Ephraim threatened.

3 I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment; left any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.

4 Fury is not in me: who would fet the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.

Or let him take hold of my ftrength, that he may make peace with me; and he fhall make peace with me.

6 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Ifrael fhall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

7 Hath he fmitten him, as he fmote those that fmote him? or is he flain according to the flaughter of them that are flain by him?

8 In measure, when it fhooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he itayeth his rough wind in the day of the eaft wind.

9 By this therefore thall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his fin; when he maketh all the ftones of the altar as chalkitones that are beaten in funder, the groves and images shall not stand up.

To Yet the defenced city ball be defolate, and the habitation forfaken, and left like a wildernefs: there thall the calf feed, and there thall he lie down, and confume the branches thereof.

11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they fhall be broken off: the women come, and fet them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will thew them no favour.

12 And it thall come to pafs in that day, that the LORD fhall beat of rom the channel of the river unto the ftream of Egypt, and ye fhall be gathered one by one, Ore children of Ifrael.

13 And it fhall come to pafs in that day, that the great trumpet thall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Affyria, and the outcafts in the land of Egypt, and fhall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerufalem.

CHAP. XXVIII.

1 Ephraim threatened. 16 Chrift promised. 18 The fecurity of fcorners deftroyed.

WOE to the crown of pride, to the drunk

ards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!

2 Behold, the LORD hath a mighty and Arong one, which as a tempeft of hail and a deftroying ftorm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, fhall caft down to the earth with the hand.

3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, thall be trodden under feet:

4 And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, fhall be a fading flower, and as the hafty fruit before the fummer; which when he that looketh upon it feeth it, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.

5 In that day fhall the LORD of hotts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the refidue of his people;

6 And for a fpirit of judgment to him that fitteth in judgment, and for ftrength to them that turn the battle to the gate.

7 But they also have erred through wine,

Chrift promifed. and through ftrong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through ftrong drink, they are fwallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink, they err in vision, they tumble in judgment. 8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthinefs, fo that there is no place clean.

9Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom thall he make to underaand doctrine! them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breafts.

10 Fer precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

11 For with itammering lips and another tongue will he fpeak to this people.

12 To whom he faid, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to reft; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not

hear.

13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little, that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and Inared and taken.

14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye fcornful men, that rule this pet ple which is in Jerufalem:

15 Because ye have faid, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing fcourge hall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falfehood have we hid ouritives: 16 Therefore thus faith the Lord GOD, Behold, 1 lay in Zion for a foundation a ftone, a tried tone, a precious corner fione, a fure foundation he that believeth mall not make harte

17 Judgment alfo will I lay to the line, and righteoufnefs to the plummet: and the hail thall fweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters thall overflow the hiding place.

18 And your covenant with death thall be dilannulled, and your agreement with hell hall rot tand; when the overflowing fcourge thall pass through, then ye thall be trodden down by it.

19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning hall it

pafs over, by day and by night; and it thall

be a vexation only to understand the report.

20 For the bed is fhorter than that a man can ftretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. 21 For the LORD thati rife up as in mount Perazim, he fhall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his frange work; and bring to pafs his act, his firange act.

22 Now therefore he ye not mockers, left your bands be made ftrong: for I have heard from the Lord God of hos a confusiption, even determined upon the whole earth,

23 Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my fpeech.

24 Doth the ploughman plough all day to fow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground!

25 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cait abroad the itches, and featter the cummin, and can in the principal wheat and the appointed barley, and the rie in their place?

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26 For his God doth inftruét him to difcretion, and doth teach him.

27 Ior the fitches are not threthed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart-wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the titches are beaten out with a start, and the cummin with a rod.

28 Bread corn is bruifed; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break if with the wheel of his cart, nor bruife it with his hot femen.

29 This alfo cometh forth from the LORD of hofts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.

God's judgment upon Jerufalem: 9 their fenfelefness, 13 and deep hypocrify. 18 A promife of fanétification.

The people threatened. 14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wifdom of their wife men thall perish, ard the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

15 Woe unto them that feek deep to hide their counfel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they fay, Who feeth us? and who knoweth us?

16 Surely your turning of things upfide down thall be efteemed as the potters clay for thall the work fay of him that made it, He made me not or thall the thing tramed fay of him that framed it, He had no under. standing?

17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon fhall be turned into a fruitful field,

David dwelt! add ye year to year;

let them kill facrifices.

2 Yet I will diftrefs Ariel, and there fhall be heaviness and forrow: and it fhall be unto me as Ariel.

3 And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay fiege against thee with a mount, and I will raise sorts against thee.

