Perverseness of God's people.

1 despised the Holy One of Israel,

2 festering

3 booth

THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET

ISAIAH

CHAPTER 1.

of fed beasts; and I delight not in
the blood of bullocks, or of lambs,
or of he goats.

12 When ye come to appear be

1 Isaiah complaineth of Judah for her rebel
lion. 5 Ile lamenteth her judgments. 10 He
upbraideth their whole serrice. 16 He ex-
horteth to repentance, with promises and
threatenings. 21 Bewailing their wicked-fore
ness, he denounceth God's judgments.
25 He promiseth grace, 28 and threateneth
destruction to the wicked.

me, who hath required this at
your hand, to tread my courts?
13 Bring no more vain oblations;
incense is an abomination unto me;
HE vision of Isaiah the son of the new moons and sabbaths, the
Amoz, which he saw concern-calling of assemblies, I cannot
ing Judah and Jerusalem in the away with; it is iniquity, even the
days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and
solemn meeting.
Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

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2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.

15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

16 Wash you, make you clean ;
4 Ah sinful nation, a people
laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-put away the evil of your doings
from before mine eyes; cease to do
doers, children that are corrupt- evil;
ers: they have forsaken the LORD,
they have provoked the Holy One
of Israel unto anger, they are gone
away backward.

5¶ Why should ye be stricken any more ye will revolt more and more the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

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17 Learn to do well; seek judg ment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

7 Your country is desolate, your
cities are burned with fire: your 21 How is the faithful city be-
land, strangers devour it in your come an harlot it was full of judg
presence, and it is desolate, as over-ment; righteousness lodged in it;
thrown by strangers.

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8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

but now murderers.

22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:

23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth 5 bribes, after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

24 Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:

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11 To what purpose is the multi- 25 And I will turn my hand tude of your sacrifices unto me? upon thee, and purely purge away saith the LORD: I am full of the thy dross, and take away all thy burnt offerings of rams, and the fat | tin :

thine alloy :

The future kingdom.

1 his work

2 latter

3 peoples

4 decide concerning 5 peoples:

6 filled with
customs
7 strike
hands with

ISAIAH, 2, 3.

26 And I will restore thy judges
as at the first, and thy counsellors
as at the beginning: afterward
thou shalt be called, The city of
righteousness, the faithful city.
27 Zion shall be redeemed with
judgment, and her converts with
righteousness.

28 ¶ And the destruction of the
transgressors and of the sinners
shall be together, and they that for-
sake the LORD shall be consumed.
29 For they shall be ashamed of
the oaks which ye have desired,
and ye shall be confounded for the
gardens that ye have chosen.

30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.

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31 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench

them.

CHAPTER 2.

1 Isaiah prophesieth the coming of Christ's
kingdom. 6 Wickedness is the cause of
God's forsaking. 10 He exhorteth to fear,
because of the powerful effects of God's
majesty.

THE word that Isaiah the son of
THE
Amoz saw concerning Judah
and Jerusalem.

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The destruction of idols.

8 Their land also is full of idols;
they worship the work of their own
hands, that which their own fin-
gers have made:

9 And the mean
down, and the great man humbleth
man boweth
himself: therefore forgive them not,
10 Enter into the rock, and
hide_thee in the dust, for fear of
the LORD, and for the glory of his
majesty.

11 The lofty looks of man shall
be humbled, and the haughtiness
of men shall be bowed down, and
the LORD alone shall be exalted in
that day.

12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:

13 And upon all the cedars of
Lebanon, that are high and lifted
up, and upon all the oaks of Ba-
shan,

tains, and upon all the hills that
14 And upon all the high moun-
are lifted up,

15 And upon every high tower,
and upon every fenced wall,

16 And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.

2 And it shall come to pass in
17 And the loftiness of man shall
the last days, that the mountain be bowed down, and the haughti-
of the LORD's house shall be esta-ness of men shall be made low:
blished in the top of the mountains, and the LORD alone shall be exalted
and shall be exalted above the hills;
in that day.
and all nations shall flow unto it.
3 And many people shall go and
say, Come ye, and let us go up to
the mountain of the LORD, to the
house of the God of Jacob; and he
will teach us of his ways, and we
will walk in his paths: for out of
Zion shall go forth the law, and the
word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
4 And he shall judge among the
nations, and shall rebuke many
5 people: and they shall beat their
swords into plowshares, and
their spears into pruninghooks:
nation shall not lift up sword
against nation, neither shall they
learn war any more.

18 And the idols he shall utterly
abolish.

19 And they shall go into the 8 men
holes of the rocks, and into the
caves of the earth, for fear of
the LORD, and for the glory of his
majesty, when he ariseth
shake terribly the earth.

5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and
let us walk in the light of the LORD.
6¶ Therefore thou hast forsaken
thy people the house of Jacob, be-
cause they be replenished from the
east, and are soothsayers like the
Philistines, and they please them-
selves in the children of strangers.1
7 Their land also is full of silver
and gold, neither is there any end
of their treasures; their land is

to

20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

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caverns

21 To go into the clefts of the
rocks, and into the 10 tops of the 10 clefts
ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD,
and for the glory of his majesty,
when he ariseth to shake terribly
the earth.

