of c Arnon. cir. 726. Or, a nest Num. 21. 3 Take counsel, execute judg-forsaken. ment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noon-day; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth. 4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the textortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, † the oppressors are consumed out of the land. 13. † Heb. + Heb. the cir. 741. hold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a Jer. 49. 23. a ruinous heap. Amos 1. 3. Zech. 9. 1. fulfilled 740, 2 Kin. 16. 9. b Jer. 7. 33. jc ch. 7. 16. & 8. 4. 2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and b none shall make them afraid. 3 cThe fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts. 4 And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall Dan. 7. 14, d ch. 10. 16. be made thin, and d the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean. 5 And in mercy d shall the throne be established and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle 27. Mic. 4.7. of David, e judging, and seeking Luke 1. 33. judgment, and lasting righteous-Or, pre e Jer. 51. 33. pared. g ch. 28. 15. i 2 Kings 3. 8 Fork the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah : 1 ver. 9. the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea. cir. 741. g Mic. 7. 7. Or, pluck- ||||Or, sun ed up. images. m Jer. 48.32. 9 Therefore m I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elea-n leh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen. 10 And o gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field: and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage-shouting to cease. ch. 15. 4. Or, the alarm is fallen upon, &c. ch. 24. 8. Jer. 48. 33. 5 e And it shall be as when the harvest-man gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim. 6f Yet gleaning-grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive-tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel. 7 At that day shall a man g look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel. 8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images. 9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel and there shall be desolation. 10 Because thou hast forgotten h Ps. 68. 19h the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the Rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips: The Ethiopians threatened. Woa a to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: CHAPTER XIX. Before CHRIST cir. 714. & 3. 10. 2 That sendeth ambassadors by a ch. 20. 4, the sea, even in vessels of bul- 5. Ezek. 30. rushes upon the waters, saying, Go4, 5, 9. ye swift messengers, to ba nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled! 3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye. Zeph. 2. 12. b ver. 7. Or, outspread and polished. Or, a nation that meteth out, and treadeth down. line, and Before CHRIST cir. 714. Th 2 Kin. 19. 24. + Heb. and shall not be. 16. Heb. a na-i 1 Kin. 10. tion of line, 28. Prov. 7. 4 For so the LORD said unto me, treading I will take my rest, and I wil! || con-under foot. Or, white works. sider in my dwelling-place like a Or, whose + Heb. founclear heat upon herbs, and like a land the ri-dations. cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. ters despise. + Heb. of c ch. 5. 26. 5 For afore the harvest, when the living Or, regard things. bud is perfect, and the sour grape my set is ripening in the flower, he shall dwelling. both cut off the sprigs with pruning-Or, after hooks, and take away and cut down the branches. 6 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them. rain. Mal. 1. 11. 7 In that time d shall the pre-d See Ps. 68. sent be brought unto the LORD of 31. & 72. 10. hosts of a people || scattered and ch. 16. 1. peeled, and from a people terrible Zeph. 3. 10. from their beginning hitherto; aOr, outnation meted out and trodden un-spread and der foot, whose land the rivers have polished: spoiled, to the place of the name of See ver. 2. the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion. CHAPTER XIX. 1 The confusion of Egypt. 11 The foolishness of their princes. 18 The calling of Egypt to the church. 23 The covenant of Egypt, Assyria, and Israel. THE 30. HE a burden of Egypt. Behold, a Jer. 46. 13. the LORD brideth upon a swift Ezek. 29, & cloud, and shall come into Egypt: Ps. 18. 10. and the idols of Egypt shall be & 104. 3. moved at his presence, and the c Ex. 12. 12. heart of Egypt shall melt in the Jer. 43. 12. midst of it. 2 And I will †d set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. + Heb. mingle. Judg.7.22. 1 Sam. 14. 16, 20. 2 Chr. 20. 23. Heb. shall The confusion of Egypt. far away; and the brooks h of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither. 7 The paper-reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, † and be no more. 8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish. 9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave net-works, shall be confounded. 10 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds † for fish. 11 Surely the princes of k Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings 12 Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt. 13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, m the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof. 14 The LORD hath mingled tna perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit. in any 15 Neither shall there be work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do. 16 In that day shall Egypt p be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear, because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of q ch. 11. 15 hosts, q which he shaketh over it. 17 And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it. 3 And the spirit of Egypt † shall fail in the midst thereof: aud I be emptied. will destroy the counsel thereof: Heb. swal-26, 27, and they shall seek to the idols, low up. and to the charmers, and to theme ch. 8. 19. that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards. & 47. 12. 4 And the Egyptians will I give | Or, shut over finto the hand of a cruel lord; up. and a fierce king shall rule over Jer. 46. 26. f ch. 20. 4. them, saith the Lord, the LORD Ezek. 29. 19. of hosts. See Josh. 4. 20 & 22.27. 19 In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD. 20 And t it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them. 21 And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and 5 g And the waters shall fail from Jer. 51. 36. u Mal. 1. 11. u shall do sacrince and oblation; the sea, and the river shall be wast ed and dried up. 6 And they shall turn the rivers Ezek. 30. 12. yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it. 22 And the LORD shall smite |