g Mic. iv. 1, &c. 12 And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land. * 13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof. ISAIAH II. 1 Isaiah prophesieth the coming of Christ's kingdom. 6 Wickedness is the cause of God's forsaking. 10 He exhorteth to fear, because of the powerful effects of God's majesty. 1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the 10r,prepared. mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. 3 And many people shall go and say, Come 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 shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. 4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into Or, scythes. plowshares, and their spears into § pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. Or, more 5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD. 6¶ Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished || from the east, and are *Or, abound soothsayers like the Philistines, and they *please themselves in the children of strangers. than the east. with the children, &c. h ch. v. 15. 7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots : 8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made: 9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not. 10 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty. h 11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. 12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every A. C. 758. 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 of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan, 14 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up, 15 And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall, 16 And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all sant pictures. * plea- Heb. pic and 17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, the haughtiness of men shall be made low and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. and 18 And the idols he shall utterly abolish. 19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. 20 In that day a man shall cast § his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats; 21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. 22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his notrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of? tures of desire. +Or, the idols shall utterly pass away. Luke xxiii. & ix. 6. Hos. x. 8. 30. Rev. vi. 16. + Heb. the dust. Heb. the ver, &c. idols of his sil || Or, which they made for him. ISAIAH III. 1 The great confusion which cometh by sin. 9 The impudency of the people. 12 The oppression and covetousness of the rulers. 16 The judgments which shall be for the pride of the women. 1 For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, 2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, eminent in 3 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and Heb a man the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the † eloquent orator. k 4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them. 5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable. countenance. + Or, skilful of speech. & Eccles. x. 16. A. C. 758. *Heb. lift up the hand, 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 swear, saying, I will not be an + Heb. binder + healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people. up. 8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory. 9¶The shew of their countenance doth witness against 1 Gen. xiii. 13. them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves. & xviii. 20, 21. & xix. 5. 10 Say ye to the righteous, that 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 Heb. done to reward of his hands shall be ‡ given him. him. Or, they 12 ¶ As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead which call thee thee cause thee to err, and || destroy the way of thy paths. 13 The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people. blessed. || Heb.swallow up. 14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients *Or, burnt. of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have * eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses. 15 What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the LORD God of hosts. 16¶ Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks Heb. deceiv and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: ing with their eyes. Or, tripping nicely. 17 Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will Heb. make discover their secret parts. naked. || Or, net works. * Or, sweet balls. 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, 19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the + mufflers, 20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the Heb houses headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings, + Or, spangled ornaments. of the soul. 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 in stead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher A. C. 758. a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty. 25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy * mighty in Heb. might. the war. 26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being + desolate shall sit upon the ground. ISAIAH IV. In the extremity of evils, Christ's kingdom shall be a sanctuary. + Or, emptied. + Heb. cleans ed. 1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only § let us be called by thy name, || to take away Heb. let the our reproach, 2 In that day shall the branch of the LORD be* beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel. name be called away * Heb. beauty + Heb, for the escaping of 3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jeru- Or, to life. salem: 4 When the LORD shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning. 5 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, "a cloud and smoke m Ex. xiii. 21. by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for §upon all the glory shall be ||a defence. Or, above. Heb. a cover 6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day- ing. time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain. ISAIAH V. 1 Under the parable of a vineyard God excuseth his severe judgment. 8 His judgments upon covetousness, 11 upon lasciviousness, 13 upon impiety, 20 and upon injustice. 26 The executioners of God's judgments. of my 1 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song loved touching "his vineyard. My wellbeloved vineyard in * a very fruitful hill : Matt. xxi, 33. there- * Heb. the of oil. Luke xx. 9. horn of the son for, made a 2 And he + fenced it, and gathered out the stones of, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought + Heb. hewed. forth wild grapes. 3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. wall about it. A. C. 758. 4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? 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 eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall Heb. for a be* trodden down: treading. 6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. 7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of +Heb. plant Israel, and the men of Judah +his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry. of his plea sures. Heb. a scab. o Mic. ii. 2. Or, This is in mine ears, saith the LORD, &c. &c. 8 ¶ Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! 9 § In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, ||Of a truth houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without many Heb. If not, inhabitant. p Prov. xxiii. 29, 30. 10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah. 11 ¶P Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, *Or, pursue till wine* inflame them! them. +Heb. their glory are men of famine. qch. ii. 9, 11, 17. 12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands. 13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. 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, Or, the holy and § God that is holy shall be sanctified in righte God. Heb. the God the holy. ousness. 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 va— nity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: 19 That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, |