h See

Deut. 12.

12. & 14. 26. & 16. II, 14. i Chap. 40.3.& 57.14. Zech.

9.9.
Matth.
21.5.

John 12.
15.
/ Chap.
40. 10.
Rev. 22.

12.

|| Or, recompence.

Monday before Eafter, Epistle

10 Go through, go through the gates; prepare you the way of the people, caft up, caft up the high-way, gather out the ftones, lift up a 1tandard for the people.

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9h In all their affliction he was afflicted, 698. and the angel of his prefence faved them: in Judg. his love and in his pity he redeemed them, and 10.16. he bare them, and carried them all the days A&s 9.4. of old.

Zech. 2.8.

i Exod. 23.20,21.

10 But they m rebelled, and "vexed his & 33.14. holy fpitit. therefore he was turned to be Mal. 3.1. their enemy, and he fought against them.

I Cor. 10.

9.

k Deut. 7.7,8.

11 Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy falvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his | work before him.

12 And they fhall call them, The holy people, the redeemed of the LORD: and thou fhalt be called, Sought out, a city not forfaken. CHAP. LXIII.

1 Chrift sheweth who he is, 2 what his victory over his enemies, 7 and what his mercy toward his church. 10 In his just wrath be remembreth his free mercy. 15 The church in their prayer, 17 and complaint, profefs their faith.

WHO Ho is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah ? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the Verf. to greatness of his ftrength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to fave.

1.

the end.

+ Heb. decked.

a Rev. 19.

2 Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the wine-fat?

b

3 I have troden the wine-press alone, and of the people there was none with me: for I will 19, 20. tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury, and their blood fhall be fprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. 4 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, 34.8.& and the year of my redeemed is come.

Chap.

61.2.

d Chap. 41.28.& 59.16.

e Juhn

-16.32. ƒ Pfal. 98. 1.

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5d And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold therefore mine own farm brought falvation unto me, and my fury it upheld me.

6 And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and 8 make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their ftrength to the earth.

79 I will mention the loving kindneffes of the LORD, and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness towards the house of Ifrael, which he hath beftowed on them, according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

8 For he faid, Surely they are my people,

6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteoufneffes are as filthy rags, and we all Pfal.90. do fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

5,6.

f Hof. 7.

7.

+ Heb. melted. + Heb.

h

7 And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that ftirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou haft hid thy face from us, and haft confumed us, because of our iniquities. 88 But now, O LORD, thou art our father: by the hand: We are the clay, and thou our potter, and we as Job 8.4. all are the work of thy hand. g Chap. 63.16. Chap. 29.16.& 45.9. Jer. 18.6. Rom. 9.

20,21. i Pfal. 79.8.

k Chap. 42. 14.

a Rom. 9. 24,25,26. & 10.20.

i

9 Be not wroth very fore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, fee we beseech thee, we are all thy people.

10 Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerufalem a defolation.

11 Our holy and our beautiful houfe, where our fathers praised thee, is burnt up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid wafte.

12kWilt thou refrain thy felf for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very fore?

Am fought of them that asked not for me: I am found of them that fought me not: I Ephef. 2. faid, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.

12, 13.

2 I have fpread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts:

3 A people that provoketh me to anger Chap. Continually to my face, b that facrificeth in 1.29.& gardens, and burneth incenfe + upon altars of brick:

66.17. + Heb. apon bricks.

c Chap.
66.17.

Or,

pieces.

graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat fwines flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their veffels:

Aremnant fhall be faved.

Chrift

་5 Which fay, Stand by thy felf, come not Before near to me, for I am holier than thou: these are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the 698. day.

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d Jude 19.

anger.

6 Behold, it is written before me, I willor, not keep filence, f but will recompenfe, even Deut. recompenfe into their bofom,

32.34.

Mal. 3. 16,

g Exod.

7 Your iniquities and 5 the iniquities of yourf P. 79. fathers together (faith the LORD) which have 12: burnt incenfe upon the mountains, and blafphe-20. 5. med me upon the hills: therefore will I measure" Ezek. their former work into their bofom.

20.27,28.

12 Therefore will I number you to the fword, Meni. and ye all shall bow down to the flaughter: m because when I called, ye did not anfwer;m Prov. 1. when I fpake, ye did not hear, but did evil be- 24, &c. fore mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I4. delighted not.

