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Isaiah:1:2 @ Hear, O (note:)Because men were obstinate and insensible, he calls to the dumb creatures, who were more prompt to obey God's word, as in (Deu_32:1).(:note) heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up He declares his great mercy toward the Jews as he chose them above all other nations to be his people and children as in (Deu_10:15). children, and they have rebelled against me.
geneva@Isaiah:1:20 @ But if ye refuse and be rebellious, ye shalbe deuoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
geneva@Isaiah:1:30 @ For ye shalbe as an oke, whose leafe fadeth: and as a garden that hath no water.
geneva@Isaiah:5:1 @ Now will (note:)The prophet by this song sets before the people's eyes their ingratitude and God's mercy.(:note) I sing to my That is, to God. wellbeloved a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a Meaning that he had planted his Church in a place most plentiful and abundant. vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
geneva@Isaiah:5:14 @ Therefore (note:)Meaning, the grave will swallow up them who will die for hunger and thirst, and yet for all this great destruction it will never be satisfied.(:note) hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
geneva@Isaiah:5:25 @ Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his (note:)He shows that God had so sore punished this people, that the dumb creatures if they had been so plagued would have been more sensible, and therefore his plagues must continue, till they begin to seal them.(:note) hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills trembled, and their carcases [were] torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still.
geneva@Isaiah:6:7 @ And he laid [it] upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thy iniquity is taken away, and thy (note:)This declares that man cannot render due obedience to God, till he has purged us.(:note) sin purged.
geneva@Isaiah:7:5 @ Because Aram hath taken wicked counsell against thee, and Ephraim, and Remaliahs sonne, saying,
geneva@Isaiah:8:17 @ Therefore I will waite vpon the Lord that hath hid his face from the house of Iaakob, and I wil looke for him.
geneva@Isaiah:8:18 @ Behold, I and the (note:)Meaning, them who were willing to hear and obey the word of God whom the world hated, as though they were monsters and not worthy to live.(:note) children whom the LORD hath given me [are] for signs and for wonders in Israel This was a consolation in their troubles, knowing that nothing could come to them, but by the will of the Lord. from the LORD of hosts, who dwelleth in mount Zion.
geneva@Isaiah:9:2 @ The people that (note:)Which were in captivity in Babylon and the prophets speaks of that thing which would come to pass 60 years later as though it were now done.(:note) walked in darkness have seen a great Meaning, the comfort of their deliverance. light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the This captivity and deliverance were figures of our captivity by sin and of our deliverance by Christ through the preaching of the Gospel, (Mat_4:15-16). light shined.
geneva@Isaiah:9:8 @ The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon (note:)This is another prophecy against them of Samaria who were mockers and contemners of God's promises and menaces.(:note) Israel.
geneva@Isaiah:10:10 @ Like as mine hand hath founde the kingdomes of the idoles, seeing their idoles were aboue Ierusalem, and aboue Samaria:
geneva@Isaiah:10:12 @ Wherefore it shall come to pass, [that] when the Lord hath performed (note:)When he has sufficiently chastised his people (for he begins at his own house) then will he burn the rods.(:note) his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart Meaning of Sennacherib. of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
geneva@Isaiah:10:14 @ And mine hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people, and as one gathereth egges that are left, so haue I gathered all the earth: and there was none to mooue the wing or to open the mouth, or to whisper.
geneva@Isaiah:10:28 @ He is come to (note:)He describes by what way the Assyrians would come against Jerusalem, to confirm the faithful, when it would come to pass, that as their plague was come, so should they be delivered.(:note) Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath attended to his carriages:
geneva@Isaiah:12:5 @ Sing vnto the Lorde, for he hath done excellent things: this is knowen in all the worlde.
geneva@Isaiah:14:4 @ Then shalt thou take vp this prouerbe against the King of Babel, and say, Howe hath the oppressor ceased? & the gold thirsty Babel rested?
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:14:24 @ The Lorde of hostes hath sworne, saying, Surely like as I haue purposed, so shall it come to passe, and as I haue consulted, it shall stand:
geneva@Isaiah:14:27 @ Because the Lorde of hostes hath determined it, and who shall disanull it? and his hande is stretched out, and who shall turne it away?
geneva@Isaiah:14:32 @ What shall [one] then answer the (note:)Who will come to enquire of the state of the Church.(:note) messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded They will answer that the Lord defends his Church and those that join themselves to it. Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.
geneva@Isaiah:16:13 @ This is the word that the Lord hath spoken against Moab since that time.
geneva@Isaiah:16:14 @ But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, (note:)He appointed a certain time to punish the enemies in.(:note) Within three years, as the years of an Who will observe justly the time for which he is hired and serve no longer but will ever long for it. hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be despised, with all that great multitude; and the remnant [shall be] very small [and] feeble.
geneva@Isaiah:19:12 @ Where are nowe thy wise men, that they may tell thee, or may knowe what the Lorde of hostes hath determined against Egypt?
geneva@Isaiah:19:14 @ The LORD hath mingled a (note:)For the spirit of wisdom he has made them drunken and giddy with the spirit of error.(:note) perverse spirit in the midst of it: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work of it, as a drunken [man] staggereth in his vomit.
geneva@Isaiah:19:17 @ And the land of Judah shall be a terror (note:)Considering that through their opportunity the Jews did not make God their defence but put their trust in them, and were therefore now punished, they will fear least the same light on them.(:note) to Egypt, every one that maketh mention of it shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it.
geneva@Isaiah:20:3 @ And the Lord said, Like as my seruant Isaiah hath walked naked, & barefoote three yeeres, as a signe and wonder vpon Egypt, and Ethiopia,
geneva@Isaiah:21:4 @ My heart panted, fearfulness terrified me: the night (note:)He prophecies the death of Belshazzar as in (Dan_5:30) who in the midst of his pleasures was destroyed.(:note) of my pleasure hath he turned into fear to me.
geneva@Isaiah:21:6 @ For thus hath the (note:)That is, in a vision by the spirit of prophecy.(:note) Lord said to me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.
geneva@Isaiah:21:9 @ And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, [with] a couple of horsemen. And (note:)The watchman whom Isaiah set up, told him who came toward Babylon, and the angel declared that it would be destroyed: all this was done in a vision.(:note) he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken to the ground.
