Babylon's utter desolation.

Before

their evil, and the wicked for their CHRIST iniquity; and I will cause the arabout 712. rogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

n ch. 2. 17.

o Hag. 2. 6.

p Ps. 110. 5. Lam. 1. 12.

q Jer. 50. 16. & 51. 9.

TPs. 137. 9.

Nah. 3. 10.

Zech. 14. 2.

sch. 21. 2. Jer. 51. 11,

28.

Dan. 5. 28, 31.

tch. 14. 4, 22.

12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

13o Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.

15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.

16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.

17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

18 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.

19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chal+ Heb, as the dees' excellency, shall be fas when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

overthrow-
ing.

u Gen. 19. 21, 25.

Deut. 29. 23. Jer. 49. 18. &

50. 40.

Jer. 50.3,39.

& 51. 29, 62.

y ch. 34. 11

15.

Rev. 18. 2.

+ Heb. Ziim.

1 Heb. Ochim,

Or, ostriches.

+ Heb.

the owl.

20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.

21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and towls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.

22 And the wild beasts of the isl

daughters of ands shall cry in their || desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: "and her time is near Or, palaces. to come, and her days shall not be

1 God's merciful restoration of Israel. 4 Their triumphant insultation over Babel. 24 God's pur purpose against Assyria.

29 Palestina is threatened.

DOR the LORD * will have mercy bwill yet choose

Israel, and set them in their own land and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

2 And the people shall take them, dch. 49.22.& dand bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take

The restoration of Israel.

them captives, † whose captives they Before were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve, 4 That thou shalt take up this || proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! 5 The LORD hath broken h the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.

6 He who smote the people in wrath with ta continual stroke, he that Heb. a ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.

7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing. 8i Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.

9k || Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the † || chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

10 All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us? 11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.

14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; PI will be like the peh. 47. 8. Most High.

15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. 16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;

17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that || opened not the house of his prisoners?

18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.

19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcass trodden under feet.

20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast

2 Thess. 2.4.

q Matt. 11. 23.

Or, did not

let his prisoners loose homeward,

God's purpose against Assyria.

Before

CHRIST about 712.

Job 18. 19.

Ps. 21. 10. &

13.

destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evil doers shall never be renowned.

21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fa

37. 28. & 109. thers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

Ex. 20. 5.

Matt. 23. 35.

t Prov. 10. 7. Jer. 51. 02.

ul Kin. 14.10. Job 13. 19.

y ch. 31. 11. Zeph. 2. 14.

ach. 10. 27.

22 For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and "remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD.

23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts. 24 The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

25 That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.

26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.

The lamentable state of Moab.

streets, every one shall howl, † weeping abundantly.

4 And Heshbon shall cry, fand Elealeh; their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him.

5 My heart shall cry out for Moab;

his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, a bheifer of three years old for iby the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of f destruction.

6 For the waters kof Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.

7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the || brook of the willows.

8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beer-elim.

Before CHRIST about 720.

Heh, do scending into weeping, or, coming down with weeping. fch. 16.9.

g ch. 16. 11. Jer. 48. 31.

10r. to the

borders there

of even to Zear, heifer, heh, 16, 14. Jer. 48. 34.

ar, as a

iJer. 48. 5.

+ Heb breaking.

k Num.22 36. Heh, desslations, Or, valley of the Arabian.

+ Heb. additions.

27 For the LORD of hosts hath

CHAPTER XVI.

ch. 43. 13.

28 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.

for her pride. 9 The prophet bewaileth her. 12 The judgment of Moab.

Dan. 4.31,35.

12 Kin. 16.20.

726.

2 Chr. 26. 6.

Or, adder.

42 Kin. 18. 8.

Or, he shall

not be alone.

Or, assemblies.

e Ps. 87. 1, 5.

& 102. 16.

f Zeph. 3. 12.

Zech. 11. 11.

Or, betake themselves

unto it.

about 726.

a. Jer.48.1,&c.

Ег. 25.8-11.

Amos 2. 1.

b Num.21.28.

