Cbrifts kingdom. Chap. if, iii. 19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: 20 But if ye refufe and rebel, ye shall 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, righteouinefs lodged in it; but now murder ers. 22 Thy filver is become drofs, thy wine mixt with water. 23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves, every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the caufe of the widow come unto them. 24 Therefore faith the LORD, the LORD of hofts, the mighty One of Ifrael, Ah, I will cafe me of mine adverfaries, and avenge me of mine enemies. 25 And I will turn mine hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy drofs, and take away all thy tin. 25 And I will reftore thy judges as at the firft, and thy counfellors as at the beginning afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteoufnefs, the faithful ci ty. 27 Zion fhall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteoul nefs. 28 And the deftruction of the tranfgreffors, and of the finners ball be together, and they that forfake the LORD thall be confumed. 29 For they fhall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have defired, and ye fhall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chofen. 30 For ye shall be as an oak, whofe leaf fadeth, and as a 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. CHAP. II. 1 Ifaiab propbefietb the coming of Chrift's kingdom. 6 Wickedness is the cause of God's forfaking. The word that Ifaiah the son of Amez faw, concerning Judah and Jerufa lem. 2 And it fhall come to pafs in the laft days, that the monotain of the LORD's houfe ihall be eftablished in the top of the mountains, and fhall be exalted above the hills; and all nations fhall flow unto it. 3 And many people fhall go and fay, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the 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 fhall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerufalem. 4. And he fhall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people; and they thall beat their fwords into plow. fhares, and their spears into prunning hooks: nation fhall not lift up (word against nation, neither thall they learn war any more. Sions punishment. O houfe of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD. 61 Therefore thou halt forfakenthy people, the houfe of Jacob, because they be layers like the Philiftines, and they please replenished from the caft, and are fooththemselves in the children of ftrangers. 7 Their land alfo is full of filver and fures: their land is alfo full of horfes, gold, neither is there any end of their trea neither is there any end of their chariots. 8 Their land alfo is full of idols: they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made. 9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself :therefore forgive them not. in the duft, for fear of the LORD, and tor To Enter into the rock, and hide thee the glory of his majelty. 11 The lofty leeks of man fhall be hambled, and the haughtiness of men thall be bowed down, and the LORD alone fhall be exalted in that day. 12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up, and he shall be brought low; 13 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bathan, 14 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the bills that are lifted up, 15 And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall, 16 And upon all the fhips of Tarfhifh, and upon all pleafant pictures. 17 And the loftinels of man fhall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of mea fhall be made low: and the LORD alone fhall be exalted in that day. 18 And the idols he shall utterly abo lifh. 19 And they fhall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth. for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majefty, when he arifeth to shake ter ribly the earth. 20 In that day a man fhall calt his idols of filver, and his idols of gold, which they made, each one for himself to worship, to the moles, and to the bats: 21 To go into the clifts of the rocks, & into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, & for the glory of his majelty, when he arileth to fake terribly the earth. 22 Ceafe ye from man whofe breath f in his noftrils: for wherein is he to be ac counted of? 1 CHA P. III. The great ones confumed for their fin.9The impudence of the people. 12 The oppression and covetousness of the rulers, 16 The judg ment which fball be for the pride of the wo men Judgment threatned. 2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, 3. The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counfeller, and the Gunning artificer, and the eloquent ora tor. 4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes thall rule over them. 5 And the people fhall be oppreffed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child fhall behave himfelf proudly against the antient, and the bafe against the honourable. 6When a man fhall take hold of his brother of the houfe of his father, Jaying Thou halt clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruine be under thy hand : 7-In that day fhall he fware, faying, 1 will not be an healer; for in my house is 22 The changeable faits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crifping-pins, 23 The glaffes, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails. 24 And it fhall come to pafs, that inftead of fweet fmell, there fhall be stink; and instead of a girdle, a rent; and inftead of well fet hair, baldness; and inftead of a ftomacher, a girding of fackcloath, and burning inttead of beanty. 25 Thy men fhall fall by the (word, and thy mighty in the war. 26 And her gates fhall lament and In the extremity of evils, Chrifts kingdom neither bread nor clothing: make me not A hold of one man, faying. We wi a ruler of the people. 8 For Jerufalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory. 911 The fhew of their countenance doth witnefs against them, and they declare their fin as Sodom, they hide it not: we unto their foul, for they have rewarded evil unto themselves. 