geneva@Isaiah:21:16 @ For thus hath the Lord said to me, Within a year, (note:)He appoints them respite for one year only, and then they would be destroyed.(:note) according to the years of an Read (Isa_16:14). hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:
geneva@Isaiah:21:17 @ And the remainder of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of (note:)Which was the name of a people of Arabia: and by the horrible destruction of all these nations, he teaches the Jews that there is no place for refuge or to escape God's wrath, but only to remain in his Church, and to live in his fear.(:note) Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken [it].
geneva@Isaiah:22:25 @ In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the (note:)He means Shebna, who in man's judgment should never have fallen.(:note) nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that [was] upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken [it].
geneva@Isaiah:23:4 @ Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the (note:)That is, Tyrus, which was the chief part of the sea.(:note) sea hath spoken, [even] the strength of the sea, saying, I I have no people left in me, and am as a barren woman, that never had children. travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish young men, [nor] bring up virgins.
geneva@Isaiah:23:8 @ Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the (note:)Who makes her merchants like princes.(:note) crowning [city], whose merchants [are] princes, whose traders [are] the honourable of the earth?
geneva@Isaiah:23:9 @ The Lorde of hostes hath decreed this, to staine the pride of all glorie, and to bring to contempt all them that be glorious in the earth.
geneva@Isaiah:23:11 @ He stretched out his hand vpon the sea: he shooke the kingdomes: the Lorde hath giuen a commaundement concerning the place of marchandise, to destroy the power thereof.
geneva@Isaiah:24:3 @ The earth shalbe cleane emptied, and vtterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this worde.
geneva@Isaiah:24:6 @ Therefore hath the (note:)Written in the law, as in (Lev_26:14; Deu_28:16) thus the prophets used to apply particularly the menaces and promises which are general in the law.(:note) curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell in it are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are With heat and drought, or else that they were consumed with the fire of God's wrath. burned, and few men left.
geneva@Isaiah:24:7 @ The wine faileth, the vine hath no might: all that were of merie heart, doe mourne.
geneva@Isaiah:25:8 @ He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will (note:)He will take away all opportunity for sorrow and fill his with perfect joy, (Rev_7:17, Rev_21:4).(:note) wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he remove from all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken [it].
geneva@Isaiah:27:7 @ Hath he smitten (note:)He shows that God punishes his in mercy, and his enemies in justice.(:note) him, as he smote those that smote him? [or] is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?
geneva@Isaiah:28:2 @ Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and (note:)He seems to mean the Assyrians, by whom the ten tribes were carried away.(:note) strong one, [which] as a tempest of hail [and] a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
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:29:8 @ It shall even be as when an hungry [man] dreameth, and, behold, (note:)That is, he thinks that he eats.(:note) he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, [he is] faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.
geneva@Isaiah:29:10 @ For the Lord hath couered you with a spirite of slumber, and hath shut vp your eyes: the Prophets, & your chiefe Seers hath he couered.
geneva@Isaiah:30:20 @ And when the Lorde hath giuen you the bread of aduersitie, and the water of affliction, thy raine shalbe no more kept backe, but thine eyes shall see thy raine.
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:31:4 @ For thus hath the LORD spoken to me, As the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, [he] will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come (note:)He shows the Jews that if they would put their trust in him, he is so able, that no one can resist his power and so care over them, as a bird over her young, which ever flies about them for their defence: which similitude the scripture uses in various places, as in (Deu_32:11; Mat_23:37).(:note) down to fight for mount Zion, and for its hill.
geneva@Isaiah:33:5 @ The Lorde is exalted: for hee dwelleth on hie: he hath filled Zion with iudgement & iustice.
geneva@Isaiah:33:8 @ The (note:)These are the words of the ambassadors, when they returned from Sennacherib.(:note) highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
geneva@Isaiah:33:14 @ The (note:)Which do not believe the words of the prophet, and the assurance of their deliverance.(:note) sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
geneva@Isaiah:34:2 @ For the indignation of the LORD [is] upon all nations, and [his] fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly (note:)God has determined in his counsel and has given sentence for their destruction.(:note) destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.
geneva@Isaiah:34:6 @ The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, [and] with the blood of (note:)That is, both of young and old, poor and rich of his enemies.(:note) lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in That famous city will be consumed as a sacrifice burnt to ashes. Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
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:34:17 @ And he hath cast the (note:)He has given the beasts and souls Idumea for an inheritance.(:note) lot for them, and his hand hath divided it to them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell in it.
geneva@Isaiah:36:12 @ Then said Rabshakeh, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee to speake these wordes, and not to the men that sit on the wall? that they may eate their owne doung, and drinke their owne pisse with you?
geneva@Isaiah:36:18 @ Least Hezekiah deceiue you, saying, The Lord wil deliuer vs. Hath any of the gods of the nations deliuered his land out of the hand of the King of Asshur?
geneva@Isaiah:36:20 @ Who is hee among all the gods of these lands, that hath deliuered their countrey out of mine hand, that the Lorde should deliuer Ierusalem out of mine hand?
geneva@Isaiah:37:4 @ It may be the LORD thy God will (note:)That is, will declare by effect that he has heard it: for when God defers to punish, it seems to the flesh, that he knows not the sin, or hears not the cause.(:note) hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore Declaring that the ministers office stands not only in comforting by the word, but also in praying for the people. lift up [thy] prayer for the remnant that is left.
geneva@Isaiah:37:17 @ Encline thine eare, O Lord, and heare: open thine eyes, O Lorde, and see, and heare all the wordes of Saneherib, who hath sent to blaspheme the liuing God.
geneva@Isaiah:37:22 @ This [is] the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The (note:)Whom God had chosen to himself as a chaste virgin, and over whom he had care to preserve her from the lusts of the tyrant, as a father would have over his daughter.(:note) virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised, [and] derided thee; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
geneva@Isaiah:37:31 @ And (note:)They whom God has delivered out of the hands of the Assyrians will prosper: and this properly belongs to the Church.(:note) the remnant that hath escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:
geneva@Isaiah:38:7 @ And (note:)For Hezekiah had asked for a sign for the confirmation of his faith, as in (Isa_38:22; 2Ki_20:8), to which he was moved by the singular motion of God's spirit.(:note) this [shall be] a sign to thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken;
geneva@Isaiah:38:8 @ Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which hath gone down on the (note:)Read (2Ki_20:8).(:note) sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it had gone down.
