God's purpose in calling Cyrus. B. C. about 712. A See Jer. 50. 12 Chr. 36. a ch. 41. 13. d Ps. 107. 16. e ch. 41. 23. f Ex. 33, 12, 17. ch. 43, 1. & 49. 1. 9 ch. 44. 1. A 1 Thess. 4. 5. i Deut. 4. 35. 39. & 32. 39. ch. 41. 8. & 46. 9. k ver. 14, 18, 21, 22. / Ps. 18. 32. 39. m Pa. 102. 15. ch, 37. 20. Mal. 1. 11. " Am. 3. 6. ". o Ps. 72. 3. & 85. 11. p ch. 64. 8. x Gen. 2. 1. #2 Chr. 36, 22, b Ps. 68. 31. & 16. Zech. 8. 22, 23. ISAIAH. THU HUS saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose "right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the twoleaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut; 2 I will go before thee, and make tue crooked places straight: dI will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron: 3 And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel. 4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me. 5 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me; 6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. 7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and "create evil: I the LORD do all these things. 8 Drop down, ye heavens, from above, 9 Woe unto him that striveth with Phis An exhortation to look to God. 16 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols. 17h But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end. 18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD, and there is none else. 19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: "I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right. 20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save. B. C. about 712. g ch. 44. 11. m Ps. 19. 8. & Rom. 1. 22. 23. och. 41. 22. & 43.9. & 44.7. & 46. 10. & 48. 14. p ver. 5,14,18. ch. 44. 8. & 46. 9. & 48. 3, &c. 65. 5. 21 Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: "who hath de- P. 22. 27. & clared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? Pand there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me. 22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. 23 I have sworn by myself, the word is 24 Surely shall one say, In the LORD potsherds of the earth. 9 Shall the clay say BEL to him that fashioneth it, What makest 12 I have made the earth, and "created 13 I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts. 14 Thus saith the LORD, 6 The labour of 60. 9, 10, 14, Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, saying, d Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no God. e Pa. 149. 8. d1 Cor. 14. 25. e ver. 5. ƒ Pa. 44. 24. ch. 8. 17, & 57. 17. 15 Verily thou art a God ƒ that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour. r Gen. 22. 16. Heb. 6. 13. Rom. 14. 11. t Gen. 31. 53. 1 Cor. 1. 30. + Heb. right cousnesses. z ch. 41. 11. y ver. 17. z 1 Cor. 1. 31. a ch. 21. 9. Jer. 50. 2. & 51. 44. EL a boweth down, Nebo stoopeth; their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy laden; bthey are a burden to the weary Jer. 10. 5. beast. 2 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but + themselves are gone into captivity. 3 Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, 4 And even to your old age I am he; 5 To whom will ye liken me, and make 6 They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship. ec Jer. 48. 7. + Heb. their soul, dEx. 19. 4. e Pa. 102. 27. ƒPs. 48. 14. & 9 ch. 40. 18,25. 7 They bear him upon the shoulder, they i Jer. 10, 5. 8 Remember this, and shew yourselves Judgments on Babylon. B. C. about 712. Ich. 44. 19. & 47.7. in Deut. 32. 7. n ch. 45. 5, 21. o ch. 45. 21. p Ps. 33. 11. Prov. 19. 21. & 21. 30. Acta 5, 39. Heb. 6. 17. 7 ch. 41. 2, 25. + Heb. the man of my counsel. rch, 44, 28, & 45. 13. Num. 23. 19. t Ps. 76. 5. "Rom. 10. 3. z ch. 51. 5. Rom. 1.17. & 3. 21. y Hab. 2. 3. z ch. 62. 11. ISAIAH. men: bring it again to mind, O ye trans- 9 Remember the former things of old: 10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, "My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: 11 Calling a ravenous bird from the east, tthe man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it. 12 Hearken unto me, ye tstouthearted, "that are far from righteousness: 13 I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory. CHAPTER XLVII. Babylon to be overthrown, 6 because of her oppres- Israel's obstinacy rebuked. 13 a Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee. 14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it. 15 Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even dthy merchants, from tby youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee. CHAPTER XLVIII. God rebuketh the obstinacy of his people. 9 He HEA EAR ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and a are come forth out of the waters of Judah, b which swear by the name of the LORD, a Jer. 48. 18. COME down, and sit in the dust, and make mention of the God of Israel, 6 ch. 3. 26. c Ex. 11. 5. Jer. 13.22.26. e Rom. 12. 19. 91 Sarn, 2, 9. 2 Chr. 28. 9. Zech. 1. 15. keh. 43, 28, / Deut. 28.50. Zeph. 2. 15. 9 Rev. 18. 7. rch. 51. 19. 1 Theas.5. 3. t Nah. 3. 4. Ps. 52. 7. z ch. 29. 15. Ea. 8. 12. & 9. 9. Or, caused thee to turn away. y ver. 8 + Heb. the morning thereof. ↑ Heb. expiate. z 1 Thess. 5. 3. virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate. 2 Take the millstones, and grind meal: 3d Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, 6 I was wroth with my people, I have 7 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever so that thou didst not "lay these things thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it. 8 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, PI am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: but not in truth, nor in righteousness. 3 fI have declared the former things from 4 Because I knew that thou art tobstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass; B. C. about 712. a ch. 57. 10. bch. 44. 25. Dan. 2. 2. + Heb. viewers of the heavens. ↑ Heb. that e Nah. 1. 10. d Rev. 18. 11. a P. 68. 26. Deut. 6. 13. ch. 65. 16. Zeph, 1. 5. Jer. 4. 2. & 5.2. dch. 52. 1. Mic. 3. 11. Rom. 2. 17. fch. 41. 22. & 42. 9. & 43. 9. & 44. 7. 8. & 45, 21. & 46. 9, 10. + Heb. hard. h Ex. 32. 9. Deut. 31. 27. i ver. 3. 5 I have even from the beginning de- Josh, 21.45. 6 Thou hast heard, see all this; and will 7 They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Beboid, I knew them. k Pa. 58. 3. /Ps. 79, 9. & 106. 8. eh. 43. 25. ver. 11. Ez. 20. 9, 14, 22.44. Ps. 78. 38. " Pa. 66. 10. 8 Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knew-m 9 But these two things shall come to 11 Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know t from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know. 12 Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail. p See Deut. 32. 26, 27. Ez. 20. 9. 9 ch. 42. 8. 11 For mine own sake, even for miner Deut. 32.39. own sake, will I do it: for Phow should mych. 41. 4. & name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another. 12 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called: I am he; I am the first, I also am the last. 13 Mine hand also hath laid the founda- 14 All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; 44. 6. t Ps. 102. 25. ch. 41. 22. & 43. 9. & 44.7. & 45. 20, 21. y ch. 45. 1. sch. 44. 28. a ch. 45, 1, 2, &c. Promise of the Messiah. B. C. about 712. bch. 45. 19. c ch 61. 1. Zech. 2. 8, 9, 11. ISAIAH. called him I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous. 16 Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me. 17 Thus saith d the LORD, thy Redeemer, dch. 43. 14. & the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest 44. 6, 24. e Ps. 32. 8. f Deut. 32. 29. P1. si. 13. y Ps. 119. 165. h Gen. 22. 17. Hos. 1. 10. i ch. 52. 11. Jer. 50. 8. & 51. 6. 45. Zech. 2. 6. 7. Rev. 18. 4. k Ex. 19. 4. 5. cl. 44. 22, 23. (See ch. 41. 17, 18. m Ex. 17. 6. Num. 20. 11. Ps. 105, 41. nch. 57. 21. a ch. 1. 1. b ver. 5. Jer. 1. 5. John 10, 36. c ch. 11. 4. & 51. 16. Hos. 6. 5. Heb. 4. 12. Rev. 1, 16. deh. 51. 16. e Ps. 45. 5. fch. 42. 1. Zech. 3. 8. g ch. 44. 23. John 13, 31. & 15. 8. Eph. 1. 6. A Ez. 3. 19. [ Or, my reward, ch. 40. 10, & 62. 11. i ver. 1. Or. That Israel may be gathered to him, and I may, fc. k Matt. 23. 37. Or, Art thou "lighter than that thou shouldest, &c. | Or, desolations. Ich, 42, 6, & go. 18 fOh that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea: 19 Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me. 20 Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath kredeemed his servant Jacob. 21 And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out. 22 "There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked. CHAPTER XLIX. The Messiah and the object of his advent. 7 God promiseth him protection and success. 13 God's unchanging love to Zion. 18 Her glorious enlargement foretold. 24 The enemies of Zion shall be destroyed. LISTEN, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; 6 The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. 2 And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; din the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me; 3 And said unto me, f Thou art my serv ant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified. 4 Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and "my work with my God. 5 And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, "Though Israel A be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength. 6 And he said, "It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the "preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth. 7 Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, "Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee. 8 Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salActs 13. 47. & 26. 18. Or, to him that is mch. 53. 3. Matt. 26. 67. n Ps. 72. 10, 11. 69. 13. 2 Cor. 6. 2. 60, 3. Luke 2. 32. despised in soul. ver. 23, o See P1, Zion's glorious enlargement. vation have I helped thee: and I will pre- B. C. about 712. j.ch. 42. 6. Or, raise up. 9 ch. 42. 7. Zech, 9. 12. r Rev. 7. 16. Ps. 121. 6. 10 They shall not 'hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them tshall lead Pa. 23. 2. them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them. u ch. 40. 4. zeh, 43. 5, 6. 11 "And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted. 12 Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim. 13 Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, Oy ch. 44. 23. earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted. 14 But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. 15 "Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, byet will I not forget thee. 16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me. behold: all these gather themselves togethech. 60, 4. 