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Isaiah:1:4 @ Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a (note:)They were not only wicked as were their fathers, but utterly corrupt and by their evil example infected others.(:note) seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the That is, him that sanctifies Israel. Holy One of Israel to anger, they are gone away backward.
geneva@Isaiah:1:23 @ Thy princes [are] rebellious, and companions of (note:)That is, they maintain the wicked and the extortioners: and not only do not punish them, but are themselves such.(:note) thieves: every one loveth bribes, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come to them.
geneva@Isaiah:1:28 @ And the (note:)The wicked will not be partakers of God's promise, (Psa_92:9).(:note) destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners [shall be] together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
geneva@Isaiah:3:11 @ Woe be to the wicked, it shalbe euill with him: for the reward of his handes shalbe giuen him.
geneva@Isaiah:3:12 @ [As for] my people, (note:)Because the wicked people were more addicted to their princes than to the commandments of God, he shows that he would give them such princes, by whom they would have no help, but that they would be manifest tokens of his wrath, because they would be fools and effeminate.(:note) children [are] their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they who lead thee cause [thee] to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
geneva@Isaiah:4:4 @ When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the (note:)That is, the cruelty, extortion, malice and all wickedness.(:note) blood of Jerusalem from the midst of it by the spirit of When things will be addressed that were amiss. judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
geneva@Isaiah:5:19 @ That say, (note:)He shows what are the words of the wicked, when they are menaced by God's judgments, (2Pe_3:4).(:note) Let him make speed, [and] hasten his work, that we may see [it]: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know [it]!
geneva@Isaiah:5:23 @ Which iustifie the wicked for a rewarde, and take away the righteousnesse of the righteous from him.
geneva@Isaiah:6:9 @ And he said, Go, and tell this people, (note:)By which is declared that for the malice of man God will not immediately take away his word, but he will cause it to be preached to their condemnation, when as they will not learn by it to obey his will, and be saved: by this he exhorts the ministers to do their duty, and answers to the wicked murmurers, that through their own malice their heart is hardened, (Mat_13:14; Act_28:26; Rom_11:8).(:note) Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
geneva@Isaiah:7:5 @ Because Aram hath taken wicked counsell against thee, and Ephraim, and Remaliahs sonne, saying,
geneva@Isaiah:8:19 @ And when they shall say to you, Seek to them that are mediums, and to wizards that peep, and that mutter: (note:)Answer the wicked thus, should not God's people seek comfort only from him?(:note) should not a people seek to their God? for the That is, will they refuse to be taught by the prophet, who is the mouth of God, and seek help from the dead, which is the illusion of Satan? living to the dead?
geneva@Isaiah:9:17 @ Therefore shall the Lord haue no pleasure in their yong men, neither will he haue compassion of their fatherlesse and of their widowes: for euery one is an hypocrite and wicked, and euery mouth speaketh follie: yet for all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out stil.
geneva@Isaiah:9:18 @ For wickedness (note:)Wickedness as a bellows kindles the fire of God's wrath which consumes all his obstinate enemies.(:note) burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up [like] the rising of smoke.
geneva@Isaiah:10:1 @ Woe to them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that (note:)Who write and pronounce a wicked sentence to oppress the people: meaning, that the wicked magistrate, who were the chief cause of mischief, would be first punished.(:note) write grievousness [which] they have prescribed;
geneva@Isaiah:10:6 @ I will send (note:)That is, the Assyrians against the Jews who are hypocrites. In the sixth and seventh verse is declared the difference of the work of God and of the wicked in one very thing and act: for God's intention is to chastise them for their amendment, and the Assyrians purpose is to destroy them to enrich themselves. Thus in respect to God's justice, it is God's work, but in respect to their own malice, it is the work of the devil.(:note) him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I command him, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
geneva@Isaiah:11:4 @ But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall (note:)All these properties can agree to no one, but only to Christ: for it is he who touches the hearts of the faithful and mortifies their concupiscence: and to the wicked he is the favour of death and to them who will perish, so that all the world will be smitten with his rod, which is his word.(:note) smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
geneva@Isaiah:11:6 @ The (note:)Men because of their wicked affections are named by the names of beasts, in which the same affections reign: but Christ by his Spirit will reform them, and work in them such mutual charity, that they will be like lambs, favouring and loving one another and cast off all their cruel affections, (Isa_65:25).(:note) wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
geneva@Isaiah:13:3 @ I have commanded my (note:)That is, prepared and appointed to execute my judgments.(:note) sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for my anger, [even] them that rejoice in my Who willingly go about to the work to which I appoint them, but how the wicked do this, read (Isa_10:6). highness.
geneva@Isaiah:13:11 @ And I will punish the (note:)He compares Babylon to the whole world because they so esteemed themselves by reason of their great empire.(:note) world for [their] evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogance of the He notes the principal vice, to which they are most given as are all that abound in wealth. proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
geneva@Isaiah:13:21 @ But (note:)Who were either wild beasts or fools, or wicked spirits, by which Satan deluded man, as by the fairies, goblins, and such like fantasies.(:note) wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
geneva@Isaiah:14:5 @ The Lorde hath broken the rodde of the wicked, and the scepter of the rulers:
geneva@Isaiah:14:9 @ Hell from beneath is moved for thee to (note:)As though they feared, lest you should trouble the dead, as you did the living and here he derides the proud tyranny of the wicked, who know not that all creatures wish their destruction, that they may rejoice.(:note) meet [thee] at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, [even] all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
geneva@Isaiah:14:20 @ Thou shalt not be ioyned with them in the graue, because thou hast destroied thine owne lande, and slaine thy people: the seede of the wicked shall not be renoumed for euer.
geneva@Isaiah:17:11 @ In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: [but] the harvest [shall be] a heap in the day (note:)As the Lord threatens the wicked in his law, (Lev_26:16).(:note) of grief and of desperate sorrow.
geneva@Isaiah:18:4 @ For so the LORD said to me, I will take my (note:)I will stay a while from punishing the wicked.(:note) rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a Which two seasons are profitable for the ripening of fruit, by which he means that he will seem to favour them and give them abundance for a time, but he will suddenly cut them off. clear heat upon herbs, [and] like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
geneva@Isaiah:19:18 @ In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt (note:)Will make one confession of faith with the people of God, by the speech of Canaan, meaning the language in which God was then served.(:note) speak the language of Canaan, and Will renounce their superstitions and protest to serve God correctly. swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of Meaning of six cities, five would serve God, and the sixth would remain in their wickedness: and so there would be but one lost. destruction.
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:22:18 @ With violence he will surely turn and toss thee [like] a ball into a wide country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory [shall be] the (note:)Signifying that whatever dignity the wicked attain to, at length it will turn to the shame of those princes by whom they are preferred.(:note) shame of thy lord's house.
geneva@Isaiah:23:17 @ And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her (note:)Though she has been chastised by the Lord, yet she will return to her old wicked practises and for gain will give herself to all men's lusts like a harlot.(:note) hire, and shall play the harlot with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.
geneva@Isaiah:24:10 @ The city of (note:)Which as it was without order so now should it be brought to desolation and confusion: and this was not only meant of Jerusalem, but of all the other wicked cities.(:note) confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may enter.
geneva@Isaiah:24:16 @ From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, [even] glory to the (note:)Meaning to God, who will publish his gospel through all the world.(:note) righteous. But I said, I am consumed with care, considering the affliction of the Church, both by foreign enemies and domestic. Some read, My secret, my secret: that is, it was revealed to the prophet, that the good would be preserved and the wicked destroyed. My leanness, my leanness, woe to me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.
geneva@Isaiah:25:4 @ For thou hast been a defence to the poor, a defence to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast (note:)The rage of the wicked is furious, till God breaks the force of it.(:note) of the terrible ones [is] as a storm [against] the wall.
geneva@Isaiah:25:5 @ Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the (note:)Meaning, that as the heat is abated by the rain, so shall God bring down the rage of the wicked.(:note) heat in a dry place; As a cloud shades from the heat of the sun, so God will assuage the rejoicing of the wicked against the godly. [even] the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
geneva@Isaiah:26:6 @ The foot shall tread it down, [even] the feet of the (note:)God will set the poor afflicted over the power of the wicked.(:note) poor, [and] the steps of the needy.
