The coming of the Messiah.

B. C. about 713.

+ Heb. shall

remore.

k Ex. 14. 26, 27.

1 ch. 14. 25. m Ps. 105, 15. Dan. 9. 24.

1 John 2. 20.

n 1 Sam. 13. 23.

them.

The calling of the Gentiles.

27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden † shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.

28 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:

29 They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at o 1 Sam. 11. 4. Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.

a ch. 53. 2. Zech. 6. 12. Rev. 5. 5.

b Acts 13. 23. ver. 10.

c ch. 4. 2.
Jer. 23. 5.
d ch. 61. 1.
Matt. 3. 16.
John 1. 32,
33. & 3. 34.

+ Heb. scent, or, smell,

e Ps. 72. 2, 4. Rev. 19. 11. || Or, argue.

7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.

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9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

B. C. about 713.

|| Or, adder's.

i Job 5. 23,

ch. 2. 4. & $5.9.

Hab. 2. 14.

1 ch. 2. 11. m ver. 1. Rom. 15. 12.

a Rom. 15. 10. o Heb. 4. 1, &c.

+ Heb. glory. p ch. 2. 11.

11 And it shall come to pass Pin that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from a Zech. 10. 10. Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

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13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex

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rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots:

2 And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;

3 And shall make him of † quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:

4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the Rev. 1. 16. & breath of his lips shall he slay the

14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines towardt the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon "shall obey them.

John 7, 35

James 1. 1. † Heb. wings. Jer. S. 18.

Ez. 57. 16, 17, 22. Hos. 1. 11.

Dan. 11. 41. Heb. the children of the east.

Heb. Edem

and Moab shall be the laying on of their hand + Heb, the children of Ammon their obedience.

15 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, Zech. 10. 11. y and make men go over † dryshod.

16 And there shall be a highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; alike as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

CHAPTER XII.

the girdle of his reins.

a

his people.

u ch. 60. 14.

+ Heb, in shoes.

y Rev. 16. 12. 2 ch. 19. 23.

a Ex. 14. 29. ch. 51. 10. & 63. 12, 13.

the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling

O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.

about 712.

a ch. 21. 1. & 47. L. Jer. 50, &51.

ch. 5. 26. & 18. 3. Jer. 30. 2.

Jer. 51. 25. 4 ch. 10. 32.

• Joel S. 11.

! Pa. 149. 2, 5,6

+ Heb. the likeness of

Zeph. 1. 7. Rev. 6. 17. Job 31. 23. Joel 1. 15. 1 Or, fall down.

1 Ps. 43. 6. ch. 21. 3.

+ Heb. 100.

der. + Heb. every man at his neighbour.

• Heb. faces

* Mai. 4. 1.

6 Cry out and shout, thou † inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.

CHAPTER XIII.

God mustereth the hosts of his wrath against Babylon. 6 Their work of slaughter described. 19 The desolation of Babylon.

4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.

5 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.

6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. 7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt: 8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed t one at another; their faces shall be as + flames.

9 Behold, the day of the LORD of the fumes, cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

1 Ps. 101. 35. Prov. 2, 22.

b. 24. 21,

Jon 2. 31. &

10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give

The utter ruin of Babylon.

rogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

B. C. about 712.

o Hag. 2. 6.

13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of PPs. 110. 5. his fierce anger.

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14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.

15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.

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16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.

17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

18 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.

19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew "Sodom and Gomorrah.

20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.

Lam. 1. 12.

q Jer. 50. 16. & 51. 9.

r Ps. 137. 9. Nah. 3. 10. Zech. 14. 2.

• ch. 21. 2. Jer. 51. 11, 28. Dan. 5. 28, 31.

t ch. 14.4, 22.

+ Heb. as the

overthrowing.

u Gen. 19. 24, 25. Deut. 29. 23. Jer. 49. 18. & 50, 40. x Jer. 50. 3, 39. & 51. 29, 62.

y ch. 34. 11-15. Rev. 18. 2. + Heb, Ziim.

† Heb. Ochim. Or, ostriches. Heb. daugh ters of the owl.

21 Butt wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. 22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate Heb. Iim. houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

CHAPTER XIV.

The restoration of Israel. 4 Their triumphant song over the king of Babylon. 21 God's purpose against Assyria. 29 Palestina threatened.

Or, palaces.

z Jer. 51. 33.

a Ps. 102. 13.

& 2. 12.

21. 29. Mark 11. 24. Luke 2.25.

ach. 2. 17.

Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

e ch. 60. 4, 5, 10. Eph. 2. 12, 13, &c.

3 T And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve, 4 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor || Or, exactress ceased, the 15 golden city ceased! 5 The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.

f ch. 13. 19. Hab. 2. 6. || Or, taunting speech.

of gold.

g Rev. 18. 16. h Ps. 125, 3.

1 ch. 34. 4. || Or, O daystar.

m Matt. 11.23. n Dan. 8. 10.

o Ps. 48. 2.

p ch. 47. 8. 2 Thess. 2. 4.

q Matt. 11. 23.

10 All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?

11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.

12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

13 For thou hast said in thine heart, mI will ascend into heaven, "I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; PI will be like the Most High.

15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms?

17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof;

over the king of Babylon.

that opened not the house of his prisoners?

B. C. about 712.

18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in Or did not his own house.

19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcass trodden under feet.

let his prisoners loose homeward)

20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evil doers shall Job 18, 19, never be renowned.

21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

22 For I will rise up against them. saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon 'the name, and "remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD.

23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts. 24 T The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

25 That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.

26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth : and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.

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27 For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

28 In the year that 'king Ahaz died was this burden.

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29 ¶ Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that 2 Chr. B. 6. smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.

30 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.

31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.

Or, adder. d 2 Kings 18. 8.

1 Or, he shall not be alone. 1 Or, asse239– blies.

The desolation of Moab.

B. C. 726.

19r. betake
themacires
whit

Ps. 37. 1, 5. 172.16. Zeph. 3. 12. Zeeb. 11. 11. about 726.

| Or, cut off. * Jer. 18. 1. AC. Ez. 25.

Nom 21. 28. ch. 16. 12.

B. C. about 726.

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CHAPTER XV.

The desolation of Moab.

HE burden of Moab.

Because

Tin the night "Ar of Moab is laid

waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is -IL Am. 2. laid waste, and brought to silence: 2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.

Lev. 21.

3. cb. 3. 24. & 22.12. Jer.

17.3. & 48. 1, 7. 32. Ez. 7. 18

10 Jer. 48. 38.

+ Heb. deiding into

weeping, or, ing doon

wil weeping. ch. 16. 9.

ch. 16. 11. jer. 48. 31. Or, to the

borders thereal, even to Zer, as a heifer.

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3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, † weeping abundantly.

4 And Heshbon shall cry, 'and Elealeh; their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him.

55 My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, a heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry Heb. break of + destruction.

ch. 16. 14. Jer. 48. 34.

We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud; even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so. 7 Therefore shall Moab howl for h Jer. 48. 20. Moab, every one shall howl: for the i 2 Kings 3. foundations of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken. 8 For the fields of Heshbon lan-k ch. 24. 7. guish, and the vine of Sibmah: the 1 ver. 9. lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they Or, plucked are gone over the sea.

10 And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.

11 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like a harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kir-haresh.

alarm is

fallen upon,

&c.

och. 24. 8.

Jer. 48. 33.

P ch. 15. 5. & 63. 15. Jer. 48. 36.

12 ¶ And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the 9 ch. 15. 2. high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.

13 This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab since that time.

14 But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, and the glory of that great multitude; and the remMoab shall be contemned, with all

nant shall be very small and feeble.

CHAPTER XVII.

The overthrow of Syria and Israel foretold. 6 Some shall forsake idolatry; 9 but the land shall be plagued for its impiety. 12 The enemies of Israel threatened.

THE

a

burden of Damascus.

Be

hold, Damascus is taken away

r ch. 21. 18.

I Or, not many.

about 741. a Jer. 49. 23.1

Am. 1. 3.
Zech. 9. 1.
2 Kings 16.9.

Judgments upon Syria.

B. C. about 741.

b Jer. 7. 33.

c ch. 7. 16. & 8. 4.

d ch. 10. 16.

e Jer. 51. 33.

f ch. 24. 13.

g Mic. 7. 7.

Il Or, sun images.

h Ps. 68. 19.

|| Or, many.

from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

Ethiopia is threatened.

14 And behold at eveningtide trou- B. C. ble; and before the morning he is about 741. not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

CHAPTER XVIII.

hosts.

4 And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.

5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.

6¶Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel. 7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.

8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.

9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.

10 Because thou hast forgotten h the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:

11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sor

row.

12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise i like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the_rushing of "mighty waters!

13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

4 For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwellingplace like Or, regard a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

5 For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruninghooks, and take away and cut down the branches.

6 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth; and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.