Shebna's downfall prophesied.

Before

about 712.

i Neh. 3. 10.

k See ch. 37.

23.

1 Joel 1. 13.

have ye broken down to fortify the wall.

11 Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto kthe maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long

ago.

12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts Icall to weeping, and Im See Ezra 9. to mourning, and to baldness, and

3.
ch. 15. 2.

Mic. 1. 16.

nch. 56. 12.

1 Cor. 15.32.

ach. 5. 9.

to girding with sackcloth:

13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.

14 And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely p1 Sam. 3.14. this iniquity P'shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

Ex. 21. 13.

42 Kin. 18.37. ch. 36. 3.

1 Kings 4. 6.

Or, O he.

See 2 Sam.

18. 18.

Matt, 27. 60.

Or, the Lord

who covered

thee with an

excellent cov

ering, and

clothed thee

gorgeousy,
shall surely.
de.
ver. 18.

+ Heb. the

captivity of

a men.

t Esth. 7.8.

+ Heb. large

of spaces.

u 2 Kin.18.18.

Job 12. 14, Rev. 3. 7.

y Ezra 9. 8.

Or, instruments of viols.

15 Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto 9 Shebna, which is over the house, and say,

16 What hast thou here, and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, || as he *that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth a habitation for himself in a rock?

17 Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with fa mighty captivity, tand will surely cover thee.

18 He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house.

19 And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down.

20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant "Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:

21 And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.

22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut: and he shall shut, and none shall open.

23 And I will fasten him as Va nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house. 24 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the || vessels of flagons.

25 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden

2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have + Hob, silent. replenished.

3 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.

4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not; nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins.

8 Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, fSee Ez. 28. 2, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?

9 The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, Heb. to pol.

and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.

10 Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more f strength.

11 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment || against the merchant city, to destroy the || strong holds thereof. 12 And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, se, h h pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest.

13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for ithem that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.

about 712.

+ Heb. per

verteth the fuce thereof.

Or, prince.

а Нов. 4. 9.

CHAPTER XXIV.

1 The doleful judgments of God upon the land. 13 A remnant shall joyfully praise him. 16 God in his judgments shall advance his kingdom.

BEHOLD, the LORD maketh the

empty, and maketh it waste, and † turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the ||a priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; b Es. 7. 12, 13. bas with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.

† Heb. the height of the people.

c Gen. 3. 17.

3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.

4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.

5 The earth also is defiled under Nam, 35.33. the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

d Mal. 4. 6.

ech, 16.8.9.

Joel 1.10, 12.

fJer. 7. 34. &

16.9. & 25.10.

Ez. 26. 13.

Hos, 2. 11,

Rev. 18. 22.

sch. 17. 5, 6.

6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.

8 The mirth fof fabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.

9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

10 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.

12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. 13 When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.

14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the

His kingdom shall be set up.

LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.

15 Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the || fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.

16 From the futtermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said,

Before CHRIST about 712.

Or, valleys.

h Mal. 1. 11.

Heb. wing.

+ Heb. Leanness to me, or, My seret to me.

My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! ithe treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very i Jer. 5. 11. treacherously.

17 k Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.

18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the

fear shall fall into the pit; and he

that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for Ithe windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.

19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.

See 1 Kin.

19.17. Jer.48.43.44. Amos 5. 19.

1Gen. 7. 11.

mPs. 18. 7.

n Jer. 4. 23.

20 The earth shall reel to and och, 19. 14. fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.

21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, Pand the kings of the earth upon the earth.

22 And they shall be gathered together, tas prisoners are gathered in the || pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be || visited.

23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and || before his ancients gloriously. CHAPTER XXV.

1 The prophet praiseth God, for his judgments, 6 for his saving benefits, 9 and for his victorious salvation.

LORD, thou art my God: I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; bfor thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.

2 For thou hast made dof a city a heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.

Heb. visit ироп.

prв. 76. 12. Heb, with

the gathering

of prisoners. [Or. dungeon. 10r. found

wanting.

qch. 13. 10. &

Ez. 32. 7. Joel 2. 31. & 3. 15.

r Rev. 19. 4.6. Heb. 12. 22.

