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27 For the LORD of hosts hath pur-13 or, assemposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back? 28 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.

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29 Rejoice not thou, all Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a 11 basilisk, 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, all Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and 12 none shall be alone in his 13 appointed

times.

32 What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That d the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall 14 trust in it.

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CHAP. XV.

The lamentable state of Moab. HE burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and 1 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: a on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard shorn.

3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, 2 weeping abundantly.

2

& 102. 16. 14 or, betake

themselves

to it.

38.

1or, cut off.
Jer. 48. 37.
Ezek. 7. 18.
Heb. des-
cending in-
to weeping
down with
weeping.

or, coming

3 or, to the
borders
thereof,

even as a

9 For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring 7 more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land. CHAP. 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.

END ye the lamb to the ruler of the

to the mount of the daughter of Zion.
2 For it shall be, that, as a wandering
bird 3 cast out of the nest, so the daugh-
ters of Moab shall be at the fords of År-

non.

34 Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; discover not him that wandereth.

4 Let my outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the 5 extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, 6 the oppressors are consumed out of the land."

5 And in mercy a shall the throne be 7 established: and he shall sit upon it in heifer. truth in the tabernacle of David, judgHeb.breaking, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.

b Jer.48.5.34.

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1or, Petra.

21eb.a rock.

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forsaken.

Heb.
Bring.

5 Heb.
wringer.

6 Heb. the

treaders down.

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8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down her principal plants, they have come even to Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are 9 extended, they have gone over the sea.

9 Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for 10 the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.

4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh their voice shall be heard even to 10 And a gladness is taken away, and Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of joy from the plentiful field; and in the Moab shall cry out; his life shall be "Dan. 7. 14. vineyards there shall be no singing, neigrievous to him.

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14 But now the LORD hath spoken, 8 For the cry hath gone round the saying, Within three years, as the years borders of Moab, her howling to Eglaim, Jer. 48. 33. of a hireling, and the glory of Moab

and her howling to Beer-elim.

shall be contemned, with all that great

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1 Syria and Israel are threatened. 6 A remnant shall forsake idolatry. 9 The rest shall be afflicted for their impiety. 12 The woe of Israel's enemies.

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2 That sendeth embassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers to a nation i scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; 23 a nation measured by line and trodden down, whose land the rivers

HE burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. 2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie or, sun im- have laid waste. down, and none shall make them afraid.

3 The 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 be diminished, and the fatness of his flesh shall become lean.

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ages.

or, remo day of inheritance,

ed in the

and there shall be deadly sor

roup.

5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the 3or, noise. ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.

4 or, many.

6 ¶ Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive-tree, two or three berries in the top of the upper-sor, thistlemost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches of it, saith the LORD God of Israel.

7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.

down.

8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall re-1 or, outspect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the 1 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 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 foreign slips:

11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a 2 heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

3

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spread and polished. 2or, a nation that meteth out, and treadeth down.

Heb. a na tion of line, treading line, and under foot.

my set
or, regard
dwelling.

12 T Woe to the 3 multitude of many sor, after people, who make a noise like the noise rain. of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rush-6 or, outing of 4 mighty waters! spread and polished. 13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God will 1 Heb. minrebuke them, and they shall flee far off, gle. and shall be chased as the chaff of the 2 Heb. shall mountains before the wind, and like 5 a be emptied. rolling thing before the whirlwind. 14 And behold at the time of evening low up. trouble; and before the morning he is This is the portion of them that ravage us, and the lot of them that rob us.

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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 4 For so the LORD said to me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling-place like a clear heat s upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

5 For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.

6 They shall be left together to 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.

7 In that time shall the present be brought to the LORD of hosts of a people 6 scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation measured by line and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion. CHAP. 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

HE burden of Egypt. Behold, the will come into Egypt; and the idols of LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.

2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

3 And the spirit of Egypt 2 shall fail in the midst of her, and I will 3 destroy her counsel: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.

4 And the Egyptians will I 4 give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.

5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the rivers shall be wasted and dried up.

6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the 5 brooks of defense 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

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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 7 net-works shall be confounded.

10 And they shall be broken in the 8 purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds 9 for fish.

11 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counselors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye to 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.

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blessing in the midst of the land:
with Egypt and with Assyria, even a

25 Whom the LORD of hosts will bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.

A type prefiguring the shameful captivity of
Egypt and Cush.

In the year that Tartan came to Ash-
syria sent him,) and fought against Ash-
dod, (when Sargon the king of As-
dod, and took it;

by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go, 2 At the same time spoke the LORD 1 and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And 10 or, gover- he did so, walking naked and barefoot.

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diligently with much heed:

stand continually upon the a watch-tower
8 And 4 he cried, a lion: My lord, I
in the day time, and I am set in my ward
5 whole nights.

9 And behold, here cometh a chariot
of men, with a couple of horsemen. And

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CHRIST,

714.

Jer. 51."8. Rev. 14.8, 11 The burden of Dumah. & 18. 2. calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, 6 Heb. son. what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?

12 The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: return, come.

13 The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye traveling companies of Dedanim.

7 or, bring
yet.

8 or, for
fear.

9 Heb. from
the face.

14 The inhabitants of the land of Tema 7 brought water to him that was thirs-10 Heb. ty, they met with their bread him that fled.

