The Book of the Prophet ISAIAH. 3 The h ox knoweth his owner, and the g Le.26.33. ass his master's crib but Israel doth noth Je.8.7. know, my people doth not consider. i Je.2.20,21. 4 Ah, sinful nation, a people 1 laden 1 of heaviness with k iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, chil-k Mat.11.28. dren that are corrupters! they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are 2 gone away backward. 2 alienated, 5 Why I should ye be stricken any more? or,separated ye will 3 revolt more and more. The Ps.58.3. whole head is sick, and the whole heart? Je.2.30. faint. 3 increase 6 From the sole of the foot even unto revolt. the head there is no soundness in it; but m De.28.63. wounds, and bruises, and putrifying Eze.5.13. sores: they have not been closed, neither n Mal.3.3. bound up, neither mollified with oint-4 according ment. 5 to pureness. 6 the over 7 throw of. or, they that return of her. p ICo.1.30. 7 Your country is desolate, o your cities 5 or, oil. are burnt with fire: your land, strangers o De.28.51. devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as 6 overthrown by strangers. 8 And the daughter of Zion is left as q a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. 9 Excepts the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, u and we should have been like unto Gomorrah. 10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers r Ps.125.5. of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our Lu.12.45,46. God, ye people of Gomorrah: s La.3.22. 12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand to tread my courts? La.2.6. breaking. 11 To what purpose v is the multitude Ro.9.29. of your sacrifices unto me? saith the t Zep.1.6. LORD: I am full of the burnt-offerings u Ge.19.24. of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and Iv Ps.50.8.&c. delight not in the blood of bullocks, or Am.5.21,22. of lambs, or of 9 he-goats. 19 great he goats. be seen. w Mi.4.1,&c. 13 Bring no more vain oblations: x in-x Lu.11.42. cense is an abomination unto me; the 2 or, prepared new moons and sabbaths, the calling of 3 or, grief. assemblies, I cannot away with: it is y Ps.2.8. 3 iniquity, even the solemn meeting. 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble Zec.8.21,23. unto me; I am weary to bear them. a Mi.3.4. 15 And when a ye spread forth your multiply hands I will hide mine eyes from you; prayer. yea, when ye 4 make many prayers I will Lu.24.47. not hear: your hands are full of 5 blood. 5 bloods. 16 Wash c you, make you clean; put c Je.4.14. away the evil of your doings from before d 1 Pe.3.11. mine eyes; ceased to do evil. e Ps.46.9. z Je.31.6. 50.5. 17 Learn to do well: seek judgment, Hos.2.18. relieve the oppressed; judge the father-6 or, scythes. less; plead for the widow. or, righten. 37 18 Come now, and let ts reason a together, saith the LORD: Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as d snow; though they be red like crim. son, they shall be as wool. 19 If ye be 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 g hath spoken it. 21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! i it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. 22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water: 23 Thy princes are rebellious, and com panions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them. 24 Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease m me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies: 25 And n I will turn my hand upon thee, and 4 purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin: 26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors 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 her converts with p righte ousness. 28 And the 8 destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be r together, and they that forsake t the LORD shall be consumed. 29 For they shall be ashamed of the loaks which ye have desired, and ye shal be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen. 30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water. 31 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them. CHAP. II. THE word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2 And w it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be 2 established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all y nations shal flow unto it. 3 And many people shall go and say, Come z ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion b shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. 4 And he shall judge among the na tions, and shall rebuke many people; and they e shall beat their swords into plow shares: and their spears into 6 pruning. hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shal. they learn T 433 7 Their d land also is full of silver and 3 or, abound gold, neither is there any end of their with. treasures; their land is also full of horses, 4 binder up. neither is there any end of their chariots: c Ne.13.23. 8 Their land also is full of idols; h they d De.17.17. worship, the work of their own hands, e Mi,3.12. that which their own fingers have made. f La.5.16,17. 9 And the mean man boweth down, ICo.10.22. and the great man humbleth himself: h Je,2.28. therefore forgive them not. 10 Enter 7 into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty. 11 The lofty looks m of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down; and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that n day. 12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up, and he shall be brought low; 13 And upon all the cedars p of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan, 14 And upon aii the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up, 15 And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall, i Je 3.3. k Ec.S.12,13. 6 or, call thee rc.58.4. 16 And upon all the ships of Tarshish, 9 pictures of and upon all 9 pleasant pictures. 17 And s the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. 18 And the idols 3 he shall utterly abolish. 19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the 4 earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly t the earth. desire. 3 5 Humiliation of Zion's Daughters. himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable. 6 When a man shall take hold of his brother, of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler and let this ruin be under thy hand: 7 In that day shall he 2 swear, saying, I will not be an 4 healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people. 