The graces of the church. SOLOMON'S SONG. 8 Come with me from Lebanon, my fpoufe, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top or shenir and Hermon, from the lions dens, from the mountains of the leopards. 9 Thou haft ravished my heart, my fifter, my fpoufe; thou hait ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck. 10 How fair is thy love, my sister, my fpouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the fmell of thine ointments than all fpices! 11 Thy lips, O my spoutè, drop as the honeycomb honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the fmell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon 12 A garden inclofed is my fifter, my fpoufe; afpring shut up, a fountain fealed. 13 Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with fpikenard, 14 Spikenard and faffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of trankincenfe; myrrh and aloes, with all the chiet fpices: 15 A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and ftreams from Lebanon. 16 Awake, O north wind, and come, thou fouth; blow upon my garden, that the fpices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits. CHAP. V. 1 Chrift awaketh the church with his calling. 2 The church, having a tafle of Chrifl's love, is fick of love. 9 A defcription of Chrift by his graces. I Am come into my garden, my fister, my fpoufe: I have gathered my myrrh with my fpice; I have eaten my honey comb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved. 2 deep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, Jaying, Open to me, my fitter, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night. 3 I have put off my coat; how fhall I put It on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them? 4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him. 5 I rofe up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with fweet fuelling myrrh, upon the han ales of the lock. 6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himfelf, and was gone: my foul failed when he (pake: I fought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer. 7 The watchmen that went about the city found me, they fmote me, they wounded me: the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me. 8 I charge you, O daughters (f Jerufalem, If ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that am fick of love. 9What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou faireft among women? what thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou doft so charge us. 10 My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefeft among ten shousand. A defcription of Cheift, locks are bufhy, and black as a raven. rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping 13 His cheeks are as a bed of fpices, ar fweet smelling myrrh: the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overs 14 His hands are as gold rings fet with laid with fapphires. apon fockets of fine gold: his countenance thy beloved turned alide? den, to the beds of fpices, to feed in the 3 I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine: he teedeth among the lilies. zah, comely as jerulalem, terrible as an 4 Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tir army with banners. 5 Turn away thine eyes from me, for they goats that appear from Gilead. have overcome ine: thy hair is as a flock of go up from the wathing, whereof every one temples within thy locks. fcore concubines, and virgins without num- 9 My dove, my undefiled is but one: the is one of her that bare her. The daughters faw the only one of her mother, the is the choice her, and blefled her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her. morning, tair as the moon, clear as the fun, 10 Who is the that looketh forth as the and terrible as an army with banners? fee the fruits of the valley, and to fee whether III went down into the garden of nuts to the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded. like the chariots of Aminl-nadib. return, that we may look upon thee. CHAP. VII. O prince's daughter the joints of thy wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap 3 Thy two breaks are like two young roes The graces of the church. Chap. i. 4 Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Hethbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim: thy nofe is as the tower of Lebanon, which looketh toward Damafcus : 5 Thine head upon thee is like Carme!, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries. 6 How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, tor delights! 7 This thy ftature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to claiters of grapes. 8 I faid, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereo; now alfo thy breafts thall be as clutters of the vine, and the fmell of thy nofe like apples; 9 And the root of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down fweetly, causing the lips of thofe that are asleep to speak. 10am my beloved's, and his defire is toward me. 11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. 12 Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us fee in the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves. 13 The mandrakes give a fmell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved. CHAP. VIII. 1 The love of the church to Chrift. 6 The 2 I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would inftruct me: I would cause thee to drink of Her love to Chrift. fpiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate. 3 His left hand bould be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me. 4 Icharge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye itir not up, nor awake my love, until he pleate. 5 Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee fortn: there the brought thee torth that bare thee. 6 set me as a feal upon thine heart, as a feal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of hire, which bath a mott vehemen flame. 7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the Cubitance of his houfe for love, it would utterly be contemned. 8 We have a little fitter, and the hath no breafts: what thall we do for our fifter in the day when the thall be spoken tor? If the be a wall, we will build upon her palace of filver: and it the be a door, we will inclofe her with boards of cedar. a 10 I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found fa vour. 11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the frui, thereof was to bring a thoufand pieces of filver. 12 My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O solomon, must have a thoufand, and thofe that keep the fruit thereof two hundred. 13 Thou that dwelleft in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it. 14 Make hafte, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe, or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices. 1 The Book of the Prophet ISAIAH. CHAP. I. Ifaiah's complaint of Judah: 10 beupbraideth her fervice: 16 he exhorteth to repentance, with promises and threatenings: 25 he promiseth grace, &c. T HE viñon of Ifaiah the fon of Amoz, which he faw 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 spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. 3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the afs bis master's crib: bur Ifrael doth not know, my people doth not confider. 