ber.

9 My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is 2 the choice one of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yes, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.

10 Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?

11 I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded.

12 Or ere I was aware, my soul 3 made me like the chariots of Ammi-2 or, nadib.

13 Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look What will ye see in the Shulamite? As upon thee. it were the company 4 of two armies.

CHAP. VII.

1 A further description of the church's 10 The church professeth her faith and degraces. sire.

H°

OW beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a skillful workman.

CHAP. VIII.

1 The love of the church to Christ. 6 The vehemence of love. 8 The calling of the Gentiles. 14 The church prayeth for Christ's coming.

THAT thou wert as my brother, that was nourished at the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yes, 1 I should not be despised.

2 I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of a spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.

3 His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace

me.

5 a Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the appletree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bore thee.

6 Set me as a seal upon thy heart,

4 Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thy eyes like the fish-pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim: thy nose is a Prov. 9. 2. as the tower of Lebanon which looketh towards Damascus.

5 Thy head upon thee is like 2 Carmel, and the hair of thy head like purple; the king is 3 held in the galleries.

6 How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!

7 This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes. 8 I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of its boughs: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;

b c. 2. 6.

c. 2. 7. & 3. 5.

2 Heb. why

should ye stir up, or, why, &c.

dc. 3. 6.

9 And the roof thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down 4 sweetly, causing the lips 5 of those 3 Heb. hard. that are asleep to speak.

10 I am my beloved's, and his desire is towards me.

11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.

12 Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourisheth, whether the tender grape 6 appeareth, and the

4 Heb. peace.

5 Heb. Flee away.

as death; jealousy is 3 cruel as the grave: the coals of it are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.

neither can the floods drown it: if a man 7 Many waters cannot quench love, would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

8 ¶ We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?

9 If she is a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she is a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar,

10 I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favor.

2 Isaiah complaineth of Judah for her rebellion: 5 He lamenteth her judgments: 10 He upbraideth their whole service: 16 He exhorteth to repentance, with promises and threat a Deut. 22. 1. 1 or, saith. enings. 21 Bewailing their wickedness, he denounceth God's judgments: 25 He prom-b Jer. 8. 7. iseth grace, 28 and threateneth destruction 2 Heb. of heaviness. to the wicked. 3 Heb.

THA

HE vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

4

6

2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O5 earth: for the LORD 1 hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. 3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. 4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with 2 iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger, they are 3 gone away backward.

5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will 4 revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

6 From the sole of the foot even to

the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with 5 oint

ment.

7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, 6 as overthrown by strangers.

8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

9 Except the LORD of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom; we should have been like Gomorrah.

10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. 11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of 7 he-goats.

12 When ye come s to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?

13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination to me; the newl

9

ted.

crease re volt.

Heb. in

oil.

c. 66. 3.

22.

seen.

moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot endure; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.

14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble to me; I am weary to bear them. 15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: yes, when ye 10 make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of 11

blood.

16 ¶ Wash ye, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; i cease to do evil;

17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, 12 relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be white as snow, though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

19 If ye are willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

21 ¶ How is the faithful city become a harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murder

ers.

25 ¶ And I will turn my hand upon thee, and 13 thoroughly purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:

26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counselors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.

27 Zion shall be redeemed with judg ment, and 14 her converts with righteous

ness.

28 T And the 15 destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.

29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.

feet:

17 Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will uncover their secret parts.

18 In that day the LORD will take away the show of their 11 tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their 12 cauls, and their round tires like the moon. 19 The 18 chains, and the bracelets, and the 14 mufflers,

20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the head-bands, and the 15 tablets, and the ear-rings,

21 The rings, and nose-jewels, 22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping-pins,

23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.

Lowth. 12 or, networks.

13 or, sweet balls.

14 or, span.

gled orna15 Heb. houses of the

ments.

soul. 16 Heb. might. 17 or, empti

ed.

18 Heb. cleansed.

Heb. iet

thy name
be called
upon us.

2or, take thou away.

3

Heb. beauty, and Heb. for glory.

the escap

ing of Is

rael.

7

a

Ex. 13. 21. or, above. Heb. a covering. Jer. 2. 21.

Mat. 21. 33.

Mark 12. 1. Heb. the horn of the son of oil.

Luke 20. 9.

2or, made a wall about

it.

3 Heb. hew

4 Heb. for a treading.

5

ery dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defense.

6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shade in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.

2 And he 2 fenced it, and gathered out the stones of it, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also 3 made a wine-press therein and he expected that it would bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

4 What more could have been done to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I expected that it would bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?

5 And now come; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up;

and break down the wall of it, and it shall be 4 trodden down:

6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah 5 his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold 6 oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry. 8 Woe to them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there is no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!

97 In my ears said the LORD of hosts, Heb. plant 8 Of a truth many houses shall be desoof his plea late, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

sures.

6 Heb. a scab.

7

Micah 2. 2. or, This is

in my ears, saith the

LORD,

10 Yes, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah.

11 ¶ Woe to them that rise early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that contiune until night, till wine 9 inflameth them!

12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.

13 Therefore my people have gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and 10 their honorable men

are famished, and their multitude dried] up with thirst.

Before CHRIST, 760.

14 Therefore 11 hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without 11 the grave, measure: and their glory, and their mul- or, lower titude, and their pomp, and he that rejoi-region. dc. 2.9.11.17. ceth, shall descend into it. 12 or, the holy God.

15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be abased.

16 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and 12 13 God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness. 17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat. 18 Woe to them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart-rope:

19 That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know

it!

20 T Woe to them 14 that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 21 Woe to them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent 15 in their own sight!

22 Woe to them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:

23 Who justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

13 Heb. the God the holy. 14 Heb. that

say con

cerning evil, It is good, &c. Prov. 3. 7. Rom. 12.16.

15 Heb. be

fore their face.

✓ Prov. 17.15. 16 Heb. the

and if one looketh to the land, behold darkness and 18 sorrow, 19 and the light is darkened in its heavens.

CHAP. VI.

fire.

17 or, as

dùng.
c. 9. 12. 17.
21. & 10. 4.

3 Heb. his

24 Therefore as 16 the fire devoureth cried to this. the stubble, and the flame consumeth the Rev. 4. 8. chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, glory is the and their blossom shall go up as dust: be-fulness of cause they have cast away the law of the the whole LORD of hosts, and despised the word of earth. the Holy One of Israel.

25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills trembled, and their carcasses were 17 torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from afar, and will hiss to them from the end of the earth: and behold, they shall come with speed swiftly: 27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:

28 Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:

29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yes, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.

30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea:

4 Heb. thresholds.

5

Heb. cut

of

6 Heb. and

7

in his hand a live coal. Heb. caused it to Gen. 1. 26.

touch.

8 Heb. behold me.

d Matt. 13. 14.

Mark 4. 12. Luke 8. 10. John 12. 40. Acts 28. 26. gor, without ceasing,&c. 10 Heb. hear ye in hear11 Heb. desoing, &c. late with desolation. 12 or, when it is return.

Rom. 11. 8.

ed, and
hath been

browsed.

5 ¶ Then said I, Woe is me! for I am 5 undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.

6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:

7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thy iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.

8 Also I heard the voice of the LORD, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, 8 Here am I; send me.

9. And he said, Go, and tell this people, d Hear ye 9 10 indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.

11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities shall be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be 11 utterly desolate;

12 And the LORD shall have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

13¶ But yet in it shall be a tenth, 12 and it shall return, and shall be eaten as a teil-tree, and as an oak whose 13 sub stance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance of it.

CHAP. VII.

or, stem.

5.