22 Cease ye from man, whose
breath is in his nostrils: for
wherein is he to be accounted of?

CHAPTER 3.

The great confusion which cometh by sin.
9 The impudency of the people. 12 The
oppression and covetousness of the rulers.
16 The judgments which shall be for the
pride of the women.

also full of horses, neither is there FOR, behold, the Lord, the LORD
of hosts, doth take away from

any end of their chariots:

The oppression of rulers.

1 diviner, 2 elder,

3 skilful enchanter.

4 old man,

5 Their respecting of persons

6 elders

| Jerusalem and from Judah the staying and mincing as they go, and
and the staff, the whole stay of making a tinkling with their feet:
bread, and the whole stay of
water,

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2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, 3 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.

4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:

17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret lay bare parts.

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18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,

19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,

20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,

21 The rings, and nose jewels,

22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins, 23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.

24 And it shall come to pass, that
7 In that day shall he swear, say- instead of sweet smell there shall
ing, I will not be an healer; for in be stink; and instead of a girdle a
my house is neither bread nor cloth-rent; and instead of well set hair
ing make me not a ruler of the baldness; and instead of a sto-
people.
macher a girding of sackcloth; and
10 burning instead of beauty.

8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

9 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.

26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.

CHAPTER 4.

In the extremity of evils, Christ's kingdom
shall be a sanctuary.

10 Say ye to the righteous, that AND in that day seven women

it shall be well with him: for they
shall eat the fruit of their doings,
11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall
be ill with him for the reward of
his hands shall be given him.

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12 ¶ As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths. 13 The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.

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and the satchels, 9 hand mirrors,

shawls,

10 branding

14 The LORD will enter into judg-
ment with the ancients of his peo-salem :
ple, and the princes thereof for ye
have eaten up the vineyard; the
spoil of the poor is in your houses.
15 What mean ye that ye beat
my people to pieces, and grind the
faces of the poor? saith the Lord
GOD of hosts.

4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

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5 And the LORD will create 16 Moreover the LORD saith, upon every dwelling place of 12 over Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched mount Zion, and 12upon her asforth necks and wanton eyes, walk-semblies, a cloud and smoke by

5 an homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.

ISAIAH, 5.

Woes pronounced on the wicked. day, and the shining of a flaming | 11 ¶ Woe unto them that rise up fire by night: for upon all the early in the morning, that they glory shall be a defence. may follow strong drink; that con6 And there shall be a taberna-tinue until night, till wine inflame cle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.

13¶ Therefore my people are
cuseth his severe judgment. His judg gone into captivity, because they
ments upon covetousness, 11 upon lascivi have no knowledge: and their ho-
ousness, 13 upon impiety, 20 and upon in-nourable men are famished, and
justice. 26 The executioners of God's
their multitude dried up with thirst.
judgments.
14 Therefore * hell hath en-
larged herself, and opened her
mouth without measure: and their
their pomp, and he that rejoiceth,
glory, and their multitude, and
shall descend into it.

NOW
OW will I sing to my wellbe-
loved a song of my beloved
touching his vineyard. My well-
beloved hath a vineyard in a very

Isaiah's vision

1 as refuse

2 seraphim:

3 seraphim

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hand against them, and hath smit- and said, Lo, this hath touched thy
ten them and the hills did lips; and thine iniquity is taken
tremble, and their carcases were away, and thy sin purged.
torn in the midst of the streets.
For all this his anger is not turned
away, but his hand is stretched out
still.

8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

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9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye ‘indeed, ally, but perceive not.

10 Make the heart of this people

26¶And he will lift up an ensign
to the nations from far, and will
hiss unto them from the end of the
earth: and, behold, they shall come
with speed swiftly:
27 None shall be weary nor stum-fat, and make their ears heavy, and
ble among them; none shall slum- shut their eyes; lest they see with
ber nor sleep: neither shall the their eyes, and hear with their ears,
girdle of their loins be loosed, nor and understand with their heart,
the latchet of their shoes be bro- and convert, and be healed.

ken:

28 Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind: 29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.

30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.

CHAPTER 6.

1 Isaiah, in a rision of the Lord in his glory,
5 being terrified, is confirmed for his mer-
sage. 9 He sheweth the obstinacy of the
people unto their desolation. 13 A rem-
nant shall be saved.

IN the year that king Uzziah died
Ι saw also the Lord sitting upon
a throne, high and lifted up, and
his train filled the temple.

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2 Above it stood the 2 phims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.

3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.

4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

5¶ Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.

6 Then flew one of the sera phims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:

7 And he laid it upon my mouth,

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11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate.

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12 And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land. 13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall also shall be eaten as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves : so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.

CHAPTER 7.

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1 Ahaz, being troubled with fear of Rezin
and Pekah, is comforted by Isaiah. 10
Ahaz, haring liberty to choose a sign, and
refusing it, hath for a sign, Christ pro-
mised. 17 Ilis judgment is prophesied to
come by Assyria.

of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the
AND it came to pass in the days
son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that
Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah
the son of Remaliah, king of Israel,
went up toward Jerusalem to war
against it, but could not prevail
against it.

2 And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.

3 Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and *Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;

in turn be eaten up:

7 stock remaineth, when they' are felled: 8 stock