geneva@Isaiah:38:12 @ My age hath departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I (note:)By my sin I have provoked God to take my life from me.(:note) have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day [even] That is, in one day, or shortly. to night wilt thou make an end of me.
geneva@Isaiah:38:15 @ What shall I say? (note:)God has declared by his prophet that I will die and therefore I will yield to him.(:note) he hath both spoken to me, and himself hath done [it]: I shall go I will have no release, but continual sorrows while I live. softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
geneva@Isaiah:40:2 @ Speak ye kindly to Jerusalem, and cry to her, that her (note:)The time of her affliction.(:note) warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received from the LORD'S hand Meaning, sufficient as in (Isa_61:7) and full correction, or double grace, while she deserved double punishment. double for all her sins.
geneva@Isaiah:40:5 @ And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all (note:)This miracle will be so great, that it will be known through all the world.(:note) flesh together shall see [it]: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken [it].
geneva@Isaiah:40:12 @ Who hath comprehended the waters in the hollow of his (note:)Declaring that as only God has all power, so does he use the same for the defence and maintenance of his Church.(:note) hand, and measured heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
geneva@Isaiah:40:13 @ Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or [being] (note:)He shows God's infinite wisdom for the same.(:note) his counsellor hath taught him?
geneva@Isaiah:40:20 @ He that [is] so (note:)He shows the rage of the idolaters, seeing that the poor who do not have enough to meet their own needs will defraud themselves to serve their idols.(:note) impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree [that] will not rot; he seeketh for himself a skilful workman to prepare a graven image, [that] shall not be moved.
geneva@Isaiah:40:21 @ Have ye not known? have ye not (note:)Do you not have the word of God, which plainly condemns idolatry?(:note) heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the Can you not learn by the visible creatures whom God has made for your use, that you should not serve them or worship them? foundations of the earth?
geneva@Isaiah:40:26 @ Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these [things], that bringeth (note:)Who has set in order the infinite number of the stars.(:note) out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that [he is] strong in power; not one faileth.
geneva@Isaiah:40:29 @ But he giueth strength vnto him that fainteth, and vnto him that hath no strength, he encreaseth power.
geneva@Isaiah:41:4 @ Who hath wrought and done [it], calling the (note:)Who has created man and maintained his succession.(:note) generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the Though the world set up many gods, yet they diminish nothing of my glory: for I am all one, unchangeable, which have ever been and will be for ever. first, and with the last; I [am] he.
geneva@Isaiah:41:20 @ That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel (note:)That is, has appointed and determined that it will come to pass.(:note) hath created it.
geneva@Isaiah:41:26 @ Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and in times past, that we may say, [He is] righteous? verily, [there is] none that sheweth, verily, [there is] none that declareth, verily, [there is] none that heareth (note:)Meaning, that none of the Gentile gods can work any of these things.(:note) your words.
geneva@Isaiah:42:4 @ He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he hath (note:)Till he has set all things in good order.(:note) set judgment in the earth: and the The Gentiles will desire to receive his doctrine. isles shall wait for his law.
geneva@Isaiah:42:25 @ Therefore hee hath powred vpon him his fierce wrath, and the strength of battell: and it set him on fire round about, and he knewe not, and it burned him vp, yet he considered not.
geneva@Isaiah:43:27 @ Thy (note:)Your ancestors.(:note) first father hath sinned, and thy Your priests and your prophets. teachers have transgressed against me.
geneva@Isaiah:44:10 @ Who hath formed a (note:)Meaning that whatever is made by the hand of man, if it is valued as a god, is most detestable.(:note) god, or cast a graven image [that] is By which appears their blasphemy, who call images the books of the laity, seeing that they are not only here called unprofitable, but in (Isa_41:24) abominable. Jeremiah calls them the work of errors, (Jer_10:15), Habakkuk, a lying teacher (Hab_2:18). profitable for nothing?
geneva@Isaiah:44:18 @ They have not known nor understood: (note:)The prophet gives here an answer to all them who wonder how it is possible that any would be so blind as to commit such abomination, saying that God has blinded their eyes, and hardened their hearts.(:note) for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; [and] their hearts, that they cannot understand.
geneva@Isaiah:44:20 @ He feedeth (note:)He is abused as one that would eat ashes, thinking to satisfy his hunger.(:note) on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, [Is there] not a lie in my right hand?
geneva@Isaiah:45:18 @ For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be (note:)That is, of men, but chiefly of his Church.(:note) inhabited: I [am] the LORD; and [there is] none else.
geneva@Isaiah:45:21 @ Tell ye and bring them, and let them take counsell together, who hath declared this from the beginning? or hath tolde it of olde? Haue not I the Lord? and there is none other God beside me, a iust God, and a Sauiour: there is none beside me.
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:48:5 @ I have even from the beginning declared [it] to thee; before it came to pass I showed (note:)How you should be delivered out of Babylon.(:note) [it] thee: lest thou shouldest say, My idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.
geneva@Isaiah:48:13 @ My hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spread out the heavens: [when] I call to them, (note:)To obey me, and to do whatever I command them.(:note) they stand up together.
geneva@Isaiah:48:14 @ All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; who among them hath declared these [things]? The LORD hath loved (note:)Meaning, Cyrus, whom he had chosen to destroy Babylon.(:note) him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm [shall be on] the Chaldeans.
geneva@Isaiah:48:16 @ Come ye near to me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the (note:)Since the time that I declared myself to your fathers.(:note) beginning; from the time that it was, there [am] I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath Thus the Prophet speaks for himself, and to assure them of these things. sent me.
geneva@Isaiah:49:1 @ Listen, to me O isles; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called (note:)This is spoken in the person of Christ, to assure the faithful that these promises should come to pass: for they were all made in him and in him would be performed.(:note) me from This is meant of the time that Christ would be manifested to the world, as in (Psa_2:7). the womb; from the body of my mother hath he made mention of my name.
geneva@Isaiah:49:2 @ And he hath made my mouth like a sharp (note:)By the sword and shaft, he signifies the virtue and efficacy of Christ's doctrine.(:note) sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he God has taken me to his protection and defence: this chiefly is meant of Christ, and may also be applied to the ministers of his word. hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;
geneva@Isaiah:49:10 @ They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy (note:)Meaning, that there would be nothing in their way from Babylon that would hinder or hurt them: but this is accomplished spiritually.(:note) on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.
