thee; the desire Z of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.

B. C. 712.

Re.2.21. p Ec.3.16.

7 Ps.63.1-6. 9 With my soul have I desired m Ca.3.1. thee in the night; m yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee n Ps.58.11. early for when n thy judgments o Ec.8.11. are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. 10 Let o favour be showed to the wicked, yet will he not learn right- 9 ch.2. 10. eousness inp the land of upright-r Je.5.3. ness will he deal unjustly, and wills Re. 1.7. not behold the majesty q of the 5 or, toward

LORD.

thy.

11 LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they r will not see: but theyt Da.3.22,25. shall ssee, and be ashamed for their u ver.3. envy 5 at the people; yea, the fire tor, for. of thine enemies shall devour them. v 2Ch.28.5,6. 12 LORD, thou wilt ordain Ro.6.16-18. peace u for us: for thou also hast w Ps.71.15, wrought all our works 6 in us.

16. ≈ Ho.5.15.

7 secret speech.

13 O LORD our God, other v lords beside thee have had dominion over us but w by thee only will we make mention of thy name. 14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise therefore hast thou visited 8 bloods. and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.

y Da. 12.2.

z Jude 14, 15.

a Ps.74.14.

The care of God.

CHAPTER XXVII. God's chastisements differ from judg

ments.

IN 'that day the LORD with his shall punish Jeviathan a the 1 piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

2 In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard b of red wine.

3 Ic the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day, 4 Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against

me in battle? I would 2 go through them, I would burn them together. 5 Or let him take hold of my d strength, that he may make peacee with me; and he shall make peace with me.

6 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: f Israel shall blossom and bud, and g fill the face of the world with fruit.

7 Hath he smitten him, 3 as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?

8 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it:

day of the east wind.

16 LORD, in trouble a have they visited thee, they poured out a 7 prayer when thy chastening was upon them.

17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.

18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth, neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye y that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

1

or, crossing like a bar. b Lu.20.9,&c.

c Ps. 121.4,5. 2 or, march against.

d ch.45.24.

e Job 22.21. f Ps.92.13-15. Ho. 14.5,6.

g Ro. 11.12. 3 according to the stroke of.

9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalk-stones that are beaten in sunder,the groves and 6 images shall not stand up.

10 Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for k it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them. and he that formed them will show them no favour.

12 T And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.

13 And it shall come to pass m that day, that the great trumpet m shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts of the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

CHAPTER XXVIII. Christ, the sure foundation, is pro

mised.

to the crown of pride, to

W the drunkards of Ephraim,

whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are 1 overcome with wine!

2 Behold, the LORD hath a mighty and strong one, which, as a tempest a of hail, and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.

3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden 2 under feet:

4 And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley,

shall be b a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he 3 eateth it up.

5 T In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people.

6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.

B. C. 712.

8.12.

g Mat. 13. 14.

Christ is promised.

the LORD, ye scornful men,that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.

15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come h unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, i a tried stone, a precious corner-stone, a sure foundation: he k that believeth shall not make haste.

17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away shall overflow the hiding-place. the refuge of lies, and the waters

18 T And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing Scourge shall pass through; then ye shall be 8 trodden down by it. 19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for mornMat.21.42. ing by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night and it shall be a vexation only 9 to understand the report.

h Ec.8.8.

i Ps. 118.22.

Ac.4.11.
Ro.9.33.

Ep.2.20.

k Ro. 10.11. sa treading down to it.

I Mal.4.3.

he shall

20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

21 For the LORD shall rise up as m in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as n in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his stand doc-strange o work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.

make you to under

trine.

m 2Sa.5.20.

Jos. 10. 10, &c.

wheat in the principal place, and the barley in the appointed place.

bindeth it

in such sort

as his God doth teach

him.

22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, p even determined upon the whole earth.

23 Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech. 24 Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?

25 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in 10 the principal wheat, and the appointed barley, and the 11 rye in their 12 place?

