8 Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?

9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.

forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.

16 Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of

10 And the sons of stran-Jacob.

gold, and for iron I will bring
silver, and for wood brass, and
for stones iron: I will also
make thy officers peace, and
thine exactors righteousness.
18 Violence shall no more

gers shall build up thy walls, 17 For brass I will bring and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I sinote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee. 11 Therefore thy gates shall open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; be heard in thy land, wasting that men may bring unto nor destruction within thy thee the forces of the Gentiles, borders; but thou shalt call and that their kings may be thy walls Salvation, and thy brought. gates Praise.

be

12 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.

19 The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD 13 The glory of Lebanon shall be unto thee an everlastshall come unto thee, the firing light, and thy God thy tree, the pine tree, and the box glory. together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glo

rious.

20 Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.

14 The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they 21 Thy people also shall be that despised thee shall bow all righteous: they shall inthemselves down at the soles of herit the land for ever, the thy feet; and they shall call branch of my planting, the thee, The city of the LORD, work of my hands, that I may The Zion of the Holy One of be glorified.

Israel. 22 A little one shall become 15 Whereas thou hast been a thousand, and a small one a

strong nation: I the LORD will tion: therefore in their land

hasten it in his time.

CHAP. LXI.

they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto

them.

8 For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt

THE Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to offering; and I will direct their preach good tidings unto the work in truth, and I will make meek; he hath sent me to bind an everlasting covenant with up the brokenhearted, to pro- them. claim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

9 And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed.

10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments

2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn. 3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of of salvation, he hath covered heaviness; that they might be me with the robe of righteouscalled trees of righteousness, ness, as a bridegroom decketh the planting of the LORD, that himself with ornaments, aud as he might be glorified. a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.

4 And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.

6 But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.

ye

7¶ For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their por-|

11 For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth: so the LORD God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

CHAP. LXII.

FOR Zion's sake will I not

hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.

2 And the Gentiles shall see

:

thy righteousness, and all kings | found of them that sought me thy glory and thou shalt be not: I said, Behold me, behold called by a new name, which me, unto a nation that was not the mouth of the LORD shall called by my name.

name.

3 Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.

2 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;

6 Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom. 8 Thus saith the LORD,

4 Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD As the new wine is found in delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.

the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is 6 I have set watchmen upon in it: so will I do for my serthy walls, O Jerusalem, which vants' sakes, that I may not shall never hold their peace destroy them all. day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence.

7 And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth

11 Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.

12 And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.

CHAP. LXV.

9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.

11 But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain,

12 Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer, when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.

13 Therefore thus saith the LORD God, Behold my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be

In all twenty-five verses. IAM sought of them that asked not for me; I am ashamed:

14 Behold, my servants shall things have been, saith the sing for joy of heart, but ye LORD: but to this man will I shall cry for sorrow of heart, look, even to him that is poor and shall howl for vexation of and of a contrite spirit, and spirit. trembleth at my word.

15 And ye shall leave your 5 Hear the word of the name for a curse unto my Lord, ye that tremble at his chosen for the LORD God word; Your brethren that hated shall slay thee, and call his you, that cast you out for my servants by another name:

2 For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those LORD.

JEREMIAH.

In the following selections from the Prophets before enumerated (Jeremiah to Zephaniah inclusive) these matters will be plain and obvions :

1. Absolute denunciations, of all but total destruction, against the Jews for their wickedness.

2. Absolute promises of final restoration and everlasting favour to that same people.

3. Conversion of the heathen.

4. Particular prophecies of the Christian religion; that is, passages which, by the gospel history and establishment of the Christian religion, have become perfectly plain, but which would otherwise have remained entirely unintelligible.

CHAP. I.

In all nineteen verses.

THE words of Jeremiah the

son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin :

2 To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.

CHAP. II.

In all thirty-seven verses. 4 Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:

5 ¶ Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain;

3 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah 6 Neither said they, Where king of Judah, unto the end of is the LORD that brought us up the eleventh year of Zedekiah out of the land of Egypt, that the son of Josiah king of Judah, led us through the wilderness, unto the carrying away of Je- through a land of deserts and rusalem captive in the fifth of pits, through a land of month. drought, and of the shadow of