geneva@Isaiah:49:13 @ Sing, O (note:)Read (Isa_44:23).(:note) heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.
geneva@Isaiah:49:14 @ But Zion said, The LORD hath (note:)He objects what the faithful might say in their long affliction and answers to comfort them with a most proper comparison and full of consolation.(:note) forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.
geneva@Isaiah:49:21 @ Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten mee these, seeing I am baren and desolate, a captiue and a wanderer to and fro? And who hath nourished them? Beholde, I was left alone: whence are these?
geneva@Isaiah:50:4 @ The Lord GOD hath given (note:)The prophet represents here the person and charge of them that are justly called to the ministry by God's word.(:note) me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to [him that is] To him that is oppressed by affliction and misery. weary: he awakeneth morning by morning, he awakeneth my ear to hear As they who are taught, and made meet by him. as the learned.
geneva@Isaiah:50:5 @ The Lord God hath opened mine eare and I was not rebellious, neither turned I backe.
geneva@Isaiah:51:9 @ Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, (note:)He puts them in remembrance of his great benefit for their deliverance out of Egypt, that by it they might learn to trust in him constantly.(:note) in the generations of old. [Art] thou not that which hath cut Meaning, Egypt, (Psa_87:4). Rahab, [and] wounded the That is, Pharaoh, (Eze_29:3). dragon?
geneva@Isaiah:51:10 @ Art not thou the same, which hath dried the Sea, euen the waters of the great deepe, making the depth of the Sea a way for the redeemed to passe ouer?
geneva@Isaiah:51:13 @ And forgettest the Lorde thy maker, that hath spred out the heauens, and layde the foundations of the earth? and hast feared continually all the day, because of the rage of the oppressour, which is readie to destroy? Where is now the rage of the oppressour?
geneva@Isaiah:51:18 @ There is none to guide her among all the sonnes, whome she hath brought foorth: there is none that taketh her by the hand of all the sonnes that she hath brought vp.
geneva@Isaiah:52:9 @ O ye desolate places of Ierusalem, bee glad and reioyce together: for the Lorde hath comforted his people: he hath redeemed Ierusalem.
geneva@Isaiah:52:10 @ The LORD hath made (note:)As ready to smite his enemies and to deliver his people.(:note) bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
geneva@Isaiah:53:1 @ Who (note:)The prophet shows that very few will receive their preaching from Christ, and from their deliverance by him, (Joh_12:38; Rom_10:16).(:note) hath believed our report? and to whom is the Meaning, that no one can believe but whose hearts God touches with the virtue of his Holy Spirit. arm of the LORD revealed?
geneva@Isaiah:53:2 @ For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a (note:)The beginning of Christ's kingdom will be small and contemptible in the sight of man, but it will grow wonderfully and flourish before God.(:note) root out of a dry Read (Isa_11:1). ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, [there is] no beauty that we should desire him.
geneva@Isaiah:53:4 @ Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried (note:)That is, the punishment due to our sins, for which he has both suffered and made satisfaction, (Mat_8:17; 1Pe_2:24).(:note) our sorrows: yet we did esteem him We judge evil, thinking that he was punished for his own sins, and not for ours. stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
geneva@Isaiah:53:6 @ All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the (note:)Meaning, the punishment of our iniquity, and not the fault itself.(:note) iniquity of us all.
geneva@Isaiah:53:10 @ Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put [him] to grief: when (note:)Christ by offering up himself will give life to his Church, and so cause them to live with him forever.(:note) thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong [his] days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
geneva@Isaiah:53:12 @ Therefore I will divide to him [a portion] with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because (note:)Because he humbled himself, therefore he will be extolled to glory, (Phi_2:7-12).(:note) he hath poured out his soul to death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bore the sin That is, of all that believe in him. of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
geneva@Isaiah:54:6 @ For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a (note:)As a wife who was forsaken in your youth.(:note) wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
geneva@Isaiah:54:10 @ For the mountaines shall remoue and the hilles shall fall downe: but my mercy shall not depart from thee, neither shall the couenant of my peace fall away, saith the Lord, that hath compassion on thee.
geneva@Isaiah:55:1 @ Ho, every one that (note:)Christ by proposing his graces and gifts to his Church, exempts the hypocrites who are full with their imagined works, and the Epicureans who are full with their worldly lusts, and so do not thirst after these waters.(:note) thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath Signifying that God's benefits cannot be bought for money. no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy By waters, wine, milk and bread, he means all things necessary to the spiritual life, as these are necessary to this corporal life. wine and milk without money and without price.
geneva@Isaiah:55:5 @ Behold, thou shalt call a nation [that] thou knowest not, (note:)That is, the Gentiles, who before you did not receive to be your people.(:note) and nations [that] knew not thee shall run to thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.
geneva@Isaiah:56:3 @ Neither let the son of the foreigner, that (note:)Let no one think himself unfit to receive the graces of the Lord: for the Lord will take away all impediments, and will forsake no one who will keep his true religion, and believe in him.(:note) hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I [am] a dry tree.
geneva@Isaiah:58:14 @ Then shalt thou delite in the Lord, & I wil cause thee to mount vpon the hie places of the earth, and feede thee with the heritage of Iaakob thy father: for the mouth of ye Lord hath spoken it.
geneva@Isaiah:59:3 @ For your hands are defiled with (note:)Read (Isa_1:15).(:note) blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath uttered perverseness.
geneva@Isaiah:60:9 @ Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships (note:)The Gentiles that are now enemies, will become friends and set forth the Church.(:note) of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, to the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
geneva@Isaiah:61:1 @ The Spirit of the Lord GOD [is] (note:)Thus belongs to all the prophets and ministers of God, but chiefly to Christ, of whose abundant graces everyone receives according as it pleases him to distribute.(:note) upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings to the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the To them that are lively touched with the feeling of their sins. brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the Who are in the bondage of sin. captives, and the opening of the prison to [them that are] bound;
geneva@Isaiah:61:9 @ And (note:)That is, of the Church.(:note) their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they [are] the seed [which] the LORD hath blessed.
geneva@Isaiah:62:8 @ The Lorde hath sworne by his right hand and by his strong arme, Surely I wil no more giue thy corne to be meate for thine enemies, & surely the sonnes of the strangers shall not drinke thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured.
