Judgment of Moab. 4 wringer. 5 treaders down. ISAIAH, XVII. 4 Let mine outcasts dwell with B. C. 726. thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the 4 extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the 5 oppressors are consumed out of the land. 5 And in mercy shall the throne6 or, prebe 6 established and c he shall sit pared. upon it in truth in the tabernacle c Da.7.14,27. of David,d judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteous Mi.4.7. Lu. 1.32,33. d Ps.72.2. e Zep.2.10. ƒ 2Ki.3.25. 7or, mutter. 8 or, plucked up. 7 Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kir-hareseth f shall ye 7 mourn; surely they are gJe.48.32,&c. stricken. 9 8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilder-i ness: her branches are 8 stretched out, they are gone over the sea. 9 T Therefore g I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for 9 the shouting for thy summer fruits, and for thy harvest is fallen. 10 And h 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 bowelsi shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kir-haresh. 12 T And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary k on the 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 m the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and 10 feeble. CHAPTER XVII. 1 Syria and Israel are threatened. 12 The wo of Israel's enemies. THE a burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus b is taken away from being a city and it shall be a ruinous heap. or, the alarm is fallen upon. h ch.24.8. k ch.26.16. Pr. 1.28. m ch.21.16. 10 or, not many. (CHAP. 17.) aJe.49.23,&c. Am. 1.3-5. Zec.9.1, fulfilled. b 2Ki.16.9. c Je.7.33. d ch.10.16. e Je.51.33. ƒ Mi.7.7. 1 or, sun g Je. 17.13. 2 or, removed sorrow. 3 or, noise. 4 or, many. i Ps.9.5. Syria and Israel threatened. 2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none c shall make them afraid. 3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts. 4 And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and d the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean. 5 And e 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. 6T (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 ƒ 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 1 images.) 9 T In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Is rael and there shall be desolation. 10 Because a thou hast forgotten 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 shallh be 2 a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow. 12 T Wo to the 3 multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of 4 mighty waters! 13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but i 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 5 a rolling thing before the whirlwind. 14 And behold at evening-tide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them k that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us. Confusion of Egypt. CHAPTER XVIII. ISAIAH, XVIII, XIX. B. C. 726. the rivers a of Ethiopia : 2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation 1 scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation 2 meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers 3 have spoiled! b 3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign 6 on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye. 4 For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will 4 consider in my dwelling-place like a clear heat 5 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 pruning-hooks, and take away and cut down the branches. Eze.30.4-9. Zep.2.12. or, outspread and polished. of line, and eth down. my set dwelling. 5 or, after rain. c ch.16.1. Ps.68.31. 6 or, outspread and polished, ver.2. (CHAP. 19.) a Je.46.13. Eze.XXIX. XXX. Ps. 18.10. 104.3. Je.43.12. 6 They shall be left together untob the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the c Ex. 12.12. fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall mingle. winter upon them. 2 be emptied. 7 ¶ In that time shall the present cd Eze.22.14. T be brought unto the LORD of hosts 3swallow up. of a people 6 scattered and peeled, e ch.8.19. and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion. CHAPTER XIX. 1 The confusion of Egypt. 11 The 4 47.12. or, shut up. fch.20.4. g 2Ki. 19.24. shall not be. h 1Ki.10.28. or, whiteworks. 7 foundations. 8 of living things. Nu. 13.22. k 1Co. 1.20. 7 ch.44.7.8. m Ro.1.22. n Je.2.16. 2 And I will set the Egyptians 9 the corners, against the Egyptians and they or, goshall fight every one against his vernors. brother, and every one against his o 1Ki.22.22. neighbour; city against city, and 10 spirit of kingdom against kingdom. perverseness. Na.3.13. 3 And the spirit of Egypt shall 2 faild in the midst thereof; and IP Je.51.30. will 3 destroy the counsel thereof: 11 lip. and they shall seek e to the idols, q Zep.3.9. and to the charmers, and to them 12 or, Heres, that have familiar spirits, and to or, the sun. the wizards. Her calling to the church 4 And the Egyptians will I 4 give over into the hand of a cruel lord; f and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts 5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up. 6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks g of defence shall be emptied and dried up. the reeds and flags shall wither. 7 The paper-reeds by the brooks,by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks,shall wither, be driven away, and 5 be no more. 8 The fishers also shall mourn, the brooks shall lament, and they and all they that cast angle into that spread nets upon the waters shall languish. 9 Moreover they that work in fine h flax, and they that weave 6 networks, shall be confounded. 