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the hills, and all nations fhall flow unto it. And many people fhall go and fay, 'Come ye, let us go up to the mountain • of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us his ways, ' and we will walk in his paths. For out ' of Zion fhall go forth the law, and the ⚫ word of the Lord from Jerufalem. And he fhall judge among the nations, and ' rebuke many people; and they shall beat 'their fwords into ploughfhares, and their fpears into pruning-hooks. Nation shall not lift up fword against nation, neither 'fhall they learn war any more.'

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Ifa. xi. 10.

And in that day there ' fhall be a root of Jeffe, which shall stand as an enfign for the people. To it fhall the Gentiles feek, and his reft fhall be glorious. And it fhall come to pass in that day, that the Lord fhall fet his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which fhall be left from Affyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cufh, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and

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• from the islands of the sea. And he shall • fet

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fet up an enfign for the nations, and shall affemble the outcafts of Ifrael, and gather together the difperfed of Judah, from the four corners of the earth. The The envy alfo of Ephraim fhall depart, and the adverfaries of Judah fhall be cut off. Ephraim fhall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not • vex Ephraim.'

Ifa. xliii. 5. Fear not, for I am with thee. I will bring thy feed from the east, and gather thee from the weft. I will fay to the north, Give up; and to the fouth, Keep not back. Bring my fons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth.'

The regard that God retains for his antient people during their difperfion, is thus beautifully reprefented by this prophet, Ch. xlix. 14. • But Zion faid, Jehovah • hath forfaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. Can a woman forget her fucking child, that the fhould not have compaflion on the fon of her womb? Yea they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Behold I have graven thee on the palms of my hands. Thy walls are • continually

'continually before me. Ver. 22, Thus faith the Lord God, Behold I will lift up

my hand to the Gentiles, and fet up my standard to the people, and they fhall bring thy fons in their arms, and thy daughters fhall be carried upon their 'fhoulders. And kings fhall be thy nurf

ing fathers, and queens thy nurfing mo'thers. They fhall bow down to thee, with their faces to the earth, and lick up 'the duft of thy feet, and thou shalt know ' that I am the Lord. For they shall not ⚫ be ashamed that wait for me. Shall the

prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive be delivered. But thus 'faith the Lord, Even the captives of the mighty fhall be taken and the prey

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' of the terrible fhall be delivered. For I • will contend with him that contendeth 'with thee, and I will fave thy children.

And I will feed them that oppress thee 'with their own flesh, and they shall be ⚫ drunken with their own blood, as with fweet wine, and all flefh fhall know that • I, Jehovah, am thy Saviour, and thy redeemer, the mighty one of Jacob.'

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The calamities and the difperfion of the Jews have been of long continuance; but, according to the following reprefentation, all their fufferings will bear but a small proportion to their future glory and happiness. Ifa. liv. Thy Maker is thine husband, • the Lord of hofts is his name, and thy ' redeemer the holy one of Ifrael; the God ' of the whole earth shall he be called. the Lord hath called thee as a woman * forfaken, and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou waft refused, faith

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thy God. For a fmall moment have I forfaken thee, but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath 1 hid my face from thee, for a moment, but with everlasting kindnefs will I have mercy on thee, faith the Lord thy re' deemer.'

Ifa. lx. 4. Lift thine eyes round about, and fee all they gather themselves together. They come to thee.

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fons fhall come from far, and thy daughters fhall be nurfed at thy fide. Ver. 9, Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as doves to their windows? Surely the ifles

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'fhall wait for me, and the fhips of Tar'fhish first, to bring thy fons from far,

their filver and their gold with them, ' unto the name of Jehovah thy God, and 'to the holy one of Ifrael, because he hath

glorified thee. And the fons of strangers ' fhall build up thy walls, and their kings • fhall minifter unto thee; for in my wrath I fmote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee. Therefore thy gates 'fhall be open continually, they fhall not

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be fhut day nor night, that men may bring unto thee the forces' (wealth) ‘of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be • brought. For the nation or kingdom 'that will not serve thee fhall perish, yea ⚫ those nations shall be utterly wasted. The glory of Lebanon fhall come unto thee, • the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box to'gether, to beautify the place of my fanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious. The fons alfo of them that afflicted thee fhall come bending unto thee, and all they that defpifed thee shall bow down themfelves at the foles of thy

feet, and they fhall call thee the city of Q2 Jehovah,