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Genesis:22:16 @ And said, By (note:)Signifying, that there is none greater then he.(:note) myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only [son]:
geneva@Genesis:32:4 @ And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my (note:)He reverenced his brother in worldly things, because he mainly looked to be preferred to the spiritual promise.(:note) lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:
geneva@Exodus:4:22 @ And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel [is] my son, [even] my (note:)Meaning, most dear to him.(:note) firstborn:
geneva@Exodus:5:1 @ And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told (note:)Faith overcomes fear, and makes men bold in their calling.(:note) Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may And offer sacrifice. hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.
geneva@Exodus:5:10 @ Then went the taskemasters of the people and their officers out, and tolde the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will giue you no more strawe.
geneva@Exodus:7:17 @ Thus saith the Lorde, In this shalt thou know that I am the Lord: behold, I wil smite with the rodde that is in mine hand vpon the water that is in the riuer, and it shalbe turned to blood.
geneva@Exodus:8:1 @ Afterward the Lorde sayde vnto Moses, Goe vnto Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus saith the Lorde, Let my people goe, that they may serue me:
geneva@Exodus:8:20 @ Moreouer the Lorde sayd to Moses, Rise vp earely in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh (lo, hee will come forth vnto the water) and say vnto him, Thus saith the Lord, Let my people go, that they may serue me.
geneva@Exodus:9:1 @ Then the Lorde said vnto Moses, Go to Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus saith the Lorde God of the Ebrewes, Let my people go, that they may serue me.
geneva@Exodus:9:13 @ Also the Lorde said vnto Moses, Rise vp early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus saith the Lorde God of the Ebrewes, Let my people goe, that they may serue me.
geneva@Exodus:10:3 @ And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse (note:)The purpose of affliction is that we humble ourselves with true repentance under the hand of God.(:note) to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.
geneva@Exodus:32:27 @ And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, [and] go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and (note:)This fact did so please God, that he turned the curse of Jacob against Levi to a blessing, (Deu_33:9).(:note) slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.
geneva@Numbers:14:28 @ Tell them, As I liue (saith the Lorde) I wil surely do vnto you, euen as ye haue spoken in mine eares.
geneva@Numbers:20:14 @ And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of (note:)Because Jacob or Israel was Esau's brother, who was called Edom.(:note) Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us:
geneva@Numbers:22:16 @ And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus saith Balak the son of Zippor, (note:)The wicked seek by all means to further their naughty enterprises, though they know that God is against them.(:note) Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto me:
geneva@Numbers:32:27 @ But thy seruants will goe euery one armed to warre before the Lorde for to fight, as my lorde saith.
geneva@Deuteronomy:5:27 @ Go thou neere and heare all that the Lord our God saith: and declare thou vnto vs all that the Lorde our God saith vnto thee, and we will heare it, and doe it.
geneva@Joshua:5:14 @ And he said, Nay; but [as] captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and (note:)In that Joshua worships him, he acknowledges him to be God: and in that he calls himself the Lord's captain he declares himself to be Christ.(:note) did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?
geneva@Joshua:7:13 @ Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith the LORD God of Israel, [There is] an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the (note:)Meaning, the man that took of the thing forbidden.(:note) accursed thing from among you.
geneva@Joshua:22:16 @ Thus saith (note:)Not only of the princes, but also of the common people.(:note) the whole congregation of the LORD, What trespass [is] this that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the LORD, in that ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the LORD?
geneva@Joshua:24:2 @ And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the (note:)Euphrates in Mesopotamia, (Gen_11:26).(:note) flood in old time, [even] Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.
geneva@Judges:11:15 @ And said vnto him, Thus saith Iphtah, Israel tooke not the lande of Moab, nor the lande of the children of Ammon.
geneva@1Samuel:2:27 @ And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy (note:)That is, Aaron.(:note) father, when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh's house?
geneva@1Samuel:2:30 @ Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed [that] thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, (note:)God's promises are only effective to those he gives faith to fear and obey him.(:note) Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
geneva@1Samuel:9:6 @ And he said vnto him, Behold nowe, in this citie is a man of God, and he is an honorable man: all that he saith commeth to passe: let vs nowe goe thither, if so be that he can shewe vs what way we may goe.
geneva@1Samuel:10:18 @ And he saide vnto the children of Israel, Thus saith ye Lord God of Israel, I haue brought Israel out of Egypt, and deliuered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the handes of all kingdomes that troubled you.
geneva@1Samuel:15:2 @ Thus saith the Lorde of hostes, I remember what Amalek did to Israel, howe they laide waite for the in ye way, as they came vp fro Egypt.
geneva@1Samuel:20:3 @ And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly [as] the LORD liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth, [there is] but a (note:)I am in great danger of death.(:note) step between me and death.
geneva@2Samuel:7:5 @ Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, (note:)Meaning, he should not: yet Nathan speaking according to man's judgment and not by the spirit of prophecy permitted him.(:note) Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?
geneva@2Samuel:12:11 @ Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give [them] unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this (note:)Meaning openly, at noon.(:note) sun.
geneva@2Samuel:24:12 @ Go, & say vnto Dauid, Thus saith ye Lord, I offer thee three thinges, chuse thee which of them I shall doe vnto thee.
geneva@1Kings:11:31 @ And said to Ieroboam, Take vnto thee ten pieces: for thus saith the Lorde God of Israel, Beholde, I wil rent the kingdome out of ye hands of Salomon, and will giue ten tribes to thee.
geneva@1Kings:12:24 @ Thus saith the (note:)Who of his just judgment will punish the trespasser, and of his mercy spare the innocent people.(:note) LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is from me. They hearkened therefore to the word of the LORD, and returned to depart, according to the word of the LORD.
geneva@1Kings:13:2 @ And he cryed against the altar by the comandement of the Lorde, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the Lord, Beholde, a child shalbe borne vnto the house of Dauid, Iosiah by name, and vpon thee shall he sacrifice the Priestes of the hie places that burne incense vpon thee, and they shall burne mens bones vpon thee.
geneva@1Kings:13:21 @ And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD, (note:)God would reprove his folly by him who caused him to err.(:note) Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God commanded thee,
geneva@1Kings:14:7 @ Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted (note:)Who was but a servant.(:note) thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel,
geneva@1Kings:17:14 @ For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, (note:)God receives no benefit for the use of his own, but he promises an ample recompence for them.(:note) The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day [that] the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth.
geneva@1Kings:20:5 @ And when the messengers came againe, they said, Thus commandeth Ben-hadad, & saith, When I shal send vnto thee, and command, thou shalt deliuer me thy siluer and thy golde, and thy women, and thy children,
geneva@1Kings:20:13 @ And, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab king of Israel, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into thine hand this day; and thou shalt know (note:)Before God went about with signs and miracles to pull Ahab from his impiety, and now again with wonderful victories.(:note) that I [am] the LORD.
