CHAP. XVII. cir. 7411 Syria and Israel are threatened. 6 A remnant shall forsake idolatry. 9 The rest shall be plagued for their impiety. 12 The woe of Israel's enemies. a Jer. 49. 93. Amos 1.3. Zech. 9. 1. fulfilled 740. 2 Kings 16.9. e ch. 7. 16. & 8.4. TH HE 'burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. 2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie b Jer. 7.33. down, and none 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 dch. 10. 16. made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean. Jer. 51.33. eir. 741. fch.24. 13 8 Mic. 7. 7 (Or, un images. & Ps. 68. 19. e and before the morning he is not. CHAP. XVIII 1 God in care of his people will destroy the Before CHRIST cir. 741. cir. 714. to the land shadowing with W a ch. 20. 4, 5. 5,9. Zeph. 2. 2 That sendeth ambassadors by the 3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and 6 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 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 images. 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 Or, after rain. 31. & 72. 10. d See Ps. 68. 1 Or, outch.16.1.10. Mal. 1. 11. polished: read and See ver. 2. LORD "rideth upon a swift cloud, P. 18. 10. and shall come into Egypt: and the idols & 104. 3. the day harvest shall be a heap in the day of THE burden of Egypt. Behold, the of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, 12. Jer. 43. and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the 12. midst of it. d in aberit ance, and there shall The deadly 12 Woe to the || multitude of many people, which make a noise like the Or, sise. noise of the seas; and to the rushing of Jer. 6. 23. nations, that make a rushing like the Or, many. 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 1 shall be chased as the chaff of the mounthistle tains before the wind, and like || a rolling thing before the whirlwind. 18313--13-3 14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; 579 e Exod. 12. + Heb. mingle. 2 And I will set the Egyptians against 22. 1 Sam. Judg. 7. 14. 16, 20. 2 Chron. 20. be emptied. Heb. shall Heb. swal47. 12. low up. e ch. 8. 19. & ISAIAH. 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. 5 And the waters shall fail from the Ezek. 30. 12. sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up. h 2 Kings 19. 24. + Heb. and shall not be. i 1 Kings 10. 28. Prov. 7. 16. i Or, white works. 6 And they shall turn the rivers far 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 || networks, shall be confounded. 10 And they shall be broken in the +purposes thereof, all that make sluices Heb of lie and ponds for fish. ↑ Heb. foundations. ing things. k Numb. 13. 22. 11 Cor. 1. 20. m Jer. 2. 16. Or, go. vernors. + Heb. cor ners." ↑ Heb. a verseness. 11 Surely the princes of * Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellers of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? 12 'Where 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, "the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof. 14 The LORD hath mingled +"a perspirit of perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and 1 King 22. they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit. 22. ch. 29. 10. o ch.9. 14. Jer. 51.30. Nahum 3.13. 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 unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear q ch. 11. 15. LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it. because of the shaking of the hand of the 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. Zeph. 3-9 the land of Egypt speak the language 18 In that day shall five cities in of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city || of destruction. ↑ Heb. the lip. Or, of Heres, or, of the sun. s Gen. 28.18. 19 In that day shall there be an altar Josh. 22. 10, to the LORD in the midst of the land of Exod. 24. 4 26, 27. witness unto the LORD of hosts in the cir714 21 And the LORD shall be known to he shall smite and heal it: and they shall highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the with Egypt and with Assyria, even a bless- bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, A type prefiguring the shameful captivity of · Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof TA whirlwinds in the south pass to the LORD, 580 h ver. 9 ¡Or, cried as alien. Hab. 2. 1. Or, every night. 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, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the 'watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights: 9 And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And Jer. 51. & he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and 'all the graven images of her Jer. 50.2.& gods he hath broken unto the ground. Rev. 14. 8. & 18.2. Ich. 46 1. 51.44 m Jer. 51-33 m 10 "O my threshing, and the + corn of Heb. on my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I❘ declared unto you. ni Chron. 1.30. Jer. 17,8 Pack. 35. 2. Obad. 1. Jer. 19.28. Or, bring ¡Or, for er. 11 The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? 12 The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come. In 13 The burden upon Arabia. the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim. 14 The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty,they prevented with their bread him that fled. 15 For they fled from the swords, ↑ Heb. from from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war. 16 For thus hath the LORD said unto ch. 16 14 me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail: the face. ✓ Pa. 120. 5rt. 6a 7. 17 And the residue of the number of Heb. bows. +archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it. CHAP. XXII. I The prophet lamenteth the invasion of Jewry by the Persians. 8 He reproveth their hu HE burden of the valley of vision. That aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops? cir. 712. cir. 712. 2 Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are a ch. 32. 