12 They shall lament for the teats, for feld the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. 13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in 'the joyous city: 14 Because the palaces shall be forg ch. 27. 10. saken; the multitude of the city shall be Or, clifts left; the || forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks; ing upon, &c. f ch. 22. 2. and watch. Lowers. h Ps. 104. 30. Joel 2. 28. 15 ¶ Until the spirit be poured upon i ch. 29. 17. us from on high, and 'the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest. & 35.2. k Jam. 3. 18. 1 ch. 30. 30. m Zech. 11. 2. 16 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field. 17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. 18 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places; m 1 19 When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be Or, and the low in a low place. city shall be utterly abas ed. 20 Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of a ch. 30. 24. " the ox and the ass. CHAP. XXXIII. 1 God's judgments against the enemies of the OE to thee that spoilest, and thou 8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man. h 9 The earth mourneth and languish- h ch. 24 4. eth: Lebanon is ashamed and || hewn Or, widown: Sharon is like a wilderness; and away: Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits. 10 'Now will I rise, saith the LORD; i Ps. 12. 5. now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself. ch. 59-4 11 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall k P.7.14. bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you. 12 And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall 1 ch. 9. 18, they be burned in the fire. 13 ¶ Hear, mye that are far off, what I m ch. 49. 1. have done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my might. 14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? WOE to thee that one land dealest is very far off. treacherously, and they dealt not treach- 2 O LORD, be gracious unto us; we 3 At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered. 4 And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them. 5 The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness. 6 And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure. 7 Behold, their || valiant ones shall cry land of far distances. God revengeth his church. ISAIAH. CHRIST prey of a great spoil divided; the lame cir. 713. take the prey. Before 24 And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity. hearken, ye people: let the earth Heb. the hear, and tall that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it. fulness thereof. 2 For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter. 3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and e Joel 2. 20. their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood. d Ps. 102. 26. Ezek. 32. 7, C 4 And all the host of heaven shall be 8. Joel 2. 31. dissolved, and the heavens shall be rollMatt. 24.29. ed together as a scroll: and all their fall down, as the falleth & 3.15. 2 Pet. 3. 10. e The virtues and privileges of the gospel. Before CHRIST ¡Or, night 14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of cir. 713. the island, and the satyr shall cry to his +Heb. Zrim, fellow; the || screech owl also shall rest Heb. i. there, and find for herself a place of rest. monster." 15 There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate. 16 Seek ye out of the book of the Mal. 3. 16. LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.. 17 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein. CHAP. XXXV. 1 The joyful flourishing of Christ's kingdom. 3 The weak are encouraged by the virtues and privileges of the gospel. HE a wilderness and the solitary place cir. 713 * Rev.6 14. host sthal fine, and 23a falling jig from T shall be glad for them; and the desert a chr 53-12 6 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea. 7 And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the 1 Or, drunk bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. 8 For it is the day of the LORD's 'vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion. m And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. 10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; "the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever. 11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. 12 They shall call the nobles thereof rch. 32. 13. to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing. Rabshakeh's blasphemy. Before CHRIST 713. CHAP. XXXVI. XXXVII. CHAP. XXXVI. 1 Sennacherib invadeth Judah. 4 Rabshakeh, sent by Sennacherib, by blasphemous persuasions soliciteth the people to revolt. 22 His words are told to Hezekiah. it came to pass in the four His message told to Hezekiah. guage, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria. 14 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you. 15 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust Nteenth year of King Hezekiah, that in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them. 2¶ And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field. 3 Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was over the house, Or, secre- and Shebna the || scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder. tury. b2 Kings 18. 19, &c. + Heb. a word of lips. i Or, but counsel and reath are for the war. e Ezek. 29. 6, 7. Or, hustaga. 4 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest? 5 I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) || I have counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me? 6 Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him. 7 But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar? 8 Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them. 9 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen ? 10 And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it. 11 Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the ⚫ people that are on the wall. 12 But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you? 15 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' lan deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. 16 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, ||† Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern; 17 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards. 18 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? 19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? 20 Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand? 21 But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not. 22 Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the houshold, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh. CHAP. XXXVII. 1 Hezekiah mourning sendeth to Isaiah to pray for them. 6 Isaiah comforteth them. 8 Sennacherib, going to encounter Tirhakah, sendeth a blasphemous letter to Hezekiah. 14 Hezekiah's prayer. 21 Isaiah's prophecy of the pride and destruction of Sennacherib, and the good of Zion. 36 An angel slayeth, the Assyrians. 37 Sennacherib is slain at Nineveh by his own sons. Before CHRIST 710. &c. AND it came to pass, when king He- *, King 19zekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD. 2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the houshold, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. 3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, | Or, provo cation. Hezekiah mourning is comforted. b Jer. 19. 23. ISAIAH. and there is not strength to bring forth. 5 So the servants of king Hezekiah 6 ¶ And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. Before CHRIST 710. The destruction of Sennacherib. 19 And have † cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: there- Heb. fore they have destroyed them. 20 Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD, even thou only. 21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith. the LORD God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria: 22 This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee. 7 Behold, I will || send a blast upon 9 And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, 10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah "king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. 11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered? + given. + Heb. By 24 By thy servants hast thou re- the hand of proached the Lord, and hast said, By thy servants. the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel. Heb. the the cedars the choice of tallsen of thereof, and the fir trees thereef. Or, the forest and fruitful field. 1 Or, fas thou not have made it 25 I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places. 26 || Hast thou not heard long ago, how and card. I have done it; and of ancient times, that hor, Hart I have formed it? now have I brought it heard how ! 12 Have the gods of the nations deli- to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay long r vered them which my fathers have de- waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps. it of ancient stroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Re- 27 Therefore their inhabitants were huld I now zeph, and the children of Eden which+of small power, they were dismayed and bri were in Telassar? confounded: they were as the grass of and defaced the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blast- 2 Kings 19 ed before it be grown up. 13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? 14 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD. 15 And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD, saying, 16 O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth. c Dan, 9. 18. 17 Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living God. + Heb. lands. 18 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries, and formed times? laid waste. cities to be heapt? as 25- 28 But I know thy abode, and thy of hand going out, and thy coming in, and thy Jor, sitting. rage against me. 29 Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, Ezek + and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest. 30 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof. 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 7 And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken; 8 Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees the sun. backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down. be ness. "my soul from the pil. k Ps. 6. 5. & 30.9. & 88. Eccles. 9. 10. 18 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that 11. & 115.17. 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 1Deut. 4.9. children shall make known thy truth. 20 The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD. 78.3, 4. 7 21 Form Isaiah had said, Let them take makings 0. a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover. 8. 22 "Hezekiah also had said, What is 2 Kings 20. the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD? 1 CHAP. XXXIX. Merodach-baladan, sending to visit Hezekiah because of the wonder, hath notice of his treasures. 3 Isaiah, understanding thereof, foretelleth the Babylonian captivity. Tthat time Merodach-baladan, the cir. 712. a 2 Kings 20. Babylon, 22 sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been sick, and was recovered. 2 And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his pre b Chron. or, spicery. 32. 31. |