26 13 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.

27 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.

Hypocrisy of the Jews.

to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:

12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying,

in counsel,and excellent in working.

CHAPTER XXIX.

A promise of sanctification to the

Wo

godly.

1 to Ariel, to Ariel, 2 the city where a David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them 3 kill sacrifices.

1 or, O Ariel, i.e.the lion of God.

2 or, of the eity. a 28.5.9. 3 cut off the heads. b2Ki.25.1,

&c.

c La. 1.9.

2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow and it shall be unto me as peep, or, Ariel. chirp. 3 And I will camp against theed Job 21.18. round about, and will lay siege be 1Th.5.3. against thee with a mount, and I fch.30.30. will raise forts against thee. g ch.41.11,12. h ch.37.36. 5 or, take your pleasure and riot.

4 And thou shalt be brought c down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall 4 whisper out of the dust.

5 Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaffd that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant e suddenly.

6 Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.

7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even ally that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream h of a night

vision.

8 It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold,| he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.

i ch.51.21. k Ro. 11.8. 6 heads, ch. 1.5.

1 1Sa.9.9. 7 or, letter. m Da.12.4,9.

Re.5.1-9.

n Eze.33.31. Mat.15.6-9.

o Col.2.22.
8 add.
p Hab.1.5.

Je.49.7.
Ob.8.

I Co.1.19. r ch.30.1. Ps. 139.7, &c.

& Ps.94.7. tch.45.9. Ro.9.20.

u ch.32.15.

Mat. 19.30.

ch.35.5.

Lu.7.22. w ch.61.1.

9 add.

x Ja.2.5.

y ch.51.13.

Re. 12.10.

12.

9 Stay yourselves, and wonder; z Ps.64.6. 5 cry ye out, and cry: they are Je.20.10. drunken, i but not with wine; they a Am.5.10, stagger, but not with strong drink. 10 Fork the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.

11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a 7 book that is sealed,m which men deliver

b Jos.24.3. c ch.54.4.

d ch.60.21. Ep.2.10.

e ICo.6.11. 10 know understanding.

I am not learned.

13 Wherefore the LORD said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, a and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men: 0

14 Therefore, behold, I will 8 proceed to do a marvellousp work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

15 Wo unto them that seek deep to hider their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who s seeth us? and who knoweth us?

16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?

17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned u into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?

18 Andv in that day shall the deafhear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.

19 The meek w also shall 9 increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor x among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

20 For the terrible one is brought to nought, y and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch z for iniquity are cut off:

21 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.

22 Therefore thus saith the LORD,b who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not c now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.

23 But when he seeth his children, the work d of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.

21 They e also that erred in spirit shall 10 come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.

20.

70 a to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take a De.29.19, counsel, but not of me; and that cover b with a covering, but not of b ch.29.15. my spirit, that they may add c sine Ro.2.5. to sin:

d ch.31.1.

2 That d walk to go down into Egypt, (and have not asked at my e Je.2.36. mouth;) to strengthen themselves f Je.37.7. in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt! 3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes. 5 They were all ashamede of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

6 The burden of the beasts of the south into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.

7 For f the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried 1 concerning this, Their g strength is to sit still. 8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the 2 time to come for ever and ever:

9 That this is a rebellious h people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:

1 or, to her. g ver. 15. 2 latter day.

h De.32.20.

i

4

Je. 11.21. Am.2.12. 7.13. Mi.2.6,11. 1Ki.22.13.

7 Ps.62.10.

3 or, fraud. m Ps.62.3. n Ps.2.9.

Je. 19.11.

bottle of
potters.

o ver.7.

P 2Ki.25.5. q De.32.30. 5 or, a tree bereft of branches, or, boughs: or, a mast.

10 Which say i to the seers, Seer Ho.5.15. not: and to the prophets, Prophesys Ps.34.8. not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth & things, prophesy de-t ch.65.9,24. ceits: u Je.29. 12-14 v Ps.80.5.

