The invasion of Jewry Before pleasure hath he turned into fear CHRIST unto me. cir. 714. Heb. put. 23 In that day x shall there be x ch. 11. 16. g Dau. 5. 5. a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians. 24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land: 25 Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria y the work y Ps. 100. 3. of my hands, and Israel mine inhe-ch. 29. 23. ritance. CHAPTER XX. A type prefiguring the shameful captivity of Egypt and Ethiopia. Hos. 2. 23. Eph. 2. 10. h ver. 9. Or, cried i Hab. 2. 1. k Jer. 51. 8. Rev. 14. 8. IN the year that a Tartan came a 2 Kings 18.1 ch. 46. 1. 2 At the same time spake the 151. 44. m Jer. 51. ↑ Heb. son. n 1 Chr. 1. b Zech. 13. 30. Jer. 49. 5 g Prepare the table, watch in the watch-tower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield. 6 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth. 7h And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed: 8 And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the i watch-tower in the day time, and I am set in my ward | whole nights. 9 And behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, k Babylon is fallen, is falien; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground. 10 m O my threshing, and the tcorn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you. 11 The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watch c walking naked and barefoot. c1 Sam. 19. 35. 2. Obad. man, what of the night? Watch 3 And the LORD said, Like as my 24. Mic. 1. servant Isaiah hath walked naked 8, 11. and barefoot three years d for a sign d ch. 8. 18. and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia; 4 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, e even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. Heb. the Egypt. e 2 Sam. 10. Jer. 13. 22, 26. Mic. 1. kedness. 5 f And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expecta-1 tion, and of Egypt their glory. + Heb. na6 And the inhabitant of this | isle 12 Kings 18. shall say, in that day, Behold, such 21. ch. 30. 3, is our expectation, whither we flee 5, 7. & 36. 6. for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape? Or, country, Jer. 47. 4. sea. As a whirlwinds in the a Zech. 9.14.] south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land. cir. 712. man, what of the night? 12 The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night. if ye will inquire, inquire ye: re turn, come. 13 The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies P of Dedanim. 14 The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled. 15 For they fled from the from the bent bow, and from the swords, from the drawn sword, and grievousness of war. 16 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, 9 according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of r Kedar shall fail: 17 And the residue of the number of † archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it, CHAPTER XXII. 1 The prophet lamenteth the invasion of Jewry by the Persians. 8 He reproveth their human wisdom and worldly joy. 15 He prophesieth Shebna's deprivation, 20 and Eliakim, prefiguring the kingdom of Christ, his substitution. THE burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the house-tops? 2 Thou that art full of stirs, a a ch. 32. 13. tumultuous city, a a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle. 3 All thy rulers are fled together, Heb. of the they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thec are bound together, which have fled from far. bow. 4 Therefore said I, Look away Shebna's downfall prophesied. from me; btI will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people. 5e For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity d by the Lord GoD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains. 6 e And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and f Kirt uncovered the shield. 7 And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate. 8 And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour g of the house of the forest. 9h Ye have seen also the breachesh 2 Kin. 20. of the city of David, that they are 20. 2 Chr. many: and ye gathered together 32. 4, 5, 30. the waters of the lower pool. 10 And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall. 11 i Ye made also a ditch between i Neh. 3. 16. the two walls for the water of the old pool; but ye have not looked cir. 715. a Jer. 25. 22. & 47. 4. Ezek. 26, & unto k the maker thereof, neither k See ch. 37. 27, & 28. had respect unto him that fashioned 26. it long ago. 12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts I call to weeping, and I Joel 1. 13. to mourning, and m to baldness, m See Ezra9. and to girding with sackcloth: 3. ch. 15. 2. Mic. 1. 16. 13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to-mor-n ch. 56. 12. row we shall die. I Cor. 15. 32. 14 And it was revealed in mine o ch. 5. 9. ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity P shall not be purged p 1 Sam. 3. from you till ye die, saith the Lord 14. Ezek. 24. GOD of hosts. 13. 15 Thus saith the Lord GoD of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto q Shebna,q2 Kin 18. which is over the house, and say, 37. ch. 36. 3. 16 What hast thou here, and r 1 Kin. 4. 6. whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock? 17 Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with ta mighty captivity, t and will surely cover thee. 18 He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a flage country. there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house. 19 And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down. 20 1 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant u Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah: Amos 1. 9. Zech. 9. 2, 4. b ver. 12. Heb.silent. c Ezek. 27.3. d ch. 19. 16. e ch. 22. 2. Or, O he. + Heb. from s See 2 Sam. afar of. 18. 18. Matt. 27.60. See Ezek. Or, the 28. 2, 12. LORD who covered thee with an ex cellent covering, and clothed thee gorgeously, shall surely, c. ver. 18. + Heb. the + Heb. to pollute. + Heb. girdle. captivity of Or, cona man. t Esth. 7. 8. t Heb. large of spaces, u 2 Kings 21 And I will clothe him with thy | 18. 18. robe, and strengthen him with thy cerning a merchantman. + Heb. Canaan. Or, strengths. g Rev. 18.22. The overthrow of Tyre girdle, and I will commit thy go vernment into his hand and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. 