geneva@Isaiah:26:10 @ Let favour (note:)The wicked though God show them evident signs of his grace, will not be any better off.(:note) be shown to the wicked, [yet] he will not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness he will deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
geneva@Isaiah:26:18 @ We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth (note:)Our sorrows had no end, neither did we enjoy the comfort that we looked for.(:note) wind; we have not wrought any deliverance on the earth; neither have the inhabitants of The wicked and men without religion were not destroyed. the world fallen.
geneva@Isaiah:26:21 @ For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her (note:)The earth will vomit and cast out the innocent blood, which it has drunk, that it may care for vengeance against the wicked.(:note) blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
geneva@Isaiah:27:4 @ Fury (note:)Therefore he will destroy the kingdom of Satan, because he loves his Church for his own mercies sake, and cannot be angry with it, but wishes that he may pour his anger on the wicked infidels, whom he means by briers and thorns.(:note) [is] not in me: who would set the briers [and] thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
geneva@Isaiah:28:15 @ Because ye have said, We have made a (note:)They thought they had shifts to avoid God's judgments, and that they could escape though all others perished.(:note) covenant with death, and with hell are we in agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not reach us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under Though the prophets condemned their idols and vain fruit of falsehood and vanity, yet the wicked thought in themselves that they would trust in these things. falsehood have we hid ourselves:
geneva@Isaiah:28:25 @ When he hath made (note:)As the plowman has his appointed time, and various instruments for his labour, so has the Lord for his vengeance: for he punishes some at one time, and some at another, some after one sort, and some after another, so that his chosen seed is beaten and tried, but not broken as are the wicked.(:note) even the face of it, doth he not cast abroad the black cummin, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the wheat in rows and the appointed barley and the rye in their place?
geneva@Isaiah:30:14 @ And he shall break it as the breaking of the potter's vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it (note:)Signifying that the destruction of the wicked will be without recovery.(:note) a piece to take fire from the hearth, or to take water out of the pit.
geneva@Isaiah:30:28 @ And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of (note:)To drive you to nothing: and thus God consumes the wicked by that means, by which he cleanses his.(:note) vanity: and [there shall be] a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing [them] to err.
geneva@Isaiah:30:33 @ For (note:)Here it is taken for hell, where the wicked are tormented, read (2Ki_23:10).(:note) Tophet [is] ordained of old; yea, for the So that their estate or degree cannot exempt the wicked. king it is prepared; he hath made [it] By these figurative speeches he declares the condition of he wicked after this life. deep [and] large: the pile of it [is] fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
geneva@Isaiah:32:3 @ And the eyes of (note:)He promises to give the true light which is the pure doctrine of God's word, and understanding, and zeal of the same, are contrary to the threatenings against the wicked, (Isa_6:9, Isa_29:10).(:note) them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.
geneva@Isaiah:32:6 @ But the nigarde will speake of nigardnesse, and his heart will worke iniquitie, and do wickedly, and speake falsely against the Lorde, to make emptie the hungrie soule, and to cause the drinke of the thirstie to faile.
geneva@Isaiah:32:7 @ For the weapons of the churle are wicked: hee deuiseth wicked counsels, to vndoe the poore with lying words: and to speake against the poore in iudgement.
geneva@Isaiah:32:15 @ Until the (note:)That is, when the Church will be restored, thus the prophets after they have denounced God's judgments against the wicked, used to comfort the godly, lest they should faint.(:note) spirit shall be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness shall be a fruitful field, and the The field which is now fruitful, will be but as a barren forest in comparison to what it will be then as in (Isa_29:17) which will be fulfilled in Christ's time, for then they who were before as the barren wilderness, being regenerate will be fruitful and they who had some beginning of godliness, will bring forth fruit in such abundance, that their former life will seem but as a wilderness where no fruit was. fruitful field shall be counted for a forest.
geneva@Isaiah:34:16 @ Seek ye out of the (note:)That is, in the law where such curses are threatened against the wicked.(:note) book of the LORD, and read: no one of That is, beasts and souls. these shall fail, none shall lack her mate: for my That is, the mouth of the Lord. mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.
geneva@Isaiah:35:8 @ And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of (note:)It will be for the saints of God and not for the wicked.(:note) holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it God will lead and guide them, alluding to the bringing forth of Egypt. [shall be] for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err [in it].
geneva@Isaiah:35:9 @ No lion shall be there, nor [any] (note:)As he threatens the wicked with destruction by this, (Isa_30:6).(:note) ravenous beast shall go up on it, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk [there]:
geneva@Isaiah:36:3 @ Then came forth to him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, who was (note:)For he was now restored to his office, as Isaiah had prophesied in (Isa_22:20).(:note) over the house, and Shebna This declares that there were few godly to be found in the king's house, when he was driven to end this wicked man in such a weighty matter. the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder.
geneva@Isaiah:36:10 @ And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD said to me, (note:)Thus the wicked to deceive us, will pretend the Name of the Lord: but we must try the spirits, whether they are of God or not.(:note) Go up against this land, and destroy it.
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:36:19 @ Where [are] the gods of (note:)That is, of Antioch in Syria, of which these two other cities also were: by which we see how every town had its peculiar idol, and how the wicked make God an idol because they do not understand that God makes them his scourge, and punishes cities for sin.(:note) Hamath and Arphad? where [are] the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
geneva@Isaiah:39:4 @ Then said he, What have (note:)He asks him of the particulars, to make him understand the craft of the wicked, which he before being overcome with their flattery and blinded with ambition, could not see.(:note) they seen in thy house? And Hezekiah answered, All that [is] in my house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not showed them.
geneva@Isaiah:41:28 @ For (note:)When I looked whether the idols could do these things, I found that they had neither wisdom nor power to do anything: therefore he concludes that all are wicked that trust in such vanities.(:note) I beheld, and [there was] no man; even among them, and [there was] no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.
geneva@Isaiah:42:3 @ A (note:)He will not hurt the weak and feeble, but support and comfort them.(:note) bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking Meaning, the wick of a lamp or candle which is almost out, but he will cherish it and snuff it, that it may shine brighter. flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment to Although he favours the weak, yet will he not spare the wicked, but will judge them according to truth and equity. truth.
geneva@Isaiah:43:4 @ Since thou hast been precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give (note:)I will not spare any man, rather than you should perish, for God values one of his faithful more than all the wicked in the world.(:note) men for thee, and people for thy life.
geneva@Isaiah:43:9 @ Let all the nations be gathered (note:)Signifying that no power can resist him in doing this miraculous work, nor are all their idols able to do the same, as in (Isa_41:22).(:note) together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and show us former things? let them bring forth their To prove that the things which are spoken of them are true. witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them Showing that the malice of the wicked hinders them in the knowledge of the truth, because they will not hear when God speaks by his word. hear, and say, [It is] truth.
geneva@Isaiah:45:15 @ Verily thou [art] a God that (note:)By this he exhorts the Jews to patience, though their deliverance is deferred for a time: showing that they would not repent their long patience, but the wicked and idolaters will be destroyed.(:note) hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.
geneva@Isaiah:47:10 @ For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy (note:)You thought that your own wisdom and policy would have saved you.(:note) wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thy heart, I [am], and none else besides me.
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:50:6 @ I gave my back to the (note:)I did not shrink from God for any persecution or calamity. By which he shows that the true ministers of God can look for no other recompense of the wicked, but after this sort, and also that is their comfort.(:note) smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
geneva@Isaiah:52:1 @ Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no (note:)No wicked tyrant, who will subvert God's true religion and oppress the conscience.(:note) more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
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:55:7 @ Let the wicked (note:)By this he shows that repentance must be joined with faith, and how we cannot call on God correctly, unless the fruits of our faith appear.(:note) forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
geneva@Isaiah:56:12 @ Come ye, [say they], I will bring wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to (note:)We are well yet, and to morrow will be better: therefore let us not fear the plagues before they come: thus the wicked contemned the admonition and exhortations which were made to them in the Name of God.(:note) morrow shall be as this day, [and] much more abundant.
geneva@Isaiah:57:1 @ The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth [it] to heart: and merciful men [are] taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away (note:)From the plague that is at hand, and also because God will punish the wicked.(:note) from the evil [to come].
geneva@Isaiah:57:3 @ But draw near here, ye (note:)He threatens the wicked hypocrites, who under the pretence of the name of God's people, derided God's word and his promises: boasting openly that they were the children of Abraham, but because they were not faithful and obedient as Abraham was, he calls them bastards and the children of sorcerers, who forsook God, and fled to wicked means for comfort.(:note) sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the harlot.
