Before CHRIST cir. 712.

a 2 Chr. 20.
6.

Job 9. 12.
& 23. 13.

Ps. 33. 11.

Pro. 19. 21. & 21. $0. ch. 43. 13. Dan. 4. 31, 35.

b 2 Kin. 16. 20.

726.

c 2 Chr. 26.

6.

Or, adder.

d 2 Kin, 18.

8.

Or, he

shall not be alone. | Or,

assemblies.

e Ps. 87. 1, 5. & 102. 16.

Zeph. 3. 12. Zech. 11. 11. Or, betake themselves unto it.

cir. 726.

a Jer. 43. 1, &c.

-11. Amos 2. 1. b Num. 21. 28.

26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.

27 For the LORD of hosts hath "purposed, 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.

294 Rejoice not thou, whole Pales. tina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, dand his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.

30 And the firstborn 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 the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.

CHAPTER 15.

The lamentable state of Moab.
HE "burden of Moab. Because

Tin the wight & Ar of Moab is laid Ezek. 25. 8 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: Or, cut off. Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: don all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.

c ch. 16. 12.
d See Lev.
21. 5.
ch. 3. 24.
& 22. 12.
Jer. 47. 5.

48. 1, 37, Ezek. 7. 18.

38.

e Jer. 48. 38.

+ Heb.
descending
into

weeping,
or, coming
down with
weeping.
fch. 16. 9.
g ch. 16. 11.
Jer. 48. 31.
Or, to the
borders
thereof,
even to
Zoar, as
an heifer.

h ch. 16. 14. Jer. 48. 34. i Jer. 48. 5. + Heb. breaking.

& Num. 32. 36.

↑ Heb. desolations. Or, valley of the Arabians.

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

4 And Heshbon shall cry, fand Elealeh their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz; therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him. 5 My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.

6 For the waters 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

"SEND ye the lamb to the ruler & 2 Kin. 3.4. of the land from to the 62 Kin. 14. wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.

2 For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.

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

7.

¡ Or, Petra: Heb. A rock.

Or, a nest forsaken.

c Num. 21.
13.

Heb.
Bring.

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 spoil-t Heb. er ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.

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

6 We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.

7 Therefore shall Moab hhowl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken.

wringer.

† Heb. the

treaders

down.

d Dan. 7. 14,

27

Mic. 4. 7.

Luke 1. 33.

Or,

prepared.

e Ps 72. 2. & 96. 13.

& 98. 9. fJer. 48. 29.

Zeph. 2. 10.

g ch. 28. 15. h Jer. 48. 20. i 2 Kin. 3.

25.

I Or, mutter.

8 For the fields of Heshbon lan-k ch. 24. 7. guish, and 'the vine of Sibmah: the ver. 9. 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. 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 the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.

10 And 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.

cir. 741.

a Jer. 49. 23.

Amos 1. 3.
Zech. 9. 1.
fulfilled

740,

CHAPTER 17.

rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

Damascus

Be

CHAPTER 18.

God in care of his people will destroy the Ethiopians. 7 An access thereby shall grow unto the church. "to the shadowing

a ruinous heap.

2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: 2 Kin. 16. 9. they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

b Jer. 7. 33.

c ch. 7. 16. & 8. 4.

d ch. 10. 16.

e Jer. 51, 33.

cir. 741. fch. 24. 13.

g Mic. 7. 7.

1 Or, sun images.

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 made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.

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

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 uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, 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.

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 Ps. 68. 19. hthe 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 rivers of Ethiopia:

2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, 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.

4 For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. 5 For afore 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 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.

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

CHAPTER 19.

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 "burden of Egypt. Behold,

the LORD brideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.

2 And I will tdset 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.

Before CHRIST cir. 714.

Heb. shall be emptied.

+ Heb. swallow up. e ch. 8. 19. & 47. 12.

1 Or, shut up. f ch. 20. 4. Jer. 46. 26. Ezek. 29. 19.

g Jer. 51. 36. Ezek. 30.

12.

h 2 Kin. 19.

21.

+ Heb, and shall not be.

i 1 Kin. 10. 28.

Pro. 7. 16. I Or, white works.

+ Heb. foundations.

+ Heb.
of living
things.

k Num. 13.
22.

1 Cor. 1. 20.

3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: 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 give over finto 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 river shall be wasted and dried up.

20 And tit 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 het shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.

21 And the LORD shall be known

or, of the

sun.

