Israel compared to a vineyard.

apparel; only let us be called by thy name, y to take away our reproach.

2 In that day shall the branch of the Bthy name
LORD be beautiful and glorious, and
the fruit of the earth shall be excellent
and comely for them that are escaped Yor, take
of Israel.

be called
upon us.

thou away.
a Ho. 4. 6.
Lu. 19. 44.

Je. 23.5, 6.
Zec.6.12,13.
glory are

men of
famine.
beauty and
glory.
the escap-
ing of Is-

rael.

ISAIAH, VI.
B. C. 760.

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 the living in Jerusalem:

4 When the Lord shall haved 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.

5 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place 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 a μ defence.

6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a
shadow in the daytime from the heat, and
for a place of refuge, and for a covert
from storm and from rain.
CHAPTER V.

Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a
song of my beloved touching his vine-2.3.3,
yard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard
in a very fruitful hill:

chap.

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 bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?

5 And now, go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be x trodden down:

12 And the harp and the viol, the tabret and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.

C

chap. 60.21.

He. 12. 14.

e or, to life,
Re. 21. 27.

d Zec. 13. 1.

K the God the

holy, or, the
holy God.
e Zec. 2. 5.
λor, above.

covering.

v say con-
cerning
evil, it is
good.
Lu.20.9,&c.

π the horn

of the son
of oil.
por, made a
wall about

6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned nor digged: but there shall come up briers and 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; for righteousness, but behold a cry.

8 Woe unto them that join? house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! n

9 In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, "Of a truth, many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.

11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!

it.

i Pr. 26. 12.
before
their face.
J Je. 2. 21.

19 That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!

4.

20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

21 Woe unto them that are wise in their Owni eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:

23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

Thewed.
tongue of
fire.
Mat. 3. 12.
'Ps.80.12,13.
x.for a
treading.
m Hab. 3. 6.
or, as dung.
"Le.26.14,&c
B plant of
his plea-

sures.

a scab.
• Joel 2.3..11.
p Mi. 2. 2.

Denunciations against sin.

13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge; and their honourable men famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

are

14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:

16 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God, that is holy, shall be sanctified in righteousness.

or, distress. A or, when it is light, it shall be dark in the destruc

17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:

tions

thereof.
Ps. 28. 5.
t2 Ki. 15. 7.

433

24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as 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:

Sye.

27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their or, this is in loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:

mine ears.

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 m tremble, and their carcases were torn v in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

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:

if not.
28 Whose arrows are sharp, and all
Hag.1.9..11 their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall
or, pursue be counted like flint, and their wheels
like a whirlwind:

them.

r Am. 6. 5, 6.

29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall 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 like the roaring of the sea; and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof. CHAPTER VI.

IN the yeart that king Uzziah died, I

Isaiah's heavenly vision.

saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.

2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.

3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; Sthe whole earth is full of his glory.

4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

ISAIAH, VII.

B. C. 758.

V

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;

W

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.

5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am un-n done; because I am 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.

a 1 Ki. 22. 19.

the skirts
thereof.

Eze. 1. 11.

13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them when they cast their leaves, so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.

y from a.

CHAPTER VII.

AND it came to pass in the days_of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.

& this cried

to this.

are not
stable.
K And the
LORD
added to
speak.
cut off.
cZec. 3.1..7.
d ch. 38.7,22.

μor, make
thy peti-
tion deep.
v and in his
hand a
live coal.
e Re. 8. 3.

π caused it
to touch.

Lu.1.31..35.
Mat. 1. 23.
por, thou,
O Virgin,
shalt.
Behold me.
rin hearing,
or, without
ceasing.
pin seeing.
X desolate

with deso-
lation.

19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.

h2 Ki. 25. 21.

i Je. 16. 16.
for, when
it is return-
ed, and
hath been
browsed.
Bor, stock,
or, stem.

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 of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.

21 And it shall come to pass, in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow and two sheep:

y commend

able trees.

22 And it shall come to pass for the 2 Ki. 16. 5. abundance of milk that they shall give that he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.

&resteth on.
in the
midst of.
i.e. the
remnant
shall
return,
chap. 10.21.
or, cause-

3 Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduite of the upper pool, in the highway of the fuller's field;

way. Klet not thy heart be 4 And say unto him, Take heed, and be tender. quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted A or, waken. for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin within making speed to the Syria, and of the son of Remaliah. spoil, he hasteneth the prey,

5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,

6 Let us go up against Judah, and Avex it, and let us make a breach therein for

or, make speed, &c.

2 And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim and his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.

Chis glory is
the fulness
of the
whole
earth.
thresholds.
0 or, Do ye
not be-

Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

σ

9 And he said, Go and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.

11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wastedo without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be x utterly desolate,

12 And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

The promise of Immanuel. us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal:

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, y that it be not a people.

