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BOOK I

GENERAL PROPHECIES

BOOK II

PROPHECIES OF THE UNHOLY ALLIANCE AND THE SIGN IMMANUEL

BOOK III

PROPHECY OF ASSYRIAN INVASION

Book IV

DOOMS OF THE NATIONS

Book V

PROPHECIES OF JUDGMENT AND RESTORATION

Book VI

THE MINISTRY OF ISAIAH UNDER HEZEKIAH

BOOK VII

THE RHAPSODY OF ZION REDEEMED

BOOK I

GENERAL PROPHECIES

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The Great Arraignment

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.

The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children that deal corruptly: they have forsaken the LORD, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are estranged and gone backward. Why will ye be still stricken, that ye revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and festering sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with oil. Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. Except the

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