8 For Jerusalem is ruined, e and Judah is fallen; because f their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the g eyes of his glory. 9 The shew of their countenance i doth witness against them, and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not: woe unto their soul: for they have rewarded evil unto themselves. 10 Say ye to the righteous, that k it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. 11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him for the reward of his hands shall be 5 given him. 12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which 6 lead thes cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths. 13 The LORD standeth up to a plead, and standeth to judge the people. 14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten 8 up the vineyard; q the spoil of the poor is in your houses. 15 What mean ye that ye beat r my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GoD of hosts. 18 In that day the LORD will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon, 16 Moreover, the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched-forth necks, & i wan ton eyes, walking, and 2 mincing as they or, shall ut-go, and making a tinkling with their feet: terly pass 17 Therefore the LORD will smite with away. a scab the crown of the head of the or, dust. daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make naked discover 5 their secret parts. 20 In that day a man shall cast 6 his t Hag.2.6.21. idols of silver, and his idols of gold, He.12.26,27. which they made 8 each one for himself 6 the idols of to worship, to the moles, and to the hats; his silver. 21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, or,net works and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for 8 or, for him. fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his 9or,sweetballs majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly 1 or.spangled the earth. ornaments. houses of the soul. u Ps.146.3,4. Je. 17.5. 22 Cease u ve from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for wherein is he to be accounted of? CHAP. III. 2 v c.36.12. Je,38.9. FOR, behold, the Lord, the LORD of 2 The mighty y man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient. .4 And I will give children a to be their 6 cleansed, 19 The 9 chains, and the bracelets, and the 1 mumers, 20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the head-bands, and the tablets, 2 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. 24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell, there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle, a rent; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a stomacher, a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty. 25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy 4 mighty in the war. 26 And her gates shall lament and mourn: and she, being 6 desolate, shall sit upon b the ground. CHAP. IV. AND in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own Israel compared to a Vineyard. apparel; only let us be called by thy name, to 2 take away our reproach. 2 In that day shall the branch bof the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel. 3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called c holy, even every one that is written & among the living in Jerusalem: ISAIAH; VI. B. C. 760. thy name be called, upon us. 2 or, take thou away. a Hos.4.6. Lu. 19.44. b Je.23.5,6. Zec.6.12, 13. glory are men of famine. 3 glory. 4 When the LORD shall have d washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jeru4 beauty and salem from the midst thereof, by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning. 5 the escaping 5 And the LORD will create upon every of Israci. dwelling-place of mount Zion, and upon c c.60.21. her assemblies, a cloud and sinoke by day, He.12.14. and the shining of a flaming fire e by or, to life, night: for 8 upon all the glory shall be a Re.21.27. defence. 6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day-time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, g and for a covert from storm and from rain. CHAP. V. d Zec. 13.1. the God the holy, or, the holy God. e Zec.2.5. 8 or, above. NOW will I sing to my well-beloved a covering. song of my beloved touching his f 2Pe.3.3,4. vineyard. My well-beloved hath a h vine- g c.25.4. yard in 2 a very fruitful hill: say concern 2 And he 3 fenced it, and gathered out ing evil, it the stones thereof, and planted it with good. the choicest vine, j and built a tower in h Lu.20.9,&c. the midst of it, and also 5 made a wine-2 the horn of press therein: and he looked that it the son of oil. should bring forth grapes, and it brought 3 or, made a forth wild grapes. wall about it 3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, i Pr.26.12. and men of Judah, judge I pray you, be-4 before their twixt me and my vineyard. face. 4 What could have been done more to j Je.2.21. my vineyard that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should 6 bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? hewed. tongue of fire. k Mat.3.12. is 5 And now, go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be 7 Ps.80.12,13. eaten up: and brake down the wall there-m Hab.3.6. of, and it shall be 7 trodden down. for a tread 6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be ing. pruned nor digged; but there shall come 8 or, as dung. up briers and thorns: I will also command n Le.26.14, &c the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. 7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts 9 plant of his is the house of Israel, and the men of Ju- pleasures. dah his pleasant plant: and he looked a scab. for judgment, but behold oppression; o Joel 2.3-11. for righteousness, but behold a cry. p Mi.2.2. 2 Ye. or, this is in mine ears. 4 if not. Hag.1.9.11. or, pursue 8 Woe unto them that join p house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that 2 they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! 3 9 In 3 mine ears, said the LORD of hosts, Of 4 a truth, many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitants." them. 10 Yea, q ten acres of vineyard shall r Am.6.5,6. yield one bath, and the seed of an nomer 6 or, distress. shall yield an ephah. 