geneva@Isaiah:57:11 @ And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast (note:)Broken promises with me.(:note) lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid [it] to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of Meaning, that the wicked abuse God's leniency, and grow to further wickedness. old, and thou fearest me not?
geneva@Isaiah:57:12 @ I will declare thy righteousness, (note:)That is, your naughtiness, idolatry and impiety which the wicked call God's service: thus he derides their obstinacy.(:note) and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.
geneva@Isaiah:57:20 @ But the wicked [are] like the troubled sea, when it (note:)Their evil conscience always torments them and therefore they can never have rest, (Isa_48:22).(:note) cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
geneva@Isaiah:57:21 @ There is no peace, sayth my God, to the wicked.
geneva@Isaiah:58:4 @ Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as [ye do this] day, to make your voice to be (note:)So long as you use contention and oppression, your fasting and prayers will not be heard.(:note) heard on high.
geneva@Isaiah:58:6 @ [Is] not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every (note:)That you leave off all your extortions.(:note) yoke?
geneva@Isaiah:58:13 @ If thou shalt (note:)If you refrain yourself from your wicked works.(:note) turn away thy foot from the sabbath, [from] doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thy own ways, nor finding thy own pleasure, nor speaking [thy own] words:
geneva@Isaiah:59:4 @ None calleth for justice, nor [any] (note:)All men wink at the injuries and oppressions and none go about to remedy them.(:note) pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and According to their wicked devices, they hurt their neighbours. bring forth iniquity.
geneva@Isaiah:59:7 @ Their feete runne to euill, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are wicked thoughts: desolation and destruction is in their paths.
geneva@Isaiah:59:15 @ Yea, truth faileth; and he [that] departeth from evil maketh himself (note:)The wicked will destroy him.(:note) a prey: and the LORD saw [it], and it displeased him that [there was] no judgment.
geneva@Isaiah:66:4 @ I also will (note:)I will discover their wickedness and hypocrisy, with which they think to blind my eyes to all the world.(:note) choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did not hear: but they did evil before my eyes, and chose [that] in which I delighted not.
geneva@Isaiah:66:24 @ And they shall go forth, and look upon the (note:)As he who declared the happiness that will be within the Church for the comfort of the godly, so does he show what horrible calamity will come to the wicked, that are out of the Church.(:note) carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their Meaning, a continual torment of conscience, which will always gnaw them, and never permit them to be at rest, (Mar_9:44). worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorrence This is the just recompense for the wicked, who contemning God and his word, will be by God's just judgments abhorred by all his creatures. to all flesh.
geneva@Jeremiah:1:1 @ The (note:)That is, the sermons and prophecies.(:note) words of Jeremiah the son of Who is thought to be he that found the book of the law under king Josiah, (2Ki_22:8). Hilkiah, of the priests that [were] in This was a city about three miles from Jerusalem and belonged to the priests, the sons of Aaron, (Jos_21:18). Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: The Argument - The prophet Jeremiah born in the city of Anathoth in the country of Benjamin, was the son of Hilkiah, whom some think to be he that found the book of the law and gave it to Josiah. This prophet had excellent gifts from God, and most evident revelations of prophecy, so that by the commandment of the Lord he began very young to prophecy, that is, in the thirteenth year of Josiah, and continued eighteen years under the king, three months under Jehoahaz and under Jehoiakim eleven years, three months under Jehoiachin, and under Zedekiah eleven years to the time that they were carried away into Babylon. So that this time amounts to above forty years, besides the time that he prophesied after the captivity. In this book he declares with tears and lamentations, the destruction of Jerusalem and the captivity of the people, for their idolatry, covetousness, deceit, cruelty, excess, rebellion and contempt of God's word, and for the consolation of the Church reveals the just time of their deliverance. Here chiefly are to be considered three things. First the rebellion of the wicked, who wax more stubborn and obstinate, when the prophets admonish them most plainly of their destruction. Next how the prophets and ministers of God should not be discouraged in their vocation, though they are persecuted and rigorously handled by the wicked, for God's cause. Thirdly though God shows his just judgment against the wicked, yet will he ever show himself a preserver of his Church, and when all means seem to men's judgment to be abolished, then will he declare himself victorious in preserving his.
geneva@Jeremiah:1:16 @ And I will utter my (note:)I will give them charge and power to execute my vengeance against the idolaters who have forsaken me for their idols.(:note) judgments against them concerning all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.
geneva@Jeremiah:1:18 @ For, behold, I have made thee this day a fortified city, and an (note:)Signifying on the one hand that the more that Satan and the world rage against God's ministers, the more present will he be to help them, (Jos_1:5; Heb_13:5) and on the other hand, that they are utterly unfit to serve God in his Church, who are afraid and do not resist wickedness, whatever danger depend on it, (Isa_50:7; Eze_3:8).(:note) iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against her princes, against her priests, and against the people of the land.
geneva@Jeremiah:2:7 @ And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit of it and the goodness of it but when ye entered, ye defiled (note:)By your idolatry and wicked manners, (Psa_78:58, Psa_106:38).(:note) my land, and made my heritage an abomination.
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:2:33 @ Why trimmest thou thy way to (note:)With strangers.(:note) seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
geneva@Jeremiah:3:2 @ Lift up thy eyes to the high places, and see where thou hast not been lain with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the (note:)Who dwells in tent and waits for them that pass by to rob them.(:note) Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy harlotry and with thy wickedness.
geneva@Jeremiah:3:4 @ Wilt thou not from this time cry (note:)He shows that the wicked in their miseries will cry to God and use outward prayer as the godly do, but because they do not turn from their evil, they are not heard, (Isa_58:3-4).(:note) to me, My father, thou [art] the guide of my youth?
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:3:11 @ And the LORD said to me, The backsliding Israel hath (note:)Israel has not declared herself as wicked as Judah, who yet has had more admonitions and examples to call her to repentance.(:note) justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
geneva@Jeremiah:3:25 @ We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: (note:)They justify not themselves, or say that they would follow their fathers, but condemn their wicked doings and desire forgiveness for the same, as in (Ezr_9:7; Psa_106:6; Isa_64:6).(:note) for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
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:4:4 @ Breake vp your fallowe ground, and sowe not among the thornes: be circumcised to the Lord, & take away the foreskinnes of your hearts, ye men of Iudah, and inhabitants of Ierusalem, lest my wrath come foorth like fire, and burne, that none can quenche it, because of the wickednesse of your inuentions.
geneva@Jeremiah:4:14 @ O Ierusalem, wash thine heart from wickednes, that thou maiest be saued: how long shall thy wicked thoughtes remaine within thee?
geneva@Jeremiah:4:18 @ Thy wayes and thine inuentions haue procured thee these things, such is thy wickednesse: therefore it shall be bitter, therefore it shall perce vnto thine heart.
geneva@Jeremiah:5:26 @ For among my people are founde wicked persons, that lay waite as hee that setteth snares: they haue made a pit, to catch men.
geneva@Jeremiah:5:28 @ They have become fat, they shine: yea, they exceed the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they (note:)They feel not the plague of God for it.(:note) prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
geneva@Jeremiah:5:31 @ The (note:)Meaning that there could be nothing but disorder, where the ministers were wicked and corrupt.(:note) prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love [to have it] so: and what will ye do in its end?
geneva@Jeremiah:6:7 @ As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: (note:)He shows the reason why it would be destroyed, and how it comes from themselves.(:note) violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually [are] grief and wounds.
geneva@Jeremiah:6:11 @ Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: (note:)As the Lord had given him his word to be as a fire of his indignation to burn the wicked, (Jer_5:14) so he kindles it now when he sees that all remedies are past.(:note) I will pour it out upon the No one will be spared. children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with [him that is] full of days.
geneva@Jeremiah:6:27 @ I have set (note:)Meaning, Jeremiah, whom God had appointed to try out the godly from the wicked, as a founder does the pure metal from the dross.(:note) thee [for] a tower [and] a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.
geneva@Jeremiah:6:29 @ The (note:)All the pain and labour that has been taken with them is lost.(:note) bellows is burned, the lead is consumed by the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
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:7:12 @ But go ye now to my place which [was] in Shiloh, (note:)Because they depended so much on the temple, which was for his promise, that he would be present and defend them where the ark was, he sends them to God's judgments against Shiloh, where the ark had remained about 300 years, and after was taken, the priests slain, and the people miserably discomfited, (1Sa_4:11; Jer_26:6).(:note) where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
geneva@Jeremiah:7:16 @ Therefore (note:)To assure them that God had determined with himself to punish their wickedness, he shows the prayer of the godly cannot help them, while they remain in their obstinacy against God, and will not use the means that he uses to call them to repentance, (Jer_11:14, Jer_14:11).(:note) pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.
