Christ's care of the church. SOLOMON'S SONG. The graces of the church. 11 For lo, the winter is past, the rain is day of his espousals, and in the day of the over and gone; gladness of his heart. 12 The flowers appear on the earth; time of the singing of birds is come, the the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; 13 The fig-tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. 14 TO my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely. 15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes. 16 My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies. 17 Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether. CHAP. III. BY night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. him, but I found him not. EHOLD, CHAP. IV. hold, thou art art fait, my love; be eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. 2 Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them. 3 Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks. 4 Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men. 5 Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies. 6 Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense. 7 Thou art all fair, my love; there ispo spot in thee. 2 I will rise now, and go about the city 8 Come with me from Lebanon, my in the streets, and in the broad ways I.will spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from 3 The watchmen that go about the city the mountains of the leopards. found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? 9 Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my 4 It was but a little that I passed from heart with one of thine eyes, with one them, but I found him whom my soul chain of thy neck. loveth: I held him, and would not let him 10 How fair is thy love, my sister, my go, until I had brought him into my spouse! how much better is thy love than mother's house, and into the chamber of wine! and the smell of thine ointments her that conceived me. than all spices! 5 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jeru- 11 Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the salem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the honey-comb: honey and milk are under field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments love, till he please. is like the smell of Lebanon. 6 Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all] powders of the merchant? 7 Behold his bed, which is Solomon's: threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel. 8 They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night. 9 King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon. 12 A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. 13 Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, 14 Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices. 15 A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon. 16 Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that 10 He made the pillars thereof of sil- the spices thereof may flow out. Let my ver, the bottom thereof of gold, the cover-beloved come into his garden, and eat his ing of it of purple, the midst thereof being pleasant fruits. paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem. CHAP. V. AM come into my garden, my sister, 11 Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh and behold king Solomon with the crown with my spice; I have eaten my honeywherewith his mother crowned him in the comb with my honey; I have drunk my A description of Christ. CHAP. VI, VII. The gruces of the church. wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink. Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as yea, drink abundantly, O beloved. 2 I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night. 3 I have put off my coat; how shall put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them? 4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him. 51 rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet-smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock. an army with banners. 5 Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead. 6 Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof 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 threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number. 9 My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her. 6 I opened to my beloved; but my be loved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I 10 TWho is she that looketh forth as sought him, but I could not find him; Ithe morning, fair as the moon, clear as called him, but he gave me no answer. the sun, and terrible as an army with 7 The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me: the keepers of the walls took away my vail from me. banners? 11 I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pome 8 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusa- granates budded. lem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love. 9 What is thy beloved more than another beloved, thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us? 10 My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand. fest head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven. 12 His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set. 12 Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots of Ammi-nadib. 13 Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies. 13 His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as a sweet flowers! his lips like lilies, dropping| sweet-smelling myrrh. CHAP. VII. OW beautiful feet with shoes, HO 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 heap of wheat set about with lilies.. 3 Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins. 14 His hands are as gold rings set with 4 Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory over-eyes like the fish-pools in Heshbon, by laid with sapphires. the gate of Bath-rabbim: thy nose is as 15 His legs are as pillars of marble, set the tower of Lebanon which looketh toupon sockets of fine gold: his countenance ward Damascus. is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars. 5 Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, 16 His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is and the hair of thine head like purple ; altogether lovely. This is my beloved, the King is held in the galleries. and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem. CHAP. VI. 6 How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights! WHITHER is thy beloved gone, O and among women? whither seek him with thee. 7 This thy stature is like to a palm-tree, thy breasts to clusters of grapes. 8 I is thy beloved turned aside? that we may I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of 2 My beloved is gone down into his the vine, and the smell of thy nose like garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in apples; the gardens, and to gather lilies. 3 I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies. 9 And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are 4 T Thou art beautiful, O my love, as asleep to speak. The church's love to Christ. 10 ISAIAII. Isarah's complaint of Judah. I am my beloved's and his desire! 6 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, 13 The mandrakes give a smell, and at ther can the floods drown it: if a man 7 Many waters cannot quench love, neiwould give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned. no breasts: what shall we do for our sister 8 ¶ We have a little sister, and she hath in the day when she shall be spoken for? 9 If she be a wall, we will build upon THAT thou wert as my brother, that we will enclose her with boards of cedar. her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would towers: then was I in his eyes as one that 10 I am a wall, and my breasts like kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised. found favour. 2 I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me:mon; he let out the vineyard unto keep11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-haI would cause thee to drink of spiced wine ers; every one for the fruit thereof was of the juice of my pomegranate. to bring a thousand pieces of silver. 3 His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me. 4 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please. 5 Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple-tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee. THE 12 My vineyard which is mine, is bethousand, and those that keep the fruit fore me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thereof two hundred. the companions hearken to thy voice: 13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, cause me to hear it. thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon 14 T Make haste, my beloved, and be the mountains of spices. 1 The Book of the Prophet ISAIAH. CHAP. I. HE vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. 