I will be. ch.47.8. Ge.3.5. and a half on each side, along which stood the | Zep 2.15. Re. 187,8. I will ascend. Eze 2.9,12.16. Da. all built three or four stories high, and highly 8.10. 12. the mount. ch.2.2. P. 49.2. ded towards the street, the interior of these 14 ascend. ch.37.23,24. a being employed as gardens, pleasure grounds, 2 Th 24. principal ornaments were the temple of Beving a tower of eight stories, upon a base of a ef a mile square; a most magniscent palace; tfamous hanging gardens, or artificial moun. sed upon arebes, and planted with large and Cyrus took it by diverting the waters States, which ran through the midst, and by the channel; and the river being never proper course, overdowed the whole 15 thou, ver.3..11. Eze.28.8,9. Mat.11.23. Ac.12.22,23. Re.19 20. to the, Eze.3213. 16 shall narriacly. Ps.58 10,11.-64 9. Is this. ver. 4,5. Ps.52.7. Je 50.23-61.20..23. 17 made. ch.13.19.22. 64.10. Eze 6.14. Joel 2.3. Zep. 2.13.14. opened not the house of his prisoners. or, did not let his prisoners loose homewards. ch.45.13. 58.6. 2 Ch.2.8.15. Exr.1.2.4. 18 all of. ch.16.2 Ch.24.16,25. Ec.6.3. Eze.32.18,&c. 19 them. The prophet having briefly set forth, in the beginning of this chapter, the deliverance of Judah from captivity, in consequence of the destruction of Babylon, then introduces this triumphant song, the beauties of which are excellently illustrated by Bp. LowтH. 1 K1.21.19,24 2Ki 9:25,34.36. Jes.1,2. 16. 6. 22.19. go. Je.41.7.9. Eze 32.23. made it a morass. Darius Hystaspeshouse. Job 30.23. Rc.12.5. depopulated the place, lowered the walls, bed the gates; Xerxes destroyed the tem building of Seleucia nearly exhausted it of ts, king of the Parthians carried a them into slavery, and destroyed the most parts, so that modern travellers describe it of Chapeless ruins, the habitation of wild 1446,12 15. Je. 51.41. Da. 2.37,38.-4.30. Kerthrone. Heb, the overthrowing of. Ge.19. 1.4.18-50.40. Zep.2.9. 26.50 2,13,21,30,45. 51.26,29,43,62..64. Re. d3411 15. Re.19.2. wild beasts. Heb. fal creatures. Heb. Ochim. owls. 07, 08daughters of the owl. Wild beats. Heb. lim. desolate houses. Or, . ch.35.7. 20 the seed, ch.13.15.. 19. Job i8.16,19. Ps. 21.10.-37.28. -109.13.-1378,9. 21 slaughter. Ex.20.5. Le.26.39. Mat.23.35. do not. ch.27.6. Hab.2.8.12. 22 I will ch.13.5. 21.9.-43 14. 47.9.14. Je.50.26,27, 29. 35.-51.3,4,56.57. the name. Job 18.16..19. Pr. 10.7. Je 51.62..64. remnant. 1 K1.14.10. 23 make, ch.13.21,22. 34.11..15. Je 50.39,40. 51.42,43. Zep 2.14. Re.14.8 19.2,21.23. I will sweep, 1 Ki 14.10. her time. De 32.35. Je.51.2 Ki 21.13. Je b1.25,26. Hab 23. 2 Pe.2.3.-3.9.10. CHAP. XIV. toration of Irael, 1, 2. Their ltation over Babel, 3-23. God's got Auyria, 24-28. Palestina is 3-22 Con ch.40 1,2-44.21,22-54.7,8. Le.26.40..45. Ne189. Ps.98.3. 102.13. 136.10..24.-143. 14617-2033-514.6,34.37. Lu. 1.54,72.74. 2. Zec.1.17.-2.12. tet. De 30.3.5. Je 24. 24 Lord. Ex.17.16. Ps.110.4. Je. 44.26. Am 87. He 4.3. -6.16.18. Surely, ch.46.10,11. Job 23.13. Ps.33 10.92.5. Pr.19.21.-21.30. Je.23 20.-29.11. La 3.37. Mat.11. 25. Ac.4.28. Ep.1.9. 25 I will. ch.9.4.-10.16. 19,32..34. 17.12..14.-30.30.. 33-31.8,9.-37.36. 38. Eze 39.4. then, ver.5. ch.10.24.. 27. Na. 1.13. 26 ch.5.25. Zep.3.6.8. 27 the Lord ch.23.9.-43.13-46.11. Job 40.8. Je.4.28. -51.29. RoS 28,31. his. ch.9 12.2 Ch.20.6. Job 9.12.-23. 13. Ps.33.11. Pr.19.21.-21.30. Da 4.31.35. 28 A. M. 3278. B. C. 726. ch.6.1. 2 Ki.16.20. 2 Ch. 28.27 . 