geneva@Jeremiah:7:24 @ But they would not obey, nor incline their eare, but went after the counsels and the stubbernesse of their wicked heart, and went backewarde and not forwarde.
geneva@Jeremiah:7:27 @ Therefore thou shalt speak all these words to them; but they (note:)By which he shows that the pastors should not leave their flocks in their obstinacy, for the Lord will use the means of his servants to make the wicked more faulty and to prove his.(:note) will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call to them; but they will not answer thee.
geneva@Jeremiah:8:6 @ I hearkened and heard, [but] they spoke not aright: no man repented of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every (note:)They are full of hypocrisy, and everyone follows his own fantasy without any consideration.(:note) one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth to the battle.
geneva@Jeremiah:9:2 @ O that I had in the wilderness a (note:)He shows that there was more peace and greater safety for him to dwell among the wild beasts than among this wicked people except that God has given him this charge.(:note) lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they [are] all Utterly turned from God. adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
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:9:14 @ But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which (note:)He shows that the children cannot excuse themselves by their fathers: for both father and child if they are wicked will perish.(:note) their fathers taught them:
geneva@Jeremiah:9:21 @ For death hath come up into our (note:)Signifying that there is no means to deliver the wicked from God's judgments: but when they think to be most sure, and most far off, then they are soonest taken.(:note) windows, [and] hath entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from outside, [and] the young men from the streets.
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:10:8 @ But they are altogether senseless and foolish: the stock [is] a (note:)Because the people thought that to have images was a means to serve God, and to bring them to the knowledge of him, he shows that nothing more displeases God, nor brings man into greater errors and ignorance of God: and therefore he calls them the doctrine of vanity, the work of errors, (Jer_10:15). (Hab_2:18) calls them the teachers of lies: contrary to that wicked opinion, that they are the books of the lay people.(:note) doctrine of vanities.
geneva@Jeremiah:11:15 @ What hath my (note:)My people of Israel whom I have greatly loved till now.(:note) beloved to do in my house, [seeing] she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh Meaning, that they offer not in the temple to God, but on the altars of Baal and the idols and so rejoiced in their wickedness. is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.
geneva@Jeremiah:11:17 @ For the Lorde of hostes that planted thee, hath pronounced a plague against thee, for the wickednes of the house of Israel, and of the house of Iudah, which they haue done against themselues to prouoke me to anger in offering incense vnto Baal.
geneva@Jeremiah:12:3 @ But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried my heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and (note:)The Hebrew word is «sanctify them», meaning that God would be sanctified in the destruction of the wicked to whom God for a while gives prosperity, that afterward they would the more feel his heavy judgment when they lack their riches which were a sign of his mercy.(:note) prepare them for the day of slaughter.
geneva@Jeremiah:12:4 @ How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell in it? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, (note:)Abusing God's leniency and his promises, they flattered themselves as though God would ever be merciful and not utterly destroy them therefore they hardened themselves in sin, till at length the beasts and insensible creatures felt the punishment of their stubborn rebellion against God.(:note) He shall not see our last end.
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:13:10 @ This wicked people haue refused to heare my word, and walke after ye stubbernesse of their owne heart, and walke after other gods to serue them, and to worship them: therefore they shalbe as this girdle, which is profitable to nothing.
geneva@Jeremiah:14:16 @ And the people to whome these prophets doe prophecie, shalbe cast out in the streetes of Ierusalem, because of the famine, & the sword, & there shall be none to bury them, both they, and their wiues, and their sonnes, and their daughters: for I wil powre their wickednes vpon them.
geneva@Jeremiah:14:20 @ We (note:)He teaches the Church a form of prayer to humble themselves to God by true repentance, which is the only way to avoid this famine, which was the beginning of God's plagues.(:note) acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, [and] the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.
geneva@Jeremiah:15:4 @ And I will (note:)The word signifies to run to and fro for fear and unquietness of conscience as Cain did.(:note) cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, Not that the people were punished for the king's sin only, but for their own sins also, because they consented to his wickedness. because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for [that] which he did in Jerusalem.
geneva@Jeremiah:15:17 @ I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone (note:)I had nothing to do with the wicked contemners of your word, but lamented bitterly for your plagues: showing what the faithful should do when they see tokens of God's anger.(:note) because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.
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:15:21 @ And I will deliuer thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeeme thee out of the hand of the tyrants.
geneva@Jeremiah:16:10 @ And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt show this people all these words, and they shall say to thee, Why hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what [is] (note:)Because the wicked are always rebellious and conceal their own sins and murmur against God's judgments, as though he had no just cause to punish them, he shows him what to answer.(:note) our iniquity? or what [is] our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?
geneva@Jeremiah:16:12 @ ( And ye haue done worse then your fathers: for beholde, you walke euery one after the stubbernesse of his wicked heart, and will not heare me)
geneva@Jeremiah:17:15 @ Behold, (note:)The wicked say that my prophecy will not come to pass, because you deferred the time of your vengeance.(:note) they say to me, Where [is] the word of the LORD? let it come now.
geneva@Jeremiah:17:17 @ Be not (note:)However the wicked deal rigorously with me, yet let me find comfort in you.(:note) a terror to me: thou [art] my hope in the day of evil.
geneva@Jeremiah:18:18 @ Then said they, Come, and let us devise plots against Jeremiah; for the law (note:)This argument the wicked have always used against the servants of God. The church cannot err: we are the Church, and therefore whoever speaks against us, they ought to die, (1Ki_22:24; Jer_7:4, Jer_20:2; Mal_2:4) and thus the false Church persecutes the true Church, which stands not in outward pomp, and in multitude, but is known by the graces of the Holy Spirit.(:note) shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the Let us slander him and accuse him: for we will be believed. tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
geneva@Jeremiah:20:13 @ Sing vnto the Lorde, praise ye the Lorde: for he hath deliuered the soule of the poore fro the hande of the wicked.
geneva@Jeremiah:22:22 @ The wind shall eat up all thy shepherds, (note:)Both your governors and they that would help you will vanish away as wind.(:note) and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness.
geneva@Jeremiah:23:10 @ For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their (note:)They run headlong to wickedness and seek vain help.(:note) course is evil, and their force [is] not right.
geneva@Jeremiah:23:11 @ For both prophet and priest are profane; even, in my (note:)My temple is full of their idolatry and superstitions.(:note) house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.
geneva@Jeremiah:23:14 @ I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem (note:)They who should have profited by my rods against Samaria, are become worse than they.(:note) an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them Though to the world they seem holy fathers, yet I detest them as I did these abominable cities. to me as Sodom, and the inhabitants of it as Gomorrah.
geneva@Jeremiah:23:19 @ Beholde, the tempest of the Lorde goeth forth in his wrath, and a violent whirlewinde shal fall downe vpon the head of the wicked.
geneva@Jeremiah:23:33 @ And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What [is] the (note:)The prophets called their threatenings God's burden, which the sinners were not able to sustain, therefore the wicked in deriding the word, would ask of the prophets, what was the burden as though they would say, «You seek nothing else, but to lay burdens on our shoulders» and thus they rejected the word of God as a grievous burden.(:note) burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say to them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD.
geneva@Jeremiah:25:9 @ Behold, I will send and take all the (note:)The Chaldeans and all their power.(:note) families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my So the wicked and Satan himself are God's servants, because he makes them serve him by constraint and turns that which they do out of malice to his honour and glory. servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations As the Philistines, Ammonites, Egyptians and others. around, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an horror, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
geneva@Jeremiah:25:15 @ For thus saith the LORD God of Israel to me; (note:)Signifying the extreme affliction that God had appointed for everyone, (Psa_75:8; Isa_51:17) and this cup which the wicked drink, is more bitter than that which he gives to his children, for he measures the one by mercy, and the other by justice.(:note) Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.
geneva@Jeremiah:25:31 @ The sounde shall come to the endes of the earth: for the Lord hath a controuersie with the nations, and will enter into iudgement with all flesh, and he will giue them that are wicked, to the sworde, saith the Lord.
geneva@Jeremiah:28:10 @ Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and (note:)This declares the impudency of the wicked hirelings who have no zeal to the truth but are led with ambition to get the favour of men and therefore cannot abide any that might discredit them but burst forth into rages and contrary to their own conscience, pass not what lies they report or how wickedly they do so that they may maintain their estimation.(:note) broke it.