geneva@1Kings:20:28 @ And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the LORD, Because the Syrians have said, The LORD [is] God of the hills, but he [is] not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that (note:)Who has the same power in the valley as on the hills and can also destroy a multitude with few as with many.(:note) I [am] the LORD.
geneva@1Kings:20:42 @ And he said vnto him, Thus saith the Lord, Because thou hast let goe out of thine handes a man whom I appoynted to dye, thy life shall goe for his life, and thy people for his people.
geneva@1Kings:21:19 @ And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, (note:)Do you think to have an advantage by murdering an innocent?(:note) Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, This was fulfilled in Joram his son (2Ki_9:25-26). In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
geneva@1Kings:22:11 @ And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him (note:)The true prophets of God were accustomed to use signs for the confirmation of their doctrine, (Isa_20:2; Jer_7:2) in which the false prophets imitated them, thinking by it to make their doctrine more believable.(:note) horns of iron: and he said, Thus saith the LORD, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until thou have consumed them.
geneva@1Kings:22:27 @ And say, Thus saith the king, Put this [fellow] in the prison, and feed him with (note:)Let him waste away with hunger and be fed with a small portion of bread and water.(:note) bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.
geneva@2Kings:1:4 @ Wherefore thus saith the Lorde, Thou shalt not come downe from the bed on which thou art gone vp, but shalt die the death. So Eliiah departed.
geneva@2Kings:1:6 @ And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, (note:)Ignorance is the mother of error and idolatry.(:note) [Is it] not because [there is] not a God in Israel, [that] thou sendest to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
geneva@2Kings:1:16 @ And he saide vnto him, Thus saith the Lorde, Because thou hast sent messengers to enquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron, (was it not because there was no God in Israel to inquire of his worde?) therefore thou shalt not come downe off the bed, on which thou art gone vp, but shalt die the death.
geneva@2Kings:2:21 @ And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast (note:)Thus God gave him power, even contrary to nature, to make the water profitable for man's use, which before was hurtful.(:note) the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren [land].
geneva@2Kings:3:16 @ And he saide, Thus saith the Lorde, Make this valley full of ditches.
geneva@2Kings:3:17 @ For thus saith the Lorde, Ye shall neither see winde nor see raine, yet the valley shalbe filled with water, that ye may drinke, both ye and your cattel, and your beastes.
geneva@2Kings:4:43 @ And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the LORD, They shall eat, and (note:)It is not the quantity of bread that satisfies, but the blessing that God gives.(:note) shall leave [thereof].
geneva@2Kings:5:13 @ And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, (note:)This declares that servants should reverence and love their masters as children their fathers, and likewise masters toward their servants, must be affectioned as toward their children.(:note) My father, [if] the prophet had bid thee [do some] great thing, wouldest thou not have done [it]? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
geneva@2Kings:7:1 @ Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, (note:)The godly are always assured of God's help in their necessity, but the times and hours are only revealed by God's Spirit.(:note) To morrow about this time [shall] a measure of fine flour [be sold] for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
geneva@2Kings:9:6 @ And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil on his head, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I have (note:)This anointing was for kings, priests and prophets which were all figures of Messiah, in whom these three offices were accomplished.(:note) anointed thee king over the people of the LORD, [even] over Israel.
geneva@2Kings:9:26 @ Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his (note:)By this it is evident that Jezebel caused both Naboth and his sons to be put to death, that Ahab might enjoy his vineyard more quietly: else his children might have claimed possession.(:note) sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith the LORD. Now therefore take [and] cast him into the plat [of ground], according to the word of the LORD.
geneva@2Kings:18:19 @ And Rabshakeh sayde vnto them, Tell ye Hezekiah, I pray you, Thus saith the great King, euen the great King of Asshur, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
geneva@2Kings:18:31 @ Hearken not vnto Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Asshur, Make appointment with me, and come out to me, that euery man may eate of his owne vine, & euery man of his owne figge tree, and drinke euery man of the water of his owne well,
geneva@2Kings:19:3 @ And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day [is] a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to (note:)The dangers are so great, that we can neither avenge this blasphemy, or help ourselves any more than a woman in labour.(:note) the birth, and [there is] not strength to bring forth.
geneva@2Kings:19:20 @ Then Isaiah the sonne of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, I haue heard that which thou hast prayed me, concerning Saneherib King of Asshur.
geneva@2Kings:19:32 @ Wherefore thus saith the Lorde, concerning the King of Asshur, He shall not enter into this citie, nor shoote an arrowe there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a mount against it:
geneva@2Kings:19:33 @ But he shall returne the way he came, and shall not come into this citie, saith the Lorde.
geneva@2Kings:20:1 @ About that time was Hezekiah sicke vnto death: and the Prophet Isaiah the sonne of Amoz came to him, and said vnto him, Thus saith the Lorde, Put thine house in an order: for thou shalt die, and not liue.
geneva@2Kings:20:5 @ Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy (note:)Because of his true repentance and prayer, God turned away his wrath.(:note) prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the To give thanks for your deliverance. house of the LORD.
geneva@2Kings:20:17 @ Beholde, the dayes come, that all that is in thine house, and what so euer thy fathers haue layed vp in store vnto this day, shall be caryed into Babel: Nothing shall be left, saith the Lorde.
geneva@2Kings:21:12 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I [am] bringing [such] evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall (note:)Meaning, that whoever hears of this great plague, will be astonished.(:note) tingle.
geneva@2Kings:22:19 @ Because thine heart was (note:)Meaning, that he repented as they that do not repent are said to harden their heart, (Psa_95:8).(:note) tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard [thee], saith the LORD.
geneva@1Chronicles:17:4 @ Goe, and tell Dauid my seruant, Thus saith the Lorde, Thou shalt not buylde me an house to dwell in:
geneva@1Chronicles:17:7 @ Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, (note:)Of a shepherd of sheep I made you a shepherd of men: so that you did not come to this dignity through your own merits, but by my pure grace.(:note) [even] from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel:
geneva@1Chronicles:21:10 @ Goe and tell Dauid, saying, Thus saith the Lorde, I offer thee three thinges: choose thee one of them, that I may doe it vnto thee.
geneva@1Chronicles:21:11 @ So Gad came to Dauid, and sayde vnto him, Thus saith the Lord, Take to thee
geneva@2Chronicles:12:5 @ Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and [to] the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Ye have forsaken me, and (note:)Signifying that no calamity can come to us unless we forsake God, and that he never leaves us till we have cast him off.(:note) therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.
geneva@2Chronicles:18:10 @ And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made him (note:)Read (1Ki_22:11).(:note) horns of iron, and said, Thus saith the LORD, With these thou shalt push Syria until they be consumed.
geneva@2Chronicles:18:13 @ And Michaiah saide, As the Lorde liueth, whatsoeuer my God saith, that will I speake.
geneva@2Chronicles:18:26 @ And say, Thus saith the king, Put this [fellow] in the prison, and feed him with bread of (note:)Keep him in prison, and let him feel hunger and thirst.(:note) affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.