22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder: so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shyt, and none shall open. 23 And I will fasten him as y a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house. 24 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons. 25 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken it. CHAPTER XXIII. 1 The miserable overthrow of Tyre. 17 Their unhappy return. THE a burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: bfrom the land of Chittim it is revealed to thein. 2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished. 3 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations. 4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon. for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins. 5 d As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre. 6 Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle. 7 Is this your e joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her fafar off to sojourn. 8 Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, f the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth? 9 The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, † to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth. 10 Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more † strength. 11 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms; the LORD hath given a commandment || against the merchant-city, to destroy the || strong holds thereof. 12 And he said, g Thou shalt no The restoration of Tyre. more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, h pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest. ISAIAH. Before cir. 715. b ver. 1. 13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for i them that i Ps. 72. 9. dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof, and he brought it to ruin. 14 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste. 15 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years † shall Tyre sing as an harlot. k ver. 1. Ezek. 27. 25, 30. Heb. it shall be unto Before CHRIST cir. 712. g cn. 17. 5, Or, valleys. h Mal. 1. 11. shall turn to her hire, and shall 1 Rev. 17. 2. Heb. wing 18 And her merchandise and her hire m shall be holiness to the m Zech. 14. CHAPTER XXIV. 1 The doleful judgments of God upon the land. 134 remnant shall joyfully praise him. 16 God in his judgments shall advance his kingdom." BEHOLD, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it) waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. + Heb. old. cir. 712. + Heb. per- + Heb. Leanness to me, or, My secret to me. li Jer. 5. 11. k See 1 Kin. 19. 17. Jer. 48. 43, 44. Amos 5. 19. 1 Gen. 7. 11. In Jer. 4. 23. 2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the a priest; as Or, prince. ch. 19. 14. with the servant, so with his mas- a Hos. 4. 9. ter; as with the maid, so with her mistress; bas with the buyer, sob Ezek. 7. with the seller; as with the lender, 12, 13. so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. 3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word. 4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, † the haughty people of the earth do languish. God's judgments upon the land. the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth. 9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. 10 The city of confusion is broker down every house is shut up, that no man may come in. 11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone. 12 In the city is left desotation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. 13 When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, E there shall be as the shaking of an olive-tree, and as the gleaninggrapes when the vintage is done. 14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea. 15 Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even h the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea. of the earth have we heard songs, 16 From the uttermost part even glory to the righteous. But I said, † My leanness, my leanness, wo unto me! i the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously. 17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. 18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and m the foundations of the earth do shake. 19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly. 20 The earth shall o reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again. 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, P and the kings of the earth upon the earth. 22 And they shall be gathered together, † as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be || visited. 23 Then the qmoon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall r reign in mount Zion, and in Jer Rev. 19. 4. rusalem, and || before his ancients gloriously. & 3. 15. 6. s Heb. 12. 22. e ch. 16. 8, 9. Or, there Joel 1. 10,12.shall be glory before his ancients. cir. 712. f Jer. 7. 34. 7 e The new wine mourneth, the & 16. 9. & CHAPTER XXV. 1 The prophet praiseth God, for his judgments, 6 for his saving benefits, 9 and for his victorious salvation. vine languisheth, all the merry-26. 13. Hos. Ex. 15. 2. O LORD, thou art my God; a I hearted do sigh. 25. 10. Ezek. 2. 11. Rev. 8 The mirth fof tabrets ceaseth,!18 22. Ps. 118. 28. will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; b for thou hast done The prophet praiseth God. wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth. 2 For thou hast made d of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built. 3 Therefore shall the strong peo ple e glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee. CHAPTER XXVI. Before cir. 712. Num. 23. d ch. 21. 9. Jer. 51. 37. e Rev. 11. 4 For thou hast been a strength| to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, fa refuge fch. 4. 6. from the storm, a shadow from the hea, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. 5 Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low. 6 T And in g this mountain shall b the LORD of hosts make unto i all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees; of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. 7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering † cast over all people, and k the vail that is spread over all nations. 