29 Rejoice. Pr.24.17. Eze.26.2 35.15. Ho.9.1. Ob.12. M17.8. Zep.3.11. whole. Jos 133. 1Sa.6.17,18. because. 2Ch.26.6.-28.18. for 2K1.188. cockatrice, or, adder. ch.11.8. a Aery. ch.30.6. 30 the firstborn. Job 18.13. the poor. ch.5.17.-7.21, 22.-30.23,24-33.16. 37.30-65.13,14. and I. Je. XLVII. Eze.25.15..17. Joel 34.8. Am 1.6..8. Zep.2.4.7. Zec. 22-318.12. 32.37.41. Eze 36.24. 28. the strangers. ch.19.24.25. 49.16. 23. 56. -6.3. Hu 1.14..18. Es.8.17. Je.12.15,16. H2,3, Mal.1.11. La 2.32. Ac.15.14..17. Ep. The hour. ch.18.7.-60.9.12.-61.5. Ezr.2.65. C945. Ga5.13 and they. Ps.63.18. 2Co. whose captives they were. Heb. that had captives they shall rule over. ch.60.14.9.5..7. 7.3,25 27. Zec.14.2,3. Re.39.-11.11..18.-E13 De 29 48,65..63. Ezr.9.8,9. Je.30. -0.34. Exe.28.24. Zec.8.28. Re.18.20,jee, taunting speech. Je.24.9. Eze 5.15. Ter.6,17. ch.47.5-49.26-51.23. Je.25. 4-922,23-81.20. 24,34,35. Da.7.19.25. Hab. 17. Re.13 15.17 16.5.6.-17.6.-18.5.8, yor, exactress of gold. ch.13.19.-45.2, 41. Da 2.38. Re.19.16. 94-105. Ps.125 3. Je.48.15..17. tch 33.1-47.6. 2 Ch.36.17. Je.25.9. Da 7. continual stroke, Heb, a stroke with 31 Howl. ch.13.6-16.7. for. ch.20.1. Je.1.14. – 25. 16.20. none shall be alone, or, he shall not be alone. appointed times, or, assemblies. the 32 shall one. ch.39.1. 28.8.10. 2 Ki 20.12,&e. Lord. ch.126-37 32. Ps.87.1,5-102 16,28,--132,13,14. Mat.16.18, and the. ch.11.4.-25.4. Zep3.12. Zec 117, 11. Ja.2.5. trust in it. or, betake themselves unto it. Pr.18.10. Mat.24.15,16. He.12.22. CHAP. XV. The lamentable state of Moab. 1 burden. This and the following chapter form one entire prophecy; which was most probably delivered, ing is persecuted, ch.13.14.19.-21.1..10.as Bp. LoWTH supposes, soon after the foregoing. (ch. 31 Re.17.16.17.-19.8..10. and 4. Job 9.13, Pr.21.30. Da.4.35, 13 P6.11.13.-98.7.9. 126.1.3. Pr.11. Re. 18.20.-19.1..6. 1 Eze.31.16. Zec.11.2. 4. The grave. from. Pr.15.24. is moved. chief ones. Heb, leaders, or, great goats. ths also, Pa. 49.6..14,20-82.6,7. Ec.2.16. Lu. 譯 the ch 21.4,5.-22.2. Job 21.11..15. Eze.26.13.- 14.32,) in the first year of Hezekiah, and accomplished in his fourth year when Shalmaneser invaded Israel. ch.13.1.-14.28. Moab. ch.11.14. 25.10. Je.9.26. -XLVIII. Eze 25.8.11. Am.2.1.3. Zep 2.8..11. in the. Ex.12.29,30. 1Th.5.1.3. Ar. Nu.21.2. De.2.9,18. brought to silence. or, cut off. Kir. ch.16.7, Kir-ha reseth, ver.11, Kir-haresh. 2K1.3.25, Kir-haraseth. Je. 48.31,36, Kir-heres. 2 is gone, ch.16.12. Jos.13.17. Je.48.18,22,23. Moab. ver 3. ch.14.31. 16.7. Je.48.31,39. Nebo. Nu 32.3,38. De.34.1. Je 48.1. Medeba. Nu.21.30. Jos.13.16. all. ch 3.24.-22.12. Le.19.27,28 21.5. De.14.1. Job 1.20. Je, 7.29. 47.5. 48.1,37,38. Eze.7.18. Bert thou fallen, ch.13.10.-34.4 Eze.28.13..17. 1P2.4 Re 12.7 10. Lucifer, or, day-star. 11 21. on the, ver 2. ch.22.1. De 22.8 Je.19.13.-48.34,39. 1382.28-22.16. weaken. ver. 4..6. Je 50.23.weeping abundantly. Heb, descending into weeping: or, coming down with weeping. vers. 3 their streets. 2 Sa.3.31. 2K1.6 30. Jon.3.6..8. Mat. ch47-7-10. Eze 27.3.-28.2.-29.3. Da.4.30,31. 4 Heshbon. ch.168,9. Nu.32.3,4. Je.48.34. Jakar. Damascus is. ch.8.4.-10.9.2 KLIKS Nu.21.23. De.2.32. Jos.13.18. Ju.11.20. his. Ge.27.46. | 1. Ac.9.2. Nu.11.15. 1 Ki.19.4. Job 3.20..22.-7.15,16. Je.8.3.-20. Tuinous. ch.25.2.-37.26. Je.49.2. M.1.6-3.12 18. Jon.4.3,8. Re.9.6. 2 Areer. Nu.32.34. De.2.36.-3.12. Jes.1336 19. they shall, ch.5.17.-7.23... Ese A None. Je.7.33. 