4 Ah finful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a feed of evil doers, children that are corrupters! They have torfaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Ifrael unto anger, they are gone away backward. 5 Why should ye be tricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is lick, 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 bruifes, and putrifying fores: they have not been clofed, 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 strangers. 8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a befieged city. 9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very fmall remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we thould have been like unto Gomorrah : 10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah : 11 To what purpose is the multitude of your facrifices unto me faith the LORD: I am full of the burnt-orderings of rams, and the tat of 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? 13 Bring no mere vain oblations: Incenfe to Exhortation to repentance. ISAIAH. is an abomination uuto me; the new moons and fabbaths, the calling of affemblies, I can. not away with; it is iniquity, even the fo. lemn meeting. 14 Your new moons and your appointed feats 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 bear: your hands are full of blood. 16 Wath ye, make you clean; ut away the evil of your doings trom before mine eyes; ceafe to do evil; 17 Learn to do well; feek judgment, relieve the oppreffed, judge the fatherlefs, plead for the widow. 18 Come now, and let us reafon together, faith the LORD: Though your ins be as fear. let, they shall be as white as fnow; though they be red like crimson, they fhall be as wool. 19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye fhall eat the good of the lard: 20 But it ye retufe 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; righteoufnefs lodged in it; but now murderers. 22 Thy tilver is become arofs, thy wine mixed with water: 23 Thy princes are rebellious, and com. panions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and tolloweth after rewards they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the caule of the widow come unto them. 24 Therefore faith the Lord, the LORD of hots, the mighty One of Ifrael, Ah, I will cafe me of mine adverfaries, and avenge me of mine enemies: 25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy drofs, and take away all thy tin: 26 And I will reftore thy judges as at the firit, and thy counferiors as at the beginning: afterward thou thalt be called, The city of righteoufnefs, The faithful city. 27 Zion thall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness. 28 And the deftruction of the tranf greffors and of the finners fall 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 shall be consounded for the gardens that ve have chofen. 30 For ye thall be as an oak whofe leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water. 31 And the trong thall be as tow, and the maker of it as a park, and they fhall both burn together, and none thall quench them. CHAP. II. Ifaiah prophefirth the coming of Chrif's kingdom. io He exhorteth to fear, hecause of the powerful effects of God's maiefly. HE word that Ifaiah the fon of Amoz TE Concerning Judah and Jerufalem. 2 And it shall come to pafs in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's houfe thall he establishei in the top of the mountains, and thall be exalted above the hills; and ali nations hall flow unto it. And many people shall go and fay, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the and fhall rebuke many people; and they 50 houfe of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD. ple, the houfe of Jacob, because they be re- neither is there any end of their treasures; fhip the work of their own hands, that which the great man humbleth himself: therefore 9 And the mean man boweth down, and forgive them not. in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for 10 Enter into the rock, and hide thee the glory of his majefty. bled, and the haughtiness of men thall be 11 The lofty looks or man fhall be humbowed down, and the LORD alone thail be exalted in that day. be upon every one that is proud and lofty, 12 For the day or the LORD of hosts hall and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low; that are high and litted up, and upon all upon all the hills that are lifted up. every fenced wall. upon all pleasant pictures. down, and the haughtinefs of men fhall be 18 And the idols he shall utterly abolish. rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for 19 And they shall go into the holes of the fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he arifeth to shake terribly the earth. of filver, and his idols of gold, which they 20 In that day a man fhall caft his idols made each one for him.feli to worship, to the moles and to the bats; into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of 21 To go into the cietis of the rocks, and the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he arifeth to thake terribly the earth. 22 Ceafe ye from man, whofe breath isin his noftrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of? 1 The great confufion which cometh by fin. CHAP. III. 9 The impudence of the people. oppreffion and covetousness of the rulers. 12 The 16 The judgments which shall be for the pride of the women. FOR Chap. iv. v. Against oppression and pride. FOR, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hotts, doth take away from Jerufalem and from Judah the itay and the staff, the whole ftay of bread, and the whole stay of water, 2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the juige, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, 3 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator. 4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes fhall rule over them. 5 And the people thall be oppreffed, every One by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himfel proudly against the ancient, and the bafe againit the honourable. 6 When a man thall take hold of his brother of the house of his rather, faying, Theu hart clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this reine under thy hand. 7 In that day thall he fwear, faying, I will not be an healer; for in my houfe is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people. 8 For crufalem is ruined, and Judah is tallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory. 9 The thew of their countenance doth witnefs against them; and they declare their fin as sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their foul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves. to say ye to the righteous, that it fall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. 11 Woe unto the wicked! it fall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands fhall be given him. 12s for my people, children are their oppresors, and women rule over them. my people, they which lead thee caufe thee to err, and deftroy the way of thy paths. 13 The LORD ftandeth up to plead, and ftandeth to judge the people. 14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses. 15 What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? faith the Lord GoD of hosts. 16 Moreover the LORD faith, Becaufe the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with ftretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: 17 Therefore the LORD will mite with a fcab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will difcover their fecret parts. 