A.C.715. b2 Kings xix. 31. * Heb. visit upon. + Heb. of the greatness of the heart. 12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will * punish the fruit † of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks. 13 For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their Or, like ma- treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants ‡ like a va ny people. liant man: 14 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped. 15 Shall the ax boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that Or, as if a shaketh it? §as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up || itself, as if it were no wood. rod should shake them that lift it up. 1 Or, that which is not wood. 16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire. 17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame : and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day; 18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his Heb. from fruitful field, * both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard bearer fainteth. the soul, and flesh. c Rom. ix. 27. Heb. in, or, among. ach. xxviii. d 22. Or, in. 19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be + few, that a child may write them. 20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. 21 The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God. с 22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow & with righteousness. 23 For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land. 24¶Therefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, || and shall lift up his staff staff for thee. against thee, after the manner of Egypt. || Or, but he shall lift up his e Ex. xiv. e 25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction. f Judg. vii. 25. 26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him A.C. 715. according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after ch. ix. 4. the manner of Egypt. 27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden *shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke Heb shall 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 Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled. remove. 30+ Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it + Heb. Cry to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth. 31 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee. 32 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. 33 Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled. 34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one. ISAIAH XI. 1 The peaceable kingdom of the Branch out of the root of Jesse. 10 The victorious restoration of Israel, and vocation of the Gentiles. 1 And there shall come forth a 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; shrill with thy voice. + Or, mightily. g Acts xiii. 23. or, smell. 3 And shall make him of § quick understanding in the Heb. scent, 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 | Or, argue. shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with h Job iv. 9. the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. 5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins. 2 Thess. ii. 8. 6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the ich. lxv. 25. leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the A.C.715. young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. 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 * Or, adder's. asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the * cockatrice' den. 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. 10 ¶ And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the k Rom. xv. 10. k Gentiles seek and his rest shall be + glorious. + Heb. glory. : 11 And it shall come to pass in 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 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 disHeb. wings. persed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. Heb. the children of the east. Heb. Edom and Moab shall be the laying on of their hand. 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 Ephraim. 14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward 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. 15 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Heb, the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over + dryshod. children of Ammon their obedience. +Heb.in shoes. 16 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his 1 Ex. xiv. 20. people, which shall be left, from Assyria; 'like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt. ISAIAH XII. A joyful thanksgiving of the faithful for the mercies of God. 1 And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me. m 2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be m Ex. xv. 2. afraid for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. Ps. cxviii. 14. 3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells A. C. 715. of salvation. xvi. 8. Ps. cv. 4 And in that day shall ye say, " Praise the LORD, * call n 1 Chron. upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted. 5 Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth. 6 Cry out and shout, thou + inhabitant of Zion: for is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee. great 1. *Or, proclaim his name. + Heb. inhabitress. ISAIAH XIII. 1 God mustereth the armies of his wrath. 6 He threateneth to destroy Babylon by the Medes. 19 The desolation of Babylon. 1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see. 2 Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles. 3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness. 4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, I like as of Heb. the a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of na- likeness of tions 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 one at another; their faces || shall be as flames. 9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. 10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light shine. 11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and to the ◊ Or, fall down. ||Heb. wonder. Heb. every man at his neighbour. the flames. +Heb. faces of o Ezek. xxxii. 7. Joel 31. & iii. 15. Matt. Luke xxi. 23. A.C.715. wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and I will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. P Ps. cxxxvii. 9. 12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir. 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 his fierce anger. 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. 16 Their children also shall be their eyes; their houses shall be ravished. dashed to pieces before spoiled, and their wives 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 Heb. as the the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew overthrowing. Sodom and Gomorrah. q Gen. xix. 24. Jer, L. 40. + Heb. Ziim. 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. 21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and Heb. Ochim. their houses shall be full of ‡ doleful creatures; and § owls Or, ostriches shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. Heb. daugh *Heb. Iim. ters of the owl. 22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their +Or, palaces. † desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces : and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged. ISAIAH XIV. VER. 1-28. 1 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose 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. 2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and |