geneva@Jeremiah:30:23 @ Behold, (note:)Lest the wicked hypocrites should flatter themselves with these promises the prophet shows what will be their portion.(:note) the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.
geneva@Jeremiah:31:29 @ In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have (note:)The wicked used this proverb when they murmured against God's judgments pronounced by the prophets, saying that their fathers had committed the fault and that the children were punished, (Eze_18:2-3).(:note) eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
geneva@Jeremiah:32:18 @ Thou shewest lovingkindness to thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their (note:)Because the wicked are subject to the curse of God, he shows that their posterity who by nature are under this malediction will be punished both for their own wickedness and that the iniquity of their fathers which is likewise in them, will be also avenged on their head.(:note) children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, JEHOVAH of hosts, [is] his name,
geneva@Jeremiah:33:5 @ They come to (note:)The Jews think to overcome the Chaldeans, but they seek their own destruction.(:note) fight with the Chaldeans, but [it is] to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in my anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my He shows that God's favour is cause of all prosperity, as his anger is of all adversity. face from this city.
geneva@Jeremiah:36:16 @ Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they were (note:)The godly were afraid, seeing God so offended, and the wicked were astonished for the horror of the punishment.(:note) afraid both one and another, and said to Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words.
geneva@Jeremiah:36:19 @ Then said the princes to Baruch, Go, (note:)They who were godly among the princes gave this counsel by whose means it is like that Jeremiah was delivered for they knew the rage of the king and of the wicked to be such that they could not escape without danger of their lives.(:note) hide thyself, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye are.
geneva@Jeremiah:36:24 @ Yet they were not afraid, nor tore (note:)Showing that the wicked instead of repenting when they hear God's judgments, grow into further malice against him and his word.(:note) their garments, [neither] the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.
geneva@Jeremiah:36:26 @ But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD (note:)Thus we see the continual care that God has over his to preserve them from the rage of the wicked.(:note) hid them.
geneva@Jeremiah:36:28 @ Take thee again (note:)Though the wicked think to have abolished the word of God when they have burnt the book of it, yet this declares that God will not only raise it up again but also increase it in greater abundance to their condemnation as in (Jer_36:32).(:note) another scroll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim king of Judah hath burned.
geneva@Jeremiah:38:4 @ Therefore the princes said to the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war (note:)Thus we see how the wicked when they cannot abide to hear the truth of God's word, seek to put the ministers to death, as transgressors of policies.(:note) that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the harm.
geneva@Jeremiah:38:5 @ Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he [is] in your hand: for the king [is] not [he that] can do [any] (note:)In which he grievously offended in that not only would he not hear the truth spoken by the prophet, but also gave him to the lusts of the wicked to be cruelly treated.(:note) thing against you.
geneva@Jeremiah:42:16 @ Then it shall come to pass, [that] the sword, which ye feared, (note:)Thus God turns the policy of the wicked to their own destruction: for they thought themselves sure in Egypt, and there Nebuchadnezzar destroyed them and the Egyptians, (Jer_46:25).(:note) shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, of which ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.
geneva@Jeremiah:43:2 @ Then spoke (note:)Who was also called Jezaniah, (Jer_42:1).(:note) Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the This declares that pride is the cause of rebellion and contempt of God's ministers. proud men, saying to Jeremiah, When the hypocrisy of the wicked is discovered, they burst forth into open rage: for they can abide nothing but flattery, read (Isa_30:10). Thou speakest falsely: the LORD our God hath He shows what is the nature of the hypocrites: that is, to pretend that they would obey God and embrace his word, if they were assured that his messenger spoke the truth: though indeed they are most far from all obedience. not sent thee to say, Go not into Egypt to sojourn there:
geneva@Jeremiah:43:3 @ But Baruch the son of Neriah (note:)Thus the wicked not only contemn and hurt the messengers of God, but slander and speak wickedly of all them that support or favour the godly.(:note) setteth thee on against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may put us to death, and carry us away captives into Babylon.
geneva@Jeremiah:43:6 @ [Even] men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters, and every person that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the (note:)When these wicked lead away by force.(:note) prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah.
geneva@Jeremiah:44:3 @ Because of their wickednes which they haue comitted, to prouoke me to anger in that they went to burne incense, & to serue other gods, who they knew not, neither they nor you nor your fathers.
geneva@Jeremiah:44:5 @ But they would not heare nor incline their eare to turne from their wickednes, and to burne no more incense vnto other gods.
geneva@Jeremiah:44:6 @ Wherefore (note:)He sets before their eyes God's judgments against Judah and Jerusalem for their idolatry that they might beware by their example, and not with the same wickedness provoke the Lord: for then they would be double punished.(:note) my fury and my anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted [and] desolate, as at this day.
geneva@Jeremiah:44:9 @ Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the (note:)He shows that we ought to keep in memory God's plagues from the beginning that considering them, we might live in his fear, and know if he did not spare our fathers, yea kings, princes, rulers and also whole countries and nations for their sins that we vile worms cannot look to escape punishment for ours.(:note) kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?
geneva@Jeremiah:44:16 @ [As for] the word that thou hast spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will (note:)This declares how dangerous a thing it is to decline once from God and to follow our own fantasies: for Satan ever solicits such and does not leave them till he has brought them to extreme impudency and madness, even to justify their wickedness against God and his prophets.(:note) not hearken to thee.
geneva@Jeremiah:44:22 @ So that the Lord could no longer forbeare, because of the wickednes of your inuentions, and because of the abominations, which ye haue committed: therefore is your lande desolate and an astonishment, and a curse and without inhabitant, as appeareth this day.
geneva@Jeremiah:44:25 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your (note:)You have committed double evil in making wicked vows, and in performing the same.(:note) hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.
geneva@Jeremiah:47:7 @ How can it be (note:)Meaning, that it is not profitable that the wicked should by any means escape or hinder the Lord when he will take vengeance.(:note) quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he appointed it.
geneva@Lamentations:3:22 @ [It is of] the LORD'S (note:)Considering the wickedness of man it is a marvel that any remains alive: but only that God for his own mercies sake and for his promise will ever have his Church remain, though they are never so few in number, (Isa_1:9).(:note) mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
geneva@Lamentations:3:33 @ For he doth not (note:)He takes no pleasure in it, but does it of necessity for our amendment, when he permits the wicked to oppress the poor.(:note) afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
geneva@Lamentations:4:22 @ The punishment of thy iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he (note:)He comforts the Church because after seventy years their sorrows will have an end while the wicked would be tormented for ever.(:note) will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thy iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will disclose thy sins.
geneva@Ezekiel:2:10 @ And he spread it before me; and it [was] written within and without: and [there was] written in it (note:)He shows what were the contents of this book: that is, God's judgments against the wicked.(:note) lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
geneva@Ezekiel:3:18 @ When I shall say vnto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die, and thou giuest not him warning, nor speakest to admonish the wicked of his wicked way, that he may liue, the same wicked man shall die in his iniquitie: but his blood will I require at thine hande.
geneva@Ezekiel:3:19 @ Yet if thou warne the wicked, and he turne not from his wickednesse, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquitie, but thou hast deliuered thy soule.
geneva@Ezekiel:5:6 @ And she hath changed my (note:)My word and law into idolatry and superstitions.(:note) judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that [are] around her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
geneva@Ezekiel:7:21 @ And I will give it into the hands of the (note:)That is, of the Babylonians.(:note) strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.
geneva@Ezekiel:8:9 @ And he said vnto mee, Go in, and beholde the wicked abominations that they doe here.
geneva@Ezekiel:9:3 @ And the glory of the God of Israel had (note:)Which declared that he was not bound to it, neither would remain any longer than there was hope that they would return from their wickedness and worship him correctly.(:note) gone up from the cherub, on which he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, who [had] the writer's inkhorn by his side;
geneva@Ezekiel:9:4 @ And the LORD said to him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that (note:)He shows what is the manner of God's children, whom he marks for salvation: that is, to mourn and cry out against the wickedness which they see committed against God's glory.(:note) sigh and that cry for all the abominations that are done in the midst of it.
geneva@Ezekiel:9:9 @ Then said he to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah [is] exceeding great, and the land is full of (note:)That is, with all kinds of wickedness. {{See Isa_1:15}}(:note) blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.
geneva@Ezekiel:11:2 @ Then said he vnto me, Sonne of man, these are the men that imagine mischiefe, and deuise wicked counsell in this citie.