7or, when it 11 Woe unto them that rise up early in is light, it the morning, that they may follow strong shall be drink; that continue until night, till dark in the wine inflame them! destructions thereof. 12 And r the harp and the viol, the tabret and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: buts Ps.28.5. they s regard not the work of the LORD, nei-t 2Ki.15.7. ther consider the operation of his hands. u 1Ki.22.19. 14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it. 15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled: 16 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and 7 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 unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart-rope! 19 That say, Let f 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 mayknowit? 20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light. and fight for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own ieyes,& prudent 4 in their ownsight! 22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: 23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! 21 Therefore as the 6 fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumethk the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust. Because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of 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 did m tremble, and their carcases were torn 8 in the midst of the streets. For all n 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 far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly. 27 None o shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdie 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 hons; yea, they shall roar,and lay hold of the prey, & 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; and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and 6 sorrow, 7 and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof. CHAP. VI. IN the yeart that king Uzziah died 1 saw u also the LORD sitting upon a Isaran s heavenly Vision. throne, high and lifted up, and 1 his train] filled the temple. 2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain b he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. 3 And 3 one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory. 4 And the posts of the 5 door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. 5. Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; 8 because c I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. 6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the e altar; 7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and Said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips, and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. ISAIAH, VIII. or, the skirts 2 from a. 4 his glory is or, Do ye added to speak. cut off. c Zec.3.1-7. 8 Also I heard the voice of the LORD, d c.38.7,22. saying, Whom shall I send, and who 9 or, make will go for us? Then said I, 4 Here am I; send me. not; e thy petition deep. Re.8.3. 9 And he said, Go and tell this people, Hear yes indeed, but understan and see ye 6 indeed, but perceive not. 10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their 2 caused it to eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and touch. hear with their ears, and understand with f Lu. 1.31-35. their heart, and convert, and be healed. g Mat.1.23. 11 Then said I, LORD, how long? And 3 or, thou, O he answered, Until the cities be wasted Virgin, shalt. without inhabitant, and the houses with-4 Behold me. out man, and the land be utterly deso-5 in hearing, late; or without 12 And the LORD have removed h men ceasing. far away, and there be a great forsaking 6 in seeing. in the midst of the land. 7 desolate 13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, 8 and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teiltree, and as an oak, whose 9 substance is in them when they cast their leaves, so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof. CHAP. VII. AND kit came to pass in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it. The Promise of Immanuel the son of Tabeal: 7 Thus saith the Lord Gon, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass. 8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, 2 that it be not a people. 9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. 6 If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established. 10 Moreover, the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying, 11 Ask thee a sign d of the LORD thy God: ask 9 it either in the depth, or in the height above. 12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, nei ther will I tempt the LORD. 13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also? 14 Therefore the LORD himself shall give you a sign: Behold, ƒ a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and g shall call his name 3 Immanuel. 15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. 16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings. 17 The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria. 18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria: 19 And i they shall come, and shall rest with desola-all of them in the desolate valleys, and tion. in the holes of the rocks, and upon all h 2Ki.25.21. thorns, and upon all 1 bushes. i Je.16.16. or, when it is returned and hath been broused 9 or, stock, or, stem. 20 In the same day shall the LORD shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard. 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young 1or, commen-cow and two sheep: dable trees. k 2Ki.16.5. 2 And it was told the house of David, say- of. 4 i. e. the 3 Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou and 4 Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, in the 5 highway of 5 or, causethe fuller's field; 4 And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, 6 neither be faint-hearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah. 5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying, 6 Let us go up against Judah, and 7 vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even way. the prey, or, 22 And it shall come to pass, for the abuidance of milk that they shall give that he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left 3 in the land. 23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that everyplace shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns. 24 With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns. 25 And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle. CHAP. VIII. MOREOVER the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning 3 Maher, shalal-hash-baz. 2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses Importance of the Scriptures. ISAIAH, IX. to record, Uriah a the priest, and Zecha- B. C. 741. riah the son of Jeberechiah. 