Or, cut off.

cch. 16. 12.

d See Lev. 21. 5.

ch. 3. 24. & 22. 12.

Jer. 47. 5. &

29 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a || cockatrice, dand his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.

30 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.

31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and || none shall be alone in his || appointed times.

32 What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and fthe poor of his people shall || trust in it.

CHAPTER XV.

The lamentable state of Moab.

THE burden of Moab. Because

waste, and || brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence:

2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: don all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off. 3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their

END ye the lamb to the ruler of the land bfrom || Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.

a 2 Kin. 3. 4. b2 Kin, 14. 7. Or. Petra. Heb. A rock.

Or, a nest

2 For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird || cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the forsaken. fords of Arnon.

3+ Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.

e Num. 21. 13.

+ Heb. Bring.

4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the textortioner is at an end, the spoiler + Heb. ceaseth, f the oppressors are consumed out of the land.

5 And in mercy dshall the throne be || established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness. 6 We have heard of the pride of Monterde his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so. 7 Therefore shall Moab bhowl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken. 8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they

wringer.

+ Heb, the treaders down.

Syria and Israel threatened.

Before

CHRIST

about 726.

Or, plucked

m Jer. 48. 32.

nch, 15.4.

Or.the alarm

is fallen up

on, fc.

o ch. 24.8.

Jer. 48. 33.

pch. 15. 5. & 63.15. Jer, 48, 30.

q ch. 15. 2.

rch. 21. 16.

Or, not many.

wandered through the wilderness: her branches are || stretched out, they are gone over the sea.

9 Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, "O Heshbon, and Elealch: for || the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.

10 And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease. 11 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like a harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kir-haresh.

12 And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on 9 the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.

13 This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab since that time.

14 But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and || feeble.

CHAPTER XVII.

1 Syria and Israel are threatened. A remnant shall forsake idolatry. 9 The rest shall be plagued for their impiety. 12 The woe of Israel's enemies.

about 741.THE burden of Damascus. BeThe a Jer. 49. 23. Ahold, Damascus is taken away Amoa 1. 3. from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

Zech. 9. 1.

fulfilled 740,

2 Kings 16. 9.

b Jer. 7. 33.

ech. 7. 16. & 8.4.

deh, 10, 16,

Jer. 51. 33,

about 741.

fch. 21. 13.

Mic. 7. 7.

2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and bnone shall make them afraid.

3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.

4 And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.

5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the cars with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth cars in the valley of Rephaim.

6fYet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Is rael.

7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.

8 And he shall not look to the al tars, the work of his hands, neither

The woe of Israel's enemies.

shall respect that which his fingers have made, cither the groves, or the || images.

"9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.

Beforo CHRIST

about 741.

Or, sun im

ages.

10 Because thou hast forgotten the hPa, C8. 19. God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the Rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:

11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be || a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

1 Or, removed in the day of inheritance, and there shall be deadly sorrow,

i Jer. G. 23.

Or, many.

12 T Woe to the || multitude of many people, which make a noise i like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing 10r, noise. of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of || mighty waters! 13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall krebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and Ishall be chased as the chaff of the mountains beforc the wind, and like || a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us. CHAPTER XVIII.

1 God in care of his people will destroy the Ethiopians. 7 An access thereby shall grow unto the church.

WO

to the land shadowing

with wings, which is beyond

the rivers of Ethiopia: 2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sca, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to ba nation || scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; [[fa nation meted out and trodden down, || whose land the rivers have spoiled! 3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the carth, see ye,

when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.

a

4 For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will || || consider in my dwellingplace like clear heat || upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. 5 For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruninghooks, and take away and cut down the branches.

6 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

k Ps. 9. 5. 1Ps. 83. 13.

Ноз. 13. 3.

Or, thistle

down.

about 714.

ach. 20, 4, 5. Ex. 30, 4, 5.9. Zeph. 2.12.4

bver. 7, Or. out.

spread and polished. 10г, a nation that mateth out, and treadech down.

+ Heb. a mation of line, line, and treading under foot.

Or, whose land the riv ers despise, ech. 5. 23.

for, regard

my ret
dwelling.

Or, ofter