Christ office. CHAP. LXI CHAP. LXI, LXII. The blessings of faithful. righteousness and praise to spring THE Spirit of the Lord Gon is up. forth before all the nations. me; because the Lord hath CHAP. LXII. FOR Zion's sake will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake auointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent we to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the I will not rest, until the righteousness opening of the prison to them that are bound; thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burn eth. 2 And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new naine, which the mouth of the Lond shall name. 3 Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Loud, and a roya diadem in the hand of thy God. 2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that moara; 3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for aзnes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of rightcousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified. 4 Thou shalt no more be termed For 4 T And they shall build the old saken; neither shall thy laud any more wastes, they shall raise up the former be termed Desolate; but thou shalt be desolations, and they shall repair the called Hephzi-bah, and thy laud Beu waste cities, the desolations of many lab: for the LORD delighteth in thee, generations. and thy land shall be married. 5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien sha.. 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: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves. 5 1 For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sous marry Ulice: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee. 6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD,keep 7 For your shame ye shall have not silence; double, and for confusion they shali 7 And give him no rest, till he esrejoice in their portion: therefore in tablish, and till he make Jerusalem a their land they shall possess the dou-prise in the earth. ble: everlasting joy shall be unto them. 5 The LORD hath sworn by his right 8 For I the LORD love judgment, 1 hand, and by the arm of his strength, hate robbery for burnt-offering; and 1Surely I will no more give thy corn to will direct their work in truth, and I be meat for thine enemies; and the will make an everlasting covenant sons of the stranger shall not drink with them. thy wine, for the which thou hast 9 And their seed shall be known laboured: among the Gentiles,and their offspring 9 But they that have gathered it shall among the people: all that see them eat it, and praise the LORD; and they shall acknowledge them, that they are that have brought it together shall the seed which the Lono hath blessed. | drink it in the courts of my holiness. 10 I will greatly rejoice in the Lono, 10 T Go through, go through the. my soul shall be joyful in my God; gates; prepare ye the way of the pro for he hath clothed me with the garple; cast up, cast up the highway; ment of salvation, he hath covered gather out the stones; lift up a staume with the robe of righteousness, as dard for the people. n bridegroom decketh himself with 11 Behold, the Lonn hath proclaim omaments, and as a bride adorneth ed unto the end of the world, Say ye herself with her jewels. 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 to the daughter of Zion, Bel:old, thy salvation cometh; behold, his rewa a is with him, and his work before biza 12 And they shall call their The hole people, The redeemed of the Logar ISAIAH. of the church. The preyer and thou shalt be called, Sought out, the water before them, to make him self an everlasting name? A city not forsaken. 13 That led them through the deep, CHAP. LXIII. W Ld is, with diet coments from should not stumble? Bozrahi? this that is glorious in his 14 As a beast goeth down into the apparel, travelling in the greatness of valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused his strength? I that speak in righteous-him to rest; so didst thou lead thy peoness, mighty to save. ple, to make thyself a glorious name. 2 Wherefore art thou red in thine 15 Look down from heaven, and apparel, and thy garments like him behold from the habitation of thy boliness and of thy glory: where is that treadeth in the wine-fat ? 3 I have trodden the wine press alone; thy zeal and thy strength, the sound and of the people there was none withing of thy bowels and of thy mercies me: for I will tread them in mine toward me? are they restrained? anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. 4 For the day of vengeance is in my heart, and the year of my redeemed is 16 Doubtless thou are our Father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our Father, our Redeemer; thy name is from everlasting. 17 ↑ O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened 5 And I looked, and there was none our beart from thy fear? Return for to help; and I wondered that there thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine was none to uphold; therefore mine inheritance. own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me. come. 6 And 1 will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk m my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth. 13 The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while; our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary. 19 We are thine : thou never barest rule over them; they were not called thy name. CHAP. LXIV. 71 will mention the loving-kind-by nesses of the LORD, and the praises of the Lond, according to all that the that thou wouldest rend the LORD hath bestowed on us, and the heavens,that thou wouldest come great goodness toward the house of 19-down, that the mountains might flow rael, which he hath bestowed on them down at thy presence; according to his mercies, and accord 2 As when the melting fire burneth, ing to the multitude of his loving-the fire causeth the waters to boil, to kindnessee. make thy name known to thine adver 3 For he said, Surely they are my saries, that the nations may tremble people, children that will not lie: so at thy presence! he was their Saviour. 