geneva@Isaiah:62:11 @ Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed to the end of the world, (note:)You prophets and ministers show the people of this their deliverance: which was chiefly meant of our salvation by Christ, (Zec_9:9; Mat_21:5).(:note) Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward [is] with him, and He will have all power to bring his purpose to pass, as in (Isa_40:10). his work before him.
geneva@Isaiah:63:7 @ I will (note:)The prophet speaks this to move the people to remember God's benefits in times past, that they may be confirmed in their troubles.(:note) mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, [and] the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.
geneva@Isaiah:64:4 @ For since the beginning of the world [men] have not (note:)Paul uses the same kind of admiration, (1Co_2:9) marvelling at God's great benefit showed to his Church, by the preaching of the gospel.(:note) heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, besides thee, [what] he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
geneva@Isaiah:65:20 @ There shall be no more from there an infant of days, nor an old man that hath (note:)Meaning, in this wonderful restoration of the Church there would be no weakness of youth, nor infirmities of age, but all would be fresh and flourishing: and this is accomplished in the heavenly Jerusalem, when all sins will cease, and the tears will be wiped away.(:note) not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner [being] By which he shows that the infidels and unrepentant sinners have no part of this benediction. an hundred years old shall be accursed.
geneva@Isaiah:66:2 @ For all these [things] hath my hand made, (note:)Seeing that both the temple and the things in it, with the sacrifices were made and done by his appointment, he shows that he has no need of it, and that he can be without them, {{See Psa_50:10}}.(:note) and all these [things] have been, saith the LORD: but to this [man] will I look, [even] to [him that is] poor and of To him that is humble and pure in heart, who receives my doctrine with reverence and fear. a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
geneva@Isaiah:66:8 @ Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one (note:)This will pass the capacity of man to see such a multitude that will come up at once, meaning under the preaching of the gospel of which they who came out of Babylon were a sign.(:note) day? [or] shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
geneva@Jeremiah:2:11 @ Hath a nation changed [their] gods, which [are] yet no gods? but my people have changed their (note:)That is, God who is their glory, and who makes them glorious above all other people, reproving the Jews that they were less diligent to serve the true God, than were the idolaters to honour their vanities.(:note) glory for [that which] doth not Meaning the idols who were their destruction, (Psa_106:36). profit.
geneva@Jeremiah:2:30 @ In vain have I smitten your children; they have received no correction: your (note:)That is, you have killed your prophets, that exhorted you to repentance, as Zechariah, Isaiah, etc.(:note) own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
geneva@Jeremiah:2:37 @ Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thy hands upon (note:)In sign of lamentation, as in (2Sa_13:19).(:note) thy head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.
geneva@Jeremiah:3:3 @ Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there hath been no (note:)As God threatened by his law, (Deu_28:24).(:note) latter rain; and thou hadst an You would never be ashamed of your acts and repent: and this impudency is common to idolaters, who will not cease, though they are openly convicted. harlot's forehead, thou didst refuse to be ashamed.
geneva@Jeremiah:3:6 @ The LORD said also to me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen [that] which backsliding (note:)Meaning the ten tribes.(:note) Israel hath done? she hath gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.
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:3:24 @ For shame hath devoured the labour of our (note:)For their idolatry God's vengeance has light on them and theirs.(:note) fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
geneva@Jeremiah:4:17 @ As keepers of a (note:)Who keep the fruits so straitly, that nothing can come in or out so would the Babylonians compass Judah.,(:note) field, they are against her on all sides; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD.
geneva@Jeremiah:4:27 @ For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I (note:)But for his mercies sake, he will reserve himself a residue to be his Church, and to praise him in earth, (Jer_5:18).(:note) not make a full end.
geneva@Jeremiah:5:23 @ But this people hath an vnfaithfull and rebellious heart: they are departed and gone.
geneva@Jeremiah:6:6 @ For thus hath the Lord of hostes said, Hewe downe wood, and cast a mounte against Ierusalem: this citie must be visited: all oppression is in the middes of it.
geneva@Jeremiah:6:24 @ We have heard the report of it: our hands become (note:)For fear of the enemy: he speaks this in the person of the Jews.(:note) feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, [and] pain, as of a woman in travail.
geneva@Jeremiah:6:30 @ They shall call them reprobate siluer, because the Lord hath reiected them.
geneva@Jeremiah:7:29 @ Cut off thy (note:)In sign of mourning, as in (Job_1:20).(:note) hair, [O Jerusalem], and cast [it] away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his Against whom he had just opportunity to pour out his wrath (Mic_1:6). wrath.
geneva@Jeremiah:8:8 @ How do ye say, We [are] wise, and the law of the LORD [is] with us? Lo, certainly in vain he hath made [it]; (note:)The law does not profit you neither need it to have been written for all that you have learned by it.(:note) the pen of the scribes [is] in vain.
geneva@Jeremiah:8:14 @ Why do we sit still? (note:)He speaks in the person of the people, who when the enemy comes will turn about to hide themselves and acknowledge that it is God's hand.(:note) assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of That is, has brought us into extreme affliction, and thus they will not attribute this plague to fortune, but to God's just judgment, (Jer_9:15, Jer_23:15). gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
geneva@Jeremiah:8:21 @ For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I (note:)The prophet speaks this.(:note) hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
geneva@Jeremiah:9:12 @ Who [is] the (note:)Meaning that they are all without sense and understanding and that God has taken his spirit from them.(:note) wise man, that may understand this? and [who is he] to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth [and] is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?
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:10:12 @ He hath made the earth by his power, and established the worlde by his wisedome, and hath stretched out the heauen by his discretion.
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:11:16 @ The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, [and] of goodly fruit: with the (note:)Of the Babylonians and Chaldeans.(:note) noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.