18 Lift up thine eyes round about, and er, and come to thee. As I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, fas with an ornament, and bindƒ Prov. 17. 6. them on thee, as bride docth. 19 For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inbabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away. 20 The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell. 21 Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive. and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been? 22 Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their tarms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders. 23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for "they shall not be ashamed that wait for me. 24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered? 25 But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shalt be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children. g See ch. 54. 1, 2. Zech. 2. 4. & 10. 10. ch. 60. 4. Matt. 3. Rom. 11. 11. 12. &c. keh. 60. 4. & 66. 2. Heb, bosom. (Ps 72. 11. ver. 7 el, 5. 15, & BU. 16. + Heb. nourishers. ↑ Heb. princesses. m P. 72. 9. Mic. 7. 17. n P. 31. 22. Rom 5.5 & 9 33. & 10, 11. o Matt. 12, 29, Luke 11. 21, 22 + Heb the captivity of the just. + Heb. captivity. 26 And I will "feed them that oppress theep ch. 9, 20, Cause of Israel's distress. B. C. about 712. 9 Rev. 14, 20. & 16. 6. Or, new wine. Pa. 9. 16. ch. 60. 16. Jer. 3. 8. Hos. 2. 2. b See 2 Kings ISAIAH. with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh "shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob. CHAPTER L. The sins of Israel the cause of their sufferings, and not God's inability to save. 4 God's gift to the Messiah. 6 His patient endurance of reproach. 10 An exhortation to trust in God, and not in ourselves. of a Deut. 24. 1. THUS saith the LORD, Where is the bill your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away. 4. 1. Matt. 18. 25. e ch. 52. 3. d Prov. 1. 24. 66. 4. " Matt. 11. 28. p Matt. 26.39. 7 Matt. 26.67. + Heb. the z ch. 61. 8. a John 9. 39. 6 Pa. 16. 4. a ver. 7. Rom. 9. 30, 31. 32 2 Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, fat my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: itheir fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst. 3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, (and I make sackcloth their covering. 4The Lord GOD bath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is "weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned. 5 The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not "rebellious, neither turned away back. Promise of God to Zion. B. C. about 712. 3 For the LORD fshall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; f Ps. 102, 13. joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. ch. 10. 1. & 52.9. ver. 12. Joel 2. 3. 4 Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall 9 Gen. 13. 10. proceed from me, and I will make my judg h ch. 2. 3. & ment to rest for a light of the people. 42. 4. i ch. 42. 6. k ch. 16. 13. & 56. 5 My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; "the isles shall wait upon me, and "on mine arm shall they trust." 6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a gar-m ment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished. 7 Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings. 1. Ps. 67. 4. & 98. 9. n Rom. 1. 16. och. 40. 26. p Ps. 102. 26. Matt. 24. 35. 2 Pet. 3. 10, 12. 9 ch. 50. 9. 8 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for Matt. 10. 28 ever, and my salvation from generation to generation. Acts 5. 41. ch, 50. 9. ch. 52. 1. Ps. 93. 1. Rev. 11. 17. 9Awake, awake; "put on strength, OP. 23. 691 gave my back to the smiters, and "my hid not my face from shame and spitting. 7 For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have 'I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed. 8 He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me. 9 Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? "lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up. 10 Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his serv ant, that "walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name the LORD, and stay upon his God. 11 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. "This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down b in sorrow. CHAPTER LI. Comfort promised to Zion. 4 God's salvation is netr The destruction of Zion's enemies foretold. The people of God pray for his aid as of old. 12 His promise to them. 17 The afflictions of Jerusalem bewailed, 21 and her deliverance promised "HE EARKEN to me, bye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are Rom 4.1,16. hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye Heb. 11. 11. are digged. 12. 2 Look unto Abraham your father, and d Gen. 12. 1.2. unto Sarah that bare you: d for I called him alone, and "blessed him, and increased him. Gen. 24. 1, 35. 11 Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy and sorrow and mourning shall fleech. 35. 10. away. 12 1, even I, am he fthat comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made has grass; 13 And forgettest the LORD thy Maker, ithat hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy?k and where is the fury of the oppressor? 