3 When thou didst terrible things 9 In all their affliction he was afflict-which we looked not for, thou camest ed,and the angel of his presence saved down, the mountains flowed down at them in his love and in his pity be thy presence. redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old. ¶ For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath "the eye seen, O God, besides thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him. 10 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore be was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them. Il Then he remembered the days 5 Thou meetest bum that rejoiceth, of old, Moses and his people,saying, and worketh righteousness; those that Where is he that brought them up out remember thee in thy ways: behold, of the sea with the shepherd of his thou art wroth; for we have sinned : fork? where is he that put his holy in those is continuance, and we shall be saved. Sp.it withio him? 12 That led them by the right hand of Aloses with his glorious arm, dividing 6 But we are all as an unclean thẳng, and all our righteousnessesarcas filthy The calling CHAP. LXV. and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. of the Gentiles. rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; wine is found in the cluster, and onesaith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it so will I do for any servants' sake, that I may not destroy them all. 9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inberitor of my mountains; and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there. 7 And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid tity face from us, and bast consumed us, because of our iniquities. 8 But now, O Lond, thou art our Father: we are the clay, and thou our Potter; and we all are the work of thy hand. 9 ¶ Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people. 10 And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me. 11 ¶ But ye are they that forsake the Lond, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, 10 Thy holy cities are a wilderness, that furnish the drink-offering unto Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a des-that number. olation. 12 Therefore will I number you to 11 Our holy and our beautiful house, the sword, and ye shall all bow down where our fathers praised thee, is to the slaughter: because when I callburned up with fire and all our ed,ye did not answer; when I spake, pleasant things are laid waste. ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that where in I delighted not. 12 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore? 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants sought me not: I said, Behold me, be-behold, my servants shall rejoice, but hold me, unto a nation that was not ye shall be ashamed: called by my name. 2 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that ious not good, after their own thoughts; 14 Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit. 15 And ye shall leave your name for 3 A people that provoketh me tola curse unto my chosen: for the Lord anger continually to my face; that God shall slay thee, and call his ser sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth vants by another name: Incense upon altars of brick; 16 That he who blesseth himself in 4 Which remain among the graves, the earth, shall bless himself in the and lodge in the monuments; which God of truth; and he that sweareth in eat swine's fleab, and broth of abom-the earth, shall swear by the God of, inable things is in their vessels ; 5 Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day. truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine cyes. 17 TT For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former shall not be remembered, nor come 6 Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recom-into mind. pense, even recompense into their 18 But be ye glad and rejoice for ever bosom, in that which I create: for, behold, I 7 Your iniquities, and the iniqulties create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and be of your fathers together, saith the people a joy. LORD, which have burnt incense upon 19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, the mountains, and blasphemned me and joy in my people; and the voice upon the hills: therefore will I meas-of weeping shall be no more heard in ure their former work into their ber, nor the voice of crying. bosom. 20 There shall be no more thence an 67 Thus saith the LonD, As the new infant of days, nor an old man that God's judgments ISAIAH. against the roicked. hath not filled his days; for the child pear to your joy, and they shall be shall die a hundred years old; but the ashamed. sinner being a hundred years old shall 6 A voice of noise from the city, a be accursed. voice from the temple, a voice of the 21 And they shall build houses, and Loud that rendereth recompense to inbabit them; and they shall plant is enemies. vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. 7 Before she travailed, she brought 22 They shall not build, and anoth-forth; before her pain came, she was er inhabit; they shall not plant, and delivered of a man-child. another eat; for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. 