The church's graces. CHRIST ISAIAH. CHRIST cir. 1014. Her love to Christ. Before only one of her mother, she is the choice one of hers and the pomegranates bud forth: thore will I give Before cir. 1014 that bare her: the daughters saw her, and blessed thee my loves. her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they 13 The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates praised her. are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, 40. which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved. CHAPTER VIII. fGal. 4, 16. Eph. 5, 16. g1 Pet. 1, 2. b 2 Pet. 1, 19. i Rev. 12, 1. h k 10 Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners? 1 The love of the church to Christ....8 The calling of the Gentiles. 11 I went down into the garden of nuts, to see the OH that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the k Ps. 149,6, fruits of the valley, and to see whether the 'vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded. 2. 8. Isa. 13,3 Joel 3, 11. 12 Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the 1 Ps. 92, 12, chariots of Ammi-nadib. 13. m 13 Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, m Hosea 1, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of " two n Ex. 32, 1. armies. 11. n A further description of the church's graces. c a 12 Cor. 4, els, the work of the hands of a cunning workman: 2 Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor; thy belly is like a heap of wheat set about with lilies: € 1 Cor. 4, 15. 1 Thes. 2, 7. Gal. 4, 19. 3 Thy two breasts are like two young roes that d Isa. 66,11. are twins: e Rom. 6, 6. e 4 Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fish-pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathf Isa. 11, 3. rabbim : thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon, which looketh toward Damascus : 7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can k Mat. 7, 27. the floods drown it: if a man would give all the sub- Rom. 8, 39. stance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned. 8 We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: 1 Eph. 1, 10. what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be "spoken for? m Acts 11, 19, 22, 23. n Rev. 21, 9 If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver and if she be a door, we will enclose her 12, 14, 19. with boards of cedar. o Eph. 2, 22. ↑ Heb. peace, 10. 10 I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found † favour. 11 Solomon had a P vineyard at Eaal-hamon; he Rom. 5, 1. let out the vineyard unto keepers: every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver. 12 My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that Mat. 21, keep the fruit thereof two hundred.' 8 13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it. 14 Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe, or to a young hart, upon t the mountains of spices. ¶ The BOOK of the Prophet ISAIAH. CHAPTER I. Isaiah complaineth of Judah for her rebellion. HE vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he a saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the 2 Pet. 1,21 days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. 1 Pet. 1, i1. Amos 34. e Deut. 7, 6. ch. 5, 1, 2. d Pr. 7, 22. Jer. %, 7. 2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the LORD hath spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the 5 Why should ye be stricken "any more? ye will i k m 6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head 12 Chr. 28 there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. 7 Your country is' desolate, your cities are burned ! Ps. 107, with fire your land, strangers devour it in your pres4 Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity,ence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. 23, 25. Jer:7,26 % a seed of evil-doers, children that are corrupters! 8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a 3 The "ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib but Israel doth not know, my people doth ⚫ not consider. e 34. Isaiah exhorteth Judah to repentance: CHAPTER II. He prophesieth of Christ's kingdom. Before vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a { of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, Beloru besieged city. and none shall quench them. CHRIST cir. 760. Or, watch edor, was Jer. 4, 17. ed, Ezek. 6, 12. 29. n Roni. 9, o.Gen. 19, 24. p Job 34, 18. 9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah. 10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah: c CHAPTER II. CHRIST cir. 760. b Rev. 14, 19. Isaiah prophesieth the coming of Christ's kingdom. TH 10. a 20. Jer. 23, b Rev. 11, 1. c Dan. 2, 14. d Ps. 11, 10, 2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be establish11 To what purpose is the multitude of youred in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; 3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, Ezek. 16,46. and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the eZec. Mat. 23, lambs, or of he-goats. 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. 15 And when ye spread forth your hands I will hide mine eyes from you; yea when ye make many prayers I will not hear: "your hands are full of blood. 16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the c Jer. 4, 14 evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 17 Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the -e Mat 23, oppressed; judge the fatherless; plead for the widow. 18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: Though your sins be as scarlet, they Rev. 1,14 shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. 24 Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, P Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies: 25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin: 26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first, Phil 3,9. and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward x ch. 90, 17, thou shalt be called. The city of righteousness, The faithful city. 6 Therefore thou hast "forsaken thy people, the n Rom. 11, house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the 20. east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers. o Jer. 16, 2. 7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither P. 20. is there any end of their treasures; their land is also Mic. 5, 11. full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots. 8 Their land also is fuil of idols; they worship q Jer. 2, 21. the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made. 7. 