11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

6 or, oppres

sion. w Ps.74.9. Am.8.11, 12.

12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust / in 3 oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: Ps.32.8. 13 Therefore this iniquity shall be the graven to you as a breach m ready to fall, images of swelling out in a high wall, whose thy silver. breaking cometh suddenly at an 8 scatter.

instant.

14 And he shall break n it as they Ho. 14.8. breaking of the 4 potters' vessel 9 leavened, that is broken in pieces; he shall or, savory. not spare: so that there shall not 10 lifted up. be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or z ch.60.19,20. to take water withal out of the pit.:

God's mercies to his church.

15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and resto shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength and ye would not. 16 But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue p you be swift.

17 One thousand q shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as 5 a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on a hill.

wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed s are all they that wait for him.

18 And therefore will the LORDT

19 For the people shall dwellt in Zion at Jerusalein: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; whenu he shall hear it, he will answer thee.

20 And though v the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of 6 affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed w into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:

21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This x is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the riglit hand, and when ye turn to the left.

22 Ye shall defile also the covering of 7 thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt & cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.y

23 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.

24 The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat 9 clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every 10 high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

26 Moreover the light z of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be seven-fold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his peo

The folly of

ple, and healeth the stroke of their wound.

27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and 11 the burden thereof is 12 heavy his lips are full of indig-12 heaviness. nation, and his tongue as a de-a Zep.3.8. vouring fire: a

28 And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift b the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle c in the jaws of the people, causing them

to err.

29 Ye shall have a song, as d in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the 13 Mighty One of Israel.

30 And the LORD shall cause

b Lu.22.31. c ch.37.29.

d Ps.42.3,4. 13 Rock. 14 the glory of his voice. 15 every pass

ing of the rod founded 15 cause to 17 or, against

rest.

them.

e Je.7.31.

trusting in Egypt. young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the 2 noise of them so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.

5 As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend c Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it, and passing over he will preserve it.

6 T Turn d ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply e revolted.

7 For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and 3 his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.

8 T Then shall the Assyrian fall f with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean

and shall show the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.

terday. ƒ Re. 14.9,10. (CHAP. 31.) a Ho.7.7. 31 For through the voice of the 1 remove. LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten b Ho. 11.10. down, which smote with a rod.

32 And 15 in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall 16 lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps and in battles of shaking will he fight 17 with it.

33 For Tophet e is ordained 18 of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep, and large:

2 or, multi-
tude.
c Ps.46.5.
d Je.3. 12.

e Ho.9.9.

3 the idols of his gold. fch.37.36.

flee 4 from the sword, and his young men shall be 5 discomfited. 9 And 6 he shall pass over to his 7 strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

CHAPTER XXXII. 1 The blessings of Christ's kingdom. 9 Desolation is foreshown. EHOLD, a king shall reign in

Brighteousness, a and princes

shall rule in judgment.

2 And a man shall be as an hidingplace from the wind, and a covert b from the tempest; as rivers c of

wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, f doth kindle it.

CHAPTER XXXI.

The prophet showeth the cursed folly in trusting to Egypt.

W

of.

5 for melting or, tribute: or, tributary.

6 his rock shall pass away for

TO to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, befear. cause they are many; and in horse-or,strength. men, because they are very strong; (CHAP. 32.) but a they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD.

2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words but will arise against the house of the evil-doers, and against the help of them that work iniquity. 3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall

a Ps.45.6,7. Je.23.5,6. Zec.9.9.

Ro.5.21. b ch.4.6. c ch.44.3.

heavy. 2 hasty. 3 or, ele

gantly.

d Je.13.23.

of a 1 great rock in a weary land. 3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim; and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.

4 The heart also of the 2 rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak 3 plainly.

5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.

6 For the vile person willd speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

7 The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with

helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.

4 For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion b and the l

eth against the poor in judgment. 5 or, be established.