10 And they shall be broken in the 7 purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds 8 for fish. 11 T Surely the princes of Zoan i are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? 12 Where k are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what / the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt. 13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, m the princes of Noph n are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are 9 the stay of the tribes thereof. 14 Theo LORD hath mingled a 10 perverse spirit in the midst thereof and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit. 15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do. 16 In that day shall Egypt be like p unto women : and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it. 17 And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it. 18 T In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the 11 language q of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of 12 destruction. 19 In that day shall there be an Captivity of Egypt. r Ge.28.18. Fall of Babylon foretold. CHAPTER XXI. The prophet bewaileth the captivity of God's people. THE ISAIAH, XX, XXI. altar to the LORD in the midst of B. C. 714. ̧ the land of Egypt, and a pillar r at the border thereof to the LORD. 20 And it shall be for a signs and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them. 21 And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall dot sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it. 22 And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal .hem. 23 In that day shall there be au highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians. 24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land: Ex.24.4. $ Jos.4.20. t Mal.1.11. u ch.11.16. v 1Pe.2.10. w Ep.2.10. 1 by the 2 captivity of 3 nakedness. Je.47.4. b Job 6.20. (CHAP. 21.) 1 hard. 25 Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my b ch.33.1. people,v and Assyria the work w of my hands, and Israel mine in-c ch. 13.17. heritance. CHAPTER XX. A type prefiguring the shameful captivity of Egypt and Ethiopia. IN the Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,)and fought against Ashdod, and took it; the year a that Tartan came 2 At the same time spake the LORD 1 by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot. 3 And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia; 4 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the 2 Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the 3 shame of Egypt. 5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. 6 And the inhabitant of this 4 isle shall say in that day, Behold, such b is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape? Je.49.34. i i HE burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds a in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land. 2 A 1grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer b dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Goc up, O Elam : besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease. 3 Therefore d are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it. 4 2 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the nighte of my pleasure hath he 3 turned into fear unto me. 5 Prepare the table, watch in the watch-tower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield. 6 For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth. 7 And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed: 8 And he cried, 4 A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in f the day-time, and I am set in my ward 5 whole nights: 9 And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said. Babylon g is fallen, is fallen; and h all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground. 10 O my threshing, and the 6 corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared i unto you. 11 T The burden of Dumah.k He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? 12 'T'he watchman said, 'The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: return, come. 13 T The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of DeJe.49.7.&c. danim. Eze.35.2,&c. Ob. 1,&c. 7 or,bring ye. Job.6.19,20. face of, or, 14 The inhabitants of the land of Tema 7 brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled. 15 For / they fled 8 from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war. 16 For thus hath the LORD said Invasion of Jewry by the Persians. ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord GCD of hosts. ISAIAH, XXII, XXIII. unto me, Within a year, according| „B. C. 712. to the years of an hireling, m and all the glory of Kedarn shall fail : m Job 7.1. 17 And the residue of the number n ch.60.7. of 9 archers, the mighty men of the 9 bows. children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel (CHAP. 22.) hath spoken it. CHAPTER XXII. The prophet reproveth human wisdom that thou art wholly gone up to the house-tops? a 2 Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous b city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle. 3 All thy rulers are fled c together, they are bound 1 by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far. 4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will 2 weep bitterly, d labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people. 5 For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains. 6 And Elame bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir 3 uncovered the shield. 7 And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array 5 at the gate. 8 TAnd he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the housef of the forest. 