geneva@2Chronicles:20:15 @ And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the (note:)They fight against God and not against you, therefore he will fight for you.(:note) battle [is] not yours, but God's.
geneva@2Chronicles:21:12 @ And there came a writing to him from (note:)Some think that this was Elisha so called because he had the Spirit in abundance, as had Elijah.(:note) Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,
geneva@2Chronicles:24:20 @ And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood (note:)In a place above the people, to the intent that he might be heard.(:note) above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you.
geneva@2Chronicles:32:10 @ Thus saith Saneherib the King of Asshur, Wherein doe ye trust, that ye will remaine in Ierusalem, during the siege?
geneva@2Chronicles:34:23 @ And she answered them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell ye (note:)That is, to the king.(:note) the man that sent you to me,
geneva@2Chronicles:34:24 @ Thus saith the Lorde, Beholde, I will bring euill vpon this place, and vpon the inhabitantes thereof, euen all the curses, that are written in the booke which they haue read before the King of Iudah:
geneva@2Chronicles:34:26 @ But to the King of Iudah, who sent you to enquire of the Lord, so shal ye say vnto him, Thus saith the Lorde God of Israel, The words which thou hast heard, shal come to passe.
geneva@2Chronicles:34:27 @ Because thine heart was (note:)This declares the end of God's threatenings, to call his to repentance, and to assure the unrepentant of their destruction.(:note) tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard [thee] also, saith the LORD.
geneva@2Chronicles:36:23 @ Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath (note:)God had so forewarned by his prophet over 100 years before Cyrus was born, (Isa_44:28) that Jerusalem and the temple would be rebuilt by Cyrus his anointed: so called because God used his service for a time to deliver his Church.(:note) charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which [is] in Judah. Who [is there] among you of all his people? The LORD his God [be] with him, and let him go up.
geneva@Ezra:1:2 @ Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me (note:)For he was chief monarch and had many nations under his dominion, which this heathen king confesses to have received from the living God.(:note) all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which [is] in Judah.
geneva@Nehemiah:6:6 @ Wherein [was] written, It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith [it, that] thou and the Jews think to rebel: for which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their king, according to these (note:)As the same goes.(:note) words.
geneva@Job:33:24 @ Then he is (note:)He shows that it is a sure token of God's mercy toward sinners, when he causes his word to be preached to them.(:note) gracious unto him, and saith, That is, the minister will by the preaching of the word pronounce to him the forgiveness of his sins. Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
geneva@Job:37:6 @ For he saith to the snow, Be thou [on] the earth; (note:)So that neither small rain nor great, snow nor anything else comes without God's appointment.(:note) likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.
geneva@Psalms:36:1 @ «To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David the servant of the LORD.» The transgression of the wicked saith (note:)I see evidently by his deeds, that sin pushes forward the reprobate from wickedness to wickedness, even though he goes about to cover his impiety.(:note) within my heart, [that there is] no fear of God before his eyes.
geneva@Psalms:50:16 @ But unto the wicked God saith, (note:)Why do you pretend to be of my people and talk of my covenant, seeing that you are a hypocrite?(:note) What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or [that] thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
geneva@Proverbs:9:4 @ Whoever [is] (note:)He who knows his own ignorance, and is void of malice.(:note) simple, let him turn in here: [as for] him that lacketh understanding, she saith to him,
geneva@Proverbs:22:13 @ The slothful [man] saith, (note:)He derides them that invent vain excuses, because they would not do their duty.(:note) [There is] a lion outside, I shall be slain in the streets.
geneva@Proverbs:24:24 @ He that saith to the wicked, Thou art righteous, him shall the people curse, and the multitude shall abhorre him.
geneva@Proverbs:26:13 @ The slothful [man] saith, (note:)Read (Pro_22:13).(:note) [There is] a lion in the way; a lion [is] in the streets.
geneva@Proverbs:26:19 @ So [is] the man [that] deceiveth (note:)Who disguises himself to be that which he is not.(:note) his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?
geneva@Proverbs:30:20 @ Such [is] the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and (note:)She has her desires, and later counterfeits as though she were an honest woman.(:note) wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:27 @ Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, [counting] one by one, to (note:)That is, to come to a conclusion.(:note) find out the account:
geneva@Ecclesiastes:10:3 @ Also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth [him], and he (note:)By his doings he betrays himself.(:note) saith to every one [that] he [is] a fool.
geneva@Isaiah:1:11 @ To what purpose [is] the multitude of your sacrifices to me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I (note:)Although God commanded these sacrifices for a time, as aids and exercises of their faith, yet because the people did not have faith or repentance, God detests them, (Psa_50:13; Jer_6:20; Amo_5:22; Mic_6:7).(:note) delight not in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.
geneva@Isaiah:1:18 @ Come now, (note:)To know if I accuse you without cause.(:note) and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be Lest sinners should pretend any rigour on God's part, he only wills them to be pure in heart, and he will forgive all their sins, no matter how many or great. white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
geneva@Isaiah:1:24 @ Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the (note:)When God will show himself merciful to his Church, he calls himself the Holy one of Israel, but when he has to do with his enemies, he is called Mighty, as against whom no power is able to resist.(:note) mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will I will take vengeance of my adversaries the Jews and so satisfy my desire by punishing them. rid myself of my adversaries, and avenge me of my enemies:
geneva@Isaiah:3:15 @ What mean ye [that] ye beat my people to pieces, (note:)That is, you show all cruelty against them.(:note) and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
geneva@Isaiah:3:16 @ Moreover the LORD saith, (note:)He means the people because of the arrogancy and pride of their women who gave themselves to all wantonness and dissolution.(:note) Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with Which declared their pride. extended necks and As a sign that they were not chaste. wanton eyes, walking and Which showed their wantonness. mincing [as] they go, and making a They delighted then in slippers that creaked or had little plates sewn on them which tinkled as they went. tinkling with their feet:
geneva@Isaiah:10:24 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of (note:)As the Egyptians punished you.(:note) Egypt.
geneva@Isaiah:17:3 @ The fortress also shall cease from (note:)It seems that the prophet would comfort the Church in declaring the destruction of these two kings of Syria and Israel, when as they had conspired the overthrow of Judah.(:note) Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the The ten tribes gloried in their multitude and alliance with other nations: therefore he says that they will be brought down and the Syrians also. glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.
geneva@Isaiah:17:6 @ Yet gleaning grapes shall (note:)Because God would have his covenant stable, he promises to reserve some of this people, and to bring them to repentance.(:note) be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two [or] three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four [or] five in the outmost fruitful branches of it, saith the LORD God of Israel.
geneva@Isaiah:22:14 @ And it was declared in ye eares of the Lorde of hostes. Surely this iniquitie shall not be purged from you, til ye die, saith the Lord God of hostes.
