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Isaiah:1:1 @ The (note:)That is, a revelation or prophecy, which was one of the two means by which God declared himself to his servants in old times, as in (Num_12:6) and therefore the prophets were called seers, (1Sa_9:9).(:note) vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw Isaiah was chiefly sent to Judah and Jerusalem, but not only: for in this book are prophecies concerning other nations also. concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Called also Azariah, (2Ki_15:1) of these kings read (2Ki. strkjv@14:1-21:1; 2Ch. strkjv@25:1-33:1). Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah. The Argument - God, according to his promise in (Deu_18:15) that he would never leave his Church destitute of a prophet, has from time to time accomplished the same: whose office was not only to declare to the people the things to come, of which they had a special revelation, but also to interpret and declare the law, and to apply particularly the doctrine contained briefly in it, for the use and profit of those to whom they thought it chiefly to belong, and as the time and state of things required. Principally in the declaration of the law, they had respect to three things which were the ground of their doctrine: first, to the doctrine contained briefly in the two tables: secondly to the promises and threatenings of the law: and thirdly to the covenant of grace and reconciliation grounded on our Saviour Jesus Christ, who is the end of the law. To which they neither added nor diminished, but faithfully expounded the sense and meaning of it. As God gave them understanding of things, they applied the promises particularly for the comfort of the Church and the members of it, and also denounced the menaces against the enemies of the same: not for any care or regard to the enemies, but to assure the Church of their safeguard by the destruction of their enemies. Concerning the doctrine of reconciliation, they have more clearly entreated it than Moses, and set forth more lively Jesus Christ, in whom this covenant of reconciliation was made. In all these things Isaiah surpassed all the prophets, and was diligent to set out the same, with vehement admonitions, reprehensions, and consolations: ever applying the doctrine as he saw that the disease of the people required. He declares also many notable prophecies which he had received from God, concerning the promise of the Messiah, his office and kingdom, the favour of God toward his Church, the calling of the Gentiles and their union with the Jews. Which are principal points contained in this book, and a gathering of his sermons that he preached. Which after certain days that they had stood upon the temple door (for the manner of the prophets was to post the sum of their doctrine for certain days, that the people might the better mark it as in (Isa_8:1; Hab_2:2)) the priests took it down and reserved it among their registers. By God's providence these books were preserved as a monument to the Church forever. Concerning his person and time he was of the king's stock (for Amos his father was brother to Azariah king of Judah, as the best writers agree) and prophesied more than 64 years, from the time of Uzziah to the reign of Manasseh who was his son-in-law (as the Hebrews write) and by whom he was put to death. In reading of the prophets, this one thing among others is to be observed, that they speak of things to come as though they were now past because of the certainty of it, and that they could not but come to pass, because God had ordained them in his secret counsel and so revealed them to his prophets.
geneva@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:1:4 @ 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:1:6 @ From the (note:)Every part of the body, the least as well as the chiefest was plagued.(:note) sole of the foot even to the head [there is] no soundness in it; [but] wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, Their plagues were so grievous that they were incurable, and yet they would not repent. neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
geneva@Isaiah:1:22 @ Thy (note:)Whatever was pure in you before, is now corrupt, though you have an outward show.(:note) silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
geneva@Isaiah:1:25 @ And I will turn my hand upon thee, and thoroughly purge away thy dross, (note:)Lest the faithful among them should be overcome with his threatening he adds this consolation.(:note) and take away all thy tin:
geneva@Isaiah:2:3 @ And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to (note:)Alluding to mount Zion, where the visible Church then was.(:note) the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the Meaning, the whole doctrine of salvation. law, and the word of the LORD from This was accomplished when the gospel was first preached in Jerusalem, and from there went through all the world. Jerusalem.
geneva@Isaiah:2:4 @ And (note:)The Lord, who is Christ, will have all power given to him.(:note) he shall judge among the nations, and shall That they may acknowledge their sins, and turn to him. rebuke many people: and they shall He shows the fruit of the peace which the gospel should bring, that is, that men should do good to one another, while before they were enemies. beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn He speaks not against the use of weapons and lawful war, but shows how the hearts of the godly will be affected one toward another, which peace and love begin and grow in this life, but will be perfected when we are joined with our head Jesus Christ. war any more.