5 My heart. ch.16.9..11. Je.8.18,19.-9.10,18,19.-13. 17.-17.16.48.31..36. Lu.19.41..44. Ro.9.1..3. his fugitives, &c. or, to the borders thereof, even as an heifer. Zoar. Ge.13.10.-14.2.-19.22. three. ch.16. 14. Je.48.34. the mounting. Je.48.5,34. with. 2 Sa. 15.23,30. destruction. Heb. breaking. ch.22.5. Je.4.20. 6 Nimrim. Nu.32.3,36, Nimrah, Beth-nimrah. Jos. 13.27, Beth-nimrah. desolate. Heb. desolations. the grass. ch.16.9,10. Joel 1.10..12. Hab.3.17,18. Re.8.7. 7 the abundance. ch.5.29.-10.6,14. Na.2.12,13. the. Ps.137.1,2. brook of the willows. or, valley of the Arabians. to 3 fortress. ch.7.5,16.-8.4.-10.9. 2 Ki Ho.1.4,6.-3.4.-5.13,14.-5.8.-9.15,17.8,15,16. Am.2.6..9.-3.9..15.-5.25.27.67.18 9.1..10. Mi.1.4..9. they shall. ch.16.14-S 9.11. 4 the glory. ch.9.8,21.-10.4. the fata -24.13,16. De 32.15. 27. Eze 34.90 Zep.211, 5 as when. Je.9.22.-51.33. Ho.6.11. Jo 13.30,39..42. Re.14.15, 20. the valley. Jo the valley of the giants. 2 Sa 5.18.22. 6 ch.1.9.-10.22.-24.13. De.4.27. Ja Eze.36.9..15.-37.19..25.-89.29. Ob. Mi 8 the cry. ver.2..5. Je.48.20..24,31..34. Eglaim. Eze.47.10, En-eglaim. Eglaim is called Agallim by EUSEBIUS, who places it eight miles south from Ar-11.4.6,26. or Areopolis. 9 Dimon. Some have Dibon; and JEROME SAYS that the same town was called both Dibon and Dimon. tmore. Heb. additions. Le.26.18,21,24,28. Je.48.43..45. lions. Le.26.22. 2 Ki.17.25. Je.15.3. Am. 5.19. him. Bp. LowтH, upon the authority of the LXX., renders, upon the escaped of Moab, and Ariel, and the remnant of Admah." CHAP. XVI. Moab is exhorted to yield obedience to the throne of David, 1-5. Moab is threatened for her pride, 6-8. The prophet bewaileth her, 9-11. The judgment of Moab, 12-14. 1 the lamb. 2 Sa.8.2. 2 Ki.3.4. Ezr.7.17. from. 2 Ki. 14.7. Sela. or, Petra. Heb. a rock. the mount. ch. 10.32. Mi.4.8. 2 as. ch.13.14. Pr.27.8. cast out of the nest. or, a nest forsaken. the jords. Nu.21.13..15. De.2.36.-3.8, 12. Jos.13.16. Ju.11.18. 3 Take. Heb. Bring. execute. ch.1.17. Ps.82.3,4. Je 21.12.-22.3. Eze.45.9..12. Da.4.27. Zec.7.9. make. eb.9.6.-25.4. 32.2. Ju.9.15. Jon.4.5..8. hide. ch.56. 8. Ob.12..14. Mat.25.35. He.13.2. 7 ch.10.20,21.-19.22.-22.11.-24.14,1Ju.10.15,16. 2 Ch.30.10,11,18.20.-31.1.12..14,18..23.-31.4..10. Ho35-61-11 8 he shall. ch.1.29.-2.18.21.-27934.6,7. Eze.36.25. Ho.14.S. Zep.1.3 Zec work. ch.2.8.-31.6,7.-44.15,19,20 Ho. -13.1,2. Mi.5.13,14. 14.5.-34.4, marg. images, or, sun-ing 9 ver.4,5. ch.6.11..13.-7.16.20.-9.9.124 Mi.5.11.-6.16.-7.13. 27.10.-28.1..4. Ho.10.14.-13.15,16. An 10 thou hast, ch.51.13. De.6.12.-8.11 -106.13,21. Je.2.32.-17.13. Ho2.114 13.6,7. the God. ch.12.2.1 Ch.16.35 P -79.9.-85.4. Hab.3.18. the rock, ch Ps.18.2.-31.2. shalt thou. ch.521 De.28.30,38..42. Je.12.13. Am 5.11. Zep 11 the harvest. ch.18.5,6. Job 4.8. Je 9.1..4,16.-10.12..15. Joel 1.5..12 Ga67 the day of grief and of desperate set in the day of Inheritance, and there sh sorrow. ch.65.13,14. Mat.8.11,12. Ro258 12 multitude, or, noise. ch.9.5. 5.26..30-8.7,8.-28.17. Ps. 18.4-46.1.3 3,4. Je.6.23. Eze.43.2. Lu.21.2 Ps.29.3. Re.17.1,15. 13 but. ch.10.15,16,33,34.-14.25.30..33.-31.8,9.-33.1.3,9.12.-30.29. 4 mine. De.23.15,16.-24.14. Je.21.12. for. ch.14.4. -33.1.-51.13. Je.48.8,18. Zec.9.8. extortioner. Heb. wringer. oppressors. Heb. treaders down. ch.15.6. 25.10. Zec.10.5. Mal.4.3. Lu.21.24. Ro.16.20. Re.11.2. 5 in mercy. Ps.61.6,7. 85.10.-89.1,2,14. Pr.20.28.5..11. rebuke. Job 38.11. Mar.4.3941. 