Before third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.

CHRIST 710.

↑ Heb. the
escaping
of the house
of Judah

that re-
maineth.

+ Heb. the
escaping.
e 2 Kin. 19.
31.

ch. 9. 7.

+ Heb. shield.

f2 Kin. 20. 6.

ch. 38. 6. g 2 Kin. 19. 35.

↑ Heb. Ararat.

713.

a 2 Kin. 20.

1, &c.
2 Chr. 32.
24.

b 2 Sam. 17.
23.
+ Heb.

Give charge
concerning
thy house.

e Neh. 13.

14.

+ Heb. with great weeping.

d ch. 37. 35.

e 2 Kin. 20. 8, &c. ch. 7. 11.

31 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:

32 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.

33 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it.

34 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD. 35 For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

36 Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. 37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

38 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead. CHAPTER 38.

Before CHRIST 713.

shadow of the degrees, which is gone
down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten
degrees backward. So the sun re-
turned ten degrees, by which degrees + Heb.
it was gone down.

9 The writing of Hezekiah king
of Judah, when he had been sick,
and was recovered of his sickness:
10 I said in the cutting off of my
days, I shall go to the gates of the
grave: I am deprived of the residue
of my years.

degrees by, or, with the sun.

& 116, 9.

11 I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, fin the land off Ps. 27. 13. the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

12 Mine age is departed, and is g Job 7. 6. removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with Or, from pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

13 I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

the thrum.

14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did
I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: h ch. 59. 11.
mine eyes fail with looking upward:
O LORD, I am oppressed; funder- Or,
take for me.

15 What shall I say? he hath both
spoken unto me, and himself hath
done it: I shall go softly all my years
in the bitterness of my soul.
16 O Lord, by these things men live,
and in all these things is the life of
my spirit: so wilt thou recover me,
and make me to live.

ease me.

i Job 7. 11. & 10 1.

IN

"those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live. 2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD,

18 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

19 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: 'the father to the children shall make known thy truth.

my peace came great bitterness. ↑ Heb. thou hast

loved my soul from the pit. k Ps. 6. 5. & 30. 9. & 88. 11. & 115. 17. Eccles. 9. 10.

& 6. 7.

Ps. 78. 3, 4.

4 Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying,

5 Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.

6 And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.

7 And this shall be a sign unto thee from the Lord, that the LORD will

do this thing he hath spoken;

8 Behold, I will bring again the

Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been sick, and was recovered. 26 And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not. 3 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me, even from Babylon.

4 Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.

5 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD of hosts: 6 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.

7 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

8 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, d Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.

CHAPTER 40.

1 The promulgation of the gospel. 3 The preaching of John Baptist. 9 The preaching of the apostles. 12 The prophet by the omnipotency of God, 18 and his incomparableness, 28 comforteth the people.

Cpeople, saith your God. OMFORT ye, comfort ye my

2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: "for she hath received of the LORD's hand double for all her sins.

3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, dmake straight in the desert a highway for our God. 4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:

5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:

7 The grass withereth, the flower

fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.

Before CHRIST cir. 712.

8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God? Ps. 103. 16. shall stand for ever.

90 Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; "O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!

10 Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and this arm shall rule for him: behold, *his reward is with him, and his work before him.

11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.

12

Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

13 "Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being this counsel-Or, that ler hath taught him?

14 With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?

15 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.

Before CHRIST

cir. 712.

y ver. 18.

thing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

25 To whom then will ye liken Deu. 4. 15, me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.

&c.

z Ps. 147. 4.

a Ps. 147. 5. Rom. 11. 33.

b Ps. 103. 5. ↑ Heb. change.

a Zech. 2. 13.

+ Heb. righteous

ness.

b ch. 46. 11. e ver. 25. See Gen.

14. 14, &c. ch. 45. 1. ↑ Heb.

in peace. d ver. 26. ch. 44. 7. & 46. 10.

e ch. 43. 10. & 44. 6.

& 48. 12. Rev. 1. 17. & 22. 13.

fch. 40. 19. & 44. 12.

+ Heb. Be strong. g ch. 40. 19. Or, founder.

* Or, the smiting.

26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.