8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GoD will m wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth for the LORD hath spoken it. Before CHRIST cir. 712. d ch. 45. 17. rock of ages. Deut. 32. 4. f Ps. 37. 23. g ch. 64. 5. h Ps. 63. 6. A song inciting to trust in God. d for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength: 5 For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; e the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust. 6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy. The way of the just is uprightness: fthou, 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 g ch. 2. 2, 3. in the earth, the inhabitants of the h Prov. 9. 2. world will learn righteousness. Matt. 22. 4. 10 i Let favour be shewed to the Dan. 7. 14. 12. Rom. 2. wicked, yet will he not learn righMatt. 8. 11.4. teousness: ink the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD. i + Heb. + Heb. co- k 2 Cor. 3. Hos. 13. 14. m Rev. 7. 9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; n we haven Gen. 49. waited for him, and he will save 18. Tit. 2. us this is the LORD; we have waited for him, o we will be glad o Ps. 20. 5. and rejoice in his salvation. 13. 10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is || trodden down for threshed. the dunghill. 1 Or, 11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands. Or, threshed in Madmenah. sung in the land of Judah; We a ch. 2. 11. n Hos. 5. 15. t Heb. secret speech. lo ch. 13. 8. John 16. 21. 11 LORD, when thy hand is lift ed up, I 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. 12 LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works | in us. 13 O LORD our God, m other lords besides 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. 16 LORD, n in trouble have they visited thee; they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them. 17 Like as a woman with child, 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 have a strong city; b salvation will b ch. 60. 18. p Ps. 17. 14. earth; neither have p the inhabitGod appoint for walls and bulwarks. God's care over his vineyard. as it were t for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. 21 For behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her † blood, and shall no more cover her slain. CHAPTER XXVII. 1 The care of God over his vineyard. 7 His chastisements differ from judg"ments. 12 The church of the Jews and Gentiles. IN that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, a even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay b the dragon that is in the sea. 2 In that day c sing ye unto her, d A vineyard of red wine. 3e the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. ISAIAH. Before CHRIST cir. 712. cir. 725. a ver. 3. b ver. 4. a Ps. 74. 13,+ Heb. 14. broken. b ch. 51. 9. Ezek. 29. 3. & 32. 2. c ch. 5. 1. d Ps. 80. 8. Jer. 2. 21. e Ps. 121. 4, 5. 4 Fury is not in me: who would set f the briers and thorns against 2 Sam. 23. me in battle? I would go through 6. ch. 9. 18. them, I would burn them toge-Or, march against. ther. 5 Or let him take hold g of my g ch. 25. 4. strength, that he may make peace h Job 22. 21. with me, and he shall make peace with me. 6 He shall cause them that come of Jacob i to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit. i ch. 37. 31. Hos. 14. 5, 6. 7 Hath he smitten him, † as het Heb. acsmote those that smote him? or is cording to he slain according to the slaughter of those. the stroke of them that are slain by him? 8 In measure, I when it shootethk forth, thou wilt debate with it: 1 he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind. c ch. 30. 30. Ezek. 13. 11. d ver. 1. + Heb. with feet. Job 23. 6. Ps. 6. 1. Jer.f 10. 24. & 30. 1 Cor. 10. 13. 11. & 46. 28. | Or, when he removeth it. 9 By this therefore shall the ini-Or, when quity of Jacob be purged; and this thou sendest is all the fruit to take away his sin; it forth. when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalk-stones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up. 10 Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness : m there shall the calf feed, and m See ch. there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof. Ps. 78. 38. Or, sun images. 17. 2. & 32. 14. 11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come and set them on fire: for it is a people of no un-n Deut. 32. derstanding: therefore he that 28. ch. 1. 3. made them will not have mercy on Jer. 8. 7. them, and he that formed them o Deut. 32. will shew them no favour. 18. ch. 43. 1, 7. & 44. 2, 21, 24. 12 T And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye e ver. 1. Ephraim threatened. the land of Egypt, and shall wor ship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem. CHAPTER XXVIII. 1 The prophet threateneth Ephraim for their pride and drunkenness. 5 The residue shall be advanced in the kingdom of Christ. 7 He rebuketh their error. 9 Their untowardness to learn, 14 and their security. 16 Christ the sure foundation is promised. 18 Their security shall be tried. 23 They are incited to the consideration of God's discreet providence. WO to a the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose b glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are †overcome with wine! 2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, c 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 d The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden † under feet: 4 And e 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 Heb. swal-hand he † eateth it up. loweth. Prov. 20. 1. Hos. 4. 11. 12. ch. 56. 10, h Jer. 6. 10. + Heb the hearing. Il Or, hath been. t Heb. stammerings of lips. i 1 Cor. 14. 21. Or, he hath spoken. 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 fhave erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; g 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. 8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean. 9 h Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand † doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. 10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little : 11 For with ti stammering lips and another tongue || will he speak to this people. 12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the 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 fine, fine upon line; here a little, and there a little that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. |