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the children of the married wife, saith the LORD. Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes for thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited. Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed; neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more. For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called. For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God. For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer. For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee. For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee. O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones. And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children. In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee. Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake. Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth

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the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy. No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD; and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord, liv. For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth. 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. Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married. 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. I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence, and give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth. The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the 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: 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. 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. Behold, the LonD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of

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the LORD and thou shalt be called, manner thereof. And out of them Sought out, A city not forsaken, shall proceed thanksgiving and the lxii. Alas! for that day is great, so voice of them that make merry: and that none is like it: it is even the time I will multiply them, and they shall of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be not be few; I will also glorify them, saved out of it. For it shall come to and they shall not be small. Their pass in that day, saith the LORD of children also shall be as aforetime, hosts, that I will break his yoke from and their congregation shall be estaoff thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, blished before me, and I will punish and strangers shall no more serve all that oppress them. And their themselves of him but they shall nobles shall be of themselves, and serve the LORD their God, and David their governor shall proceed from the their king, whom I will raise up unto midst of them; and I will cause him them. Therefore fear thou not, O my to draw near, and he shall approach servant Jacob, saith the LORD; nei- unto me: for who is this that engaged ther be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, his heart to approach unto me? saith I will save thee from afar, and thy the LORD. And ye shall be my peoseed from the land of their captivity; ple, and I will be your God, Jer. and Jacob shall return, and shall be xxx. 7-22. At the same time, in rest, and be quiet, and none shall saith the LORD, will I be the God make him afraid. For I am with thee, of all the families of Israel, and saith the LORD, to save thee: though they shall be my people. Thus saith I make a full end of all nations whi- the LORD, The people which were left ther I have scattered thee, yet will I of the sword found grace in the wilnot make a full end of thee: but I derness; even Israel, when I went to will correct thee in measure, and will cause him to rest. The LORD hath not leave thee altogether unpunished. appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise I have loved thee with an everlasting is incurable, and thy wound is griev-love: therefore with lovingkindness ous. There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines. All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased. Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased I have done these things unto thee. Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey. For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after. Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the

have I drawn thee. Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry. Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things. For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God. For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O LORD, save thy people, the remnant of Israel. Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither. They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a Father to Israel, and

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Ephraim is my first-born. Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock. For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he. Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock, and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all. Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD, xxxi. 1-14. How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man. Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless thee, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness. And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks. For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul, 22-25. Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah. In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land. In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness, xxxiii. 14-16. Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they

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have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them. Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them, 24-26. But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid. Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD; for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished, xlvi. 27, 28. In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the LORD, Ezek. xxix. 21. Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle. And I will set up one Shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; the LORD have spoken it. And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods. And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season: there shall be showers of blessing. And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the band of those that served themselves of them. And they shall no

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more be a prey to the heathen, nei- | The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, ther shall the beast of the land de- and utter his voice from Jerusalem; your them: but they shall dwell safely, and the heavens and the earth shall and none shall make them afraid. shake: but the LORD will be the hope And I will raise up for them a Plant of his people, and the strength of the of renown, and they shall be no more children of Israel. So shall ye know consumed with hunger in the land, that I am the LORD your God dwellneither bear the shame of the heathen ing in Zion, my holy mountain: then any more. Thus shall they know that shall Jerusalem be holy, and there I the LORD their God am with them, shall no strangers pass through her and that they, even the house of Israel, any more. And it shall come to pass are my people, saith the Lord GOD. in that day, that the mountains shall And ye my flock, the flock of my pas- drop down new wine, and the hills ture, are men, and I am your God, shall flow with milk, and all the saith the Lord God, xxxiv. 22- rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, 31. And say unto them, Thus saith and a fountain shall come forth of the the Lord GoD, Behold, I will take house of the LORD, and shall water the children of Israel from among the the valley of Shittim. Egypt shall heathen, whither they be gone, and be a desolation, and Edom shall be a will gather them on every side, and desolate wilderness, for the violence bring them into their own land: and against the children of Judah, because I will make them one nation in the they have shed innocent blood in their land upon the mountains of Israel; land. But Judah shall dwell for ever, and one king shall be king to them and Jerusalem from generation to geall: and they shall be no more two neration. For I will cleanse their nations, neither shall they be divided blood that I have not cleansed: for into two kingdoms any more at all: the LORD dwelleth in Zion, Joel iii. Neither shall they defile themselves 16-21. But upon mount Zion shall any more with their idols, nor with be deliverance, and there shall be hotheir detestable things, nor with any liness; and the house of Jacob shall of their transgressions: but I will possess their possessions, Obad. 17. save them out of all their dwelling. I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all places wherein they have sinned, and of thee; I will surely gather the remwill cleanse them: so shall they be nant of Israel; I will put them togemy people, and I will be their God. ther as the sheep of Bozrah, as the And David my servant shall be king flock in the midst of their fold: they over them: and they all shall have one shall make great noise by reason of shepherd and they shall also walk the multitude of men. The breaker in my judgments, and observe my is come up before them: they have statutes, and do them. And they shall broken up, and have passed through dwell in the land that I have given the gate, and are gone out by it; and unto Jacob my servant, wherein your their King shall pass before them, fathers have dwelt; and they shall and the LORD on the head of them. dwell therein, even they and their Mic. ii. 12, 13. Sing, O daughter of children, and their children's chil- Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and dren, for ever; and my servant David rejoice with all the heart, O daughter shall be their prince for ever. More- of Jerusalem. The LORD hath taken over, I will make a covenant of peace away thy judgments, he hath cast out with them; it shall be an everlasting thine enemy: the king of Israel, even covenant with them and I will place the LORD, is in the midst of thee: them, and multiply them, and will set thou shalt not see evil any more. In my sanctuary in the midst of them for that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, evermore. My tabernacle also shall Fear thou not; and to Zion, Let not be with them; yea, I will be their thine hands be slack. The LORD thy God, and they shall be my people. God in the midst of thee is mighty; And the heathen shall know that I he will save, he will rejoice over thee the LORD do sanctify Israel, when with joy; he will rest in his love; he my sanctuary shall be in the midst will joy over thee with singing. I will of them for evermore, xxxvii. 21-28. gather them that are sorrowful for the VOL. II. C