geneva@Isaiah:22:15 @ Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, repair to this (note:)Because the Hebrew word also signifies one who nourishes and cherishes, there are those of the scholars who think that this wicked man nourished a secret friendship with the Assyrians and Egyptians to betray the Church and to provide for himself against all dangers: in the mean season he packed craftily, and got of the best offices into his hand under Hezekiah, ever aspiring to the highest.(:note) treasurer, [even] to Shebna, who [is] over the house, [and say],
geneva@Isaiah:22:25 @ In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the (note:)He means Shebna, who in man's judgment should never have fallen.(:note) nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that [was] upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken [it].
geneva@Isaiah:28:16 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a (note:)That is, Christ, by whom all the building must be tried and upheld, (Psa_118:22; Mat_21:42; Act_4:11; Rom_9:33; 1Pe_2:6).(:note) tried stone, a precious corner [stone], a sure foundation: he that believeth He will be quiet, and seek no other remedies, but be content with Christ. shall not make haste.
geneva@Isaiah:29:11 @ And the vision of all is become to you as the words of a book that is sealed, which [men] deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I (note:)Meaning, that it is all alike, either to read, or not to read, unless God open the heart to understand.(:note) cannot; for it [is] sealed:
geneva@Isaiah:30:1 @ Woe to the (note:)Who contrary to their promise take not me for their protector and contrary to my commandment seek help from strangers.(:note) rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not from me; and that They seek shifts to cloak their doings and not godly means. cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
geneva@Isaiah:30:12 @ Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in (note:)Meaning, in their stubbornness against God and the admonitions of his prophets.(:note) oppression and perverseness, and lean upon it:
geneva@Isaiah:30:15 @ For thus saith the (note:)Often by his prophets he put you in remembrance of this, that you should only depend on him.(:note) Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.
geneva@Isaiah:31:9 @ And he shall pass over to his (note:)This was accomplished soon after when Sennacherib's army was discomfited, and he fled to his castle in Nineveh for comfort.(:note) strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose To destroy his enemies. fire [is] in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.
geneva@Isaiah:33:10 @ Now will I (note:)To help and deliver my Church.(:note) rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.
geneva@Isaiah:36:4 @ And (note:)Sennacherib's chief captain.(:note) Rabshakeh said to them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence [is] this in which thou trustest?
geneva@Isaiah:36:14 @ Thus saith the King, Let not Hezekiah deceiue you: for he shall not be able to deliuer you.
geneva@Isaiah:36:16 @ Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make (note:)The Hebrew word signifies blessing, by which this wicked captain would have persuaded the people, that their condition would be better under Sennacherib than under Hezekiah.(:note) [an agreement] with me [by] a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;
geneva@Isaiah:37:3 @ And they said to him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day [is] a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the (note:)We are in as great sorrow as a woman in labour who cannot be delivered.(:note) birth, and [there is] not strength to bring forth.
geneva@Isaiah:37:6 @ And Isaiah sayde vnto them, Thus say vnto your master, Thus saith the Lorde, Be not afrayd of the wordes that thou hast heard, wherewith the seruants of the king of Asshur haue blasphemed me.
geneva@Isaiah:37:34 @ By the same way that he came, he shall returne, and not come into this citie, saith the Lord.
geneva@Isaiah:38:1 @ In those (note:)Soon after that the Assyrians were slain: so that God will have the exercise of his children continually, that they may learn only to depend on God and aspire to the heavens.(:note) days was Hezekiah sick and near death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thy house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.
geneva@Isaiah:38:5 @ Goe, and say vnto Hezekiah, Thus saith the Lord God of Dauid thy father, I haue heard thy prayer, and seene thy teares: behold, I will adde vnto thy dayes fifteene yeeres.
geneva@Isaiah:39:6 @ Behold, the days come, that all that [is] in thy house, and [that] which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be (note:)By the grievousness of the punishment is declared how greatly God detested ambition and vain glory.(:note) carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
geneva@Isaiah:40:1 @ Comfort (note:)This is a consolation for the Church, assuring them that they will never be destitute of prophets by which he exhorts the true ministers of God that then were, and those also that would come after him, to comfort the poor afflicted and to assure them of their deliverance both of body and soul.(:note) ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
geneva@Isaiah:40:25 @ To whom nowe will ye liken me, that I should be like him, saith the Holy one?
geneva@Isaiah:41:14 @ Fear not, thou (note:)Thus he calls them because they were contemned of all the world, and that they considering their own poor estate should seek him for help.(:note) worm Jacob, [and] ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
geneva@Isaiah:42:22 @ But this [is] a people (note:)Because they will not acknowledge this blessing from the Lord, who is ready to deliver them, he permits them to be spoiled by their enemies through their own fault and incredulity.(:note) robbed and plundered; [they are] all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, There will be no one to comfort them, or to will the enemy to restore that which he has spoiled. Restore.
geneva@Isaiah:43:1 @ But now thus saith the LORD (note:)After these threatenings he promises deliverance to his Church, because he has regenerated them, adopted them, and called them.(:note) that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, When you see dangers and conspiracies on all sides, remember this benefit and the love of your God, and it will encourage you. Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called [thee] by thy name; thou [art] mine.
geneva@Isaiah:43:10 @ Ye (note:)The prophets and people to whom I have given my law.(:note) [are] my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my Meaning especially Christ, and by him all the faithful. servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I [am] he: before me there was no god formed, neither shall there be after me.
geneva@Isaiah:43:14 @ Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have (note:)By Darius and Cyrus.(:note) brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry [is] in They will cry when they would escape by my water, seeing that the course of the Euphrates is turned another way by the enemy. the ships.
geneva@Isaiah:43:16 @ Thus saith the LORD, who maketh a way in (note:)When he delivered Israel from Pharaoh, (Exo_14:22).(:note) the sea, and a path in the mighty When the Israelites passed through Jordan, (Jos_3:17). waters;
geneva@Isaiah:44:2 @ Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed (note:)He treated and chose you from the beginning of his own mercy, and before you could merit anything.(:note) thee from the womb, [who] will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, Whom God accepts as righteous: or who had opportunity to it because of the law, and your holy calling. whom I have chosen.
geneva@Isaiah:44:6 @ Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; (note:)I am always like myself, that is, merciful toward my Church, and most able to maintain it, as in (Isa_41:4, Isa_48:12; Rev_1:17, Rev_22:13).(:note) I [am] the first, and I [am] the last; and besides me [there is] no God.