19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, e Zech. 13, and 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. f Luke 23, 10 Ps. 75, 3. 102, 13. 1ing. 2, 6. 20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for 21, 22. 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. h Ps. 146, i Job 27, 3. 22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his Jer. 17, 5. nostrils; for wherein is he to be accounted of? x Mat. 21, 33. Rev. 14, 19. y ch. 58, 4. Micah 3, 2, 3. ↑ Heh throats, 13 The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people. t 14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the " princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses. y 15 What mean, ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts. a e c c Luke 1,25. e f Eph. 5, 26. g 2 Pet. 1,4. 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 h ch. 60,21. the living in Jerusalem: k i Rev. 3, 5. 17. 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. k 1 Pet. 4, 5 And the LORD will create upon every dwellingplace of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night for upon all the glory shall be 1a de- 1 Zech. 2,5 fence. m 27. 6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in m Deut. 22, the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, Psal. 34, 5. and for a covert from storm and from " rain. CHAPTER V. a b chap. 25, 4 Heb. 6, 18. n Mat. 7,25. 29. NOW will I sing to my well-beloved a song of a John 3, my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: b Jer. 2, 21 2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bringe Mat. 21, forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. c d 34. 6. 3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men d Deut. 52, of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my ch.1,2,3 vineyard. e 2 Sam. 12, Mic. 6, 3, 5. 4 What could have been done more to my vineyard 6 16 Moreover, the LORD saith, Because the daugh- that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I lookters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched-ed that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth forth † necks and wanton eyes, walking, and min- wild grapes? 1 Pet. 3, 5. cing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: 17 Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts. 5 And now, go to; I will tell you what I will do to 15, 16. my vineyard: I will's take away the hedge thereof, Deut. 52, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall chap. 15, 7 thereof, and it shall be trodden down : Amos 3, 6 h Deut. 28, 58. 6 And I will lay it "waste: it shall not be pruned 49,8 nor digged; but there shall come up briars and i Hos. 4,14 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 Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; k Luke 18, for righteousness, but behold a cry. m 8 Wo unto them that 'join house to house, that lay imic. 2, 2 field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! 9 In mine ears, sand the LORD of hosts, Of a truth, many "houses shall be desolate, even great and fair. without inhabitant. Hab. 2, 12. m Ezek. 11, 15. n ch. 7, 23 Amos 5, 12 & 6.9 God's judgments upon impiety, &c. Before CHRIST cir 700. o Eccl. 10, 16, 17. CHAPTER VI....VII. 10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah. 11 Wo unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue Thes, 5,7. until night, till wine inflame them! p Amos 6, 6. 17, 6. C Isaiah's vision. land, behold darkness and sorrow; and the light is Ν Isaiah's vision of the Lord's glory. a 12 And the harp and the viol, the tabret and pipe, IN the year that king Uzziah * died I saw also the q 2 Kings and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not Psal. 28, 5, the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation Hosea 4,11. of his hands. 18 Wo unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a "cart-rope! 19 That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of b Jer. 9, the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it! e Ps. 14, 1. d Ezek. 12, 13. e Jer. 17,15. fAmos 5,10. e Before CHRIST cir. 758. t ch. 8, 22. u Deut. 32, 2. & 33, 25. 4. Prov. 29, 22 LORD sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, 28am.20, and his train filled the temple. 22, 19. 2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six a2 Kings wings; with twain he covered his "face, and with 15, 2 twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. b1 Kings 3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory. h e 4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was " filled with smoke. c Ps. 101, 4. d Kings 19, 13. e Rev. 4, 8. f Ps. 72, 19. g 5 Then said, I, 'Wo is me! for I am undone; ch.5, 5. because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. 6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the "altar; 7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips, and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. 20 Wo unto them that call evil good, and good 10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make evil; that put darkness for light, and light for dark- their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see ness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and under- 2 Cor. 2, 10. 21 Wo unto them that are wise in their own eyes, stand with their heart, and convert, and be healed. g g Rom. 1, and prudent in their own sight! 11 Then said I, LORD, how long? And he answer22 Wo unto them that are mighty to drink wine, ed, Until the "cities be wasted without inhabitant, h and men of strength to mingle strong drink: and the houses without man, and the land be utterly 24,9. desolate; 23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! 24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and Hosea 9, the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. 25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst 26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations & from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly. 27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle pJoel 2,7,8 of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken: 28 Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind: 29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall Lam. 2, 7. roar like young lions; yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it. 30 And in that day they shall roar against them Ps. 23, 3. like the roaring of the sea; and if one look unto the u 1 Kings x Micah 3, 12. 17. Rev. 12, 2. 12 And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the y2c, land. 13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, z 2 Kings and shall be eaten as a teil-tree, and as an oak, 25, 21. whose substance is in them when they cast their a Mal. 2, 15. leaves, so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof. Rom. 11, 5. CHAPTER VII. 1 Ahaz is comforted by Isaiah....14 Christ promised. AND it came to pass in the days of Abaz the a 2 Kings Christ promised. Before CHRIST cir. 742. i Pr. 1, 10. k Pr. 21, 30. chap. 8, 10. 12, Kings n 2 Kings 16, 5. o 2 Chr. 20, 20. p Judg. 6, 38. 4 Mat. 5, 45. r Mat. 12, 38. 8 Amos 2,13, ISAIAH. Assyria and Israel threatened. 6 Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let 3 And I went unto the prophetess; and she conus make a breach therein for us, and set a king inceived and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, c. 742 the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal : Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz : 7 Thus saith the Lord GOD, it shall, not stand, neither shall it come to pass. 8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within 'threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people. D 9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is " Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established. C 10 Moreover, the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying, 11 Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God: either in the depth, or in the height above. r ask it 12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord. 13 And he said, Hear ye Is it a small thing for you to weary my God also? t now, O house of David; 8 14 Therefore the LORD himself shall give you a Mat. 1, 23. sign: Behold, a Virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shail call his name | Immanuel. That is, With us God, John 1,1, 14. 1 Tim. 2, 5. 15 Butter and honey shall "he eat, that he may * know to refuse the evil, and choose the good: 16 For before the child shall know to refuse the 1 Pet. 5, 15. evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorulleb. 4, 15. rest shall be forsaken of both her kings. 17 The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria. b 18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria: c 19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them c ch. 2, 18, in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, Jer. 16, 16. and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes. 19. d 2 Kings 16, 7. 20 In the same day shall the LORD shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair e Gen. 49, of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard. 21 And it shall come to pass in that day that a fJer. 39, 10. man shall nourish a 'young cow and two sheep: 10. Deut. 28,57. 12. 22 And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give, he shall eat butter: for ch. 6, 11, 8 butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land. 2 Kings 25, 12. 23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every i chap. 5, 6. place shall be, where there were 'a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be forbriers and thorns. 24 With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns. k Ex. 23, 29. Lev. 26, 22. 1 ch. 22, 13. k 7 Now therefore, behold, the LORD bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, Deut. 28, even the 'king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he 47. shall come up over all his channels, and go over all 1 ch. 10 13. his banks: 8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over; he shall reach even to the "neck: m 2 Kings and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the 2 ch.2, a breadth of thy land, O Immanuel. 18, 17. 12. 9" Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be n Joel 3, 9, broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far coun- Rev. 16, 13. tries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. 10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us. 8 11 For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me, that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying, & 19, 17. p Job 5, 12. 9 Acts 5,33. Rom. 8, S1. r Jer. 10, 23. s Gen. 7, 1. 12 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to 2 Kings whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither 16,7. "fear ye their fear, nor be afraid. Χ 13 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. u 1 Pet. 3, 14. x Num. 20, 11. y Ezek. 11, 14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of offence, to both 16. the houses of Israel; for a gin and for a snare to the z ch. 28, 16. inhabitants of Jerusalem. b a Rom. 11, b Mat. 21, 15 And many among them shall stumble and 25. fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken. 16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. C d 44. c John 6, 45. 17 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth & Dan. 12, 4. his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look e Acts 11, for him. h k 26. 18 Behold, I, and the children whom the LORD fch. 54, 8. hath given me, are for signs and for wonders in g Hab. 2,3. Israel, from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in Heb. 2, 13. mount Zion. i John 17, & k 1 Cor. 4, 19 And when they shall say unto you. Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that 13. peep and that mutter; should not a people seek unto 12 Pet. 2,1 their God?" for the living to the dead? m 1 Sam. 20 To the law and to the testimony: if they 28, 8. speak not according to this word, it is because there n Luke 16, is no light in them. r 29. Gal. 1, 28 21 And they shall pass through it hardly bestead and hungry and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward. 22 And they shall look unto the earth; and be- rZeph. 1,5 h2 Kings MOREOVER the LORD said unto me, Take thee hold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness. CHAPTER IX. s 2 Chr. 15, 5. What joy shall be in the midst of afflictions by Christ. TEVERTHELESS, the dimness shall not be a ch. 8, 22. a Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jebere- such as was in her vexation, when at the first he Tim 410 chiah |