tage shall fail, the gathering shall not come. 11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip ye, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins. 12 They shall lament for the breasts, for 7 the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. 527 9 The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and 3 hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits. fields of de- now will I be exalted; now will I lift up 13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; s also, upon 8 or, burnall the houses of joy in the joyous city: 14 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks; ing upon, &c. and watch 9 or, clifts towers. 15 Until the spirit shall be poured upon us from on high, and a the wilderness shall be a fruitful field, and the fruitful a c. 29. 17. field shall be counted for a forest. 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; 19 When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; 10 and the city shall be low in a low place. 20 Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass. CHAP. XXXIII. 10 or, and shall be the city utterly abased. 1 Heb.salva- 3 2 or, messen- 1 God's judgments against the enemies of the 4 Heb. in 11 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall 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 they be burned in the fire. have done; and ye that are near, ac13 ¶ Ye that are far off, hear what I knowledge 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? 15 He that walketh 4. righteously, and speaketh 5 uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of 6 oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of 7 blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil; 16 He shall dwell on 8 high: his place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure. 17 Thy eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold 9 the land that is very far off. 18 Thy heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the 10 receiver? where is he that counted the towers ? or, wither a people of deeper speech than thou canst 20 LORD, be gracious to us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble. nesses. es. 6 or, deceits. 8 Heb. 3 At the noise of the tumult the peo-high places ple fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered. 4 And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them. Heb. the distances. land of far b 1 Cor. 1.20. 5 The LORD is exalted; for he dwell-lous. eth 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 1 salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure. 7 Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the 2 embassadors of peace shall weep bitterly. 8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man. 13 Heb. stat ute-maker. 14 or, They have forsa. tacklings. saken thy fullness of 1 Heb. the it. 21 But there the glorious LORD will be to us a place 12 of broad rivers and with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass streams; in which shall go no galley through it. LORD is our 13 lawgiver, the LORD is our 22 For the LORD is our judge, the king; he will save us. 23 14 Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey. I am sick: the people that dwell therein HOME near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is in it; the world, and all things that spring from it. 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 their ill smell shall come up from their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood. 4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll and all their hosts shall fall down, as the leaf falleth from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig-tree. 5 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. 2 Before CHRIST, 713. a Rev. 6. 14. CHAP. XXXV. 1 The joyful flourishing of Christ's kingdom. 3 The weak are encouraged by the virtues and privileges of the gospel. HE wilderness and the solitary place T shall be glad for them; and the des Rev. 6. 13. ert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose. 2 It shall blossom abundantly, and reor, rhino-joice, even with joy and singing: the gloceros. ry of Lebanon shall be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellence of our God. c c. 63. 4. 6 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and 3or, pelican. with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the 4 or, ostrich. LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a es. great slaughter in the land of Edom. 7 And the 2 unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be drenched with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. 8 For it is the day of the LORD's evengeance, and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion. 9 And its streams shall be turned into pitch, and its dust into brimstone, and its land shall become burning pitch. 10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke of it shall ascend for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever. 11 T But the 3 cormorant and the bit. tern 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 her nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing. 13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in her fortresses, and it shall be a habitation of dragons, and a court for 45 owls. 146 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with 7 the wild beasts of the isle, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the's screech-owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest. 15 There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vulturs also be gathered, every one with her mate. 16 Seek ye out of the book of the 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. 5 Heb. daughters of the owl. 6 Heb. Ziim. 7 Heb. Ijim. 8 or, night. monster. Hebr.12.12. Heb, hasty. Mat. 9. 27, &c. & 11. 5. 20.30, &c. & & 12. 22. & 21. 14. John 9. 6. 7. Mat. 11. 5. Mark 7. 32, &c. Mat.11.5. & 15. 30. & 21. 14. John 5. 8. 9. Acts 3. 2, &c. & 8.7, & 14. 8. &c. Mat.9.32.33. & 15.30. John 7. 38. 39. or, a court for reeds, &c. or, for he shail be with them. g c. 51. 11. a 2 Kings 18. 13. 2 Chr. 32. 1. 17 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it to them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from 1 or, secreta. generation to generation shall they dwellry. therein. 3 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. 4 Say to them that are of a 1 fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense; he will come and save you. 5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. 6 Then shall the a lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb`shall sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. 7 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be 2 grass with reeds and rushes. 8 And a highway shall be there, and a way, and and it shall be called, The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; 3 but it shall be for those: the way-faring men, though fools, shall not err therein. 9 No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there: 10 And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with heads: they shall obtain joy and gladsongs and everlasting joy upon their ness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. 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. a TOW it came to pass in the four Nteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them. 2 And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem against 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 to him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, who was over the house, and Shebna the 1 scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder. 4 And Rabshakeh said to them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this in which thou trustest? 5 I say, sayest thou (but they are but 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 5 or, AraEgypt for chariots and for horsemen ? 10 And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it. 6 mean. or, Seek my favor by a pres ent. ND it came to pass, when king Hezekiah 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 household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. 