13 Therefore thus faith the Lord GOD, Behold, my fervants fhall eat, but ye fhall be hungry: behold, my fervants fhall drink, but ye fhall be thirsty: behold, my fervants fhall rejoyce, but ye fhall be afhamed:

14 Behold, my fervants fhall fing for joy of heart, but ye fhall cry for forrow of heart, and fhall howl for vexation of fpirit.

Chap. 66.

Jer. 7.13.

+ Heb.

15 And ye fhall leave your name for a curfe breaking. unto my chofen: for the Lord GOD shall flay 62.2. thee, and "call his fervants by another name:

n Chap. 。 Pfal. 72.

17.

p Deut.

16 That he who bleffeth himself in the Jer.4.2. earth, fhall blefs himself in the God of truth, and %. 13. P he that sweareth in the earth, fhall fwear by Pfal. 63. the God of truth; because the former troubles Ch are forgotten, and because they are hid from 18. & 45. mine eyes.

23.

51.16.8

Zepb. 1.5. 17 For behold, I create a new heavens, Chap. and a new earth: and the former fhall not be remembred, nor + come into mind.

66.22. 2 Pet. 3. 13.

18 But be you glad and rejoyce for ever in Rev. 21.1. that which I create: for behold, I create Jerusa-+ Heb. lem a rejoycing, and her people a joy.

come on the heart.

19 And I will rejoyce in Jerufalem, and joyr Chap Qq

62.5.

in

Sincerity recommended.

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Before in my people, and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying. 698. 20 There fhall be no more thence an infant $ Chap. of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his 35.10.& days: for the child fhall die an hundred years Rev. 7. old, but the finner being an hundred years old 17.& 21 fhall be accurfed.

51.11.

4.

21 And they fhall build houses, and inhabit them; and they fhall plant vineyards, and eat

Lev. 26. the fruit of them.

T

1 King. 8.27. 2 Chron. 6.18. Matth. 5. 34, 35. A&ts 7.

CHA P. LXVI.

The glorious God will be ferved in humble fincerity. 5 He comforteth the humble with the marvellous generation, 10 and with the gracious benefits of the church. 15 Gods fevere judgments against the wicked, 19 The Gentiles fhall have an holy church, 24 and fee the damnation of the wicked.

Hus faith the LORD, a The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my foot-ftool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and

48, 49. & where is the place of my rest?

17.24.

Chap.

57.15. & 61.1.

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2 For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, faith the LORD: Pfal. 34. b but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite fpirit, and d trembleth Ezra 9. at my word.

18.& 51.

17.

4. & 10.3. Pfal. 28.

14. Verf. 5. e Chap. 1.11 Or, kid.

e

3 He that killeth an ox, is as if he flew a man he that facrificeth a lamb, as if he fcut off a dogs neck: he that offereth an oblation, as if be offered fwines blood: he that burneth Deut. incenfe, as if he bleffed an idol: yea, they have chofen their own ways, and their foul delighteth +Heb in their abominations. memorial of. 4 I alfo will choose their delufions, and will Or. bring their fears upon them; & because when I called, none did anfwer; when I fpake they did 24. not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and Chap. 65. chofe that in which I delighted not.

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¡ Chap. 5.

6 A voice of noife from the city, a voice from 19. the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendreth recompenfe to his enemies.

7 Before the travailed, fhe brought forth: before her pain came, fhe was delivered of a man-child.

8 Who hath heard fuch a thing? who hath feen fuch things? fhall the earth be made to bring forth in one day, or fhall a nation be born at once? for as foon as Zion travailed, fhe brought forth her children.

9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause Or, to bring forth? faith the LORD: fhall I caufe to bege bring forth, and fhut the womb? faith thy God.

10 Rejoyce ye with Jerufalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoyce for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:

11 That ye may fuck, and be satisfied with the breafts of her confolations: that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of or, her glory.

brightness. k Chap.

12 For thus faith the LORD, Behold, I will 48. 18.8 extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of 60. 5. the Gentiles like a flowing ftream: then shall ye 1 fuck, ye fhall be m born upon her fides, and be Chap. dandled upon her knees.

60.16. m Chap.

60.4.

13 As one whom his mother comforteth, fo 49.22. & will I comfort you: and ye fhall be comforted 6o. 4* in Jerufalem.

14 And when ye fee this, your heart fhall rejoyce, and your bones fhall flourish like an See " herb: and the hand of the LORD fhall be known 1, &c. towards his fervants, and his indignation towards his enemies.

15° For behold, the LORD will come with. Chap. fire, and with his chariots like a whirl-wind, to 9.5. render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire."

16 For by fire, and by his fword, will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the flain of the LORD fhall be many.