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The church's graces.

Chap. vi. vii. viii.

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tenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the thine eyes like the fishpools in Hethbon, cedars. by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nofe is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damafcus.

16 His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerufalem. CHAP. VI.

1 The church profeffetb ber faith in Chrift. 4Chriffbewerb the graces of the church, 10 and bis love toward her.

WHITHER is thy beloved gone, O thou faireft among women? Whither is thy beloved turned afide? That we may feek him with thee.

My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of fpices. to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

31 am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies. 4¶ Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerufalem, terrible as an army with banners.

5 Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple ; the king is held in the galleries.

6 How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love for delights!

7 This thy ftature is like to a palm tree, and thy breafts to clusters of grapes. 8 I faid, I will go up to the palm tree, will take hold of the boughs thereof now alfo thy breafts fhall be as clusters of the vine, and the fmell of thy nofe like apples;

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9 And the roof of thy mouth like the beft wine for my beloved, that goeth down fweetly, caufing the lips of thofe that are afleep to fpeak.

10 ¶ I am my beloved's, and his defire is toward me.

5 Turn away thine eyes from me, for 11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth they have overcome me: thy hair is as a into the field; let us lodge in the villages. flock of goats that appear from Gilead. 12 Let us get up early to the vineyards; 6 Thy teeth are as a flock of theep let us fee if the vine flourish, whether the which go up from the washing, whereof tendergrapeappear, and the pomegranates every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them.

7 As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.

8 There are threefcore queens, and fourfcore concubines, and virgins with out number.

9 My dove, my undefiled is but one; the is the only one of her mother, he is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters faw her, and bleffed her: yea, the queens and the concubines, and they prailed her.

bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.

13 The mandrakes give a fiell, and at our gates are all manner of pleafant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.

CHAP. VIII.

1 The love of the church to Chrift. 6 The vebemency of love. 8 The calling of the Gentiles. 14 Gbrift's coming prayed for. O THAT thou wert as my brother, that fucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kifs thee: yea, I should not be defpifed. 10 Who is the that looketh forth as the 2 I would lead thee, and bring thee morning, fair as the moon, clear as the into my mother's houfe, who would infun,and terrible as an army with banners?ftruct me: I would caufe thee to drink 11 I went down into the garden of of spiced wine of the juice of my pomenuts to fee the fruits of the valley, and to fee whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded.

12 Or ever I was aware, ny foul made me like the chariots of Amminadib.

13 Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye fee in the Shulamite: As it were the company of two armies. CHAP. VII.

1A furtherdefcriptionofthecburch's graces. 10 She profeffeth her faith and defire. HOW beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.

2 Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat fet about with lilies 3 Thy two breafts are like two young roes, that are twins.

4 Thy neck is as a tower of ivory

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3 His left hand bould be under my head, and his right band should embrace me. 4 I charge you, O daughters of Jerufalem, that ye ftir not up, nor awake my love until he please.

5 Who is this that cometh up from the wildernefs, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree : there thy mother brought thee forth: there the brought thee forth that bare thee.

6 Set me as a feal upon thine heart, as a feal upon thine arm for love is ftrong as death; jealoufy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.

7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it; if a man would give all the fubitance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

8 We have a little fifter, and the hath

544 Ifaiah's complaint of Judah. ISAIAH.

He exhorteth to repentance.

hath no breafts: What shall we do for ers, every one for the fruit thereof was to our fifter in the day when the fhall be bring a thousand pieces of filver. fpoken for?

9 If he be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of filver: and if the be a door, we will inclofe her with boards of cedar.

10 I am a wall, and my breafts like towers then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.

12 My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must bave a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.

13 Thou that dwelleft in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voices caufe me to hear it.

14 Make hafte, my beloved, and be 11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baalha-thou like to a roe, or to a young hart, upmon; he let out the vineyard unto keep-on the mountains of fpices.

THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH.

CHAP. I.

12 When ye come to appear before me,

1 Ifaiah's complaint of Judah. 10 He Who hath required this at your hand, to upbraideth their fervice. 16 He ex-tread my courts? borteth to repentance, with promifes and threatenings.

13 Bring no more vain oblations; incenfe is an abomination unto me; the THE vifion of Ifaiah the fon of Amoz, new moons and fabbaths, the calling of which he faw concerning Judah and Je-affemblies, I cannot away with; it is ini. rufalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, quity, even the folemn meeting. Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

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

3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the afs his mafter's crib but Ifrael doth not know, my people doth not confider.

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

15 And when ye fpread 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 Wah ye, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; ceafe to do evil;

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4Ah finful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a feed of evil doers, children that are corrupters: they have forfaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Ifrael unto anger, they are gone lefs, plead for the widow. away backward!

17 Learn to do well; feek judgment, relieve the oppreffed, judge the father

18 Come now, and let us reason to

5 Why should ye be stricken any more?gether. faith the LORD: though your fins Ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is fick, and the whole heart faint.