9 Yeg have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool. 10 And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem,and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall. a De.22.8. b ch.32.13. c 2Ki.25.5, 11 Ye made also a ditch between o Job 12. 14. the two walls for the water of the Re.3.7. old pool: but ye have not looked p Ezr.9.8. unto the maker thereof, neither 10 or, instruhad respect unto him that fashioned it long ago. 12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call h to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, i and to girding with sackcloth : 13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, cating flesh, and drinking wine: let k us eat and drink; for to-morrow we shall die. 14 And it was revealed in mine ments of viols. (CHAP. 23.) a Je.25.22. 47.4. b Eze.26.23. ver. 12. Je.2.10. 1 silent. 15 Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and say, 16 What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as high, and that graveth an habihe that heweth him out a sepulchre tation for himself in a rock? 17 Behold, the LORD 7 will carry thee away with 8 a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee. 18 He will surely violently turn and toss thee ike a ball into a 9 large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house. 19 And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down. 20 ¶ And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant m Eliakim the son of Hilkiah : 21 And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. 22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; n so he shall open, o and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. 23 And I will fasten him as a nail p in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house. 21 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the 10 vessels of flagons. 25 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken it. CHAPTER XXIII. THE 1 The miserable overthrow of Tyre: 17 Their unhappy return. HE burden of Tyre.a Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittimb it is revealed to them. 2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea have replenished. 4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for 2 from afar the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail 3 pollute. not, nor bring forth children,neither do I nourish up young men, nord 1Co.1.28,29. bring up virgins. 5 As at the report c concerning 4 girdle. Judgments of God for sın hire shall be holiness i to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for 9 durable clothing. CHAPTER XXIV. God in his judgments shall advance his kingdom. BEHOLD, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it Egypt, so shall they be sorely pain-5 or, concern-waste, and 1 turneth it upside down, ed at the report of Tyre. 6 Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle. 7 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her 2 afar off to sojourn. 8 Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth? 9 The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to 3 stain the pride of all glory, and to bring d into contempt | all the honourable of the earth. 10 Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more 4 strength. ing a mer 6 Canaan. strengths. e Re. 18.22. f ver.1. g Ps.72.9. 8 it shall be unto Tyre as the song of. Re. 17.2. 11 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment 5 against 6 the merchant city, to destroy the 7 strong holds thereof. 12 And he said, Thou shalt no e more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim;f there also shalt a thou have no rest. 13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them g that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin. 14 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste. 15 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years,according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years 8 shall Tyre sing as an harlot. i Zec. 14.20, 21. 9 old. (CHAP. 24.) 1 perverteth the face thereof. Ho.4.9. 2 or, prince, Ge.41.45. b Ep.6.8,9. 3 height of the. c Ge.3.17. d Mal.4.6. e 2Pe.3. 10. g Je.7.34. Ho.2.11. 16 Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, singh La.1.1. many songs, that thou mayest bei La.2.9. remembered. k ch.6.13. 17.5.6. Mi.2. 12. 17 T And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and h shall com- Zep.2.14, 15. mit fornication with all the king-m 1Pe.3.15. doms of the world upon the face of the earth. 18 And her merchandise and her 4 or, valleys. and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. 2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with a the 2 priest; as b with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. 3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word. 4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the 3 haughty people of the earth do languish. 5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because c they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefored hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, e and few men left. 7 The new f wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh. 8 The mirthg of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth. 9 They shall not drink wine with a song: strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. 10 The city of confusion is broken down every house is shut up, that no man may come in. 11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone. 12 In h the city is left desolation, and the gate i is smitten with destruction. 13 T When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall bek as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done. 14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea. 15 Wherefore glorify m ye the LORD in the fires, even the name |