10 Say ye to the righteous, that it fball be well with bim: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. I Wo unto the wicked, it shall be ill with bim for the reward of his hands thall be given him. 12 As for my people, children are their oppreffors, and women rule over them: O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and deftroy the way of shy paths. 13 The LORD ftandeth up to plead, and tandeth to judge the people. 14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the antients of his people, and the princes thereof; for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the fpoil of the poor is in your boufes. 15 What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the Poor? faith the LORD GOD of holts. 16 Moreover, the LORD faith, Becaufe the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks, and wanton eyes, walking, and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: 17 Therefore the LORD will fmite with 2 fcab the crown of the head of the slaughters of Zion, and the LORD will difcover their fecret parts. 18 In that day the LORD will take a way the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon, 19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the muffiers. 10 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the head-bands, and the tablets, and the ear-rings, The rings, and gofe-ejwels. eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach. 2 In that day thall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are efcaped offrael. 3 And it fhall come to pass, that be that is left in zion, and be that remaineth in Jerufalem, fhall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerufalem: 4 When the LORD fhall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and fhall have purged the blood of Jerufalem from the midit thereof, by the spirit of judgment, and by the fpirit of burning. 5 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling-place of mount Zion, and upon her affemblies a cloud, and fmoke by day, and the fhining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory Shall be a defence. 6 And there fhall be a tabernacle for a fhadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from ftorm and from rain. CHA P. V. I The parable of the vineyard. 8 God's judg ments on covetousness, lafciviousness, 13 impiety, 20 and injuftice. Now will I fing to my well-beloved, a fong of my beloved touching his vineyard: my well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill. 2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the ftones thereof, and planted it with the choiceft_vine, and built a tower in the midft of it, and also made a wine-prefs therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes: 3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerufalem 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 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 fhall be eaten up: and break down the wall thereof, and it fhall be troden down. 6 And I will lay it wafte: it fhall not be pruned, nor digged, but there fhall come up briers and thorns: I will allo command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. 7 For the vineyard of the LORD of holts is the houfe of Ifrael, and the men of Judah his pleafant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppreffion; for righteoutnefs, but behold a cry. 811 Wo unto them that joyn houfe to houfe, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midt of the earth. 9 In mine ears, faid the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houfes fhall be defolate, even great and fair without inhabitant. 10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard thall yield one bath, and the feed of an homer fhall yield an ephah. 11 Who unto them that rife up early in the morning, that they may follow ftrong drink, that continue until night, till wine inflame them. 12 And the harp and the viol, the tabret and pipe, and wine are in their feafts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither confider the operation of his hands. 13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men art famifhed, and their multitude dried up with thirft. 14 Therefore bell hath enlarged her felf, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth mall defcend into it. 15 And the mean man fhall be brought down, and mighty man fhall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty fhall be humbled. 16 But the LORD of hosts fhall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy, thall be fanctified in righteoufnefs. 17 Then fhall the lambs feed after their manner, and the watte places of the fat ones fhall ftrangers eat. 18 Wo unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and fin as it were with a cart rope. 19 That fay, Let him make speed, and haften his work, that we may fee it: and, let the counsel of the holy one of Ifrael draw nigh and come, that we may knowit. 2011 Wo unto them that call evil good, and good evil, that put darknets for light, and fight for darkness; that put bitter for fweet, and fweet for bitter. 21 Wo unto them that are wife in their own eyes, and prudent in their own fight. 22 Wo unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of ftrength to mingle ftreng drink. 23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteoufnels of the righteous from him. 24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the ftubble, and the flame confumeth the chaff, Vaiabs vifion. to their root fhall be as rottennefs, & their bloffem fhall go up as duft: because the have calt away the law of the LORD of hofts, and defpiled the word of the holy One of Ifrael. 25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath ftretched forth his hand againft them, and hath fmitten them: and the bills did cremble, and their carcales were torn in the midlt of the ftreets: for all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is ftretched out ftill. 26 And he will lift up an enlign to the nations from far, and will hiis unto them from the end of the earth: and be hold, they thall come with speed swiftly. 