geneva@Ezekiel:11:3 @ Who say, (note:)Thus the wicked derided the prophets as though they preached only errors, and therefore gave themselves still to their pleasures.(:note) [It is] not near; let us build houses: this [city is] the We will not be pulled out of Jerusalem, till the hour of our death comes, as the flesh is not taken out of the caldron until it is boiled. caldron, and we [are] the flesh.
geneva@Ezekiel:12:27 @ Son of man, behold, [they of] the house of Israel say, The vision that he seeth [is] for (note:)That is, it will not come to pass in our days, and therefore we care not for it: thus the wicked ever abuse God's patience and benignity.(:note) many days [to come], and he prophesieth of the times [that are] distant.
geneva@Ezekiel:13:22 @ Because with lies ye have made the heart of the (note:)By threatening them that were godly, and upholding the wicked.(:note) righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:
geneva@Ezekiel:14:11 @ That the house of (note:)Thus God's judgments against the wicked are admonitions to the godly to cleave to the Lord and not to defile themselves with the same abominations.(:note) Israel may no more go astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord GOD.
geneva@Ezekiel:14:14 @ Though these three men, (note:)Though Noah and Job were now alive, which in their time were most godly men (for at this time Daniel was in captivity with Ezekiel) and so these three together would pray for this wicked people, yet I would not hear them, read (Jer_15:1).(:note) Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver their own souls only by their Meaning, that a very few (which he calls the remnant, (Eze_14:22)) would escape these plagues, whom God has sanctified and made righteous, so that this righteousness is a sign that they are the Church of God, whom he would preserve for his own sake. righteousness, saith the Lord GOD.
geneva@Ezekiel:16:3 @ And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD to Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity [is] of the land (note:)You boast to be of the seed of Abraham, but you are degenerate and follow the abominations of the wicked Canaanites as children do the manners of their fathers, (Isa_1:4, Isa_57:3).(:note) of Canaan; thy father [was] an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
geneva@Ezekiel:16:23 @ And beside all thy wickednes (wo, wo vnto thee, saith the Lord God)
geneva@Ezekiel:16:27 @ Beholde, therefore I did stretche out mine hand ouer thee, and will diminish thine ordinarie, and deliuer thee vnto the will of them that hate thee, euen to the daughters of the Philistims, which are ashamed of thy wicked way.
geneva@Ezekiel:16:51 @ Neither (note:)Which worshipped the calves in Bethel and Daniel.(:note) hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thy abominations more than they, and hast You are so wicked that in respect to you Sodom and Samaria were just. justified thy sisters in all thy abominations which thou hast done.
geneva@Ezekiel:16:57 @ Before thy wickedness was (note:)That is, till you were brought under by the Syrians and Philistines, (2Ch_28:19).(:note) uncovered, as at the time of [thy] reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all [that are] around Which joined with the Syrians, or compassed about Jerusalem. her, the daughters of the Philistines, who despise thee on every side.
geneva@Ezekiel:16:58 @ Thou hast borne therefore thy wickednesse and thine abomination, saith the Lord.
geneva@Ezekiel:16:61 @ Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive (note:)By which he shows that among the most wicked, he always had some seed of his Church, which he would cause to bear fruit in due time: and here he declares how he will call the Gentiles.(:note) thy sisters, thy elder and thy younger: and I will give them to thee for daughters, but not But of my free mercy. by thy covenant.
geneva@Ezekiel:18:13 @ Hath given forth upon interest, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; (note:)He shows how the son is punished for his father's sin: that is, if he is wicked as his father was and does not repent, he will be punished as his father was, or else not.(:note) he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.
geneva@Ezekiel:18:20 @ The same soule that sinneth, shal die: the sonne shall not beare the iniquitie of the father, neither shall the father beare the iniquitie of the sonne, but the righteousnes of the righteous shall be vpon him, and the wickednesse of the wicked shall be vpon him selfe.
geneva@Ezekiel:18:21 @ But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my (note:)He joins the observation of the commandments with repentance; for none can repent indeed, unless he labour to keep the Law.(:note) statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
geneva@Ezekiel:18:24 @ But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, [and] doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked [man] doeth, shall he live? All his (note:)That is, the false opinion that the hypocrites have of their righteousness.(:note) righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
geneva@Ezekiel:18:27 @ Againe when the wicked turneth away from his wickednes that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawfull and right, he shal saue his soule aliue.
geneva@Ezekiel:18:31 @ Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which ye have transgressed; and make (note:)He shows that man cannot forsake his wickedness, till his heart is changed which is only the work of God.(:note) you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
geneva@Ezekiel:19:10 @ Thy (note:)He speaks this in the reproach of this wicked king, in whose blood, that is in the race of his predecessors, Jerusalem would have been blessed according to God's promise and flourished as a fruitful vine.(:note) mother [is] like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
geneva@Ezekiel:20:8 @ But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken to me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of (note:)Which declares the wickedness of man's heart, who judge God's service by their eyes and outward senses.(:note) their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
geneva@Ezekiel:20:32 @ And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and (note:)He declares that man by nature is wholly enemy to God, and to his own salvation, and therefore God calls him to the right way, partly by chastising but chiefly by his mercy in forgiving his rebellion and wickedness.(:note) stone.
geneva@Ezekiel:20:38 @ And I will (note:)Signifying that he will not burn the corn with the chaff, but chose out the wicked to punish them when he will spare his.(:note) purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.
geneva@Ezekiel:20:44 @ And ye shall knowe, that I am the Lorde, when I haue respect vnto you for my Names sake, and not after your wicked wayes, nor according to your corrupt workes, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord God.
geneva@Ezekiel:21:3 @ And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I [am] against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from thee the (note:)That is such which seem to have an outward show of righteousness by observation of the ceremonies of the law.(:note) righteous and the wicked.
geneva@Ezekiel:21:4 @ Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth from its sheath against all flesh from the south to the (note:)Meaning, through all the land.(:note) north:
geneva@Ezekiel:21:25 @ And thou, profane wicked (note:)Meaning, Zedekiah who practised with the Egyptians to make himself high and able to resist the Babylonians.(:note) prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity [shall have] an end,
geneva@Ezekiel:21:29 @ While they see (note:)Though the Jews and Ammonites would not believe that you, that is the sword, would come upon them, and said that the prophets who threatened spoke lies, yet you will as surely come as though you were already on their necks.(:note) vanity to thee, while they divine a lie to thee, to bring thee upon the necks of [them that are] slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity [shall have] an end.
geneva@Ezekiel:22:7 @ In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee (note:)He means by this that there was no kind of wickedness which was not committed in Jerusalem and therefore the plagues of God would speedily come on her.(:note) have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they oppressed the fatherless and the widow.
geneva@Ezekiel:22:11 @ And euery one hath committed abomination with his neighbours wife, and euery one hath wickedly defiled his daughter in lawe, and in thee hath euery man forced his owne sister, euen his fathers daughter.
geneva@Ezekiel:22:15 @ And I will scatter thee among the nations, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy (note:)I will thus take away the occasion of your wickedness.(:note) filthiness out of thee.
geneva@Ezekiel:22:20 @ [As] they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt [it]; so will I gather [you] in my anger and in my fury, and I will leave [you there], (note:)Meaning by this that the godly would be tried and the wicked destroyed.(:note) and melt you.
geneva@Ezekiel:23:8 @ Neither left she her harlotries [brought] from Egypt: for in her youth they (note:)The Holy Spirit uses these terms which seem strange to chaste ears, to cause this wicked vice of idolatry to be so abhorred that no one could stand to hear the name of it.(:note) lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their immorality upon her.
geneva@Ezekiel:23:21 @ Thou calledst to remembrance the wickednes of thy youth, when thy teates were bruised by ye Egyptians: therefore ye paps of thy youth are thus.
geneva@Ezekiel:23:27 @ Thus wil I make thy wickednes to cease from thee and thy fornication out of the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift vp thine eyes vnto them, nor remember Egypt any more.
geneva@Ezekiel:23:35 @ Therefore thus saith the Lorde God, Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behinde thy backe, therefore thou shalt also beare thy wickednes and thy whoredome.
geneva@Ezekiel:23:44 @ And they went in vnto her as they goe to a common harlot: so went they to Aholah and Aholibah the wicked women.
geneva@Ezekiel:23:49 @ And they shall laye your wickednesse vpon you, and ye shall beare the sinnes of your idoles, and ye shall knowe that I am the Lord God.