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. cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a gar8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a den of cucumbers, as a besieged city. 9 Except the LORD of hosts had left have been as Sodom, and we should have unto us a very small remnant, we should been like unto Gomorrah. 10 T Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom: give ear unto the law of 3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the our God, ye people of Gomorrah. ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. 11 To what purpose is the multitude of 4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with I am full of the burnt-offerings of rams, your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children that and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight are corrupters! they have forsaken the LORD, not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel or of he-goats. unto anger, they are gone away backward. 12 When ye come to appear before me, 5 Why should ye be stricken any more? who hath required this at your hand, to ye will revolt more and more: the whole tread my courts? head is sick, and the whole heart faint. 13 Bring no more vain oblations: in 6 From the sole of the foot even unto cense is an abomination unto me; the newthe head there is no soundness in it; but moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemwounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: blies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, they have not been closed, neither bound even the solemn meeting. up, neither mollified with ointment. 7 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. feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble 14 Your new-moons and your appointed unto me; I am weary to bear them. 15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you 520 Christ's coming prophesied. CHAP. II. Isaiah exhorts to fear. yea, when ye make many prayers, I will of the LORD, to the house of the God of not hear: your hands are full of blood. Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, 16 T Wash you, make you clean: put and we will walk in his paths: for out of away the evil of your doings from before Zion shall go forth the law, and the word mine eyes; cease to do evil; of the LORD from Jerusalem. 17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, 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. 4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plough-shares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. 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, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers. 21 How is the faithful city become 7 Their land also is full of silver and a harlot! it was full of judgment; right- gold, neither is there any end of their treaeousness lodged in it; but now murderers. sures; their land is also full of horses, nei22 Thy silver is become dross, thy ther is there any end of their chariots: wine mixed with water: 8 Their land also is full of idols; they 23 Thy princes are rebellious, and com-worship the work of their own hands, that panions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, which their own fingers have made: and followeth after rewards: they judge 9 And the mean man boweth down, and not the fatherless, neither doth the cause the great man humbleth himself: thereof the widow come unto them. fore forgive them not. 24 Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD 10 Enter into the rock, and hide thee of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, Iin the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for will ease me of mine adversaries, and the glory of his majesty. avenge me of mine enemies: 25 T And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin: 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 forsake the LORD shall be consumed. 29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall 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 Bashan, 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 ships of Tarshish, be confounded for the gardens that ye and upon all pleasant pictures. have chosen. 17 And the loftiness of man shall be 30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf bowed down, and the haughtiness of men fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water. shall be made low: and the LORD alone 31 And the strong shall be as tow, and shall be exalted in that day. the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them. CHAP. II. THE son of 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 majesty, when he ariseth to shake 2 And it shall come to pass in the last 20 In that day a man shall cast his idols days, that the mountain of the LORD's of silver, and his idols of gold, which they house shall be established in the top of the made each one for himself to worship, to' mountains, and shall be exalted above the the moles and to the bats; hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. 21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, 3 And many people shall go and say, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his the earth. The impudence of the people. majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly ton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: 22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is 17 Therefore the LORD will smite with in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be ac-a scab the crown of the head of the daughcounted of? ters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts. ISAIAII. Christ's kingdom a sanctuary. FOR CHAP. III. OR behold, the Lord, the LORD of 18 In that day the LORD will take away hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem the bravery of their tinkling ornaments and from Judah the stay and the staff, the about their feet, and their cauls, and their whole stay of bread, and the whole stay round tires like the moon, of water, 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. 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 ear-rings, 21 The rings, and nose-jewels, 22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping-pins, 5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by the hoods, and the vails. his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable. 23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and 6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruter, and let this ruin be under thy hand: 7 In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be a healer; for in my house is 24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth and burning instead of beauty. : 25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war. 26 And her gates shall lament and neither bread nor clothing: make me not mourn; and she, being desolate, shall sit a ruler of the people. upon the ground. CHAP. IV. 8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke AND in that day seven women shall the eyes of his glory. take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own 9 The shew of their countenance apparel: only let us be called by thy doth witness against them; and they de-name, to take away our reproach. clare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. 2 In that day shall the branch of the Wo unto their soul! for they have rewarded LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the evil unto themselves. fruit of the earth shall be excellent and 10 Say ye to the righteous, that it shall comely for them that are escaped of Israel. be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. 11 Wo unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him for the reward of his hands shall be given him. 3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem: 12 As for my people, children are 4 When the LORD shall have washed their oppressors, and women rule over away the filth of the daughters of Zion, them. Omy people, they which lead thee and shall have purged the blood of Jecause thee to err, and destroy the way of rusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit thy paths. of judgment, and by the spirit of burn13 The LORD standeth up to plead, and ing. standeth to judge the people. And the LORD will create upon every 14 The LORD will enter into judgment dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon with the ancients of his people, and the her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, princes thereof for ye have eaten up the and the shining of a flaming fire by night: vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your for upon all the glory shall be a defence. houses. 6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a 15 What mean ye that ye beat my peo- shadow in the day time from the heat, and 'ple to pieces, and grind the faces of the for a place of refuge, and for a covert poor? saith the Lord GoD of hosts. from storm and from rain. 16¶ Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wan N CHAP. V. TOW will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching his |