6 From the fole of the foot even unto the head there is no foundness in it; but wounds, and bruifes, and putrifying fores: they have not been clofed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

7 Your country is defolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, ftrangers devour it in your prefence, and it is defolate, as overthrown by strangers.

8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a befieged city. 9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very fmall 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.

11 To what purpofe is the multitude of your facrifices unto me ? faith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beafts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.

be as fcarlet, they fhall be as white as fnow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye fhall eat the good of the land;

20 But if ye refufe and rebel, ye hall be devoured with the fword for the mouth of the LORD hath fpoken it.

21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! It was full of judgment; righteoufnefs lodged in it; but now murderers.

22 Thy filver is become drofs, thy wine mixed with water:

25 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts and followeth after rewards: They judge not the fatherlefs, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

24 Therefore faith the LORD, the LORD of hofts, the mighty One of Ifrael, Ah, I will eafe me of mine adverfaries, and avenge me of mine enemies :

25 And I will turn my hand upos thee, and purely purge away thy drofs, and take away all thy tin:

26 And I will reitore thy judges as

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in the duft, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.

A prophesy of Chrift's kingdom. Chap. ii. iii. at the first, and thy counfellors as at the beginning afterward thou shalt be called. The city of righteousness, The faith- 11 The lofty looks of man fhall be ful city. humbled, and the haughtiness of men 27 Zion fhall be redeemed with judg-hall be bowed down, and the LORD ament, and her converts with righteoufnefs. lone thall be exalted in that day.

28 And the deftruction of the tranf- 12 For the day of the LORD of hosts greffors and of the finners shall be to-hall be upon every one that is proud and gether, and they that forfake the LORD lofty, and upon every one that is lifted fhall be confumed. up; and he thall be brought low:

29 For they fhall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have detired, and ye fhall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chofen.

30 For ye fhall be as an oak whofe leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water. 31 And the trong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a fpark, and they fhall both burn together, and none thall quench them.

CHAP. II.

1 Ifaiah prophefieth the coming of Chrift's kingdom. 6 Wickedness is the cause of God's forfaking. 10 He exhorteth to fear, because of the powerful effects of God's majesty.

THE word that Ifaiah the fon of Amoz faw concerning Judah and Jerufalem.

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

14 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up, 15 And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,

16 And upon all the hips of Tarshish, and upon all pleafant pictures.

17 And the loftinefs of man fhall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men thall be made low: and the LORD alone fhall be exalted in that day.

18 And the idols he shall utterly abolish.

19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majefty, when he arifeth to shake terribly the earth.

2 And it fhall come to pafs in the laft days, that the mountain of the LORD'S 20 In that day a man shall caft his idols houfe fhall be established in the top of of filver, and his idols of gold, which the mountains, and shall be exalted a-they made each one for himfelf to worship, bove the hills; and all nations thail flow to the moles and to the bats; unto it.

3 And many people fhall go and fay, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the houfe 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 Jerufalem.

And he hall judge among the nations, and fhall rebuke many people: and they fhall beat their words into ploughhares, and their fpears into pruninghooks: nation (hall not lift up fword against nation, neither shall they learn!

war any more.

5 O houfe of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.

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

22 Ceafe ye from man, whose breath is in his noftrils: for, Wherein is he to be accounted of ?

CHAP. III. 1 The great confufion which cometh by fin. 9 The impudence of the people. 12 The opprefion and covetousness of the rulers. 16 The judgments which shall be for the pride of the women.

FOR, behold, the LORD, the LORD of hotts, doth take away from Jerufalen and from Judah the ftay and the staff. the whole fray of bread, and the whole flay of water,

2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,

6 Therefore thou haft forfaken thy people the houfe of Jacob, becaufe they be replenished from the eaft, and are foothfayers like the Philistines, and they pleafe themselves in the children of rangers. 7 Their land alfo is full of filver and 3 The captain of fifty, and the honouragold, neither is there any end of their ble man, and the counfellor, and the cuntreasures; their land is alio full of horfes,ning artificer, and the eloquent orator. neither is there any end of their chariots: 4 And I will give children to be their 8 Their land allo is full of idols: they princes, and babes shall rule over them. worship the work of their own hands,that 5 And the people shall be opprefled, which their own fingers have made: every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himfelf proudly against the ancient, and the bafe against the honourable.

9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himfelf therefore forgive them not.

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10 Enter into the rock, and hide thee 3 W

6 When a man shall take hold of his brother

$46 The impudence of the people. ÍSAIAH.
brother of the houfe of his father, faying,
Thou haft clothing, be thou our ruler,
and let this ruin be under thy hand :

7 In that day shall he fwear, faying, I will not be an healer: for in my houfe is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.

8 For Jerufalem 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 fin as Sodom, they hide ir not. Woe unto their foul! for they have rewarded evil unto themfelves.

10 Say ye to the righteous, that it fball be well with him: for they shall cat 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.

12 As for my people, children are their oppreffors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee caufe thee to err, and deftroy the way of thy paths.