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(Καθῶς ἐλάλησε πρὸς τοὺς πατέρας ἡμῶν, τῷ ̓Αβραὰμ, καὶ τῷ σπέρματι αὐτοῦ, εἰς rov alva.

aAs he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.

a See on Matt. i. ver. 1. clause 3. VER. 56.

Εμεινε δὲ Μαριὰμ σὺν αὐτῇ ὡσεὶ μῆνας τρεῖς· καὶ ὑπέστρεψεν εἰς τὸν οἶκον αὐτῆς.

And Mary abode with her about three months, and returned to her own house.

VER. 57.

Τῇ δὲ Ἐλισάβετ ἐπλήσθη ὁ χρόνος τοῦ τεκεῖν αὐτήν· καὶ ἐγέννησεν υἱόν.

she should be delivered; and she brought Now Elisabeth's full time came that forth a son.

VER. 58.

Καὶ ἤκουσαν οἱ περίοικοι καὶ οἱ συγγενεῖς αὐτῆς, ὅτι ἐμεγάλυνε Κύριος τὸ ἔλεος αὑτοῦ μετ ̓ αὐτῆς· καὶ συνέχαιρον αὐτῇ.

And her neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord had shewed great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her. VER. 59.

solemn assembly who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden. Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee; and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame. At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you : for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith the LORD, Zeph. iii. 1420. Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing? Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the Lonp, and work: for I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts: According to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my Spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not. For thus saith the LORD of hosts, Yet once, it Καὶ ἐγένετο, ἐν τῇ ὀγδόη ἡμέρᾳ ἦλθον πε is a little while, and I will shake the ςιτεμεῖν τὸ παιδίον, καὶ ἐκάλουν αὐτὸ ἐπὶ heavens, and the earth, and the sea, τῷ ὀνόματι τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ, Ζαχαρίαν. And it came to pass, that a on the and the dry land; and I will shake all nations, and the Desire of all na-eighth day they came to circumcise the tions shall come and I will fill this child; and they called him Zacharias, house with glory, saith the LORD of after the name of his father. hosts. The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts. The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts, saith the LORD of hosts, My cities Hag. ii. 3-9. Cry yet, saying, Thus through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem, Zech. iv. 17. And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man, whose name is The BRANCH: and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD: Even he shall build the temple of the

LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne and the counsel of peace shall be between them both, vi. 12, 13.

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a And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb, Luke ii. 21. And he that is eight days he that is born in the house, or bought old shall be circumcised among you, every man-child in your generations; with money of any stranger, which is

not of thy seed, Gen. xvii. 12. and Lev. xii. 3.

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Καὶ ἀποκριθεῖσα ἡ μήτηρ αὐτοῦ, εἶπεν· Οὐχί· ἀλλὰ κληθήσεται Ἰωάννης.

And his mother answered and said, Not so; but he shall be called John.

a But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John, ver. 13.

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Καὶ εἶπον πρὸς αὐτήν· Ὅτι οὐδείς ἐστιν

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