geneva@Isaiah:44:16 @ He burneth part of it in the fire; with part of it he (note:)That is, he either makes a table or trenchers.(:note) eateth flesh; he roasteth meat, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth [himself], and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire:
geneva@Isaiah:44:26 @ That confirmeth the word of his (note:)Of Isaiah and the rest of his prophets, who assured the Church of God's favour and deliverance.(:note) servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up her decayed places:
geneva@Isaiah:44:27 @ That saith to the (note:)He shows that God's work would be no less notable in this their deliverance, than when he brought them out of Egypt, through the sea.(:note) deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
geneva@Isaiah:44:28 @ That saith of (note:)To assure them of their deliverance he names the person by whom it would be, more than a hundred years before he was born.(:note) Cyrus, [He is] my shepherd, and he shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
geneva@Isaiah:45:1 @ Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to (note:)To assure the Jews of their deliverance against the great temptations that they would abide, he names the person and the means.(:note) Cyrus, whose Because Cyrus would execute the office of a deliverer, God called him his anointed for a time, but after another sort than he called David. right hand I have held, to To guide him in the deliverance of my people. subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;
geneva@Isaiah:45:11 @ Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me (note:)Instead of murmuring, humble yourselves and ask what you will for the consolation of my children, and you will be sure of it as you are of these things which are at your command. Some read it with an interrogation, and make it the application of the comparison.(:note) of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.
geneva@Isaiah:45:13 @ I have raised (note:)That is, Cyrus, that I may show by him the faithfulness of my promise in delivering my people.(:note) him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for Meaning, freely and without ransom, or any grievous condition. price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.
geneva@Isaiah:45:14 @ Thus saith the LORD, The labour (note:)These people were tributaries to the Persians, and so king Artahshashte gave this money toward the building of the temple, (Ezr_7:27).(:note) of Egypt, and merchandise of Cush and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to thee, and they shall be While they were your enemies, they will now honour you and you will rule them: which was accomplished in the time of Christ. thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down to thee, they shall make supplication to thee, [saying], Surely God [is] in thee; and [there is] none else, [there is] no God.
geneva@Isaiah:45:18 @ For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be (note:)That is, of men, but chiefly of his Church.(:note) inhabited: I [am] the LORD; and [there is] none else.
geneva@Isaiah:48:17 @ Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I [am] the LORD thy God who teacheth thee (note:)What things will do you good.(:note) to profit, who leadeth thee by the way [that] thou shouldest go.
geneva@Isaiah:48:22 @ [There is] no (note:)Thus he speaks that the wicked hypocrites should not abuse God's promise, in whom was neither faith nor repentance, as in (Isa_57:21)(:note) peace, saith the LORD, to the wicked.
geneva@Isaiah:49:5 @ And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb [to be] his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, (note:)Though the Jews refuse my doctrine, yet God will approve my ministry.(:note) yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength.
geneva@Isaiah:49:7 @ Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, [and] his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a (note:)Meaning, the Jews whom tyrants kept in bondage.(:note) servant of rulers, Kings shall see and The benefit of their deliverance will be so great, that great and small will acknowledge it, and revere God for it. arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, [and] the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.
geneva@Isaiah:49:8 @ Thus saith the LORD, (note:)Thus he speaks of his Church when he would show his mercy toward it, (2Co_6:2).(:note) In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give Meaning, Christ alone. thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the Signifying that before Christ renewed the earth by his word, there is nothing but confusion and disorder. earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;
geneva@Isaiah:49:18 @ Lift up thy eyes around, and behold: all these gather themselves together, [and] come to thee. [As] I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely (note:)He shows what are the ornaments of the Church: to have many children, who are assembled by the word of God, and governed by his Spirit.(:note) clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them [on thee], as a bride [doeth].
geneva@Isaiah:49:22 @ Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the (note:)He shows that Christ will not only gather this great number from the Jews but also from the Gentiles.(:note) Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in [their] arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon [their] shoulders.
geneva@Isaiah:49:25 @ But thus saith the LORD, (note:)This is the answer to their objection, that no one is stronger than the Lord, neither has a more just title to them.(:note) Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.
geneva@Isaiah:50:1 @ Thus saith the LORD, Where [is] the (note:)Meaning, that he has not forsaken her, but through her own opportunity as in (Hos_2:2).(:note) bill of your mother's divorcement, Who would declare that I have cut her off: meaning, that they could show no one. whom I have put away? or which of my creditors [is it] Signifying, that he sold them not for any debt or poverty, but that they sold themselves to sins to buy their own lusts and pleasures. to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
geneva@Isaiah:51:22 @ Thus saith thy Lorde God, euen God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Beholde, I haue taken out of thine hande the cuppe of trembling, euen the dregges of the cuppe of my wrath: thou shalt drinke it no more.
geneva@Isaiah:52:3 @ For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for (note:)The Babylonians paid nothing to me for you: therefore I will take you again without ransom.(:note) nothing; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
geneva@Isaiah:52:4 @ For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went (note:)When Jacob went there in times of famine.(:note) down in times past into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian The Egyptians might pretend some reason to oppress my people because they went there and remained among them, but the Assyrians have no title to excuse their tyranny by, and therefore I will punish them more than I did the Egyptians. oppressed them without cause.
geneva@Isaiah:52:5 @ Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nothing? they that rule over them make them to wail, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day [is] (note:)That is, by the wicked, who think that I have no power to deliver them.(:note) blasphemed.
geneva@Isaiah:52:7 @ How (note:)Signifying that the joy and good tidings of their deliverance would make their affliction in the mean time more easy: but this is chiefly meant of the spiritual joy, as in (Nah_1:15; Rom_10:15).(:note) beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that proclaimeth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that proclaimeth salvation; that saith to Zion, Thy God reigneth!
geneva@Isaiah:54:1 @ Sing, O (note:)After he has declared the death of Christ, he speaks to the Church, because it would feel the fruit of the same, and calls her barren, because in the captivity she was a widow without hope to have any children.(:note) barren, thou [that] didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou [that] didst not travail with child: for more [are] the children of the The Church in this her affliction and captivity will bring forth more children, than when she was free, or this may be spoken by admiration, considering the great number that would come from her. Her deliverance under Cyrus was as her childhood, and therefore this was accomplished when she came of age, which was under the gospel. desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.
geneva@Isaiah:54:6 @ For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a (note:)As a wife who was forsaken in your youth.(:note) wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
geneva@Isaiah:54:10 @ For the mountaines shall remoue and the hilles shall fall downe: but my mercy shall not depart from thee, neither shall the couenant of my peace fall away, saith the Lord, that hath compassion on thee.
geneva@Isaiah:55:8 @ For my (note:)Although you are not soon reconciled one to another and judge me by yourselves, yet I am easy to be reconciled, yea, I offer my mercies to you.(:note) thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
geneva@Isaiah:56:1 @ Thus saith the LORD, (note:)God shows what he requires of them after he has delivered them: that is, the works of charity by which true faith is declared.(:note) Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation [is] near to come, and my Which I will declare toward you, and pour into your hearts by my Spirit. righteousness to be revealed.
geneva@Isaiah:56:4 @ For thus saith the Lord vnto the Eunuches, that keepe my Sabbaths, and chuse the thing that pleaseth me, and take holde of my couenant,
geneva@Isaiah:57:19 @ I create the (note:)That is, I frame the speech and words of my messengers who will bring peace.(:note) fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to [him that is] As well to him that is in captivity as to him that remains at home. far off, and to [him that is] near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.