14 The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail. 15 But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts is his name. 16 And "I have put my words in thy mouth, and 1 have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, Pthat I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people. The captive daughter of Zion. B. C. about 712. t oh. 47, 9. + Heb. happened. + Heb. breaking. π Am. 7. 2. Lam. 2. 11, 12. y See ver. 17. Lam. 3. 15. z Jer, 50. 34. a Jer. 25. 17, 26, 28. Zech. 12. 2. 6 Pa. 66. 11,12. ISAIAH. 19 These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: "by whom shall I comfort thee ? 20Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God. 21 Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine: 22 Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again: 23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; b which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over and The sufferings of the Messiah. fore you; "and the God of Israel will be your rearward. 13 Bebold, my servant shall "deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high. 14 As many were astonished at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men : 15 "So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider. B. C. about 712. u Num 10 25. ch, 58. 8. See Ex. 14. 19. + Heb. gather you кр. x ch. 42. 1. Or, prosper, ch. 53. 10. Jer. 23. 5. y Phil. 2. 9. z Pa. 22. 6, 7. ch. 53. 2. 3. a Ez. 36. 25. Acts 2. 33. Heb. 9. 13, 14. bch. 49. 7, 23. ech, 55, 5. Rom. 15. 21. & 16. 25, 26. Eph. 3. 5, 9. CHAPTER LIII. The Messiah despised and rejected. 4 His suffer inge in our behalf. 7 His meekness, humiliation, and death. 10 The benefits of his passion, HO "hath believed our "report? and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and W to whom is 6 the arm of the LORD re as the street, to them that went over. CHAPTER LII. Zion exhorted to awake and prepare for her deliverance from captivity. 7 The herald of this event seen upon the mountains, The waste places of Jerusalem called upon to rejoice. 11 The people commanded to depart out of bondage. 13 The humiliation and exaltation of the Messiah. vealed? 2 For the shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground dhe hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. a John 12. 38. Rom. 10. 16. i Or. doctrine? Heb. hearing? bch. 51. 9. Rom. 1. 16. 1 Cor. 1. 18. e ch. 11. 1. Mark 9. 12. 3 He is despised and rejected of men; d ch. 52. 14. a man of sorrows, and facquainted with e Ps. 22. 6. ach, 51.9, 17. AWAKE, awake; put on thy strength, grief: and we bid as it were our faces from him; he ch. 49. 7. esteemed him not. b Neh. 11. 1. Matt. 4. 5. e ch. 35. 8, & d Rev. 21, 27. f Zech, 2. 7. Ps. 44 12, ch. 45. 13. Jer. 15, 13. Gen. 46. 6. Acta 7, 14. * Ez. 36. 20,23. Rom, 2. 24. k Nah. 1. 15. Rom. 10. 15. / Ps. 93. 1. & 96. 10. & 97. 1. m ch. 51. 3. n ch, 48. 20. o Pa. 98. 2, 3. p Luko 3. K 7ch. 48. 20, Jer. 50. 8. & 51. 6, 45. Zech. 2. 6, 7. 2 Cor. 6. 17. Rev 18.4. r Lev. 22. 2, &c. See Ex. 12. 33, 39. t Mic. 2. 13. Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. 2 Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: floose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion. 3 For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money. 4 For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause. 5 Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed. 6 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I. 7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of bim that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, 7Tby God reigneth! 8 Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion. 9 Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: "for the LORD bath comforted his people, "he hath redeemed Jerusalem. 10 The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and Pall the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. 11 Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing: go ye out of the midst of her; "be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD. 12 For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go be 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, Or. yet he opened not his mouth: "he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. 8 He was taken from prison and from judgment and who shall declare his gen eration? for he was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people was he stricken. 9 And he made his grave with the wick. ed, and with the rich in his † death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. 10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. 11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: "by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; a for he shall bear their iniquities. 126 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he Or, i Rom. 4. 25. 1 Cor. 15. 3. 1 Pet. 3. 18. + Heb.bruise. k1 Pet. 2. 24. Ps. 119. 176. 1 Pet. 2. 25. + Heb, hath made the iniquity of us all to meet on him. m Matt.26.63. & 27. 12, 14. Mark 14. 61. & 15. 5. 1 Pet. 2. 23. n Acts 8. 32. Or, He was taken away by distress and judgment: but, to. o Dan. 9. 26. + Heb. was the stroke upon him. p Matt. 27.57, 58, 60. when his soul Rom. 6. + Heb. deaths. q1 Pet. 2. 22. 1 John 3. 5. shall make an offering. r2 Cor. 5. 21. 1 Pet. 2. 24. 9. Eph. 1. 5. 9. 2 Thess. 1. 11. 1 John 2. 1. ych. 42. 1. & 49, 3. b Ps. 2. 8. Phil. 2. 9. e Col. 2. 15. John 17. 3. Rom. 5. 18. 19. d Mark 15. 28. 2 Pet. 1. 3. a ver. 4. 5. Luke 22 37. |