geneva@Isaiah:2:6 @ Therefore thou (note:)The prophet seeing the small hope that the Jews would convert, complains to God as though he had utterly forsaken them for their sins.(:note) hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they are Full of the corruptions that reigned chiefly in the east parts. filled [with customs] from the east, and [are] soothsayers like the Philistines, They altogether gave themselves to the fashions of other nations. and they please themselves in the children of foreigners.
geneva@Isaiah:2:7 @ Their land also is full of (note:)The prophet first condemned their superstition and idolatry next their covetousness and thirdly their vain trust in worldly means.(:note) silver and gold, neither [is there any] end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither [is there any] end of their chariots:
geneva@Isaiah:2:9 @ And the mean man boweth down, and the great man (note:)He notes the nature of the idolaters who are never satisfied in their superstitions.(:note) humbleth himself: therefore Thus the prophet spoke being inflamed with the zeal of God's glory, and that he might fear them with God's judgment. forgive them not.
geneva@Isaiah:2:14 @ And upon all the high (note:)By high trees and mountains are he means the proud and lofty, who think themselves most strong in this world.(:note) mountains, and upon all the hills [that are] lifted up,
geneva@Isaiah:2:16 @ And upon (note:)He condemns their vain confidence which they had in strongholds and in their rich merchandise which brought in vain pleasures with which men's minds became effeminate.(:note) all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
geneva@Isaiah:3:1 @ For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the rod (note:)Because they trusted in their abundance and prosperity he shows that they should be taken from them.(:note) and the staff, the whole support of bread, and the whole support of water,
geneva@Isaiah:3:7 @ In that day shall he (note:)Fear will cause him to forswear himself, rather than to take such a dangerous charge upon himself.(:note) swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house [is] neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.
geneva@Isaiah:3:14 @ The LORD will enter into judgment with the (note:)Meaning that the rulers and governors had destroyed his Church and not preserved it, according to their duty.(:note) elders of his people, and with their princes: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor [is] in your houses.
geneva@Isaiah:4:2 @ In that day shall the (note:)He comforts the Church in this desolation which will spring up like a bud signifying that God's graces should be as plentiful toward the faithful as though they sprang out of the earth, as in (Isa_45:8). Some by the bud of the Lord mean Christ.(:note) branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth [shall be] the pride and glory of them that have escaped of Israel.
geneva@Isaiah:4:5 @ And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, (note:)He alludes to the pillar of the cloud, (Exo_13:21), meaning that God's favour and protection should appear in every place.(:note) a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the The faithful are called the glory of God because his image and tokens of his grace shine in them. glory [shall be] a defence.
geneva@Isaiah:5:5 @ And now come; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I (note:)I will take no more care for it: meaning, that he would take from them his word and ministers and all other comforts, and feed them contrary plagues.(:note) will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; [and] break down the wall of it, and it shall be trodden down:
geneva@Isaiah:5:13 @ Therefore my people (note:)That is, will certainly go: for so the prophets use to speak as though the thing which will come to pass were done already.(:note) have gone into captivity, because [they have] Because they would not obey the word of God. no knowledge: and their honourable men [are] famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
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:5:24 @ Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, [so] their (note:)Both they and their posterity so that nothing will be left.(:note) root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
geneva@Isaiah:5:26 @ And he will lift up an ensign (note:)He will make the Babylonians come against them at his beck, and to fight under his standard.(:note) to the nations from afar, and will hiss to them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:
geneva@Isaiah:6:1 @ In the year that king Uzziah died (note:)God does not show himself to man in his majesty but according as man's capacity to comprehend him, that is, by visible signs as John the Baptist saw the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove.(:note) I saw also the Lord sitting upon a As a judge ready to give sentence. throne, high and lifted up, and his Of his garment, or of his throne. train filled the temple.
geneva@Isaiah:6:5 @ Then said I, (note:)He speaks this for two reasons, the one because he who was a mortal creature and therefore had more need to glorify God than the angels, did not do it, and the other because the nearer that man approaches to God, the more he knows his own sin and corruption.(:note) Woe [is] me! for I am undone; because I [am] a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
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:6:13 @ But yet in it [shall be] (note:)Meaning, the tenth part: or as some write, it was revealed to Isaiah for the confirmation of his prophecy that ten kings would come before their captivity, as were from Uzziah to Zedekiah.(:note) a tenth, and [it] shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, For the fewness of them they will seem to be eaten up: yet they will later flourish as a tree, which in winter loses leaves, and seems to be dead, yet in summer is fresh and green. and as an oak, whose substance [is] in them, when they cast [their leaves: so] the holy seed [shall be] the substance of it.