geneva@Isaiah:59:20 @ And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and to (note:)By which he declares that the true deliverance from sin and Satan belongs to none but to the children of God, whom he justifies.(:note) them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
geneva@Isaiah:59:21 @ As for me, this [is] my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that [is] upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, (note:)Because the doctrine is made profitable by the virtue of the Spirit, he joins the one with the other, and promises to give them both to his Church for ever.(:note) shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.
geneva@Isaiah:65:7 @ Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers (note:)Will be both punished together: and this declares how the children are punished for their fathers faults, that is, when the same faults or like are found in them.(:note) together, saith the LORD, who have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.
geneva@Isaiah:65:8 @ Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and [one] saith, Destroy it not; for a (note:)That is, it is profitable: meaning that God will not destroy the faithful branches of his vineyard, when he destroys the rotten stocks, that is, the hypocrites.(:note) blessing [is] in it: so will I do for my servants' sake, that I may not destroy them all.
geneva@Isaiah:65:13 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall (note:)By these words, eat and drink, he means the blessed life of the faithful, who have always had consolation and full contentment of all things in their God, though sometimes they lack these corporal things.(:note) eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:
geneva@Isaiah:65:25 @ The (note:)Read (Isa_11:6).(:note) wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox: and dust [shall be] the serpent's food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.
geneva@Isaiah:66:1 @ Thus saith the LORD, The (note:)My majesty is so great, that it fills both heaven and earth, and therefore cannot be included in a temple like an idol, condemning by this their main confidence which trusted in the temple and sacrifices.(:note) heaven [is] my throne, and the earth [is] my footstool: where [is] the house that ye build to me? and where [is] the place of my rest?
geneva@Isaiah:66:2 @ For all these [things] hath my hand made, (note:)Seeing that both the temple and the things in it, with the sacrifices were made and done by his appointment, he shows that he has no need of it, and that he can be without them, {{See Psa_50:10}}.(:note) and all these [things] have been, saith the LORD: but to this [man] will I look, [even] to [him that is] poor and of To him that is humble and pure in heart, who receives my doctrine with reverence and fear. a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
geneva@Isaiah:66:9 @ Shall I (note:)Declaring by this that as by his power and providence women travailed and delivered so he gives power to bring forth the Church at his appointed time.(:note) bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut [the womb]? saith thy God.
geneva@Isaiah:66:12 @ For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend (note:)I will give her happiness and prosperity in great abundance.(:note) peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Read (Isa_60:16). Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye be nursed, ye shall be You will be cherished as her dearly beloved children. borne upon [her] sides, and be dandled upon [her] knees.
geneva@Isaiah:66:17 @ They that sanctify (note:)Meaning, the hypocrites.(:note) themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one [tree] in the midst, eating By which are meant them that maliciously transgressed the law, by eating beasts forbidden, even to the mouse which nature abhors. swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
geneva@Isaiah:66:20 @ And they shall bring all your (note:)That is the Gentiles, who by faith will be made the children of Abraham as you are.(:note) brethren [for] an offering to the LORD out of all nations upon By which he means that no necessary means will want, when God will call the Gentiles to the knowledge of the gospel. horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD.
geneva@Isaiah:66:21 @ And I will also take of them for (note:)That is, of the Gentiles, as he did Luke, Timothy and Titus first, and others after to preach his word.(:note) priests [and] for Levites, saith the LORD.
geneva@Isaiah:66:22 @ For as the new (note:)By this he signifies the kingdom of Christ in which his Church will be renewed, and where before there were appointed seasons to sacrifice in this there will be one continual Sabbath, so that all times and seasons will be meet.(:note) heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.
geneva@Isaiah:66:23 @ And from moneth to moneth, and from Sabbath to Sabbath shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord.
geneva@Jeremiah:1:8 @ Be not afraide of their faces: for I am with thee to deliuer thee, saith the Lord.
geneva@Jeremiah:1:15 @ For loe, I will call all the families of the kingdomes of the North, saith the Lord, and they shall come, and euery one shall set his throne in the entring of the gates of Ierusalem, and on all the walles thereof rounde about, and in all the cities of Iudah.
geneva@Jeremiah:2:2 @ Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the (note:)According to that grace and favour which I showed you from the beginning, when I first chose you to be my people, and married you to myself, (Eze_16:8).(:note) kindness of thy youth, the love of thy espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, When I had delivered you out of Egypt. in a land [that was] not sown.
geneva@Jeremiah:2:3 @ Israel [was] (note:)Chosen above all others to serve the Lord only and the first offered to the Lord of all other nations.(:note) holiness to the LORD, [and] the firstfruits of his increase: all Whoever challenged this people, or else annoyed them, was punished. that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.
geneva@Jeremiah:2:5 @ Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they have gone (note:)That is, fallen to vile idolatry.(:note) far from me, and have walked after vanity, and have become Altogether given to vanity, and are become blind and insensible as the idols that they serve. vain?
geneva@Jeremiah:2:9 @ Wherefore I will yet (note:)Signifying that he would not as he might, straightway condemn them, but shows them by evident examples their great ingratitude that they might be ashamed and repent.(:note) plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.
geneva@Jeremiah:2:12 @ Be astonished, O ye (note:)He shows that the insensible creatures abhor this vile ingratitude, and as it were tremble for fear of God's great judgments against the same.(:note) heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
geneva@Jeremiah:2:19 @ Thy own wickedness shall (note:)Meaning, that the wicked are insensible, till the punishment for their sin waken them as in (Jer_2:26; Isa_3:9).(:note) correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that [it is] an evil [thing] and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear [is] not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
geneva@Jeremiah:2:22 @ For though thou shalt wash thee with (note:)Though you use all the purifications and ceremonies of the law, you cannot escape punishment.(:note) lye, and take thee much soap, [yet] thy iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
geneva@Jeremiah:2:29 @ Why will (note:)As though I did you injury in punishing you, seeing that your faults are so evident.(:note) ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD.
geneva@Jeremiah:3:1 @ They (note:)According as it is written, (Deu_24:4).(:note) say, If a man shall put away his wife, and she shall go from him, and become another man's, shall he return to her again? shall not that land If he take such a one to wife again. be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many That is, with idols, and with them whom you have put your confidence in. lovers; yet And I will not cast you off, but receive you, according to my mercy. return again to me, saith the LORD.
geneva@Jeremiah:3:10 @ And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned to me with (note:)Judah pretended for a time that she returned, as under Josiah and other good kings, but she was never truly touched, or wholly reformed, as appeared when opportunity was offered by any wicked prince.(:note) her whole heart, but deceitfully, saith the LORD.
geneva@Jeremiah:3:12 @ Go and proclaim these words toward (note:)While the Israelites were now kept in captivity by the Assyrians, to whom he promises mercy, if they will repent.(:note) the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; [and] I will not cause my anger to fall upon you: for I [am] merciful, saith the LORD, [and] I will not keep [anger] for ever.
