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. 27 For the LORD of hosts hath 2 Chr.20.6. purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back? Job 9. 12. & 23. 13. Ps. 33. 11. Prov. 19. 21. & 21. 30. ch. 43. 13. Dan. 4. 31, 35. b2 Kings 16. 20. 726. c2 Chr. 26.6, 2 Or, adder. d 2 Kings 18.8. 28 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden. 29 ¶ Rejoice not thou, whole Pabecause the rod of him that lestina, smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a 2 cockatrice, and 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: 8Or, he shall for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his 'appointed times. not be alone. 4 Or, assem blies. e Ps. 87.1, 5. & 102. 16. f Zeph. 3.12. 32 What shall one then answer the Zech. 11. 11. messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it. CHAPTER XV. 5 Or, betake themselves unto it. HE "burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid 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 ch. 16. 12. Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off. d See Lev. 21. 5. ch. 3. 24. & 22. 12. Jer. 47. 5. & 48. 1, 37, 8. Ezek. 7. 18. Jer. 48.38. 7 Heb. descending into weeping, or, coming down with weeping. f ch. 16. 9. g ch. 16. 11. Jer. 48. 31. 8 Or, to the borders thereof,even to Zoar, as an heifer. h ch. 16. 14. Jer. 48. 34. i Jer. 48. 5. • Heb. breaking. * Num. 32. 36. 3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: "on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly. 4 And Heshbon shall cry, and 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, an heifer of three years old: for 'by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction. 9 for 6 For the waters of Nimrim shall 8 For the cry is gone round about Arabians. the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beer-elim. 9 For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring 'more upon Dimon, 'lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land. CHAPTER XVI. 1 Moab is exhorted to yield obedience to Christ's kingdom. 6 Moab is threatened for her pride. 9 The prophet bewaileth her. 12 The judgment of Moab. 10 And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and fallen upon, 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. • ch. 24. 8. Jer. 48. 33. p ch. 15. 5. & 63. 15. Jer. 48. 36. q ch. 15. 2. 11 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kir-haresh. 12 9 And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on 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, ch. 21. 16. saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and 3feeble. CHAPTER XVII. 3 Or, not many. cir. 741. a Jer. 49. 23. Amos 1.3. Zech. 9. 1. fulfilled 740, 2 Kings 16. 9. b Jer. 7.83. c ch. 7. 16. & 8.4. d ch. 10. 16. e Jer. 51.33. cir. 741. f ch.24. 13. Mic. 7.7. 1 Syria and Israel are threatened. 6 A rem- Israel's enemies. THE HE a burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. 2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid. 3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from 4 And in that day it shall come to Ethiopia threatened. have made, either the groves, or the 9 In that day shall his strong BEFORE CHRIST cir. 741. 2 Or, sun images. 10 Because thou hast forgotten h the God of thy salvation, and hast Ps. 68.19. not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips: Or, re moved in the day of inherit 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. 12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise 'like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rush-Jer. 6. 26. ing like the rushing of 'mighty waters! 5 Or, many. ance, and there shall sorrow. be deadly 4 Or, noise. 13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall P. 9. 5. flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before | Or, thistlethe 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 O the rivers of Ethiopia: 2 That sendeth ambassadors by 5 And it shall be as when the 6 Yet 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 Israel. 3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he blow-ing under eth a trumpet, hear ye. 3 4 For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will 3 consider in my dwelling place like a 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 pruning hooks, foot. rivers despise. The confusion of Egypt. BEFORE CHRIST cir. 714. d Sec Ps. 68. 31. & 72. 10. ch. 16. 1. Zeph. 3. 10. Mal. 1. 11. 2 Or, outspread and polished: See ver. 2. A Jer. 46. 13. Ezek. 29, & 30. b Ps. 18. 10. Ex. 12. 12. & 104. 3. Jer. 43. 12. 3 Heb. mingle. 1 Sam. 14. 16,20. ISAIAH, XIX. 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. 2 7 ¶ In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion. CHAPTER XIX. 1 The confusion of Egypt. 11 The foolishness of their princes. 18 The calling of Egypt to the church. 23 The covenant of Egypt, Assyria, and Israel. HE burden of Egypt. Behold, The Lord brideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it. 2 And I will 3d set the Egyptians d Judg.7.22. against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. 2 Chr. 20. 23. 3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will 'destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards. 6 4 And the Egyptians will I give over f into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts. 58 And the waters shall fail from the and the river shall be wasted sea, and dried up. h 6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither. 7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, 7 and be no more. 8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish. 9 Moreover they that work in 'fine Prov. 7. 16. flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded. 8 Or, white works. 