18 In that day the LORD will take away 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 muillers, 20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings, 21 The rings, and nofe jewels, 22 The changeable fuits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the critping pins, Chrift's kingdom. 23 The glaffes, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the veils. 24 And it shall come to pafs, that instead of fweet smell there fhall be tink; and inflead of a girdle a rent; and inftead of well fet hair baldnefs; and inftead of a ftomacher a girding of fackcloth; and burning instead of beauty. 25 Thy men fhall fall by the fword, and thy mighty in the war. 26 And her gates fhall lament and mourn; and the being defolate thall fit upon the ground. CHAP. IV. In the extremity of evils, Christ's kingdom fall be a fantiuary. AND in that day feven women thall take hold of one man, faying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproac 2 In that day hall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the carch ball be excellent and comely for them that are efcaped of Ifrael. 3. And it shall come to pals, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, fhall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Je rufalem: 4 When the LORD fhall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and thail have purged the blood of Jerufalem from the midit thereof by the spirit or 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 thining of a flaming fire by night for upon all the glory fhall be a detence. 6 And there ihall be a tabernacle for a fhadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from ftorm and from rain. CHAP. 1. 1 Under the type of a vineyard God excufeth his fevere judgments: 8 his judgments upon covetousness, 11 upon lascivṛsuƒnef$ 13 upon impiety, 20 and upon inuftice. 2h The executioners of Goa's judgments. 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 tenced it, and gathered out the ftones thereof, and planted it with the choi ceft vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a wineprefs 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, bctwixt me and my vineyard. 4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wheretore, 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 thereot, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it fhall be trodden down: 6 And I will lay it wafte: it fhall not be pruned, nor digged; but there thall come up briers and thorus: I will also command the God's vengeance. ISALAH. the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. 7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Ifrael, and the men of Judah his pleafant plant: and he looked for judg. ment, but behold oppreffion; for righteous. nefs, but behold a cry. 84 Woe unto them that join houfe to houfe, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midft of the earth! 9 In mine ears faid the LORD of hofts, Of a truth many houfes thall be defolate, even great and tair, without inhabitant. 10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard thall yield one bath, and the feed or an homer thall yield an ephah. 11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow trong 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, nei. ther confider the operation of his hands. 13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. 14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herfelf, and opened her mouth without meafure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pcmp, and he that rejoiceth, shall defcend into it. 15 And the mean man thall be brought down, and the mighty man fhall be humbled, and the eyes of the loity thall be humbled: 16 But the LORD of hosts thall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be fanctified in righteoufnefs. 17 Then hall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waite places of the fat ones fhall rangers eat. 18 Woe 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 counfer or the Holy One of Ifrael draw nigh and come, that we may know it! 20Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darknefs tor light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for fweet, and fweet for bitter! 21 Woe unto them that are wife in their own eyes, and prudent in their own fight! 22 Woc unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of ftrength to mingle strong drink: 23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! 24 Therefore, as the fire devoureth the Aubble, and the flame confumeth the chaff, Jo their root fhall be as rottennefs, and their bloom thall go up as duft because they have caft away the law or the LORD of hosts, and defpifed the word of the Holy One of Ifrael. 25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled againit his people, and he hath ftretched forth his hand against them, and hath fmitten them; and the hills did tremble, and their carcaffes were torn in the midst of the Atreets. For all this is anger is not turned away, but his hand is firetched out ftill. Ijaiah's vision. 26 And he will lift up an enfign to the nations from far, and will hifs unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they fhall come with speed swiftly: 27 None thall be weary nor ftumble among them; none thall flumber nor fleep; neither fhall the girdle of their loins be loofed, nor the latchet of their fhoes be broken.: 28 Whofe arrows are tharp, and all their bows bent,their horfes hoofs thal' be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirl. wind: 29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they thall roar like young lions: yea, they thail roar, and lay hold of the prey, and thall carry it away fate, and none thall detiver it. 30 And in that day they thall roar against 1 Isaiah's vifion. 9 The obstinacy of the peo the LORD fitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train hlled the temple. 2 Above it stood the teraphims: each one had ux 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: the whole earth is full of his glory. 4 And the poits of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. Then faid I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people or unclean lips: for mine eyes have feen the King, the LORD of hosts. 6 Then few one of the feraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, subirb he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: 7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and faid, Lo, this hath touched thy lips: and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy fin purged. 8 Alfo I heard the voice of the LORD, fay. ing, Whom thall I fend, and who will go for us? Then said 1, Here am 1; fend me. 9 And he faid, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and fee ye indeed, but perceive not. 10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and that their eyes; left they fee with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed. 11 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 midit or the land. 13 But yet in it fall be a tenth, and it fhall return, and thall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whofe fubitance is in them when they caft their leaves: fo the holy feed ball be the fubitance thereot. CHAP. VIL. 1 Abaz is comforted by Ifaiah. 14 Chrift promifed. 17 Goa's judgments propbejed to come upon Judah by Jyria. AND |