b WOE OE to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD! 2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evil doers, and against the help of them that work iniquity. 3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together. 4 For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, 'Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase him 2 Blessings promised to Zion. self for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof. 5 As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it. k 6 Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted. 7 For in that day every man shall 'cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin. m 8 Then shall the Assyrian "fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited. 4 5 7 9 And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem. CHAPTER XXXII. Blessings promised to Zion. 9 Judgments to come upon Israel and upon their enemies. [B. c. 713.] BEHOLD, a king shall reign in righteous ness, and princes shall rule in judgment. 2 And a man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a 'great rock in a weary land. 3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken. 1 ch. 2. 20. & 30. 22. for melting, or, tribute. his strength. m 1 Kings 12. 30. o ch. 37. 37. CHAP. XXXII.-a Ps. 45. 1, &c. heavy. b ch. 4. 6. & 25. 4. 3 Or, elegantly. Judgments to come upon Israel. ISAIAH, XXXIII. Zion's enemies threa LORD, to make empty the soul of the hun- | waters, that send forth thither the fee gry; and he will cause the drink of the " the ox and the ass. thirsty to fail. 7 The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the with lying words, even when the poor needy speaketh right. 4 8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he 'stand. 9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech. CHAPTER XXXIII. A woe against the enemies of God's people. 13 The security of Zion. [B. c. 713.] TOE to thee that spoilest, and WOE wast not spoiled; and dealest trea ously, and they dealt not treacherously thee! "when thou shalt cease to spoil, shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt an end to deal treacherously, they shall treacherously with thee. 2 O LORD, be gracious unto us; we waited for thee: be thou their armi morning, our salvation also in the ti trouble. 3 At the noise of the tumult the fled; at the lifting up of thyself the n were scattered. 4 And your spoil shall be gathered li gathering of the caterpillar: as the ru to and fro of locusts shall he run upon 5 The LORD is exalted; for he dw on high: he hath filled Zion with jud and righteousness. d 6 And wisdom and knowledge sh the stability of thy times, and streng 1 salvation: the fear of the LORD treasure. 1 2 7 Behold, their valiant ones sha without: the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly. 8 The highways lie waste, the way man ceaseth: he hath broken the cov he hath despised the cities, he regarde g ch. 27. 10. d Ps. 97. 9. i ch. 29. 17. f Judg. 5. 6. 10 Or, and the away. i Ps. 12. 5. Hab. 2. 8. b Rev. 13. 10. hich. 21 k 2 Or, messengers. g 2 Kings 18. 14, 15, 16, 17. peace and security. ned in the fire. And the people shall be as the burn- | not well strengthen their mast; they could f lime as thorns cut up shall they not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey. 24 And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity. m Hear, ye that are far off, what I lone; and, ye that are near, acknowmy might. The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearhath surprised the hypocrites. Who us shall dwell with the devouring who among us shall dwell with everburnings? a a CHAPTER XXXIV. God's judgments upon the enemies of Zion. 11 The desolation of their lands. 16 The certainty of the prophecy. [B. c. 713.] b COME near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and 'all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it. 2 For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter. 3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcasses, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood. 0 4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: 'and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree. g 5 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. 6 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea. 7 And the 2 unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. 3 t Ps. 46. 5. & 123. 1, 2. 2 Pet. 3. 10. i Jer, 49, 7, &c. 12 Heb. broad of spaces, or, hands. y James rhinoceroses. Mal. 1. 4. 205, The certainty of the prophecy. m ISAIAH, XXXV, XXXVI. 9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. 4 10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; "the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: °from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever. 11 P But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. 12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and and all her princes shall be nothing. The future prosperity of Zion. joice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon; they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God. 3 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. 4 Say to them that are of a 'fearful heart. Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense; he will come and save you. d 5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. 6 Then shall the flame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. h 7 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes. k 2 S And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein. 3 9 No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk · there: m 10 And the " ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and "sorrow and sighing shall flee away. 1 Heb. Lasty. f Matt. 11. 5. & 15, 30. & 21. 14. John 5. 8, 9. g ch. 32. 4. Matt. 9. 32, 33. & 12. 22. & 15. 30. 7.38, 39. i ch. 34. 13. k ch. 52. 1. Joel 3. 17. Rev. 21. 27. court for reeds, dc. Or, for he shall be with them. 11. 9. Ez. 34. 25. m ch. 51. 11. n ch. 25. & 5. 19. CHAP. XXXVI.—a 2 Kings 18. 13, 17. 2 Chr. 32, 1. nd the king of Assyria sent Rabfrom Lachish to Jerusalem unto lezekiah with a great army. And he by the conduit of the upper pool in hway of the fuller's field. hen came forth unto him Eliakim, h's son, which was over the house, ebna the 'scribe, and Joah, Asaph's e recorder. And Rabshakeh said unto them, ? now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the ting, the king of Assyria, What conis this wherein thou trustest? say, sayest thou, (but they are but words,) I have counsel and strength : now on whom dost thou trust, that bellest against me? ), thou trustest in the staff of this reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man will go into his hand, and pierce it: araoh king of Egypt to all that trust it if thou say to me, We trust in the our God: is it not he, whose high ind whose altars Hezekiah hath taken and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Il worship before this altar? ow therefore give pledges, I pray my master the king of Assyria, and ive thee two thousand horses, if thou e on thy part to set riders upon ow then wilt thou turn away the face captain of the least of my master's s, and put thy trust on Egypt for s and for horsemen ? And am I now come up without the gainst this land to destroy it? the id unto me, Go up against this land, stroy it. Then said Eliakim and Shebna and anto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, v servants in the Syrian language; understand it and speak not to us Jews' language, in the ears of the that are on the wall. But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master Rabshakeh's blasphemy. sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you? 13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria. 14 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you. 15 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. 16 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, 'Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern; d 17 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards. 18 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? 19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? 20 Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand? 21 But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not. 22 Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh. |