geneva@Jeremiah:3:13 @ Only acknowledge thy iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast (note:)There was no way which you did not hunt to seek after the idols, and to go on a pilgrimage.(:note) scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.
geneva@Jeremiah:3:16 @ And it shall come to pass, when ye shall be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The (note:)This is to be understood of the coming of Christ: for then they will not seek the Lord by ceremonies, and all figures will cease.(:note) ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they miss [it]; neither shall [that] be done any more.
geneva@Jeremiah:3:20 @ Surely [as] a wife treacherously departeth from her (note:)The Hebrew word signifies a friend or companion, and here may be taken for a husband, as it is used also in (Hos_3:1).(:note) husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.
geneva@Jeremiah:4:1 @ If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, (note:)That is, wholly and without hypocrisy, not dissembling to turn and serve God as they do who serve him by halves, (Hos_7:16).(:note) return to me: and if thou wilt put away thy abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not be removed.
geneva@Jeremiah:4:3 @ For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up (note:)He wills them to pluck up the impiety and wicked affection and worldly respects out of their heart, that the true seed of God's word may be sown in it, (Hos_10:12) and this is the true circumcision of the heart, (Deu_10:16; Rom_2:29; Col_2:11).(:note) your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
geneva@Jeremiah:4:9 @ And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, [that] the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the (note:)That is, the false prophets who still prophesied peace and security.(:note) prophets shall wonder.
geneva@Jeremiah:4:17 @ As keepers of a (note:)Who keep the fruits so straitly, that nothing can come in or out so would the Babylonians compass Judah.,(:note) field, they are against her on all sides; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD.
geneva@Jeremiah:5:9 @ Shall I not visite for these things, saith the Lorde? Shall not my soule be auenged on such a nation as this?
geneva@Jeremiah:5:11 @ For the house of Israel, and the house of Iudah haue grieuously trespassed against me, saith the Lord.
geneva@Jeremiah:5:14 @ Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in (note:)Meaning, Jeremiah.(:note) thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
geneva@Jeremiah:5:15 @ Lo, I will bring a nation upon you (note:)That is, the Babylonians and Chaldeans.(:note) from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it [is] a mighty nation, it [is] an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.
geneva@Jeremiah:5:18 @ Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with (note:)Here the Lord declares his unspeakable favour toward his Church, as in (Jer_4:27).(:note) you.
geneva@Jeremiah:5:22 @ Feare ye not me, saith the Lord? Or will ye not be afraide at my presence, which haue placed the sand for the bounds of the sea by the perpetuall decree that it cannot passe it, and though the waues thereof rage, yet can they not preuaile, though they roare, yet can they not passe ouer it?
geneva@Jeremiah:6:9 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn (note:)He exhorts the Babylonians to be diligent to search out all and to leave none.(:note) back thy hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.
geneva@Jeremiah:6:16 @ Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the (note:)In which the patriarchs and prophets walked, directed by the word of God: signifying that there is no true way, but that which God prescribes.(:note) old paths, where [is] the good way, and walk in it, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk [in it].
geneva@Jeremiah:6:22 @ Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the (note:)From Babylon by Dan, which was north of Jerusalem.(:note) north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.
geneva@Jeremiah:7:11 @ Is this house, which is called by my name, become (note:)As thieves hidden in holes and dens think themselves safe, so when you are in my temple, you think to be covered with the holiness of it, and that I cannot see your wickedness, (Mat_21:13).(:note) a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen [it], saith the LORD.
geneva@Jeremiah:7:13 @ And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spoke to you, (note:)That is, I never ceased to warn you, as in (Isa_65:2; Pro_1:23).(:note) rising early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but He shows the only remedy to redress our faults: to allow God to lead us in the way, and to obey his calling, (Isa_66:4). ye answered not;
geneva@Jeremiah:8:1 @ At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their (note:)The enemy for greediness will rifle your graves and lay you before those idols, who in your life you worshipped, to see if they can help you.(:note) graves:
geneva@Jeremiah:8:3 @ And death shall be chosen (note:)Because of the afflictions that they will feel through God's judgments.(:note) rather than life by all the remnant of them that remain of this evil family, who remain in all the places where I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.
geneva@Jeremiah:8:4 @ Moreover thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they (note:)Is there no hope that they will return?(:note) fall, and not rise? shall he turn away, and not return?
geneva@Jeremiah:8:17 @ For, behold, I will (note:)God threatens to send the Babylonians among them who will utterly destroy them in such sort, as by no means they will escape.(:note) send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which [will] not [be] charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.
geneva@Jeremiah:9:3 @ And they bend their tongues [like] their bow [for] (note:)To belie and slander their neighbours.(:note) lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
geneva@Jeremiah:9:6 @ Thy habitation [is] in the midst of deceit; (note:)They would rather have forsaken God than left their wicked trade.(:note) through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
geneva@Jeremiah:9:7 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will (note:)With the fire of affliction.(:note) melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
geneva@Jeremiah:9:9 @ Shal I not visit them for these things, saith the Lorde? Or shall not my soule be auenged on such a nation as this?
geneva@Jeremiah:9:15 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, [even] this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall (note:)Read (Jer_8:14).(:note) to drink.
geneva@Jeremiah:9:17 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for (note:)Seeing you cannot lament your own sins, call for those foolish women, whom of a superstition you have to lament for the dead, that they by their feigned tears may provoke you to some sorrow.(:note) the skilful women, that they may come; and send for skilful [women], that they may come:
geneva@Jeremiah:9:23 @ Thus saith the LORD, Let not the (note:)As none can save himself by his own labour, or any worldly means, he shows that it is vain to put our trust in it, but that we trust in the Lord, and rejoice in him, who only can deliver.(:note) wise [man] glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty [man] glory in his might, let not the rich [man] glory in his riches:
geneva@Jeremiah:9:24 @ But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I [am] the LORD who (note:)These three points are necessary to know correctly his mercy, in which consists our salvation: his judgment, which he executes continually against the wicked, and his justice, by which he defends and maintains the faithful.(:note) exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these [things] I delight, saith the LORD.
geneva@Jeremiah:9:25 @ Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all [them who are] (note:)Meaning, both Jews and Gentiles, as in this next verse he shows the cause, (Jer_4:4).(:note) circumcised with the uncircumcised;
geneva@Jeremiah:10:2 @ Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the (note:)God forbids his people to give credit or fear the constellations and conjunctions of stars and planets which have no power of themselves but are governed by him, and their secret motions and influences are not known to man and therefore there can be no certain judgment of it, (Deu_18:9).(:note) signs of heaven; for the nations are dismayed at them.
geneva@Jeremiah:11:3 @ And say thou to them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; (note:)He calls the Jews to the consideration of God's mercy, who freely chose them, made a covenant of eternal happiness with them and how he ever performed it on his behalf and how they ever showed themselves rebellious and ingrate toward him, and broke it on their part, and so are subject to the curse of the law, (Deu_27:26).(:note) Cursed [be] the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant,
geneva@Jeremiah:11:11 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry to me, (note:)Because they will not pray with true faith and repentance, but for the pain and grief which they feel, (Pro_1:28).(:note) I will not hearken to them.