27 None fhall be weary nor ftumble amongst them: none fhall Alumber nor fleep: neither fhall the girdle of their loins be loofed, nor the lachet of their fhoes be broken. 28 Whofe arrows are fharp, and all their bows bent, their horfes hoofs fhall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirl-wind. 29 Their roaringsball be like a lion, they fhall roar like young lions: yea, they fhall roar and lay hold of the prey, and fhall carry it away fafe, and none thall deliver it. 30 And in that day they fhall roar againft them, like the roaring of the fea and if one look unto the land, behold, darknefs and forrow, and the hight is darkned in the heavens thereof. CHAP. VI. Ifaiabs vifion. The obftinacy of the people unto their defolation. 13 A remnant ball befaved. all the LORD fitting upon a throne, N the year that king Uzziah died, I faw high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. 2 Above it ftood the feraphims: each one had fix-wings; with twain he covered bis face, and with twain he covered bis feet, and with twain he did flie. 3 And one cried unto another, and faid, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts, the whole earth is full of his glory. 4 And the pofts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the boule was filled with fmoak. 54 Then faid 1, We is me, for 1 am undone, because I am a man of uncleas lips, and I dwell in the midft of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have feem the King, the LORD of hosts. 6 Then flew one of feraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with thetongs from off thealtar. 7. And he laid it upon my mouth, and faid, Lo,this hath touched thy lips,& thine iniquity is taken away, and thy in purged. 8 Allo I heard the voice of the LORD. faying, Whom fhall I fend, and who will go for us? Then faid 1,Here am I,fend me. 911 And he faid, Go and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and fee ye indeed, but percieve not. I Make the heart of this people fat & X 2 make Cbrifts kingdom. Ifaiah. make their ears heavy,and fhut their eyes: lelt they fee with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert and be healed. Then faid I, LORD, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be waited without inhabitant, and the houfes without man, and the land be utterly defolate, 12 And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forfaking in the midlt of the land. 131 But yet in it fball be a tenth, and it fhall return, and fhall be eaten as a teiltree, and as an eak whofe fubftance is in them, when they caft their leaves: So the holy feed fball be the fubftance thereof. CHAP. VII. 1 Abar is comforted by Ifaiab. 10 Cbrift is promised. A the form to pass in the days of Ahaz Jotham, the Uzziah king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the fon of Remaliah, king of Ifrael, went up towards Jerufalem towar against it, but could not prevail againft it, 2 And it was told the houfe of David, faying, 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. 3. Then faid the LORD unto Ifaiah, Go forth now to me t Ahaz, thou and Shearjathub thy lon, at the end of the conduit of the upper-pool in the high-way of the fullers field: 4 And fay unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be faint-hearted, for the two tails of thefe fmoaking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria and of the fon of Remaliah. 5 Becaufe Syria, Ephraim, and the fon of Remaliab have taken evil counfel a gaivit thee, faying, 5 Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and fet a king in the nidit of it, even the fon of Tabeal, 7 Thus faith the LORD GOD, It shall not ftand, neither fhall it come to pafs. For the head of Syria is Damafcus, and the head of Damafcus is Rezin: and within threefcore and five years fhall E phraim be broken, that it be not a people. And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and head of Samaria is Remaliahs fon: if ye will not believe, furely ye fhall not be established. 10 Moreover, the LORD spake again unte Ahaz, faying, 11 Ask thee a fign of the LORD thy Gad, ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. 12 But Ahaz faid, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD. 13 And he faid, Hear ye now,O houfe of David, Is it a fmall thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God allo? 14 Therefore the LORD himself fhall gave you a fign, Behold, a virgin fhall conceive, and bear a fon, and thall call his Dame Immanuel, Judab threatned. 15 Butter and honey thall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and chufe the good. 16 For before the child fhall know to refufe the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorreft fhall be forfaken of both her kings. 17 The LORD fhall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy fathers houfe, days that have not come from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Allyria. 18 And it fhall come to pass in y day,that the LORD fhall hils for the Alie, that is in the uttermoft part of the rivers of Egypt, & for the bee that is in the land of Affyria. 19 And they fhall come, and fhall rest all them in the defolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes. 20 In the fame day fhall the LORD fhave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Affyria, the head, & the hair of the feet: and it fhall alfo confume the beard. 21 And it fhall come to pafs in that day, that a man fhall nourish a young cow, and two fheep: 22 And it fhall come to pafs for the abundance of milk,that they fhall give, he hall eat butter, for butter and honey fhall every one eat, that is left in the land. 2: And it fhall come to pafs in that day, that every place fhall be, where there were a thoufand vines, at a thouf and filverlings, it shall even be for briars and thorns. 24 With arrows and with bows fhall men come thither; because all the land fhall become briars and thorns. 25 And on all hills that fhall be digged with the matto:k, there fhall not come thither the fear of briars and thorns; but it fhail be for the fending forth of oxen, and for the treading of leffer cattle. CHAP. VIII. IA prophesy against Syria and Ifrael, 5 and Oreover the LORD faid unto me, 2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the fon of Jeberechiah. 