3 And I went unto the prophetess; a 2Ki.16.10. and she conceived and bare a son. Then approached. said the LORD to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz: 2 4 For b before the child shall have know.bc.7.16. ledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the 2 riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away c before the king of Assyria. 5 The LORD spake also unto me again, saving, Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah e that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son; c or, he that is before the king of Assyria shall take away the riches. 2Ki. 15.29. 16.9. c.17.3. Government of the Messiah. and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness. CHAP. IX. NEVERTHELESS, the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee 3 of the nations. 2 The d people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. 3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not 4 increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and 7 Now therefore, behold, the LORD bringeth up upon them the waters of the 3 or, populous river, strong and many, even f the king d Mat.4.15,16 as men rejoice when they divide the spoil. of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall e Ne.3.15. come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks: 8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over; he shall reach even to the neck: and the stretching out of his wings shall fill h the breadth of thy and, O Immanuel. 9 Associate yourselves, O ye people, and 1 ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird your selves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. Jno.9.7. 4 or, to him. fc.7.1-6. or, when thou trakest, g Ju.7.21,&c. or, when the whole. fulness of the breadth of thy land shall be the stretchings 10 Take counsel together, and it shall out of his come to nought; speak the word, and it wings. shall not stand for God p is with us. or, and 11 For the LORD spake thus to me with 2 it was. a strong hand, and instructed me, that Ih c.36.1,&c. should not q walk in the way of this peo- 9 meat. ple, saying, 8 i Lu.2.11. 12 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all k Mat.28.18. them to whom this people shall say, A or, yet. confederacy; neither'r fear ye their fear, 1 c.37.36. nor be afraid. m He.1.8. 13 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; n Ep.2.14. and let him's be your fear, and let him be o Da.2.44. your dread. 1Co.15.25. 14 And he shall be for a t sanctuary; p Ps.46.1,7. but for a stone of stumbling, u and for 2 in strength a rock of offence, v to both the houses of. of Israel; for a gin and for a snare to the q Pr.1.15. inhabitants of Jerusalem. 1Pe.3.14,15. 15 And many among them shall stum-s Lu.12.5. ble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, t Eze.11.16. and be taken. u 1Pe.2.8. 16 Bind up the testimony, seal w the v Mat.13.57. law among my disciples. 3 mingle. 17 And y I will wait upon the LORD, 4 whole. that hideth z his face from the house of w Re.5.1,5. Jacob, and I will look for him. x Pr.8.8,9. Mat. 13.11. y c.50.10. 5 18 Behold, a 1, and the children whom the LORD hath given me, are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of c.54.8. hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion. z Hab.2.3. 19 And when they shall say unto you, a He.2.13. Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, or, they that and unto wizards that peep and that mut- call them ter; should not a people seek unto their blessed. God? for the living to the dead? 6 or, called 20 To b the law and to the testimony: blessed. if they speak not according to this word, swallowed it is because there is no 8 light in them. 21 And they shall pass through it hardly b Lu.16.29. bestead and hungry; and it shall come to Jno.5.39. pass, that, when they shall be hungry, 8 morning. they shall fret c themselves, and curse e 9 or, villany. their king and their God, and look up. c Pr.19.3. d Mal.4.1. 22 And they shall look unto the earth; e Re. 16.11. ward. up. 4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, & the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day g of Midian. 5 For 6 every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; 8 but this shall be with burning and 9 fuel of fire. 6 For unto us a child is born, unto i us a son is given, and the governmentk shall be upon his shoulder; and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, m The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. n 7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no o end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judg ment and with justice, from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this. 8 The LORD sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel. 9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart, 10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the syca mores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars. 11 Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and 3 join his enemies together: 12 The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with 4 open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. 13 For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts. 14 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day. 15 The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teachett lies, he is the tail. 16 For 5 the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are 6 led of them are destroyed. 17 Therefore the LORD shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows. for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh 9 folly For all this his anger is not turned away but his hand is stretched out still. 18 For wickedness burneth d as the fire it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest: and they shall mount up like the 437 |