23 They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them. 24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, 1 will hear. 25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock; and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD. TH CHAP. LXVI. AHUS saith the LORD, The beaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest? 2 For all those things hath my hand made, and all those things have been, saith the Lond: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. S Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children. 9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD shall I cause to bring forth, and sinul the womb ? saith thy God. 10 Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her: 11 That ye may suck, and be satisbed with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory. 12 For thus saith the LORD, Behold I will extend peace to her like a riv er, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borue upon her sides, aud be dandled upon her knees. 13 As one whom his mother com forteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem. 14. And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall 3 He that killeth an ox, is as if he flourish like an herb: and the hand of slew a man; he that sacrificeth athe LORD shall be known toward his lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; eervants, and his indignation toward be that offereth an oblation, as if he his enemies. offered swme's blood; he that burneth 15 For, behold, the LORD will come icense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, with fire, and with his chariots like a they have chosen their own ways, whirlwind, to render his anger with and their soul delighteth in their fury, and his rebuke with flames of abominations. fire. 4 1 also will choose their delusions, 16 Forby fire and by his sword will and will bring their fears upon them; the Load plead with all flesh: and because when I called, uone did an- the slain of the Lono shall be many. swer; when I spake, they did not 17 They that sanctify themselves,and hear: but they did evil before mine purify themselves in the gardens beeyes, and chose that in which I de-hind one tree in the midst, eating lighted not. swine's flesh, and the abomination, 5 ¶ Hear the word of the LORD, ye and the mouse, shall be consumed tothat tremble at his word; Your breth-|gether, saith the Lono. ren that bated you, that cast you out 18 For I know their works and theit for my name's sake, said, Let the thoughts; it shall come, that I will Load be glorified: but he shall ap-gather all nations and tongues; and The time, and the CHAP. I. calling of Jeremia? they shall come, and ace my glory. 21 And I will also take of them for 19 And I will set a sign among them, priests, and for Levites, saith the and I will send those that escape of Lond. them unto the nations, to Tarshish, 22 For as the new heavens, and the Pul, aud Lud, that draw the bow, to new earth, which I will make, shalt Tubal, and Javao, to the isles afar off, remain before me, saith the LORD, SO that have not heard my fame, neither shall your seed and your name remain. have seen my glory; and they shall 23 And it shall come to pass, that declare my glory among the Gentiles. from one new moon to another, and 20 And they shall bring all your from one sabbath to another, shall a!! brethren for an offering unto the flesh come to worship before me, saith LORD, out of all nations, upon horses, the LORD. and in chariots, and in litters, and up- 24 And they shall go forth, and look on mules, and upon swift beasts, to upon the carcases of the men that have iny holy mountain Jerusalem, saith transgressed against me for their the LORD, as the children of Israel worm shall not die, neither shall their being an offering in a clean vessel into fire be quenched; and they shall be the house of the LORD. lan abborring unto all flesh. ¶ The Book of the Prophet JEREMIAH. CHAP. 1. HE words of Jeremiah the son of THilkial, 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. stroy, and to throw down,to build,anc to plant. 11 ¶ Moreover,the word of the LORD came unto me,saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou ? And I said, I see a red of an almond-tree. 12 Then said the LORD unto me,Thou bast well seen: for 1 will hasten my 3 It came also in the days of Jehoia-word to perform it. kin the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month. 4 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 12 And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou ? And I said, I see a seething-pot; and the face thereof is toward the north. 14 Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land 5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified 15 For, lo, I will call all the families thee; and I ordained thee a prophet of the kingdoms of the north, saith uuto the nations. the Lono; and they shall come, and 6 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! be-they shall set every one his throne at hold, I cannot speak ; for I am a child. the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, 7 But the LORD said unto me, and against all the walls thereof round Say not, I am a child for thou shalt about, and against all the cities of Jugo to all that I shall send thee, and dah. whatsoever I command thee thou shalt Epeak. 16 And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wick8 Be not afraid of their faces: for Iedness, who have forsaken me, and am with thee to deliver thec, saith have burned incense unto other gods, the LORD. and worshipped the works of their own hands. 9 Then the Lond put forth his hand, and touched my mouth: and the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth. 10 See, I have this day set thee over the nations, and over the kingdoms,to root out,and to pull down, and to de 17 ¶ Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them. 18 For, behold, I have made thee this |