29.14. Lu.1.69..75. established. or, prepared. in the. ch.9.6,7. 2 Sa.5.9. 7.16. Je.23.5,6. Da.7.14,27. Am.9. 11. Mi.4.7. Lu.1.31..33. Ac.15.16,17. judging. ch.11. 1..5.-32.1,2. 2 Sa.23.3. 1 Ki.10.9. 2 Ch.31.20. Ps.72.2..4. -96.13.-98.9.-99.4. Zec.9.9. He.1.8,9. hasting. 2 Pe. 3.11,12. 6 have. ch.2.11. Je.48.26,29,30,42. Am.2.1. Ob.3,4. Zep.2.9,10. 1 Pe.5.5. but, ch.28.15,18.-44.25. Je.50.36. 7 shall Moab. ch.15.2..5. Je.48.20. Kir-hareseth. ver.11. ch.15.1. 2 Ki.3.25. muur. Or, mutter. ch.8.19. 8 the fields. ch.15.4.-24.7.2 Sa.1.21. the vine, ver. 9. Nu.32.38, Shibmah. Jos.13.19. lords. ch.10.7. Je.7.6,7. Jazer. Nu.32.3. Jos.13.25. stretched out. or, plucked up. the 9 I will bewail. ch.15.5. Je.48.32..34. O Heshbon. ch.15.4. for ch.9.3. Ju.9.27. Je.40.10,12. the shouting for. or, the alarm is fallen upon, &c. 10 ch.24.8,9. 32.10. Je.48.33. Am.5.11,17. Hab.3.17, 18. Zep.1.13. 11 my. ch.15.5.-63.15. Je.4.19.-31.20.-48.36. Ho. 11.8. Phi.2.1. Kir-haresh. ver.7. Kir-bareseth. 12 when. ch.15.2.-26.16. Nu.22.39,41.-23.1..3,14,28. -24.17. Pr.1.28. Je.48.35. he shall. ch.37.38. 1 Ki.11. 7.2 Ki.3.27. Je.48.7,13,46. but. ch.47.13. 2 Ki.19.12, 16..19. Ps.115.3..7. Je.10.5. 13 since. ch.44.8. 14 three. ch.7.16.-15.5.-21.16. De.15.8. the glory. ch.17.4.-23.9. Ge.31.1. Es.5.11. Je.9.23. Na.2.9,10. and the remnant. Je.48.46,47. feeble. or, not many. CHAP. XVII. Syria and Israel are threatened, 1-3. A remnant shall forsake idolatry, 6-8. The rest thall be plagued for their impicty, 9 11. The woe of Israel's enemies, 12-14. 1 A. M. cir. 3263. B. C. cir. 741. burden. ch.15.1. -19.1. Damascus ch.7 8. Ge.14.15. 15.2. 1 Ki.11.24. 1 Ch.18.5. 2 Ch.28 5,23 Je.49.23..27. Am.1.3..5. Zec.9. 439 K 29.5.-41.15,16. Job 21.18. Ps.1.4-35.5. God, in care of his people, will destroy the 1 A. M. cir. 3290. B. C. cir. 714. renders, after BOCHART, Ho! to the winged cymbal;' which he thinks is a per the Egyptian sistrum; and consequentie which borders on the rivers of Cush, is to which the prophecy is addressed. If shadowing with wings,' it may allude to tude of its vessels, whose sails may be re under the notion of wings. the land ch 2,3.-31.1. shadowing. Ru2.12. P.178 61.4.-63.7.-91.4. Mat.23.37. wird. 21 30.4,5. Zep.2.12.-3.10. 2 sendeth. ch.30.2..4. Eze 30.9. known that the Egyptians commonly Nile a light sort of ships or boats made of rus. See Note on Ex.2.3. to a nation t tered and peeled, or, outspread and po as Bp. Lowтs renders, stretched out and smoothed.' Egypt, which is situated 24 and 32 N. lat. and 30 and 33 s le the Mediterranean, on the east by the bounded on the south by Ethiopia, on th Arabia, and on the west by those of l long vale, 750 miles in length, (through the which runs the Nile,) in breadth from t three days' journey, and even at the wi the Delta, from Pelusium to Alexandris, 250 miles broad. to a people, Ge 10.8,9 13 This is the word that the LORD bath spoken concerning Moab since that time. 14 But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as 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 feeble. CHAP. XVII. voice shall be heard even unto Ja- B. C. 726. the waters of Nimrim shall be a ch. 21. 