18 The LORD standeth up to plead,and ftandeth to judge the people.

14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the fpoil of the poor is in your houses.

15 What mean ye that ye heat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor faith the LORD God of hofts.

Christ's kingdom a fanữuarj. ftead of a ftomacher a girding of fack cloth; and burning instead of beauty. 25 Thy men shall fall by the fword, and thy nighty in the war.

26 And her gates shall lament and mourn ; and she being defolate shall fit upon the ground.

CHAP. IV.

In the extremity of evils,Cbrift's kingdem fall be a fanctuary.

AND in that day feven women shall take hold of one man, faying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.

2 In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Ifrael.

3 And it shall come to pafs, that he that is left in Zion, and be that remaineth in Jerufalem, shall be called holy, even ev. ery one that is written among the living in Jerufalem :

When the LORD shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerufalem from the midft thereof, by the fpirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

5 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon herafemblies, a cloud and fmoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire-by night: for upon all the glory fball be a defence.

6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a cov16 Moreover, the LORD faith, Be-ert from form and from rain. caufe the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks aud wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:

17 Therefore the LORD will fmite with a fcab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will difcover their fecret parts.

CHAP. V. 1Under the type of a wineyard God juftifierb bis fevere judgment. 8 His judgments upon covetousness, 11 upon lafciviousness, 18 upon impiety, 20 and upon injustice. 26 The executioners of God's judgments.

NOW will I fing to my well beloved a fong of my beloved touching his vineyard. My well beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:

18 In that day the LORD will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments 2 And he fenced it, and gathered out 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 head bands, and the tablets, and the earrings,

21 The rings, and nofe jewels, 22 The changeable fuits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crifping pins,

28 The glaffes, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the veils.

the ftones thereof, and planted it with the choiceft vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and alfo made a wine prefs therein and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

8 And now, O inhabitants of Jerufalem, and men of Judah, judge pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?

24 And it shall come to pafs, that inflead of sweet smell there shall be ftink; 5 And now go to; I will tell you what and inftead of a girdle a rent; and in-I will do to my vineyard: I will take aftead of well fet hair baldness; and in-way the hedge thereof, and it shall be

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God's judgments on covetousness. Chap. vi. eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it thall be trodden down:

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23 Which juftify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

6 And I will lay it wafte: it fhall not be pruned, nor digged; but there thall come 24 Therefore, as the fire devoureth the up briers and thorns: I will alfo command ftubble, and the flame confumeth the the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. chaff, fo their root shall be as rottennels, 7 For the vineyard of the LORD of and their bloffom hall go up as duft: hofts is the houfe of Ifrael, and the men because they have caft away the law of of Judah his pleasant plant: and he look-the LORD of hofts, and delpifed the word ed for judgment, but behold oppref-of the Holy One of Ifrael. fon; for righteoufnefs, but behold a cry. 8 Woe unto them that join houfe to houfe, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!

9 In mine ears faid the LORD of hofts, Ofa truth many houfes fhall be defolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant. 10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard fhall yield one bath, and the feed of an homer hall yield an ephah.

11 Woe unto them that rife up early in the morning, that they may follow ftrong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!

12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feafts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither confider the operation of his hands.

13 Therefore, my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

14 Therefore, hell hath enlarged herfelf, and opened her mouth without meafure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, fhall defcend into it.

15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty hall be humbled:

16 But the LORD of hosts fhall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy hall be fanctified in righteoufnefs.

17 Then thall the lambs feed after their manner, and the wafte places of the fat ones fhall frangers eat.

18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and fin as it were with a cart rope:

19 That fay, Let him make speed, and haften his work, that we may fee it and let the couniel of the Holy One of Ifrael draw nigh and come,that we may know it! 20 ¶ Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil; that put darknefs for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for fweet, and fweet for bitter!

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21 Woe unto them that are wife in their own eyes, and prudent in their own fight Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle ftrong drink;

25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath fmitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcalles were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this is anger is not turned away, but his hand is ftretched out ftill.

26 And he will lift up an enfign to the nations from far, and will hifs unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they fhall come with speed swiftly :

27 None fhall be weary nor stumble among them; none hall lumber nor fleep; neither fhall the girdle of their loins be loofed, nor the latchet of their hoes be broken:

28 Whofe arrows are fharp, and all their bows bent, their horfes' hoofs shall be counted like fint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:

29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: Yea, they hall roar and lay hold of the prey, and hall carry it away fafe, and none thall deliver it.

30 And in that day they fhall roar against them like the roaring of the sea : and if one look unto the land, behold darknefs and forrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof. CHAP. VI.

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Isaiah's vifion. 9 The obstinacy of the people, unto their defolation. remnant fall be faved.

IN the year that king Uzziah died, I faw alfo the LORD fitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.

2 Above it ftood the feraphims: each one had fix wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.

$ And one cried unto another, and faid, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hofts: the whole earth is full of his glory.

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

5 Then faid I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the inidit of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have feen the King, the LORD of hotts.

6 Then flew one of the feraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand,

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