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:11:18 @ And the LORD hath given me knowledge [of it], and I know [it]: then thou didst show me (note:)Who went about secretly to conspire my death.(:note) their doings.
geneva@Jeremiah:13:15 @ Heare and giue eare, be not proude: for the Lord hath spoken it.
geneva@Jeremiah:14:10 @ Thus saith the Lord vnto this people, Thus haue they delited to wander: they haue not refrained their feete, therefore the Lorde hath no delight in them: but he will now remember their iniquitie, and visite their sinnes.
geneva@Jeremiah:14:19 @ Hast thou utterly rejected (note:)Though the prophet knew that God had cast off the multitude, who were hypocrites and bastard children, yet he was assured that for his promise sake he would still have a Church, for which he prays.(:note) Judah? hath thy soul abhorred Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and [there is] no healing for us? we looked for peace, and [there is] no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!
geneva@Jeremiah:15:9 @ She that hath borne (note:)She who had many lost all her children.(:note) seven languisheth: she hath breathed her last; her sun is She was destroyed in the midst of her prosperity. gone down while [it was] yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the remnant of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.
geneva@Jeremiah: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:18:13 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord, Aske now among the heathen, who hath heard such thinges? the virgin of Israel hath done very filthily.
geneva@Jeremiah:18:15 @ Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways [from] the (note:)That is, the way of truth which God had taught by his law, (Jer_6:16).(:note) ancient paths, to walk in paths, [in] a way not cast up;
geneva@Jeremiah:20:3 @ And on the morning, Pashur brought Ieremiah out of the stockes. Then said Ieremiah vnto him, The Lord hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magor-missabib.
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:22:21 @ I spake vnto thee when thou wast in prosperitie: but thou saidest, I will not heare: this hath bene thy maner from thy youth, that thou wouldest not obey my voyce.
geneva@Jeremiah:23:9 @ My heart within me is broken because of the (note:)Meaning, the false prophets who deceive the people: in which appears his great love toward his nation, read (Jer_14:13).(:note) prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.
geneva@Jeremiah:23:17 @ They say still to them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye (note:)Read (Jer_6:14, Jer_8:11).(:note) shall have peace; and they say to every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.
geneva@Jeremiah:23:18 @ For (note:)Thus they derided Jeremiah as though the word of God was not revealed to him, so also spoke Zedekiah to Micaiah, (1Ki_22:24).(:note) who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard [it]?
geneva@Jeremiah:23:28 @ The prophet that hath a dream, let him (note:)Let the false prophet declare that it is his own fantasy, and not slander my word as though it were a cloak to cover his lies.(:note) tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. Meaning, that it is not enough for God's ministers to abstain from lies and to speak the word of God but that there is judgment in alleging it, and that it may appear to be applied to the same purpose that it was spoken, (Eze_3:27; 1Co_2:13, 1Co_4:2; 2Ti_2:25). What [is] the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.
geneva@Jeremiah:23:35 @ Thus shall yee say euery one to his neighbour, and euerie one to his brother, What hath the Lorde answered? and what hath the Lorde spoken?
geneva@Jeremiah:23:37 @ Thus shalt thou say to the Prophet, What hath the Lord answered thee? and what hath the Lorde spoken?
geneva@Jeremiah:25:3 @ From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even to (note:)Which was the fifth year and the ninth month of Jehoiakim's reign.(:note) this day, that [is] the three and twentieth year, the word of the LORD hath come to me, and I have spoken to you, That is, I have spared no diligence or labour, (Jer_7:13). rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.
geneva@Jeremiah:25:4 @ And the Lord hath sent vnto you all his seruantes the Prophets, rising early & sending them, but yee would not heare, nor encline your eares to obey.
geneva@Jeremiah:25:5 @ They (note:)He shows that the prophets, wholly with one consent laboured to pull the people from those vices, which then reigned, that is, from idolatry and the vain confidence of men: for under these two all others were contained, (2Ki_17:13; Jer_18:11, Jer_35:15; Jon_3:8).(:note) said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given to you and to your fathers for ever and ever:
geneva@Jeremiah:25:13 @ And I will bring vpon that lande all my wordes which I haue pronounced against it, euen all that is written in this booke, which Ieremiah hath prophecied against all nations.
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:25:36 @ A voyce of the crye of the shepherdes, and an howling of the principall of the flocke shalbe heard: for the Lord hath destroyed their pasture.
geneva@Jeremiah:25:38 @ He hath forsaken his couert, as the lyon: for their land is waste, because of the wrath of the oppressor, & because of ye wrath of his indignatio.
geneva@Jeremiah:26:11 @ Then spake the Priestes, and the prophets vnto the princes, and to all the people, saying, This man is worthie to die: for he hath prophecied against this citie, as ye haue heard with your eares.
geneva@Jeremiah:26:13 @ Therefore nowe amende your wayes and your workes, and heare the voyce of the Lorde your God, that the Lorde may repent him of the plague, that he hath pronounced against you.
geneva@Jeremiah:26:15 @ But knowe ye for certaine, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood vpon your selues, and vpon this citie, and vpon the inhabitants thereof: for of a trueth the Lord hath sent me vnto you, to speake all these words in your eares.
geneva@Jeremiah:26:16 @ Then saide the princes and all the people vnto the Priestes, and to the prophets, This man is not worthie to die: for he hath spoken vnto vs in the Name of the Lorde our God.
geneva@Jeremiah:27:13 @ Why will ye dye, thou, and thy people by the sworde, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the Lorde hath spoken against the nation, that will not serue the King of Babel?
geneva@Jeremiah:28:9 @ And the Prophet which prophecieth of peace, when the word of the Prophet shall come to passe, then shall the Prophet be knowen that the Lorde hath truely sent him.
geneva@Jeremiah:28:15 @ Then sayd the Prophet Ieremiah vnto the Prophet Hananiah, Heare nowe Hananiah, the Lorde hath not sent thee, but thou makest this people to trust in a lye.
geneva@Jeremiah:29:15 @ Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised up for us (note:)As Ahab, Zedekiah and Shemaiah.(:note) prophets in Babylon;
geneva@Jeremiah:29:26 @ The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of (note:)Shemaiah the false prophet flatters Zephaniah the chief priest as though God had given him the spirit and zeal of Jehoiada to punish whoever trespassed against the word of God, of that he would have made Jeremiah one, calling him a raver and a false prophet.(:note) Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD, for every man [that is] mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks.
geneva@Jeremiah:29:31 @ Send to all them of the captiuitie, saying, Thus saith the Lorde of Shemaiah the Nehelamite, Because that Shemaiah hath prophecied vnto you, and I sent him not, and hee caused you to trust in a lye,
geneva@Jeremiah:29:32 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man (note:)He and his seed will be destroyed so that none of them would see the blessing of this deliverance.(:note) to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people, saith the LORD; because he hath taught rebellion against the LORD.
geneva@Jeremiah:30:24 @ The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he hath done [it], and until he hath performed the intents of his heart: in the (note:)When this Messiah and deliverer is sent.(:note) latter days ye shall consider it.
geneva@Jeremiah:31:11 @ For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand (note:)That is, from the Babylonians and other enemies.(:note) of [him that was] stronger than he.