16. yor, not THE burden of Damascus. Behold, for the bay is withered away, e Je 49.23,&c. City, and it shall be a ruinous heap. leth, there is no green thing. cure the abundance they have and that which they have laid up, by carry away to the brook of the cry is gone round about the Moab, the bowling thereof arn, and the bowling thereof the waters of Dimon shall be full for 1 will bring more upon upon him that escapeth of tapen the remnant of the land. CHAP. XVI. e the lamb to the ruler of the be outcasts dwell with thee, o a covert to them from the spoder: for the extortioner d, the spoiler ceaseth, the opconsumed out of the land. mercy shall the throne be Bed, and he shall sit upon it in the tabernacle of David, judgkering judgment, and hasting re beard of the pride of Moab; roud: even of his haughtiness, de, and his wrath: but his lies NO. ore shall Moab howl for Moab; all how!: for the foundations eth shall ye mourn; surely Am. 1.3.5. Zec. 9. 1, fulfilled. breaking. d 2 Kl. 16. 9. desolations. e Je. 7.33. POT, INA images. p Je. 17. 13. Je. 5.31. or, mutter. or, TEAUed in the day of inheritance, and there shall be deadly BOTTOW. or, noise. beids of Heshbon languish, ct Sibmah: the lords of the broken down the principal ed, they are come even untoor, wandered through the wilderBranches are one over the sea. ed up. stretched out, Je 432&c. I will be wail with the weeper the vine of Sibmah; I will with my tears, O Heshbon, and for the shouting for thy sumand for thy harvest is fallen. gladness is taken away, and joy plentiful field; and in the vine e shall be no singing, neither e be shouting: the treaders shall to wine in their presses; I have tage shouting to cease. refore my bowels shall sound arp for Moab, and mine inward Kr-haresh. (Ps. 9. 5. alarm is &or, 2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall be down, and none shall make them afraid. 3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, aud 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 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 lett 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 truitful 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 pimages. 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 P 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 shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow. 12 Woe to the xmultitude 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 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 thistle-mountains before the wind, and like da rolling thing before the whirlwind. down. ch. 24. 8. Je. 2. 3. 1 ch. 63. 15. ch. 20. 35. Eze.30.4..9. Zep. 2. 12. 3.10. y ch. 26. 16. at it shall come to pass, when it or, outMoab 15 weary on the high at he shall come to his sanctuary but he shall not prevail. spread and 14 And, behold, at evening-tide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us. CHAP. XVIII. WOE to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers 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 scattered and peeled, to a peo ple terrible from their beginning hitherto; B. C. 714. a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers y have spoiled! 3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign 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 consider in my dwelling-place like 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 pruning-hooks, 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. 7 In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, 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. CHAP. XIX. THE burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt; and the idols" of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the beart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it. 2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. 