Or, there

shall be glory before his ancients.

about 712.

a Ex. 15. 2. Ps. 118. 28,

Pа, 98. 1.

e Num. 23.19.

deh. 21.9.&

21. 13.
Jer. 61. 37.

3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the Rev. 11. 13. terrible nations shall fear thee.

4 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, fa refuge feh. 4. 6. from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

5 Thou shalt bring down the noise CHRIST of strangers, as the heat in a dry about 712. place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.

geh. 2. 2. 3.

h Prov. 9. 2. Matt. 22. 4.

i Dan. 7. 14. Matt. 8. II.

+ Heb.

swallow up.

+ Heb.

covered.

k 2 Cor. 3. 15. Eph. 4. 18.

1 Hoa, 13. 14. 1 Cor. 15. 54.

Rev. 20.14.&

21. 4.

m Rev. 7. 17. & 21. 4.

6 And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.

7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering †cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.

8 He will swallow up death in victory and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it. 91 And it shall be said in that n Gen. 49. 18. day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad

Tit. 2. 13.

o Ps. 20. 5.

and rejoice in his salvation.

10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab Or, threshed. shall be || trodden down under him, even as straw is || trodden down for the dunghill.

Or, threshed in Madmenah.

d ch. 45. 17.

1 Heb, the

rock of ages,

Deut. 32, 4.

ech. 25. 12. & 32. 19.

f Ps. 37. 23.

confidence in God.

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

9 h With my soul have I desired thee in the night yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

Before CHRIST About 712.

h Pa. 63. 6. Cant. 3. 1.

i Ece. R. 12.

Rom. 2. 4.

k Ps. 143. 10,

10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn rightcousness in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD. 11 LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, Ithey will not see: but they 1Job 34. 27. shall see, and be ashamed for their envy || at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them. 12 LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.

13 O LORD our God, mother lords besides thee have had dominion over us; but 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 and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.

15 Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation; thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.

16 LORD, in trouble have they visited thee; they poured out a 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

sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; bsalvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. 2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.

3 Thou wilt keep him in fperfect peace, whose || mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: dfor in the LORD JEHOVAH is feverlasting strength.

5 For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.

6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.

7 The way of the just is uprightness: f thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.

8 Yea, gin the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited

Ps. 28. 5. eh. 5. 12.

Or, toward thy people,

10r. for us.

m 2 Chr. 12,8

n Hos. 5. 15,

Heb. secret

speech. och. 13. 8. John 16. 21.

qEz. 37.1, &c.

not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabit- p Ps. 17. 14. ants of the world fallen. 19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. "Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

201 Come, my people,

Dan. 12. 2.

enter Ex. 12.22,23.

thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee hide thyself as it were for a little moment, Pa. 30.5. until the indignation be overpast.

ch. 54, 7, 8. 2 Cor. 4. 17,

21 For, behold, the LORD "cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her 1 Heb. bloods. slain.

God's care of his vineyard.

Before CHRIST

about 712.

Or, crossing

like a bar.

a Ps. 71.13,11.

bch. 51.9.

Ez. 29. 3. & 32.2.

ech. 5. 1.

d P3, 80, 8.

Jer. 2. 21.

ePs. 121. 4, 5.

12 Sam. 23. 6.

ch 9. 18.

Or, mareh against.

gch. 25. 4.

h Job 22. 21.

I ch. 37. 31.

Hos. 14.5, 6.

† Heb. ac

cording to the stroke of those,

k Job 23. 6.

P9. 6. 1.

Jer. 10. 24. &

30. 11. & 46,

28.

1 Cor. 10. 13.

Or, when

thou sendest

it forth.

Or, when

he removeth

11.

1 Р3. 78. 38.

Or, sun

images.

N that day the LORD with his sore

Ephraim threatened.

dation is promised. 18 Their security shall be tried. 23 They are incited to the consideration of God's discreet providence.

on that is sea.

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

3 "I 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 fthe briers and thorns against me in battle? I would || go through them, 1 would burn them together.

5 Or let him take hold gof my strength, that he may h make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.

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

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

8 k In measure, || when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: || The stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

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 chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and || images shall not stand up.