13. not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle. bow. 3 All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are Heb. of the found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far. 4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people. b Jer. 4.19. & 9.1. Lam. 1.5. 2.2. 5 For it is a day of trouble, and of c ch. 37. 3. 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. 7 And it shall come to pass, that choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array || at the gate. 8¶ And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest. 9 Ye 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. 17 Behold, || the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee. 18 He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the oy, chariots of thy glory shall be the shame hall surely of thy lord's house. &c. ver. 18. + Heb. the captivity of a man. t Esth. 7. 8. + Heb. large spaces. of 18. 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 2 Kings 18. day, that I will call my servant "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; so he Rev. 3. shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. 7. ▾ Ezra g. 8. 23 And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and be shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house. 24 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 Or, instru to all the || vessels of flagons. ments of vials. cir. 715 # Jer. 25. 22. & 47.4 Ezek. 26. & 27. & 28. 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. HE burden of Tyre. Howl, ye THE ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no enZech. 9:24. tering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them. 1.9. b ver. 12. ↑ Heb. silent. 2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished. 3 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her reveEzek. 27-3- nue; and she is a mart of nations. d ch. 19. 16. e ch. 22. 2. ↑ Heh. from afar off. 4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins. 5 As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained 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 +afar off to sojourn. Before Their unhappy return. 8 Who hath taken this counsel against CHRIST Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the ho- f See Ezek nourable of the earth? 9 The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, † to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth. 10 Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more + strength. cir. 715 28.2, 12. + Heb. to pollute + Heb. girdle. 11 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment || against the Or, ce merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof. cerning a merchant + Heb. Ca naga. 1 Or, 12 And he said, "Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter strengths. of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest. h 13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin. g Rev. 18. 22. h ver. l. i Ps. 729 k ver. 1. 14 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for 27.25 your strength is laid waste. 30. 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+shall Tyrell be wate sing as an harlot. Heb. it Tyres the song of an 16 Take an harp, go about the city, hariot. thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered. 17 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 shall commit fornication with all Rev. 17 the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth. The judgments of God for sin. CHAP. XXV. God to be praised for his judgments, &c. Before 3 The land shall be utterly emptied, I shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, Before cir. 712 and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath and not rise again. CHRIST spoken this word. 4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth of the away, the haughty people of the earth do languish. + Heb. the people. c Gen. 3. 17. Numb. 35 33. d Mal. 4. 6. e ch. 16. 8, 9. Joel 1. 10,12. f Jer. 7.34. & 16. 9. & 5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. 7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh. 8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the 2.11 Rev. joy of the harp ceaseth. 25.10. Ezek 26.13. Hos. 18. 22. g ch. 17.5, 6. 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 the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. 13 When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, "there shall be 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 ye the LORD in Or, valleys, the fires, even the name of the LORD Mal. 1. 11 God of Israel in the isles of the sea. + Heb. wing. ness to me, 16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to Heb. Lear the righteous. But I said, † My leanness, Gr, My secret my leanness, woe unto me! 'the treaJer. 5. 11. cherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously. to me. k See 1 Kings 19. 17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, 1. Jer. 48. are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. 43, 44 Amos 518 1 Gen. 7. 11P. 18. 7. - Jet. 4-23 och 19. 14 - 18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and TM the foundations of the earth do shake. 1 19 "The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly. 20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof 21 And it shall come to pass in that + Heb. visit day, that the LORD shall fpunish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth. 22 And they shall be gathered together, tas prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited. q ch. 13. 10. 4 moon shall be con- Ezek. 32. 7. 23 Then the founded, and the sun ashamed, when the Joel 2. 31. LORD of hosts shall 'reign in mount Rev. 19. 4, Zion, and in Jerusalem, and || before his 6, ancients gloriously. CHAP. XXV. Or, found wanting. & 60. 19. & 3. 15. s Hebr. 12. 22. Or, there shall be glory before 1 The prophet praiseth God, for his judgments, hints. 6 for his saving benefits, 9 and for his victorious salvation. |