3 And the spirit of Egypt shall a fail in the midst thereof; and I will pdestroy the counsel thereof; and they shall seek P to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards. 4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts. 8 of line, and line, and treading 13 The princes of Zoan are ! fools, the princes of Noph are de they have also seduced Egypt, a that are o the stay of the tribes th 14 The LORD bath mingled a C underfoot, spirit in the midst thereof; and th or, that caused Egypt to err in every work meteth as a drunken man staggereth in out, and treadeth down. 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 taro away, and the brooks 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 be no more. 8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish. 9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave xnet-works, shall be confounded. 10 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds 8 for fish. P Je. 43. 12. mingle. Mal. 1. 11. be emptied Eze. 22. 14. swallow up. ch.8 19. 47.12. or,shut up. 2 Ki. 19. 24. by the hand of. 1 Ki. 10. 28. or, whiteworks. founda. tions. 11 Surely the princes of Zoan are B of living fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of they wise, the son of ancient kings? 12 Where are they? where are thy wisey men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt. things. 15 Neither shall there be ang a Egypt, which the head or tail. rush, may do. 16 In that day shall Egypt | unto women; and it shall be a fear, because of the shaking of of the LORD of hosts, which be over it. 17 And the land of Judab terror unto Egypt: every one the mention thereof shall be afraid because of the counsel of the hosts, which he hath determined! 18 In that day shall five cit laud of Egypt speak the A lang Canaan, and swear to the Long one shall be called, The city struction. 19 In that day shall there be to the LORD in the midst of Egypt, and a pillar at the bord to the LORD. 20 And it shall be for a siga a witness unto the LORD of land of Egypt: for they shall LORD because of the oppresse shall send them a saviour, an one, and he shall deliver them 21 And the LORD shall be Egypt, and the Egyptians shalli LORD in that day, and shall da and oblation; yea, they shall unto the LORD, and perform it 22 And the LORD shall s he shall smite and heal is: and return even to the LORD, and entreated of them, and shall b 23 In that day shall there be a out of Egypt to Assyria; and rian shall come into Egypt, and tian into Assyria; and the shall serve with the Assyrians 24 In that day shall Israel b with Egypt and with Assyria, ing in the midst of the land: 25 Whom the LORD of hosts saying, Blessed be Egypt my pe Assyria the work of my ham rael mine inheritance. CHAP. XX. IN the year that Tartan Ashdod, (when Sargon the kin ria sent him,) and fought agan and took it; 2 At the same time spake by Isaiah the son of Amaz and loose the sackcloth from of and put off thy shoe from thy! he did so, walking naked and i 3 And the LORD said, Lice vant Isaiah hath walketh nake foot three years for a sin upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia 4 So shall the king of Assyris the Egyptians prisoners, and pians captives, young and old. barefoot, even with their but covered, to the shame of E 5 And they shall be afraid an of Ethiopia their expectatio Egypt their glory. |