geneva@Jeremiah:31:22 @ How long wilt thou wander about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created (note:)Because their deliverance from Babylon was a figure of their deliverance from sin, he shows how this would be procured that is, by Jesus Christ, whom a woman would conceive and bear in her womb. Which is a strange thing in earth, because he would be born of a virgin without man or he means that Jerusalem which was like a barren woman in her captivity would be fruitful as she that is joined in marriage and whom God blesses with children.(:note) a new thing in the earth, A woman shall encompass a man.
geneva@Jeremiah:32:31 @ Therefore this citie hath bene vnto me as a prouocation of mine anger, and of my wrath, from the day, that they built it, euen vnto this day, that I should remoue it out of my sight,
geneva@Jeremiah:33:24 @ Considerest thou not what (note:)Meaning, the Chaldeans and other infidels who thought God had utterly cast off Judah and Israel or Benjamin, because he corrected them for a time for their amendment.(:note) this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
geneva@Jeremiah:34:14 @ At the terme of seuen yeres let ye go, euery man his brother an Ebrewe which hath bene solde vnto thee: and when he hath serued the sixe yeres, thou shalt let him go free fro thee: but your fathers obeyed me not, neither inclined their eares.
geneva@Jeremiah:35:8 @ Thus haue wee obeyed the voyce of Ionadab the sonne of Rechab our father, in all that he hath charged vs, and wee drinke no wine all our dayes, neither wee, our wiues, our sonnes, nor our daughters.
geneva@Jeremiah:35:16 @ Surely the sonnes of Ionadab the sonne of Rechab, haue kept the commaundement of their father, which he gaue them, but this people hath not obeyed me.
geneva@Jeremiah:35:18 @ And Ieremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the Lorde of hostes the God of Israel, Because ye haue obeyed the commandement of Ionadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according vnto all that hee hath commaunded you,
geneva@Jeremiah:36:7 @ It may be they will (note:)He shows that fasting without prayer and repentance does nothing but is mere hypocrisy.(:note) present their supplication before the LORD, and will return every one from his evil way: for great [is] the anger and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people.
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:38:21 @ But if thou wilt refuse to go forth, this is the worde that the Lorde hath shewed me.
geneva@Jeremiah:40:3 @ Now the LORD hath brought [it], and done according as he hath said: because ye have (note:)God moved this infidel to speak this to declare the great blindness and obstinacy of the Jews who could not feel that which this heathen man confessed.(:note) sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.
geneva@Jeremiah:40:5 @ For yet he was not returned: therefore he said, Returne to Gedaliah the sonne of Ahikam, the sonne of Shaphan, whom the King of Babel hath made gouernour ouer all the cities of Iudah, and dwell with him among the people, or goe wheresoeuer it pleaseth thee to goe. So the chiefe stewarde gaue him vitailes and a rewarde, and let him goe.
geneva@Jeremiah:40:8 @ Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even (note:)Who was of the king's blood and later slew him, (Jer_41:2).(:note) Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.
geneva@Jeremiah:40:14 @ And said to him, Dost thou certainly know that (note:)For under the colour of entertaining Ishmael, he sought only to make them destroy one another.(:note) Baalis the king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay thee? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not.
geneva@Jeremiah:42:18 @ For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As my anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an horror, and a (note:)Read (Jer_26:6) showing that this would come on them for their infidelity and stubbornness.(:note) curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.
geneva@Jeremiah:42:19 @ O ye remnant of Iudah, the Lorde hath said concerning you, Goe not into Egypt: knowe certeinely that I haue admonished you this day.
geneva@Jeremiah:42:21 @ Therefore I haue this day declared it you, but you haue not obeyed the voyce of the Lorde your God, nor any thing for the which he hath sent me vnto you.
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:44:21 @ Did not the Lorde remember the incense, that yee burnt in the cities of Iudah, and in the streetes of Ierusalem, both you, and your fathers, your Kinges, and your princes, and the people of the land, and hath he not considered it?
geneva@Jeremiah:45:3 @ Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I (note:)Baruch moved with an inconsiderate zeal for Jeremiah's imprisonment, but chiefly for the destruction of the people and the temple makes this lamentation, as in (Psa_6:6).(:note) fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.
geneva@Jeremiah:46:10 @ For this [is] the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satisfied and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath (note:)He calls the slaughter of God's enemies a sacrifice, because it is a thing that pleases him, (Isa_34:6).(:note) a sacrifice in the north country That is, at Carchemish. by the river Euphrates.
geneva@Jeremiah:46:12 @ The nations haue heard of thy shame, and thy crie hath filled the lande: for the strong hath stumbled against the strong and they are fallen both together.
geneva@Jeremiah:46:17 @ They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt [is but] a noise; he (note:)He derides them who blame their overthrow on lack of counsel and policy, or to fortune and not observing of time: not considering that it is God's just judgment.(:note) hath passed the time appointed.
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@Jeremiah:48:8 @ And the destroyer shall come vpon all cities, and no citie shall escape: the valley also shall perish and the plaine shalbe destroyed as the Lord hath spoken.
geneva@Jeremiah:48:11 @ Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been (note:)Has not been removed as the Jews have, but have lived at ease, and as a wine that feeds itself on his lees.(:note) emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.
geneva@Jeremiah:48:32 @ O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants have gone over the sea, they reach [even] to the sea (note:)Which city was in the utmost border of Moab: and by this he signifies that the whole land would be destroyed and the people carried away.(:note) of Jazer: the spoiler hath fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.
geneva@Jeremiah:48:36 @ Therefore my heart shall sound for Moab like (note:)Their custom was to play on flutes or instruments, heavy and grave tunes at burials and in the time of mourning, as in (Mat_9:23).(:note) pipes, and my heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres: because the riches [that] he hath gotten have perished.
geneva@Jeremiah:48:39 @ They shal howle, saying, How is he destroyed? howe hath Moab turned the backe with shame? so shall Moab be a derision, and a feare to all them about him.
geneva@Jeremiah:48:42 @ And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath set vp himselfe against the Lord.
geneva@Jeremiah:49:1 @ Concerning the (note:)They were separated from the Moabites by the river Arnon, and after the ten tribes were carried away into captivity, they invaded the country of Gad.(:note) Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why [then] doth their king That is, of the Ammonites. inherit Gad, and his people dwell in Meaning, of the Israelites. his cities?