3 And I went unto the prophetefs, and the conceived and bare a fon; then faid the LORD to me, Call his name Maherthalat-hash-baz. 4 For before the child fhall have knowledge to cry, My father and my mother, the riches of Damafcus, and the fpoil of Samaria fhall be taken away before the king of Affyria. 5 The LORD fpake also unto me again, faying, 6 Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go foftly, and rejoice in Rezin, and Remaliahs fon: 7 Now therefore, behold, § LORD bring Chrifts birth, and kingdom. 2. The people that walked in darkness have feen a great light: they, that dwell in the land of the thadow of death, upon them hath the light fhined. Chap. ix. eth up upon them the waters of the river ftrong and many, even the king of Affyria, & all his glory and be thall come up over all his chanels, and go over all his banks. 8 And he thall pass through Judah, he fhall overflow and go over, he fhall reach even to the neck, and the stretching out of his wings, fhall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel. 911 Affociate your felves, O ye people, and ye fhall be broken in pieces; and give ear all ye of far countries: gird your felves and ye fhall be broken in pieces 3gird your felves and ye fhall be broken in pieces. 10 Take counfel together, and it iball come to nought; fpeak the word, and it fhall not ftand: for God is with us. I For the LORDfpeak thus to me with a ftrong hand, and inftructed me y I fhould not walk in the way of this people, saying, 12 Say ye not, A confederacy to all them to whom this people fhall fay, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid. 13 Sanctifie the LORD of hosts himself, and let him be your fear, and let him beyour dread. 14 And he thall be for afanctuary, but for a itone of Itumbling, & for a rock of offence to both the houfes of lfrael, for a gin and for a fnare to the inhabitants of Jerufalem. 15 And many among them fhall tumble and fall, and be broken, and he fnared, and be taken. 16 Bind up the teftimony, feal the law among my difciples. 17 And I will wait upon the LORD that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. " 18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD bath given me, are for figns, and for wonders in Ifrael, from the LORD of hofts, which dwelleth in mount Zion. 19 And when they fhall fay unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar fpirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: fhould not a people feek unto their God? for the living, to the dead? 20 To the law and to the teftimony: if they (peak notaccording to this word, it is because there is no light in them. 21 And they fhall pass through it, hardly beftead and hungry and it thall come to Pals, that when they fhall be hungry they Thall fret themselves, and curfe their king, and their God, and look upward. 22 And they fhall look unto the earth, and behold, trouble and darknefs, dimnels of anguith; and they shall be driven to darkness. CHA P. IX. What joy shall be in the midst of afflictions by the kingdom and birth of Chrift. 8 The judgments upon Ifrat N Evertheless, the dismefs ball not be fuch 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 grievoutly afflict per by the way of the fea, beyond Jordan in Galilee of the nations. 3Thou haft multiplied the the nation, and not increafed the joy: the joy before thee, according to the joy in harvelt, and as men rejoice when they divide the ipoil. 4 For thou halt b oken the yoke of his burden, and the ftaff of histhonider, the rod of his oppreffor, as in the day of Midian. 5 For every battle of the warrior is with confufed noife, & garments rolled in blood, butt bifhall be with burning and fuel of firg. 6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a fon is given, & & government shall be upon his fhoulder: & his name hallbe called, Wonderful Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, Theprinceofpeace. 7 Of the inereafe of bis goverment and peace,tbere ball be no end, upon the throne of David,and upon his kingdom to order it and to eftablifh it with judgment and with jultice, from henceforth even for ever: the zeal of the LORDOf hofts willperform this. 8 The LORD fent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Ifrael. 9 And all the people fhall knew, even Ephraim, and the inhabitants of Samaria, that fay in the pride and ftoutnefs of heart, 10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn ftones: thelygamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars. Therefore the LORD fhall fet up the adverfaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together. 12 The Syrians before, & the Philiftines behind, & they fhall dovour Ifrael with open mouth: for all this his anger isnot turned away, but his hand is ftretched out ftill. 13 For the people turneth not unte him that imitteth them, neither do they feek the LORD of hosts. 14Therefore LORD will cut off from If rael head & tail, branch & ruth in one day. 15 The ancient and honourable, he is the head and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail. 16 For the leaders of this people caufe them to err, and they that are led of them, are deftroyed. 17 Therefore the LORD fhall have na joy in their young men, neither fhall have mercy on their fatheriefs and widows: for every one is an hypocrite, and an evil deer, and every mouth fpeaketh folly: for all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is ftretched out ftill. 189) For wickednet's burneth as the fire: it fhall devour the briars and thorns, and thall kindle in the thickets of the forreft, and they fhall mount up like the lifting up of fmoke. 19 Through the wrath of the LORD of hefts is the land darkned, and the people fhall he as the fuel of the fire: no man fhall fpare his brother. 20 And he thail fnatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he fhall eat on the left hand, and they fhall not be fati:fied; they X 3 fhall |