11 Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah to Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the 5 Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jew's language, in the 7 Heb. Make Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, ears of the people that are on the wall. 12 T 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 devour their vilest excretions with you? 13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jew's language, with me a 3 And they said to him, Thus saith and of rebuke, and of 1 blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth. 4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer and said, Hear ye the words of the great 2 Kings 19. for the remnant that is 2 left." king, the king of Assyria. 14 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he will not be able to deliver you. 15 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, the LORD will surely 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, 6 7 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; 1, &c. 1 or, provo- 2 Heb. 17 Until I come and take you away to found. 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 Arpad? where are the gods of Sephar-3 or, put a vaim? and have they delivered Samaria spirit into out of my hand? 20 Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their him. 5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. 6 And Isaiah said to them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. 7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumor, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land. 8¶ So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish. 9 And he heard it said concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, 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? 15 And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD, saying, Before CHRIST, 710. 4 Heb.lands. 5 Heb. given. 6 Heb. By the hand of thy ser vants. tallness of its cedars, choice of its 7 Heb. the and the fir-trees. or, the forest and his fruitful field. 16 O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubim, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the king-sor, fenced doms of the earth: thou hast made hea- and closed. ven and earth. 10 or, Hast thou not heard how I have 17 Incline thy ear, O LORD, and hear; open thy eyes, O LORD, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, who hath sent to reproach the living God. 18 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries, 19 And have 5 cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them. made it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? should I now bring it to be laid waste, and fortified ci ties to be ruinous 20 Now therefore, O LORD our God, heaps? save us from his hand, that all the king-11 Heb. short doms of the earth may know that thou of hand. art the LORD, even thou only. 21 ¶ Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king 12 or, sit. of Assyria: 22 This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and derided thee; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee. 23 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed; and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted thy eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel. ting. 13 Heb. the escaping of the house of Judah that remaineth. 14 Heb. the escaping. 62 Kings 19. 31. c. 9. 7. 246 By thy servants hast thou reproached the LORD, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots have I come up to the hight of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down 6. 7its tall cedars, and its choice fir-trees: and I will enter into the hight of its bor-42 Kings 19. der, and 8 the forest of its Carmel. 35. 28 But I know thy 12 abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me. 29 Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, 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 to 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 of them. 31 And 13 the remnant that hath 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 14 they that escape from mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this. 33 Therefore thus saith the LORD con cerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a mound against it. 34 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD. 35 For I will defend this city, to save it for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake. the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus saith the LORD, 1 Set thy house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live. 2 Then Hezekiah turned his face towards the wall, and prayed to the LORD, 3 And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept 2 bitterly. 4 T Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying, 5 Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith 6 And I will deliver thee and this citygrees by, or, from the hand of the king of Assyria: with the and I will defend this city. 7 And this shall be a sign to thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken; sun. 4 or, from ah because of the wonder, hath notice of his treasures. 3 Isaiah informed of this, foretelleth the Babylonian captivity. Ta that time Merodach-baladan, A sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, for he had heard that he had been sick, and had recovered. 2 And Hezekiah was glad of them, and showed them the house of his 1 pre 8 Behold, I will bring again the sha- the thrum.cious things, the silver, and the gold, and dow of the degrees, which hath gone down on the 3 sun-dial of Ahaz ten degrees backward. So the sun returned 5 or,ease me. ten degrees, by which degrees it had gone down. 9 The writing of Hezekiah king of 6 or, words Judah, when he had been sick, and had of thine. recovered from his sickness : 10 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am 7 or, on my deprived of the residue of my years. Il I said, I shall not see the LORD, EVEN the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. 12 My age hath departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off 4 with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. 13 I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. peace came 8 Heb. thou a hast loved my soul from the pit. the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his 2 3 armor, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah did not show them. 3 Then came Isaiah the prophet to king Hezekiah, and said to him, What said these men? and from whence came they to thee? and Hezekiah said, They have come to me from a far country, even from Babylon. 4 Then said he, What have they seen in thy house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in my house have they seen there is nothing among my treasures that I have not showed them. 5 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD of hosts: 6 Behold, the days come, that all that. is in thy house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD. 7 And of thy sons that shall issue from 14 Like a crane or a swallow, so 12 Kings 20. thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they chattered: I mourned as a dove: my eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; 5 undertake for me. 15 What shall I say? he hath both spoken to me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul. 12, &c. take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. 8 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good 1 or, spicery. is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my days. 2 or, jewels. 16 O LORD, by these 6 things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit so wilt thou recover me, and 3 Heb. vesmake me to live. 17 Behold, 7 for peace I had great bitterness: but & thon hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy *back. 18 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that 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 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. sels, or, in- Heb. to the heart. 2 or, ap time. Matt. 3. 3. Mark 1. 3. John 1. 23. 3 or, a straight place. MOMFORT ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. 2 Speak ye 1 comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry to her, that her 2 warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received from the LORD's hand double for all her sins. 3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. 4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places 4 plain. |