geneva@Ezekiel:24:6 @ Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot (note:)Whose iniquities and wicked citizens there yet remain.(:note) whose scum [is] in it, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out Signifying that they should not be destroyed all at once, but little by little. piece by piece; let no Spare no estate or condition. lot fall upon it.
geneva@Ezekiel:26:2 @ Son of man, because that Tyre hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken [that was] the (note:)That is, the famous city Jerusalem to which all people resorted.(:note) gates of the people: she is turned to me: I shall be My riches and fame will increase: thus the wicked rejoice at their fall by whom they may have any profit or advantage. replenished, [now] she is laid waste:
geneva@Ezekiel:28:22 @ And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against thee, O Zidon; and I will be (note:)By executing my judgments against your wickedness.(:note) glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.
geneva@Ezekiel:30:12 @ And I will make the riuers drye, and fell the land into the hands of the wicked, and I will make the land waste, and all that therein is by the hands of strangers: I the Lord haue spoken it.
geneva@Ezekiel:31:11 @ I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the (note:)That is, of Nebuchadnezzar, who was the monarch and only ruler of the world.(:note) mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.
geneva@Ezekiel:32:31 @ Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be (note:)As the wicked rejoice when they see others partakers of their miseries.(:note) comforted over all his multitude, [even] Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.
geneva@Ezekiel:33:6 @ But if the watchman shall see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword shall come, and take [any] person from among them, he is taken away in his (note:)Signifying that the wicked will not escape punishment though the watchman is negligent: but if the watchman blows the trumpet, and then he will not obey, he will deserve double punishment.(:note) iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
geneva@Ezekiel:33:8 @ When I say to the wicked, O wicked [man], thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked [man] shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I (note:)The watchman must answer for the blood of all that perish through his negligence.(:note) require at thy hand.
geneva@Ezekiel:33:9 @ Neuerthelesse, If thou warne the wicked of his way, to turne from it, if he doe not turne from his way, he shall die for his iniquitie, but thou hast deliuered thy soule.
geneva@Ezekiel:33:10 @ Therefore, O thou son of man, speak to the house of Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins [are] upon us, and we pine away in them, (note:)Thus the wicked when they hear God's judgments for their sins, despair of his mercies and murmur.(:note) how should we then live?
geneva@Ezekiel:33:11 @ Say to them, [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, (note:){{See Eze_18:23}}(:note) I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked should turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
geneva@Ezekiel:33:12 @ Therefore, thou son of man, say to the children of thy people, The (note:)Read of this righteousness, (Eze_18:21, Eze_18:24).(:note) righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall by it in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his [righteousness] in the day that he sinneth.
geneva@Ezekiel:33:14 @ Again, when I say to the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he shall turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and (note:)By this he condemns them all of hypocrisy, who pretend to forsake wickedness and yet do not declare themselves such by their fruits, that is, in obeying God's commandments and by godly life.(:note) right;
geneva@Ezekiel:33:15 @ To wit, if the wicked restore the pledge, and giue againe that he had robbed, and walke in the statutes of life, without committing iniquitie, he shall surely liue, and not die.
geneva@Ezekiel:33:19 @ But if the wicked returne from his wickednesse, and doe that which is lawfull and right, hee shall liue thereby.
geneva@Ezekiel:33:24 @ Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak, saying, (note:)Thus the wicked think themselves more worthy to enjoy God's promises than the saints of God, to whom they were made: and would bind God to be subject to them, though they would not be bound to him.(:note) Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we [are] many; the land is given to us for inheritance.
geneva@Ezekiel:35:11 @ Therefore, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thy (note:)As you have done cruelly, so will you be cruelly handled.(:note) anger, and according to thy envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among Showing that when God punishes the enemies, the godly ought to consider that he has a care over them and so praise his name: and also that the wicked rage as though there were no God, till they feel his hand to their destruction. them, when I have judged thee.
geneva@Ezekiel:43:10 @ Thou sonne of man, shew this House to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their wickednes, & let them measure ye paterne.
geneva@Ezekiel:47:11 @ But (note:)That is, the wicked and reprobate.(:note) its miry places and its marshes shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.
geneva@Daniel:2:13 @ And the decree went forth that the wise [men] should be slain; and they (note:)Which declares that God would not have his servant united in the company of these sorcerers and astrologers, whose arts were wicked, and therefore justly ought to die, even though the king did it upon a rage and not from zeal.(:note) sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain.
geneva@Daniel:2:24 @ Therefore Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the king had ordained to destroy the wise [men] of Babylon: he went and said thus unto him; Destroy not (note:)By which appears that many were slain, as in verse thirteen, and the rest at Daniel's offer were preserved on condition. Not that Daniel favoured their wicked profession, but that he had respect to fairness, because the King proceeded according to his wicked affection, and not considering if their profession was morally correct or not.(:note) the wise [men] of Babylon: bring me in before the king, and I will shew unto the king the interpretation.
geneva@Daniel:2:38 @ And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou [art] (note:)Daniel leaves out the kingdom of the Assyrians, which was before the Babylonian, both because it was not a monarchy and general empire, and also because he would declare the things that were to come, until the coming of Christ, for the comfort of the elect among these wonderful alterations. And he calls the Babylonian kingdom the golden head, because in respect of the other three, it was the best, and yet it was of itself wicked and cruel.(:note) this head of gold.
geneva@Daniel:3:1 @ Nebuchadnezzar the king made (note:)Under pretence of religion, and holiness in making an image to his idol Bel, he sought his own ambition and vain glory: and this declares that he was not touched with the true fear of God before, but that he confessed him on a sudden motion, as the wicked when they are overcome with the greatness of his works. The Greek interpreters write that this was done eighteen years after the dream, and as may appear, the King feared lest the Jews by their religion should have altered the state of his commonwealth: therefore he meant to bring all to one type of religion, and so rather sought his own peace than God's glory.(:note) an image of gold, whose height [was] threescore cubits, [and] the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
geneva@Daniel:3:2 @ Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the (note:)Showing that the idol is not known for an idol as long as he is with workmen: but when the ceremonies and customs are recited and used, and the consent of the people is there, then they think they have made a god out of a block.(:note) dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the This was sufficient with the wicked at all times to approve their religion, if the king's authority were alleged for the establishment of it, not considering in the meantime what God's word allowed. king had set up.