4 And thou shalt be brought down, and thalt fpeak out of the ground, and thy fpeech shall be low out of the duft, and thy voice thall be, as of one that hath a tamiliar fpirit out of the ground, and thy speech thall whitper out of the duft.

5 Moreover the multitude of thy rangers fhall be like fmall duft, and the multitude of the terrible ones fall be as chaff that paffeth away: yea, it fhall be at an infant Suddenly.

6 Thou shalt be vifited of the LORD of hofts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noife, with form and tempeft, and the flame of devouring fire.

7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that diftrefs her, thall be as a dream of a night vision.

8 It shall even be as when a hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his foul is empty or as when a thirty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his foul hath appetite: to shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight againft mount Zion.

9 stay yourfelves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drinken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

10 For the Lord hath poured out upon you the fpirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the feers hath he covered.

And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is fealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, faying, Read this, I pray thee: and he faith 1 cannot; for it is fealed.

12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, faying, Read this, I pray thee: and he faith, in not learned.

12Wherefore the LORD faid, Forafmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of

men.

foreft?

18 And in that day fhall the deat hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind thall fee out of obfcurity, and out of darkness.

19 The meek alfo thall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men thail rejoice in the Holy One of Ifrael.

20 For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the fcorner is confumed, and all that watch for iLiquity are cut off.

21 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a fnare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the juft for a thing of nought.

22 Therefore thus faith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the houfe of Jacob, Jacob shall not now he afhamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.

23 But when he feeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midft of him, they thall fanctity my name, and fanétify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Ifrael.

24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.

СНАР. ХXX. 1 The people threatened for their confidence in Egypt, 8 and contempt of Goa's word. OE to the rebellious children, faith the LORD, that take counfel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my ipirit, that they may add in to fini

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2 That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to itrengthen themselves in the ftrength of Pharaoh, and to truft in the shadow of Egypt!

3 Therefore thail the strength of Pharaoh be your thame, and the truft in the thadow of Egypt your confusion.

4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambafadors came to Hanes.

5 They were all ashamed of a people that could not pront them, not be an help nor profit, but a fhame, and alto a reproach.

6 The burden of the beafts of the fouth: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying ferpent, they will carry their riches upon the thoulders of young affes, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people thar fhall not profit them.

7 For the Fgyptians fhall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried con cerning this, Their strength is to fit ftill. 8 Now go, write it before them in a table,

God's mercies to his church.

and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:

9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:

to Which fay to the feers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophefy not unto us right things, fpeak unto us smooth things, prophe fy deceits:

11 Get you out of the way, turn af de out of the path, cause the Holy One of Ifrael to ceafe from before us.

12 Wherefore thus faith the Holy One of Ifrael, Becaafe ye defpife this word, and trun in oppreifion and perverieness, and itay

thereon:

13 Therefore this iniquity fhall be to you as a breath ready to tall, fwelling out in a high wail, whofe breaking cometh fuddenly at an intant.

14 And he fhall break it as the breaking of the potter's veffel that is broken in pieces; he that not pare: fo that there thail not be found in the bursting of st a herd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.

15 Forthus faith the Lord God, the Holy One of Tirael; In returning and reft thall ye be faved! in quietness and in confidence hall be your strength: and ye would not.

16 But ye fard, No; for we will flee upon horfes; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the Twiit; therefore thall they that pursue you be swift.

17 One thousand ball fee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five thall ye fee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an enfign on a hill.

18 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore wil he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God

of jafgment: bleffed are all they that wait

for him.

19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerufalem; thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will anfwer thee.

20 And though the LORD give you the bread of a iverfity, and the water of affiction, yet fhall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes thall fee thy teachers:

21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, faying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye

turn to the left.

22 Ye fhall defile alfo the covering of thy graven images of filver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt caft them away as a menftruous cloth; thou shalt fay unto it, Get thee hence.

23 Then thall he give the rain of thy feed, that thou thalt fow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it fall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large partures.

24 The oxen likewife and the young affes that ear the ground fhall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

25 And there fhall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and ftreams of wate-s in the day of the great Daughter, when the towers fall.

26 Moreover the light of the moon thall be as the light of the fun, and the light of the fun thall be fevenfold, as the light of feven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.

47 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:

28 And his breath, as an overflowing ftream, fhall reach to the midst of the neck, to lift the nations with the eve of vanity and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, caafing them to err.

20 Ye shall have a fong, as in the night when a holy folemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Ifrael.

30 And the LORD shall caufe his glorious voice to be heard, and fhall thew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailitones.

31 For through the voice of the Log fhall the Affyriai, be beaten down, which fa.ote with a rod.

32 And in every place where the grounded staff hall país, which the LORD hall lay upon him, it diall be with tabrets and harpe, and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.