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.

10 Moreover, the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,

11 Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God: "ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.

12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.

13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?

14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign: Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

lieve? it is
because ye

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 evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest 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.

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:

23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.

24 With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.

25 And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.

CHAPTER VIII.

MOREOVER the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning "Mahershalal-hash-baz.

2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses

Importance of the Scriptures.

to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.

3 And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz:

4 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the Yriches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.

5 The LORD spake also unto me again,
saying,
6 Forasmuch as this people refuseth the
waters of Shiloah that go softly, and re-
joice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;

chap. 17.3.
2 Ki. 15. 29.

16. 9.
Sor, popu-
lous.

7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the a Mat. 4. 15, river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:

16.
e Ne. 3. 15.
John 9. 7.

Sor, to him.
fch.7.16, 17.

ISAIAH, IX.
Government of the Messiah.
ness of anguish; and they shall be driven
to darkness.
CHAPTER IX.

B. C. 742.

NEVERTHELESS, the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee & of the nations.

a 2 Ki. 16. 10. B approach

ed.

6 chap. 7. 16. yor, he that is before the king of Assyria shall take

2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and Snot increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the days of Midian.

8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over; he shall reach even to the neck: and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.

5 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.

6 For unto us a child is born, unto us

9 Associate yourselves, O ye people, and Ju. 7.21, &c. a son is given, and the government shall

0

or, when the whole.

ye shall be broken' in pieces: and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.

be upon his shoulder; and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God," The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace."

10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God? is with us.

7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice, from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.

9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,

10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

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 behold trouble and darkness, dim

с

away the
riches.

nor, when
thou
brakest.

kfulness of

the breadth
of thy land
shall be the
stretchings
out of his
wings.
or, and it

was.

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,

12 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.

13 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; t but for a stone of stumbling," and for a rock of offence, to both the houses of Israel; for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

V

15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

p mingle.
whole.

17 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

w Re. 5. 1, 5.
* Pr. 8. 8, 9.
Mat. 13. 11.
chap.50.10.

18 Behold, I, and the children whom the LORD hath given me, are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.

a

54.8.

* Hab. 2. 3.
a He. 2. 13.

19 And when they shall say unto you, Tor, they
Seek unto them that have familiar spirits,
and unto wizards that peep and that
mutter; should not a people seek unto
their God? for the living to the dead?

that call them blessed. por, called blessed.

xswallowed

h ch.36.1, &c.
meat.

i Lu. 2. 11.

Mat. 28. 18.
vor, yet.
m He. 1.8.
chap. 37.36.

n Ep. 2. 14.
o Da. 2. 44.
1 Co. 15.25.
P Ps. 46. 1, 7.
in strength
of.

? Pr. 1. 15.

1Pe.3.14,15

8 Lu. 12. 5.

t Eze. 11. 16. u 1 Pe. 2. 8.

Mat. 13. 57.

up.

Lu. 16. 29.
John 5. 39.
morning.
Bor, villany.
Pr. 19. 3.
d Mal. 4. 1.
Re. 16. 11.

11 Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and P join his enemies together:

12 The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

13 For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.

14 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.

15 The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

T

16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are x destroyed.

17 Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh ẞ folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

18 For wickedness burnethd as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest: and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

a Ps. 106. 15. b Ac. 2. 20.

meat.
Mi. 7. 2, 6.
d He. 12. 29.
cut.

Le. 26. 26.

CHAPTER X.

WOE unto them that decree unright-number.
eous decrees, and that write grievous-
ness which they have prescribed;

2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

Je. 19. 9.

fchap.37.36.
8 from the

soul and
even to

the flesh.

nor, to the
writers
that.

2 Ch. 28. 20. Ho. 14. 3.

* chap. 6. 13. 65.8,9 Job 31. 14.

Ho. 9.7. Re. 6. 17. m Ro.9.27,28.

82 Ki. 19. 35. t chap.37.26. u Mi. 4. 12.

v Ju. 7. 25.
σremove.

2 Ki. 18.33. 19. 12, 13. * Am. 6. 2.

v2 Ch. 35. 20.

#2 Ki. 16. 9.
a Da. 9. 24.

Je. 31. 15.

T cry shrill
with.

visit upon.
Je. 50. 18.
X greatness
of the
heart.

Ps. 18. 27.
or, many
people.
B mightily.
e chap. 53. 2.
Ac. 13. 23.
Re. 22. 16.

Zec. 6. 12.
yor, a rod
should

shake them.
Mat. 3. 16.

John 3. 34. il Co. 1. 30. or, that

8

which is