geneva@Daniel:3:4 @ Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, (note:)These are the two dangerous weapons, which Satan used to fight against the children of God, the consent of the multitude, and the cruelty of the punishment. For even though some feared God, yet the multitude who consented to the wickedness persuaded them: and here the King required not an inward consent, but an outward gesture, that the Jews might by little and little learn to forget their true religion.(:note) nations, and languages,
geneva@Daniel:3:23 @ And these three men Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego fell downe bound into the middes of the hote fierie fornace. \par {\cf2 (3:24) And they walked in the middes of the flame, praising God, & magnified the Lord. (3:25) Then Azarias stoode vp, & praied on this maner, and opening his mouth in ye mids of the fire, saide, (3:26) Blessed be thou, O Lord God of our fathers: thy Name is worthie to bee praised and honoured for euermore. (3:27) For thou art righteous in all the things, that thou hast done vnto vs, and all thy works are true, and thy waies are right, and all thy iudgementes certeine. (3:28) In all the things that thou hast brought vpon vs, and vpon Ierusalem, the holy citie of our fathers, thou hast executed true iudgementes: for by right and equitie hast thou brought all these things vpon vs, because of our sinnes. (3:29) For we haue sinned and done wickedly, departing from thee: in all things haue we trespassed, (3:30) And not obeied thy commaundements, nor kept them, neither done as thou haddest commanded vs, that we might prosper. (3:31) Wherefore in all that thou hast broughtvpon vs, and in euery thing that thou hast done to vs, thou hast done them in true iudgement: (3:32) As in deliuering vs into the handes of our wicked enemies, and most hatefull traitours, and to an vnrighteous King, and the most wicked in all the worlde. (3:33) And nowe we may not open our mouthes: we are become a shame and reproofe vnto thy seruants, and to them that worship thee. (3:34) Yet for thy names sake, we beseech thee, giue vs not vp for euer, neither breake thy couenant, (3:35) Neither take away thy mercie from vs, for thy beloued Abrahams sake, and for thy seruant Isaacs sake, and for thine holy Israels sake, (3:36) To whome thou hast spoken and promised, that thou wouldest multiplie their seed as ye starres of heauen, & as the sand, that is vpon the sea shore. (3:37) For we, O Lorde, are become lesse then any nation, and be kept vnder this day in all the world, because of our sinnes: (3:38) So that now we haue neither prince, nor prophet, nor gouernour, nor burnt offering, nor sacrifice, nor oblation, nor incense, nor place to offer ye first fruits before thee, that we might finde mercie. (3:39) Neuerthelesse in a contrite heart, & an humble spirit, let vs be receiued. (3:40) As in the burnt offring of rams & bullocks, and as in ten thousand of fat lambes, so let our offring be in thy sight this daye, that it may please thee: for there is no confusion vnto them that put their trust in thee. (3:41) And now we follow thee with all our heart, and feare thee, and seeke thy face. (3:42) Put vs not to shame, but deale with vs after thy louing kindenesse, and according to the multitude of thy mercies. (3:43) Deliuer vs also by thy miracles, and giue thy Name the glory, O Lord, (3:44) That all they which doe thy seruantes euill, may be confounded: euen let them bee confounded by thy great force and power, and let their strength be broken, (3:45) That they may know, that thou only art the Lord God, and glorious ouer the whole worlde. (3:46) Now the kings seruants that had cast them in, ceased not to make the ouen hote with naphtha, and with pitch, and with towe, & with fagots, (3:47) So that the flame went out of the fornace fourtie and nine cubites. (3:48) And it brake forth, and burnt those Chaldeans, that it found by the fornace. (3:49) But the Angel of the Lord went downe into the fornace with them that were with Azarias, and smote the flame of the fire out of the fornace, (3:50) And made in the middes of the fornace like a moyst hissing winde, so that the fire touched the not at all, neither grieued, nor troubled them. (3:51) Then these three (as out of one mouth) praised, and glorified, and blessed God in the fornace, saying, (3:52) Blessed be thou, O Lord God of our fathers, and praysed, & exalted aboue all things for euer, & blessed be thy glorious & holy Name, and praysed aboue all things, and magnified for euer. (3:53) Blessed be thou in the Temple of thine holy glory, and praysed aboue all thinges, and exalted for euer. (3:54) Blessed be thou that beholdest the depthes, and sittest vpon the Cherubins, and praysed aboue all things, and exalted for euer. (3:55) Blessed be thou in the glorious Throne of thy kingdome, and praysed aboue all things, and exalted for euer. (3:56) Blessed be thou in the firmament of heauen, & praysed aboue all things, & glorified for euer. (3:57) All ye works of the Lord, blesse ye the Lord: praise him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:58) O heauens, blesse ye the Lord: prayse him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:59) O Angels of the Lorde, blesse ye the Lorde: prayse him, & exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:60) Al ye waters that be aboue the heauen, blesse ye the Lorde: prayse him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:61) All ye powers of the Lord, blesse ye ye Lord: prayse him, & exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:62) O sunne & moone, blesse ye the Lord: praise him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:63) O starres of heauen, blesse ye the Lord: praise him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:64) Euery showre and dewe, blesse ye the Lorde: praise him, & exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:65) All ye windes, blesse ye the Lord: prayse him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:66) O fire & heate, blesse ye the Lord: praise him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:67) O winter & sommer, blesse ye ye Lord: praise him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:68) O dewes and stormes of snowe, blesse yee the Lord: prayse him, & exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:69) O frost and colde, blesse ye the Lord: prayse him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:70) O yee & snow, blesse ye the Lord: praise him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:71) O nights & dayes, blesse ye the Lord: prayse him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:72) O light and darkenesse, blesse ye the Lorde: praise him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:73) O lightnings & cloudes, blesse ye the Lorde: prayse him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:74) Let the earth blesse the Lorde: let it prayse him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:75) O mountaines, & hilles, blesse ye the Lorde: praise him, & exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:76) All things that growe on the earth, blesse ye the Lord: prayse him, and exalt him aboue al things for euer. (3:77) O fountaines, blesse ye the Lord: prayse him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:78) O sea, and floods, blesse ye the Lorde: prayse him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:79) O whales, and all that moue in the waters, blesse ye the Lord: prayse him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:80) All ye foules of heauen, blesse ye the Lorde: praise him, & exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:81) All ye beastes and cattel, blesse ye the Lord: prayse him, & exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:82) O children of men, blesse ye the Lord: prayse him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:83) Let Israel blesse the Lord, praise him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:84) O Priestes of the Lorde, blesse ye the Lorde: prayse him, & exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:85) O seruants of the Lord, blesse ye the Lorde: praise him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:86) O spirites and soules of the righteous, blesse ye the Lorde: prayse him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer\par (3:87) O Saintes and humble of heart, blesse ye the Lorde: prayse him, and exalt him aboue all thinges for euer. (3:88) O Ananias, Azarias, and Misael, blesse ye the Lord: prayse him, & exalt him aboue all things for euer: for he hath deliuered vs from the hel, & saued vs from the hand of death, and deliuered vs out of the middes of the fornace, and burning flame: euen out of the middes of the fire hath he deliuered vs. (3:89) Confesse vnto the Lord, that he is gracious: for his mercy endureth for euer. (3:90) All ye that worship the Lord, blesse the God of gods: prayse him, and acknowledge him: for his mercy endureth worlde without ende.}
geneva@Daniel:4:9 @ O Belteshazzar, (note:)Which also was a great grief to the Prophet, to be numbered among the sorcerers and men whose practices were wicked and contrary to God's word.(:note) master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods [is] in thee, and no secret troubleth thee, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and the interpretation thereof.
geneva@Daniel:5:7 @ The king cried aloud to bring in (note:)Thus the wicked in their troubles seek many means, which draw them from God, because they do not seek for him who is the only comfort in all afflictions.(:note) the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. [And] the king spake, and said to the wise [men] of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and [have] a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
geneva@Daniel:6:4 @ Then the presidents and princes (note:)Thus the wicked cannot abide the graces of God in others, but seek by every occasion to deface them: therefore against such assaults there is no better remedy than to walk upright in the fear of God, and to have a good conscience.(:note) sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he [was] faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.
geneva@Daniel:6:9 @ Wherefore king Darius (note:)In this is condemned the wickedness of the king, who would be set up as a god, and did not care what wicked laws he approved for the maintenance of it.(:note) signed the writing and the decree.
geneva@Daniel:6:10 @ Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his (note:)Because he would not by his silence show that he consented to this wicked decree, he set open his windows toward Jerusalem when he prayed: both to stir up himself with the remembrance of God's promises to his people, when they should pray toward that temple, and also that others might see that he would neither consent in heart nor deed for these few days to anything that was contrary to God's glory.(:note) windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
geneva@Daniel:6:15 @ Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians [is], That no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be (note:)Thus the wicked maintain evil laws by constancy and authority, which is often either weakness, or stubbornness, and the innocent as a result perish by them: and these governors neither ought to fear, nor be ashamed to break such laws.(:note) changed.
geneva@Daniel:6:22 @ My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him (note:)My just cause and uprightness in this thing in which I was charged, is approved by God.(:note) innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done For he disobeyed the kings's wicked commandment in order to obey God, and so he did no injury to the king, who ought to command nothing by which God would be dishonoured. no hurt.
geneva@Daniel:6:24 @ And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they (note:)This is a terrible example against all the wicked who do against their conscience make cruel laws to destroy the children of God, and also admonishes princes how to punish such when their wickedness is come to light: though not in every point, or with similar circumstances, but yet to execute true justice upon them.(:note) cast [them] into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.
geneva@Daniel:7:25 @ And he shall speak [great] words against (note:)That is, will make wicked decrees and proclamations against God's word, and send throughout all their dominion, to destroy all that did profess it.(:note) the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to These emperors will not consider that they have their power from God, but think it is in their own power to change God's laws and man's, and as it were the order of nature, as appears by Octavius, Tiberius, Calligula, Nero, Domitianus, etc. change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a God will allow them to rage in this way against his saints for a long time, the time and times, but at length he will soften these troubles, and shorten the time for his elect's sake, (Mat_24:22), which is here meant by the dividing of time. time and times and the dividing of time.
geneva@Daniel:9:5 @ We haue sinned, and haue committed iniquitie and haue done wickedly, yea, we haue rebelled, and haue departed from thy precepts, and from thy iudgements.
geneva@Daniel:9:7 @ O Lord, (note:)He shows that whenever God punishes, he does it for just cause: and thus the godly never accuse him of rigour as the wicked do, but acknowledge that in themselves there is just cause why he should so treat them.(:note) righteousness [belongeth] unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, [that are] near, and [that are] far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.![[pBiblx2]](/img/menu.png)