geneva@Jeremiah:49:7 @ Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; [Is] wisdom no more in (note:)Which was a city of Edom, called by the name of Teman Eliphaz's son, who came from Esau.(:note) Teman? hath counsel perished from the prudent? hath their wisdom vanished?
geneva@Jeremiah:49:16 @ Thy feare, and ye pride of thine heart hath deceiued thee, thou that dwellest in the cleftes of the rocke, and keepest the height of ye hil: though thou shouldest make thy nest as hie as the egle, I wil bring thee downe from thece, sayth the Lord.
geneva@Jeremiah:49:20 @ Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least (note:)They will not be able to resist his petty captains.(:note) of the flock shall draw them out: surely To visit the enemy. he shall make their habitations desolate with them.
geneva@Jeremiah:49:24 @ Damascus hath become feeble, [and] turneth herself to flee, (note:)When she heard the sudden coming of the enemy.(:note) and fear hath seized on [her]: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
geneva@Jeremiah:49:30 @ Flee, go far off, (note:)The enemies will dwell in your places.(:note) dwell deep, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith the LORD; for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose against you.
geneva@Jeremiah:50:15 @ Crie against her round about: she hath giuen her hand: her foundations are fallen, and her walles are destroyed: for it is the vengeance of the Lord: take vengeance vpon her: as she hath done, doe vnto her.
geneva@Jeremiah:50:17 @ Israel [is] a scattered sheep; the lions have driven [him] away: first the king of (note:)Meaning Tiglath-pilesar who carried away the ten tribes.(:note) Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon hath broken his He carried away the rest, that is Judah and Benjamin. bones.
geneva@Jeremiah:50:25 @ The Lord hath opened his treasure, & hath brought foorth the weapons of his wrath: for this is the woorke of the Lorde God of hostes in the lande of the Caldeans.
geneva@Jeremiah:50:29 @ Call vp the archers against Babel: al ye that bend the bow, besiege it rounde about: let none thereof escape: recompence her according to her worke, & according to all that she hath done, doe vnto her: for she hath bene proud against the Lord, euen against the holy one of Israel.
geneva@Jeremiah:50:43 @ The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands (note:)Which is meant of Belshazzar, (Dan_5:6).(:note) became feeble: anguish took hold of him, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail.
geneva@Jeremiah:50:45 @ Therefore heare the counsell of the Lorde that hee hath deuised against Babel, and his purpose that hee hath conceiued against the lande of the Caldeans: surely the least of the flocke shall drawe them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them.
geneva@Jeremiah:51:5 @ For Israel [hath] not [been] (note:)Though they were forsaken for a time, yet they were not utterly cast off as though their husbands were dead.(:note) forsaken, nor Judah by his God, by the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.
geneva@Jeremiah:51:7 @ Babylon [hath been] a golden cup in the (note:)By whom the Lord poured out the drink of his vengeance, to whom it pleased him.(:note) LORD'S hand, that made all the earth drunk: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are For the great afflictions that they have felt by the Babylonians. mad.
geneva@Jeremiah:51:10 @ The LORD hath brought forth our (note:)In approving our cause and punishing our enemies.(:note) righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.
geneva@Jeremiah:51:11 @ Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his purpose [is] against Babylon, to destroy it; because it [is] the vengeance of the LORD, the (note:)For the wrong done to his people and to his temple, (Jer_50:28).(:note) vengeance of his temple.
geneva@Jeremiah:51:12 @ Set vp the standart vpon the walles of Babel, make the watch strong: set vp the watchmen: prepare the skoutes: for the Lord hath both deuised, and done that which he spake against the inhabitantes of Babel.
geneva@Jeremiah:51:14 @ The Lord of hostes hath sworne by him selfe, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers, and they shall cry and shoute against thee.
geneva@Jeremiah:51:15 @ He hath made the earth by his power, & established the world by his wisedome, and hath stretched out the heauen by his discretion.
geneva@Jeremiah:51:30 @ The strong men of Babel haue ceased to fight: they haue remayned in their holdes: their strength hath fayled, and they were like women: they haue burnt her dwelling places, and her barres are broken.
geneva@Jeremiah:51:34 @ Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon hath (note:)This is spoken in the person of the Jews bewailing their state and the cruelty of the Babylonians.(:note) devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicacies, he hath cast me out.
geneva@Jeremiah:51:44 @ And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which (note:)That is, his gifts and presents which he had received as part of the spoil of other nations, and which the idolaters brought to him from all countries.(:note) he hath swallowed: and the nations shall not flow together any more to him: even the wall of Babylon shall fall.
geneva@Jeremiah:51:49 @ As Babylon [hath caused] the (note:)Babylon not only destroyed Israel, but many other nations.(:note) slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.
geneva@Jeremiah:51:51 @ We are (note:)He shows how they would remember Jerusalem by lamenting the miserable affliction of it.(:note) confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for foreigners are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD'S house.
geneva@Jeremiah:51:55 @ Because the Lorde hath layde Babel waste and destroyed from her the great voyce, and her waues shall roare like great waters, and a sounde was made by their noyse:
geneva@Lamentations:1:2 @ She weepeth bitterly in the (note:)So that she takes no rest.(:note) night, and her tears [are] on her cheeks: among all her Meaning the Egyptians and Assyrians who promised help. lovers she hath none to comfort [her]: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
geneva@Lamentations:1:5 @ Her adversaries (note:)That is, have rule over her, (Deu_28:41).(:note) are the head, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
geneva@Lamentations:1:6 @ And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty hath departed: her princes are become (note:)As men pined away with sorrow and that have no courage.(:note) like harts [that] find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.
geneva@Lamentations:1:8 @ Ierusalem hath grieuously sinned, therefore shee is in derision: all that honoured her, despise her, because they haue seene her filthinesse: yea, she sigheth and turneth backeward.
geneva@Lamentations:1:10 @ The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen [that] the nations entered into her sanctuary, whom (note:)God forbids the Ammonites and Moabites to enter into the congregation of the Lord, and under them he comprehends all enemies, (Deu_23:3).(:note) thou didst command [that] they should not enter into thy congregation.
geneva@Lamentations:1:12 @ [Is it] nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there is any (note:)Thus Jerusalem laments moving others to pity her and to learn by her example.(:note) sorrow like my sorrow, which hath fallen upon me, with which the LORD hath afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger.
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