10 Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, mSee-ch. 17. and left like a wilderness there 2. & 32. 14. shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

ch. 43. 1, 7. & 44.2,21,24,

p ch. 2. 11.

9 Matt. 24.31.

Rev. 11. 15.

them no favour.

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

CHAPTER XXVIII.

1 The prophet threateneth Ephraim for their pride and drunkenness. 5 Theresidue shall be advanced in the kingdom

of Christ. 7 He rebuketh their error. 9 Their untowardness to learn, 14 and their security. 16 Christ the sure foun

the drunkards of Ephraim,

Before CHRIST about 725.

A ver. 3.

whose bglorious beauty is a fading bver. 4. flower, which are on the head of the fat vaileys of them that are fovercome with wine!

↑ Heb, broken,

Ez, 13, 11.

2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest ech. 30. 30. of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.

3 d The crown of pride, the drunk- d ver. 1. ards of Ephraim, shall be trodden † under feet:

+ Heb. with

e ver. 1.

4 And the glorious beauty, which feet. is on the head of the fat valley, shall be 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 feateth + Heb. it up.

5 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.

7 But they also shave erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment. 8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.

swalloweth,

f Prov. 20. 1. Hos. 4. 11.

geh. 56,10,12,

9th Whom shall he teach knowl-hJer. 6, 10, edge? and whom shall he make to understand † doctrine? them that are + Heb. the weaned from the milk, and drawn hearing. from the breasts.

10 For precept || must be upon pre-or. cept, precept upon precept; line hath been. upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

11 For with fistammering lips and another tongue || will he speak to this people.

12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.

15 Because ye have said, We have

+ Heb. stammeringe of lips.

il Cor. 14. 21. Or. he hath spoken,

made a covenant with death, and

The siege of Jerusalem foretold.

CHAPTER XXIX.

about 725.

k Ames 2. 4.

1 Gen. 49. 24.
Ps. 118. 22.
Matt. 21. 42.
Aets 4. 11.

Rom. 9.33. &
10. 11.
Enh. 2.20.

1 Pet. 2. 6, 7,

8.

mver, 15.

+ Heb.

a treading

down to it.

the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: kfor 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 la stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stove, a sure foundation: he 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 the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

18 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 ftrodden down by it.

19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexa1 Or. when he tion only || to understand the report.

shall make

you to un derstand doetrine,

2 Sam. 5.20.

1 Chr. 14, 11.

o Josh. 10. 10, 12.

2 Sam. 5. 25.

1 Chr. 14. 16.

p Lam. 3. 33.

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 in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, Phis strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange

act.

22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD qch. 10.22.23. of hosts la consumption, even de

Dan. 9. 27.

Or, the wheat

in the principal place.

and barley in

the appointed

place.

Or, spelt.

+ Heb.

border.

Or, And he bindeth it in such sort as his God doth teach him.

г Ра. 92. 5.

Jer. 32. 19.

termined upon the whole earth. 231 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 the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the

|| rye in their † place?

26 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 beat en out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.

28 Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.

29 This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.

7 The unsatiableness of her enemies. 9 The senselessness, 13 and deep hypoerisy of the Jews. 18 A promise of sanctification to the godly.

to Ariel, to Ariel, city bwhere David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.

2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.

3 And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.

4 And thou shalt be brought 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 & whisper out of the dust. 5 Morcover the multitude of thy dstrangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be fat an instant 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.

Before CHRIST about 712.

10r. O Arid.

that is, the lion of God. a Ex. 43.15,16,

Or. of the

eity.

b2 Sam. 5. 9.

Heb, cut off the heads,

ech. 8. 19. + Heb. peep, or, chirp. deh. 25. 5.

Job 21. 18.

ch. 17. 13.

fch. 30. 13,

gch. 28. 2. & 30.30.

8 k It shall even be as when a hun- kPa, 73:90, gry man dreameth, and, behold, hẹ 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. 9 Stay yourselves, and wonder; || cry ye out, and cry they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. 10 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your frulers, the seers hath he covered.

11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver 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, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.