and fears fhall be in the way and the almond-tree fhall flourish, and the grafhopper fhall be a burden, and defire fhall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the ftreets:

6 Or ever the filver cord be loofed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.

7 Then fhall the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit fhall retura unto God who gave it.

8 Vanity of vanities, faith the Preacher: all is vanity.

9 And moreover, because the Preacher was wife, he ftill taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and fought out, and fet in order many proverbs.

3. In the day when the keepers of the houfe fhall tremble, and the ftrong men fhall bow themselves, and the 10. The Preacher fought grinders cease because they to find out acceptable words: are few, and those that look and that which was written out of the windows be dark-was upright, even words of ened, truth.

4 And the doors fhall be fhut in the ftreets, when the found of the grinding is low, and he fhall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of mufick fhall be brought low:

5 Alfo when they fhall be afraid of that which is high,

11 The words of the wife are as goads, and as nails faftened by the masters of affemblies, which are given from one shepherd.

12 And further, by these, my fon, be admonished: of making many books there is no end, and much study is a

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weariness of the flesh.

13 ¶ Let us hear the conclufion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

14 For God fhall bring every work into judgment, with every fecret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

From the Book of the Prophet ISAIAH.

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CHAP. I. HE vifion of Ifaiah the fon of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerufalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath fpoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

whole head is fick, and the whole heart faint.

6 From the fole of the foot even unto the head, there is no foundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying fores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

7 Your country is defolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, ftrangers devour it in your prefence, and it is defolate as overthrown by ftrangers..

3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the afs his mafter's crib but Ifrael doth not 8 And the daughter of know, my people doth not Zion is left as a cottage in confider. a vineyard, as a lodge in a 4 Ah finful nation, a peo-garden of cucumbers, as a ple laden with iniquity, a befieged city. feed of evil doers, children that are corrupters, they have forfaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Ifrael unto anger, they are gone away backward.

5 ¶ Why fhould ye be tricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the

9 Except the Lord of hofts had left unto us a very smail remnant, we fhould have been as Sodom, and we fhould have been like unto

Gomorrah.

10 Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our Ee

God,

rah.

God, ye people of Gomor- 18 Come now, and let us reason together, faith the 11 To what purpofe is the Lord: though your fins be multitude of your facrifices as scarlet, they fhall be as unto me? faith the Lord: I white as fnow; though they am full of the burnt-offer-be red like crimson, they ings of rams, and the fat of fhall be as wool. fed beafts, and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats.

12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand to tread my courts?

19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye fhall eat the good of the land:

20 But if ye refufe and rebel, ye fhall be devoured with the fword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

21 How is the faithful city become an harlot ! it was full of judgment, righteous

13 Bring no more vain oblations, incense is an abomination unto me, the newmoons and fabbaths, the calling of affemblies I cannot nefs lodged in it; but now away with, it is iniquity, murderers. even the folemn meeting.

14 Your new-moons, and your appointed feafts my foul hateth they are a trouble unto me, I am weary to bear them.

15 And when ye fpread 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 ye, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes, ceafe to do evil;

17 Learn to do well; feek judgment, relieve the oppreffed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

22 Thy filver is become drofs, thy wine mixed with water.

23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherlefs, neither doth the caufe of the widow come unto them.

24 Therefore faith the Lord, the Lord of hofts, the Mighty One of Ifrael, Áh, I will eafe me of mine adverfaries, and avenge me of mine enemies.

25 ¶ And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away the drofs, and

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take away all thy tin. 26 And I will restore thy judges as at the firft, and thy

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hills; and all nations fhall flow unto it.

3 And many people shall counsellors as at the begin- go and fay, Come ye, and ping: afterward thou fhalt let us go up to the mountain be called, The city of righte- of the Lord, to the house of ousness, the faithful city. the God of Jacob, and he 27 Zion fhall be redeem- will teach us of his ways, ed with judgment, and her and we will walk in his paths; converts with righteousness. for out of Zion fhall 28 And the deftruction the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerufalem.

of the tranfgreffors and of the finners fhall be together, and they that forfake the Lord fhall be confumed.

29 For they fhall be afhamed of the oaks which ye have defired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chofen.

30 For ye fhall be as an oak whofe leaf fadeth, and as å garden that hath no water. 31 And the ftrong fhall be as tow, and the maker of it as a fpark, and they fhall both burn together, and none fhall quench them.

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4 And he fhall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they fhall beat their swords into plow-fhares, and their fpears into pruning-hooks: nation fhall not lift up sword against nation, neither fhall they learn war any more.

50 houfe of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.

6 Therefore thou haft forfaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are foothfayers like the Philiftines, and they please themfelves in the children of ftrangers.

7 Their land alfo is full of filver and gold, neither is there any end of their treafures: their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots.

2 And it fhall come to pafs in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's houfe fhall be established in the top of the mountains, and fhall be exalted above the of

8 Their land alfo is full idols: they worship the Ee 2 work

work of their own hands, | Lord alone fhall be exalted that which their own fingers in that day.