10 And they shall be broken in The calling of Egypt. the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds 3 for fish. 3 BEFORE CHRIST cir. 714. 2 Heb. founda 11 ¶ Surely the princes of k Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become tions. brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh,living I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? 12 1 Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt. 13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof. 4 5 14 The LORD hath mingled na perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit. 15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do. 16 In that day shall Egypt P be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it. 17 And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it. 18 In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction. 8 Heb. of things. k Num. 13. 22. 11 Cor. 1. 20. 21 And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and " shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, Mal. 1.11. they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it. 22 And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them. 3 And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia; 4 So shall the king of Assyria lead the Egyptians prisoners, and away the Ethiopians captives, young and 2 Sam. 10. old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. ch. 3. 17. Jer. 13. 22, 26. Mic. 1. 11. 4 Heb. nakedness. f 2 Kings 18. 21. ch. 30. 3, 5, 7. & 38. 6. 5 Or, country, Jer. 47. 4. a Zech.9.14. Heb.hard. b ch. 33. 1. c ch. 13. 17. Jer. 49. 34. d ch. 15. 5. & 16. 11. e ch. 18.8. e 5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. 6 And the inhabitant of this " isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape? CHAPTER XXI. 1 The prophet, bewailing the captivity of his people, seeth in a vision the fall of Babylon by the Medes and Persians. 11 Edom, scorning the prophet, is moved to repentance. 13 The set time of Arabia's calamity. THE burden of the donthe south HE burden of the desert of the pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land. 9 And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground. 1 6 10 m my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you. n 11 The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? 12 The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come. 13 The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies Pof Dedanim. 7 as a lion. 1 Hab. 2. 1. 5 Or, every night. Rev. 14. 8. & Jer. 51.8. 1 ch. 46. 1. Jer. 50. 2. & 51.44. m Jer. 51.33. 6 Heb. son. 14 The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that or. was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled. 15 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war. ૧ bring ye. & Or, for fear. the face. 9 Heb. from 16 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according ach. 16. 14. the glory of Kedar shall fail: to the years of an hireling, and all r Ps. 120. 5. ch. 60.7. 17 And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of 21eb.bows. the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it. CHAPTER XXII. 1 The prophet lamenteth the invasion of Jewry by the Persians. 8 He reproveth their human wisdom and worldly joy. 15 He prophesieth Shebna's deprivation, 20 and Eliakim, prefiguring the kingdom of Christ, his substitution. The invasion of Jewry. BEFORE CHRIST cir. 712. a ch. 32. 13. 2 Heb. of the bow. b Jer. 4. 19. & 9. 1. THE ISAIAH, XXII. HE burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops? a 2 Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle. 2 3 All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far. 4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; b3 I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people. 5 For it is a day of trouble, and of d Lam. 1.5. treading down, and of perplexity "by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains. 3 Heb. I will be bitter in weeping. c ch. 37. 3. & 2.2. e Jer. 49. 35. f ch. 15. 1. 4 Heb.made naked. 6 Heb. the choice of thy valleys. 6 Or, toward. 6 And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and f Kir uncovered the shield. 7 And it shall come to pass, that 5 thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate. 8 ¶ And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in 1 Kings 7. that day to the armour of the house of the forest. 2. & 10. 17. The miserable 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. BEFORE CHRIST cir. 712. See 2 Sam. 18. 18. 2 Or, O he. Matt.27.60. & Or, the covered thee LORD who with an excellent co vering, and gorgeously, clothed thee shall surely, ver. 18. of a man. t Esth. 7.8. 5 Heb. large of spaces. u 2 Kings 18. 18. 22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall Job 12.14. shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. 23 And I will fasten him as y a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house. Rev. 3. 7. y Ezra 9. 8. 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 Or, 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 that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken it. CHAPTER XXIII. 1 The miserable overthrow of Tyre. 17 Their unhappy return. instruments of viols. cir. 715. THE "burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid Jer. 25.22. waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of tim it is revealed to them. 7 & 47. 4. Ezek. 26, & 27, & 28. Chit-Amos 1.9. Zech. 9. 2,4. b ver. 12. 7 Heb. 2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of silent. Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished. 3 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is amart of nations. • Ezek.27.3. 4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength |