A.C. 710 go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth. to 699. x Hos. i. 10. 1 Pet. ii. 10. 2 And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name. : 3 Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. 4 * Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate but thou shalt be That is, My called Hephzi-bah, and thy land + Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married. delight is in her. + That is, the joy of the bridegroom. Or, ye that 5¶ For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee. 6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: § ye that LORD's re- make mention of the LORD, keep not silence. are the membrancers. || Heb. silence. 7 And give him no ||rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth. give, &c. 8 The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the *Heb. I arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured: Matt. xxi. 5. 9 But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness. y 10 ¶ Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people. 11 Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of Zech. ix. 9. the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy John xii. 15. salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his +Or, recomwork before him. a ch. xl. 10. pence. 12 And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken. ISAIAH LXIII. 1 Christ sheweth who he is, 2 what his victory over his enemies, 7 and what his mercy toward his church. 10 In his just wrath he remembereth his free mercy, 15 The church in their prayer, 17 and complaint, profess their faith. 1 Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed gar+ Heb. decked. ments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save. 2 Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy gar- A.C.710 ments like him that treadeth in the winefat? 3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my rai ment. C to 699. Rev. xix. 13. 4 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the ech. xxxiv. 8. year of my redeemed is come. 5 d And I looked, and there was none to help; and I won- d ch. lix. 46. dered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me. 6 And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth. 7 I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses. 8 For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour. 9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he re- e Deut. vii. 7, deemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old. 8. Ex. xv. 24. Num. xiv. 11, 10 ¶ But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought Ps. xxviii, 56. against them. 11 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of 8 the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him? * & xcv. 9. Ex. xiv. 30. herds, as Ps. 12 That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, "dividing the water before them, to make him- h Ex. xiv. 21. self an everlasting name? 13 That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble? 14 As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name. Josh. iii. 16. 15. 15 Look down from heaven, and behold from the ha-1 Deut. xxvi. bitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal titude. and thy strength, † the sounding of thy bowels and of thy +Or, the mulmercies toward me? are they restrained? A. C. 710 to 699. 16 Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from deemer from everlasting. * Or, our re everlasting is thy name. 17 O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance. 18 The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary. 19 We are thine; thou never barest rule over them; was not called they were not called by thy name. +Or, thy name upon them. + Heb. the fire of meltings. k Ps. xxxi. 19. 1 Cor. ii. 9. ◊ Or, seen a God beside thee, which doeth so for him, gc. ISAIAH LXIV. 1 The church prayeth for the illustration of God's power. 5 Celebrating God's mercy, it maketh confession of their natural corruptions. 9 It complaineth of their affliction. 1 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, 2 As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence! 3 When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence. 4 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye § seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him. 5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved. 6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righte1 Ps. xc. 5, 6. ousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do 'fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. 7 And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid Heb. melted. thy face from us, and hast || consumed us, because of our hand: as Job iniquities. Heb, by the viii. 4. m Ps. lxxix. 8. 8 But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand. m 9¶ Be not " wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all A. C. 710 thy people. 10 Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. 11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste. 12 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore? 1 The calling of the Gentiles. 2 The Jews, for their incredulity, idolatry, and hypocrisy, are rejected. 8 A remnant shall be saved. 11 Judgments on the wicked, and blessings on the godly. 17 The blessed state of the new Jerusalem. to 699. 25, 26. & x. 20. 1 I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am n Rom. ix. 24, found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name. 2 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts; Eph. ii. 12, 13. 3 A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense * upon Heb. upon altars of brick; bricks. 4 Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and + broth of abominable + Or, pieces. things is in their vessels ; 5 Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my ‡ nose, a ‡ Or, anger. fire that burneth all the day. 6 Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but wifi recompense, even recompense into their bosom, 7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom. 8 Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing in it so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all. 9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there. 10 And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me. A.C. 710 to 699. * Or, Gad. + Or, Meni. * 11 But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that † number. 12 Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye o Prov. i. 24, shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not. &c. ch. lxvi. 4. Jer. vii. 13. mg. 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GoD, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed: 14 Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for + vexation of spirit. Heb. break. ye p ch. lxvi. 22. 15 And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen for the Lord GoD shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name: : 16 That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes. 17 For, behold, I create Pnew heavens and a new earth and the former shall not be remembered, nor § come upon the heart. into mind. 2 Pet. iii. 13. Rev. xxi. I. Heb. come 18 But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. 19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people : Rev. xxi. 4. and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying. 20 There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed. 21 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. 22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the Heb. shall days of my people, and mine elect || shall long enjoy the continue long, work of their hands. make them or, shall wear out. I Ps. xxxii. 5. 23 They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them. 24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear. |