geneva@Jeremiah:11:21 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the men of (note:)That is, both the priests and the rest of the people: for this town was the priests, and they dwelt in it, (Jer_1:1).(:note) Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Not that they could not abide to hear God named; (for in this they would show themselves most holy) but because they could not abide to be sharply reproved, and therefore desired to be flattered (Isa_30:10), to be maintained in their pleasures (Mic_2:11) and not to hear vice condemned (Amo_7:12). Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that thou die not by our hand:
geneva@Jeremiah:12:14 @ Thus saith the LORD against all my evil (note:)Meaning the wicked enemies of his Church who blasphemed his Name, and whom he would punish after he had delivered his people.(:note) neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.
geneva@Jeremiah:13:11 @ For as the girdle cleaueth to the loynes of a man, so haue I tied to me the whole house of Israel, and the whole house of Iudah, saith the Lorde, that they might bee my people: that they might haue a name and prayse, and glory, but they would not heare.
geneva@Jeremiah:13:12 @ Therefore thou shalt speak to them this word; Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Every (note:)Every one of you will be filled with spiritual drunkenness, and be without all knowledge to seek how to help yourselves.(:note) skin shall be filled with wine: and they shall say to thee, Do we not certainly know that every skin shall be filled with wine?
geneva@Jeremiah:13:13 @ Then shalt thou say vnto them, Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, euen the Kings that sit vpon the throne of Dauid, and the Priestes and the Prophets and all the inhabitantes of Ierusalem with drunkennesse.
geneva@Jeremiah:13:14 @ And I will (note:)It will be as easy for me to destroy the greatest and the strongest as it is for a man to break earthen bottles.(:note) dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.
geneva@Jeremiah:14:10 @ Thus saith the Lord vnto this people, Thus haue they delited to wander: they haue not refrained their feete, therefore the Lorde hath no delight in them: but he will now remember their iniquitie, and visite their sinnes.
geneva@Jeremiah:14:15 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord, Concerning the prophets that prophecie in my Name, whom I haue not sent, yet they say, Sworde and famine shal not be in this land, by sword and famine shal those prophets be consumed.
geneva@Jeremiah:15:2 @ And if they say vnto thee, Whither shal we depart? Then tell them, Thus saith the Lord, Such as are appointed to death, vnto death: and such as are for the sworde, to the sworde: and such as are for the famine, to the famine: and such as are for the captiuitie, to the captiuitie.
geneva@Jeremiah:15:3 @ And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the (note:)The dogs, birds and beasts would devour them that were slain.(:note) dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
geneva@Jeremiah:15:6 @ Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am (note:)That is, I will not call back my plagues or spare you any more.(:note) weary with repenting.
geneva@Jeremiah:15:9 @ She that hath borne (note:)She who had many lost all her children.(:note) seven languisheth: she hath breathed her last; her sun is She was destroyed in the midst of her prosperity. gone down while [it was] yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the remnant of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.
geneva@Jeremiah:15:19 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou shalt (note:)If you forget these carnal considerations and faithfully execute your charge.(:note) return, then will I bring thee again, [and] thou shalt stand before me: and if thou shalt separate the That is, seek to win the good from the bad. precious from the vile, thou shalt be That is, as my mouth has pronounced, (Jer_1:18) and as here follows in (Jer_15:20). as my mouth: let them return Do not conform yourself to their wickedness, but let them follow your godly example. to thee; but return not thou to them.
geneva@Jeremiah:15:20 @ And I will make thee to this people a fortified brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not (note:)I will teach you with an invincible strength and constancy, so that all the powers of the world will not overcome you.(:note) prevail against thee: for I [am] with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD.
geneva@Jeremiah:16:5 @ For thus saith the LORD, (note:)Signifying that the affliction would be so great that one would not have leisure to comfort another.(:note) Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, [even] lovingkindness and mercies.
geneva@Jeremiah:16:14 @ Behold therfore, saith the Lord, the dayes come that it shal no more be sayde, The Lord liueth, which brought vp the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt,
geneva@Jeremiah:16:16 @ Behold, I will send for many (note:)By the fishers and hunters are meant the Babylonians and Chaldeans who would destroy them in such sort, that if they escaped the one, the other would take them.(:note) fishermen, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and afterwards will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.
geneva@Jeremiah:17:5 @ Thus saith the LORD; (note:)The Jews were given to worldly policies and thought to make themselves strong by the friendship of the Egyptians, (Isa_31:3) and strangers and in the mean time did not depend on God, and therefore he denounces God's plagues against them, showing that they prefer corruptible man to God, who is immortal, (Isa_2:22; Jer_48:6-7).(:note) Cursed [be] the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
geneva@Jeremiah:17:21 @ Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the (note:)By naming the Sabbath day, he comprehends the thing that is signified by it, for if they transgressed in the ceremony, they must be guilty of the rest, read (Exo_20:8) and by the breaking of this one commandment, he makes them transgressors of the whole law, as the first and second table are contained in it.(:note) sabbath day, nor bring [it] in by the gates of Jerusalem;
geneva@Jeremiah:18:11 @ Speake thou nowe therefore vnto the men of Iudah, and to the inhabitants of Ierusalem, saying, Thus saith ye Lord, Behold, I prepare a plague for you, and purpose a thing against you: returne you therefore euery one from his euill way, and make your wayes and your workes good.
geneva@Jeremiah:18:13 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord, Aske now among the heathen, who hath heard such thinges? the virgin of Israel hath done very filthily.
geneva@Jeremiah:19:3 @ And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O (note:)By kings here and in other places are meant counsellors and governors of the people; who he calls the ancients, (Jer_19:1).(:note) kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, which whoever heareth, his ears shall Read of this phrase in (1Sa_3:11). tingle.
geneva@Jeremiah:19:6 @ Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place shall no more be called (note:)Read (Jer_7:31; 2Ki_23:10; Isa_30:33).(:note) Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.
geneva@Jeremiah:19:11 @ And shalt say to them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as [one] breaketh a (note:)This visible sign was to confirm them concerning the assurance of this plague, which the Lord threatened by his prophet.(:note) potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury [them] in Tophet, till [there be] no place to bury.
geneva@Jeremiah:19:15 @ Thus saith the Lorde of hostes, the God of Israel, Beholde, I will bring vpon this citie, and vpon all her townes, all the plagues that I haue pronounced against it, because they haue hardened their neckes, & would not heare my wordes.
geneva@Jeremiah:20:4 @ For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will make thee to be a terrour to thy self, & to al thy friends, and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall beholde it, and I will giue all Iudah into the hande of the King of Babel, and he shall cary them captiue into Babel, and shall slay them with the sworde.
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