15 For they fled 8 9 from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war. 16 For thus hath the LORD, said to me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:

17 And the residue of the number of 10 archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it. CHAP. XXII.

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bows.
Heb. of the
bows.
Jer. 4. 19.

& 9. 1.

Heb. I will

be bitter in
weeping.

3 Heb. made
naked.

of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.

11 Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked to its maker, neither had respect to him that fashioned it long ago.

12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we shall die.

14 And it was revealed in my ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord GoD of hosts.

15 Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, repair to this treasurer, even tọ Shebna, who is over the house, and say,

16 What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulcher here, 6 as he that heweth him out a sepulcher on high, and that graveth a habitation for himself in a rock?

17 Behold, 7 the LORD will carry thee away with 8 a mighty captivity, and will Heb. the surely cover thee. choice of thy valleys.

1 The prophet lamenteth the invasion of Judea
by the Persians: 8 He reproveth their hu
man wisdom and worldly joy: 15 He proph-15 or, to-
esieth Shebna's deprivation, 20 and Elia wards.
kim, prefiguring the kingdom of Christ, his
substitution.

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HE burden of the valley of vision.
What aileth thee now, that thou

hast wholly gone up to the house-tops?

1 Cor. 15. 32.

2 Thou that art full of stirs, a tumult-&c. 56. 12. uous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.

3 All thy rulers have fled together, they are bound 1 by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, who have fled from far.

4 Therefore said I, a Look away from me; 2 I will weep bitterly, labor not to comfort me, because of the devastation of the daughter of my people. 5 For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord GoD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.

6 And Elam bore the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir 3 uncovered the shield.

7 And it shall come to pass, that 4 thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array 5 at the gate.

8 And he uncovered the coverings of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armor of the house of the forest. 9 Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many and ye collected the waters of the lower pool.

10 And ye have numbered the houses!

6 or, O he.

7 or, the
LORD,
who cover
ed thee with
an excel-
lent cover.
ing, and
clothed thee
gorgeous
ly, shall
surely, &c.

ver. 18.

8 Heb. the

captivity
of a man.
9 Heb. large

of space.

18 With violence he will surely turn and toss thee like a ball into a wide 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 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:

21 And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government 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 shut, and none shall open.

23 And I will fasten him as 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 10 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 Job. 12. 14. fall; and the burden that was upon it Rev. 3. 7. shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken it.

10 or, in
struments
of viols.

CHAP. XXIII.

1 The miserable overthrow of Tyre: 17 Their
unhappy return.

THE of i said waste, po
HE burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships

that there is no house, no entering in:

from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.

2 Be 1 still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.

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silent.

3 And by great waters the seed of Si-1 Heb. họr, 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 young men, nor bring up virgins.

5 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 joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her 2 far off to sojourn.

2 Heb. from
afar off.

pollute.

3 Heb. to

4 Heb. girdle.

5 or, concerning a merchantman.

6 Heb. Ca

8 Who hath taken this counsel against naan. Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the 7 or, honorable of the earth?

9 The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, 3 to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

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strength.

Heb. it

shall be to

Tyre as the 10 Pass through thy land as a river, Oharlot. song of a daughter of Tarshish: there is no more 4 strength.

11 He stretched his hand over the sea, 9 Heb. old. he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment s against the merchant city, to destroy its 7 strong holds.

12 And he said, thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest.

face there

1 Heb. per-
verteth the

of.

13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans; 2 or, prince. this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the a Hos. 4. 9. wilderness: they set up its towers, they raised up its palaces; and he brought it 3 or, stripto ruin. ped, or, laid

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 8 shall Tyre sing as a harlot.

waste.

4 Heb. the
the people.
hight of
Jer. 7. 34.
& 16. 9. &

25. 10.
Ezek. 26.

16 Take a harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; 13. make sweet melody, sing many songs, Hos. 2. 11. that thou mayest be remembered.

17 ¶ And it shall come to pass after 5 or, valleys. the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her 6 Heb. wing. hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the 7 Heb. face of the earth.

18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, for sufficient food, and for durable clothing.

CHAP. XXIV.

1 The grievous judgments of God upon the land. 13 A remnant shall joyfully praise

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Jer. 48. 43.

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him. 16 God in his judgments shall advance his kingdom.

BEHOLD, the LORD maketh the earth

empty, and maketh it waste, and 1 turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad its inhabitants.

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2 And it shall be, as with the people, ant, so with his master; as with the so with the 2 priest; as with the servmaid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him.

3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly 3 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.

5 The earth also is defiled under its inhabitants; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

6 Therefore hath the curse devoured desolate therefore the inhabitants of the earth, and they that dwell in it are the earth are burned, and few men left.

7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry-hearted do sigh.

8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, 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 broken down: every house is shut up, that no

man may enter.

11 There is a crying for wine in the the land is gone. streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of

12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

13 When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olivethe vintage is done. tree, and as the gleaning grapes when

shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, 14 They shall lift up their voice, they they shall cry aloud from the sea.

15 Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in God of Israel in the isles of the sea. the 5 fires, even the name of the LORD

earth have we heard songs, even glory to 16 From the 6 uttermost part of the ness, my leanness, woe to me! the treachthe righteous. But I said, 7 My leanerous dealers have dealt treacherously; yes, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.

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