Gen. 28.

18.
Ex. 24. 4.

Josh. 22.

10, 26, 27. See

Josh. 4. 20. & 22. 27.

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 inetworks, 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 Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellers 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 m Jer. 2. 16. fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.

I Or, governors. + Heb.

corners. + Heb. a spirit of perverse

ness.

n 1 Kin. 22. 22.

ch. 29. 10. a ch. 9. 14.

p Jer. 51. 30. Nah. 3. 13.

7 ch. 11. 15.

r Zeph. 3. 9. + Heb.

the lip.

14 The LORD hath mingled "a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.

15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.

16 In that day shall Egypt Pbe like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, 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. 18 In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of

22 And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.

23 In that day shall there be ch. 11. 16. 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 the work of y Ps. 100. 3. my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.

CHAPTER 20.

4 type prefiguring the shameful captivity of Egypt and Ethiopia.

to Ashdod, (when Sargon the N the year that "Tartan came king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;

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

3 And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;

4 So shall the king of Assyria lead 2 Sam. 10. away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the tshame of Egypt.

5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. 6 And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?

26.

Mic. 1. 11. + Heb. nakedness. f2 Kin. 18. 21.

ch. 30, 3, 5,

7.

& 36, 6. I Or, country, Jer. 47. 4.

My mind wandered.

f Deu. 28. 67.

↑ Heb. put. g Dan, 5, 5.

hver. 9.

! Or, cried as a lion. i Hab. 2. 1. 1 Or, every night.

k Jer. 51. 8. Rev. 14. 8. & 18. 2. 7 ch. 46. 1. Jer. 50. 2. & 51. 44. m Jer. 51. 33.

+ Heb. son.
n 1 Chr. 1.
30.

Jer. 49. 7,
8.

Ezek. 35. 2.
Obad. 1.

• Jer. 49, 28.

3 Therefore dare my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.

4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he 'turned into fear

unto me.

5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, 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.

7 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 watchtower in the daytime, 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, * Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground. 10 O my threshing, and the corn 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, Watchman, 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 travelling companies p1 Chr. 1. 9, Pof Dedanim.

32.

I Or, bring ye.

I Or, for fear.

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 swords, from the drawn sword, and from the Heb. from bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.

the face.

3 All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all Heb. that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far. 4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.

b Jer. 4. 19.

& 9. 1.

+ Heb. I will be bitter in weeping.

e ch. 37. 3.

& 2. 2.

5 For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity d by the Lord GoD of hosts in the vald Lam. 1. 5. ley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains. 6 And Elam bare the quiver with e Jer. 49. 35. chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir 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 of the house of the forest.

9 h Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

14 And it was revealed in mine o ch. 5. 9. ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged p 1 Sam. 3. from you till ye die, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

15 Thus saith the Lord God of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and say,

14.
Ezek. 24.
13.

? 2 Kin. 18.
37.

ch. 36. 2.

1 Kin. 4. 6.

Before CHRIST cir. 712.

Or, O he. 8 See 2 Sam. 18. 18.

Matt. 27. 60. Or, the LORD who covered thee with an excellent covering, and clothed

16 What hast thou here? and 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 a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee. 18 He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large 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 ously, shall station, and from thy state shall he surely, &c. pull thee down.

thee gorge

ver. 18.

+ Heb. the

20

And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant captivity of Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:

a man.

t Esth. 7. 8. + Heb. large of spaces. u 2 Kin. 18. 18.

x Job 12, 14. Rev. 3. 7.

y Ezra 9. 8.

Or, instruments of viols.

cir. 715.

a Jer. 25. 22.
& 47. 4.
Ezek. 26.
& 27.

& 28.
Amos 1. 9.
Zech. 9. 2,
4.

b ver. 12.

↑ Heb. silent.

c Ezek. 27.

3.

d ch. 19. 16.

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.

x

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 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 23.

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

Tships of Tarshish; for it wlad a burden of Tyre. Howl, ye

waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.

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

7 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.

8 Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, fthe 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, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest.

13 Behold the land of the Chal-g Rev. 18. deans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that 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. 16 Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.

ver. 1. Ezek. 27. 25, 30.

+ Heb. it shall be unto Tyre as the song of an harlot.

17 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and 'shall commit Rev. 17. 2. fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.

18 And her merchandise and her it shall not 20, 21. hire shall be holiness to the LORD: m Zech. 14.

up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.

+ Heb. old.