33 For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.

СНАР. XXXI.

The prophet feesweth the curfed folly in trufting to Egypt, and forfaking God.

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OE to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horfes, and truit in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Ifracl, neither feek the LORD!

2 Yet he alfo is wife, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arife against the houfe of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.

3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horfes fleth, and not fpirit. When the LORD fhall ftretch out his hand, both he that helpeth fhall fall, and he that is hoipen fhall fall down, and they all fhall fail together.

4 For thus hath the LORD fpoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of thepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abafe himself for the noife of them: fo fhall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.

s As birds flying, fo will the LORD of hosts defend Jerufalem; defending alfo he will de liver it; and pating over he will preserve it.

6 Turn ye unto him from whom the chil dren of Ifrael have deeply revolted.

7 For in that day every man shall caft a. way his idols of filver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a fin.

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habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the itakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.

21 But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and ftreams; wherein hall go no galley with oars, neither fhall gallant ship pafs thereby.

22 For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will fave us.

23 Thy tacklings are loofed; they could not well strengthen their matt, they could not fpread the fail: then is the prey of a great fpoil divided; the lame take the prey.

24 And the inhabitants thall not fay, I am fick: the people that dwell therein ball be forgiven their iniquity.

CHAP. XXXIV.

1 The judgments wherewith God avengeth his church: 16 The certainty of the prophecy. NOME near, ye nations, to hear; and hear. ken, ye people on the earth hear, sad 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 tury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter."

3 Their flain alfo thall be caft out, and their Rink thall come up out of their carcaffes, and the mountains thall be melted with their blood.

4 And all the hoft of heaven shall be diffolved, and the heavens thail be rolled toge. ther as a feroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig-tree.

$ For my word fhall be bathed in heaven: behold, it thall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curfe, to judgment.

6 The fword of the LoR Dis filled with blood, it is made fat with fatnefs, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a facrifice in Bozrah, and a great flaughter in the land of Idumea.

7 And the unicorn fhall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land thall be foaked with blood, and their duit made fat with fatnefs.

8 For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.

9 And the ftreams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the duft thereof into brimftone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

10 It thall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it thall lie warte; Bone thall pass through it for ever and ever.

11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall poffefs it; the owl alfo and the raven thall dwell in it: and he shall #tretch out upon it the line of confufion, and the ftones of emptinefs.

12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none ball be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.

13 And thorns thall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortreffes thereof; and it thall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.

14 The wild beasts of the defert fhall also

15 There shall the great owl make her neft, and lay, and hatch, and gather under ner tha dow: there fhall the vultures alfo be gathered, every one with her mate.

16 Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of thefe thall tail, none fhall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.

17 And he hath caft the lot tor them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall poffefs it for ever, from generation to generation thall they dwell therein.

CHAP. XXXV.

1 The joyful flourishing of Chriff's kingdom. 3 The weak are encouraged by the virtues and privileges of the gospel.

The glad for them; and the defert shall HE wilderness and the folitary place fhall

rejoice, and bloffom as the rufe.

2 It shall bloffom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and finging: the glory of Le banon fhall be given unto it, the excellen cy of Carmel and Sharon, they shall fee the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.

3¶Strengthen ye the weak hands, and con. firm 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 re compence; he will come and fave you.

5 Then the eyes of the blind fhall be opened, and the ears of the deaf thall be unstopped.

6 Then fhall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb fhall fing: for in the wilderness thall waters break out, and ftreams in the desert.

7 And the parched ground fhall become a pool, and the thirty land fprings of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, ball be grafs with reeds and ruthes.

8 And an highway thall be there, and a way, and it shall be called, The way of holiness; the unclean thall not pafs over it; but it ball be for those : the wayfaring men, though fools, fhall not err therein.

9 No lion fhall be there, nor any ravenous beat thali go up thereon, it thall not be found there; but the redeemed thall walk there.

10 And the ranfomed of the LORD thall re turn, and come to Zion with fongs, and everlating joy upon their heads: they thall obtain joy and gladness, and forrow and fighing thall flee away.

CHA P. XXXVI.

1 Sennacherib invodeth Judah. 4 Rabsbakeb's blafphemous perfuafions to the people: 22 bis words are told to Hezekiah.

Now it came to pafs in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib, king of Affyria, came up against all the de fenced cities of Judah, and took them.

2 And the king of Affyria fent Rabshakeh from Lachith to Jerufalem unto king Heze. kiah, with a great army. And he food by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fullers' field.

3 Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hil. kiah's fe, which was over the house, and U4 Shebna