27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?

28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? "there is no searching of his understanding.

29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.

30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.

Before CHRIST cir. 712

Or, saying of the soder, It is good.

h ch. 40. 20.

8 But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend. 9 Thou whom I have taken from i Deu. 7. 6. the ends of the earth, and called & 10. 15. thee from the chief men thereof, & 14. 2. Ps. 135. 4. and said unto thee, Thou art my eh. 43. 1. servant; I have chosen thee, and & 44. 1. not cast thee away. k 2 Chr. 20. 7.

Jam. 2. 23.

10 Fear thou not; m for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen ver. 13, 14. thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

ch 43. 5.

m Deu. 31.

6, 8.

11 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be "a-n Ex. 23. 22. shamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.

12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.

ch. 45. 24. & 60. 12. Zech. 12. 3.

1 Heb.
the men of
thy strife.

+ Heb.
the men of
thy conten-

tion. + Heb.

the men of

13 For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thy war. thee.

14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

o ver. 10.

Or, few men.

2 Cor. 10. 4, 5. Heb.

15 Behold, I will make thee ap Mic. 4. 13. new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.'

q

mouths.

of Israel.

ment.

2 Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to

his bow.

3 He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet.

4 d Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.

5 The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came.

6 They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage. 79So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote

Before CHRIST cir. 712.

+ Heb. set
our heart
upon them.
y ch. 42 9.
& 44. 7, 8.
& 45. 3.
John 13. 19.
z Jer. 10. 5.
a Ps. 115. 8.
ch 44. 9.

1 Cor. 8. 4.
Or, worse
than
nothing.

Or, worse
than of a
viper.

b Ezra 1. 2. c ver. 2.

d ch. 43. 9.

e ver. 4. f ch. 40. 9.

g ch. 63. 5.

+ Heb. return. h ver. 24.

cir. 712. a ch. 43. 10. & 49. 3, 6. & 52. 13.

& 53. 11.
Matt. 12.

18, 19, 20. Phil. 2. 7. 6 Matt. 3. 17. & 17. 5. Eph. 1. 6. c ch. 11. 2. John 3. 34. Or, dimly burning. ↑ Heb. quench it. + Heb. broken.

✔ Gen. 49. 10.

e ch. 44. 24. Zech. 12. 1. ƒ Ps. 136. 6. y Acts 17. 25.

h ch. 43. 1. i ch. 49. 8. k ch. 49. 6.

shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come. 23 Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.

24 Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.

25 I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.

26 Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that heareth your words.

27 The first fshall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.

28 For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counseller, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.

29 Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.

CHAPTER 42.

8 I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to gravencl. 48. 11. images.

9 Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.

& 40. 3. & 98. 1.

10 Sing unto the LORD a new p Ps 33. 3. song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is there-? Ps. 107. 23 in; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.

11 Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.

12 Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands.

13 The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war, he shall cry, "yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.

14 I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.

15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.

16 And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will

BE

EHOLD "my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.

2 He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.

3 A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not 'quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.

4 He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: dand the isles shall wait for his law.

5 Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and Luke 2. 32. spirit to them that walk therein: 6 I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;

Acts 13. 47. I ch. 35. 5.

m ch. 61. 1. Luke 4. 18. 2 Tim. 2. 26.

Heb. 2. 14, 15.

7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and

not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.

17 They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods. 18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.

↑ Heb. the fulness thereof.

r ch. 31. 4.

Or, behave himself mightily.

+ Heb. swallow, or, sup up.

+ Heb. into straight

ness.

Ps. 97. 7.

ch. 1. 29. & 44. 11. & 45. 16.

Ezek. 12. 2. See John 9. 39, 41.

19 Who is blind, but my ser-t ch. 43. 8. vant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD'S servant?

20 Seeing many things, "but thou u Rom. 2. observest not; opening the ears, but 21. he heareth not.

21 The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will. magnify the law, and make it Or, him. honourable.

22 But this is a people robbed and spoiled; "they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.

23 Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear 1 for the time to come?

24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? didnot the LORD,

Or, in sharing all

the young men of them. ↑ Heb. a treading.

↑ Heb. for the after time?