geneva@Isaiah:7:1 @ And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, [that] Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, (note:)That is, the second time: for in the first battle Ahaz was overcome.(:note) went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
geneva@Isaiah:7:3 @ Then said the LORD to Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and (note:)That is to say, the rest will return which name Isaiah gave his son, to signify that the rest of the people would return out of their captivity.(:note) Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;
geneva@Isaiah:7:6 @ Let us go up against Judah, and trouble it, and let us conquer it for ourselves and set a king in the midst of it, [even] the son of (note:)Who was an Israelite, and as it seems, enemy to the house of David.(:note) Tabeal:
geneva@Isaiah:7:17 @ The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that (note:)Since the time that the twelve tribes rebelled under Rehoboam.(:note) Ephraim departed from Judah; [even] the king of In whom you have put your trust. Assyria.
geneva@Isaiah:7:19 @ And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the clefts of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all (note:)Signifying that no place will be free from them.(:note) bushes.
geneva@Isaiah:8:2 @ And I took to me (note:)Because the thing was of great importance, he took these two witnesses, who were of credit with the people, when he set this up upon the door of the temple, even though Uriah was a flattering hypocrite, (2Ki_16:11).(:note) faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
geneva@Isaiah:8:7 @ Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of (note:)That is, the Assyrians who dwell beyond Euphrates.(:note) the river, strong and many, [even] the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks:
geneva@Isaiah:8:21 @ And they shall pass through it, distressed and hungry: and it shall come to (note:)That is, in Judah, where they would have had rest, if they had not thus grievously offended God.(:note) pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, In whom before they put their trust. and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
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:9:6 @ For to us a child is born, to us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting (note:)The author of eternity, and by whom the Church and every member of it will be preserved forever, and have immortal life.(:note) Father, The Prince of Peace.
geneva@Isaiah:9:7 @ Of the increase of [his] government and peace [there shall be] no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. (note:)His singular love and care for his elect.(:note) The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
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:9:11 @ Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of (note:)Rezin king of Syria, who was in league with Israel, was slain by the Assyrians, after whose death, Aram that is, the Syrians were against Israel, who on the other side were assailed by the Philistines.(:note) Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;
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:9:20 @ And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the (note:)Their greediness will be insatiable, so that one brother will eat up another, as though he should eat his own flesh.(:note) flesh of his own arm:
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:10:20 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the remnant of Israel, and such as have escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again lean upon him that smote them; but shall (note:)This is the end of God's plagues toward his, to bring them to him, and to forsake all trust in others.(:note) lean upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
geneva@Isaiah:10:24 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of (note:)As the Egyptians punished you.(:note) Egypt.
geneva@Isaiah:10:26 @ And the LORD of hosts shall raise up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of (note:)Read (Isa_9:4).(:note) Midian at the rock of Oreb: and [as] his rod [was] upon the When the Israelites passed through by the lifting up of Moses' rod, and the enemies were drowned, (Exo_14:28). sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.
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:13:2 @ Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice to them, shake the (note:)That is, the Medes and Persians.(:note) hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
geneva@Isaiah:13:14 @ And (note:)Meaning the power of Babylon with their hired soldiers.(:note) it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one to his own land.
geneva@Isaiah:14:2 @ And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for (note:)Signifying that the Jews would be superior to the Gentiles and that they would be brought under the service of Christ by the preaching of the Apostles, by which all are brought to the subjection of Christ, (2Co_10:5).(:note) servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
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:14:13 @ For thou hast said in thy heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the (note:)Meaning, Jerusalem of which the temple was of the north side, (Psa_48:2).(:note) north:
geneva@Isaiah:14:16 @ They that see thee shall narrowly (note:)In marvelling at you.(:note) look upon thee, [and] consider thee, [saying, Is] this the man that made the earth to tremble, that shook kingdoms;
geneva@Isaiah:15:5 @ My (note:)The prophet speaks this in the person of the Moabites: or as one who felt the great judgment of God that God would come on them.(:note) heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives [shall flee] to Zoar, Meaning that it was a city that always lived in pleasure and never felt sorrow. an heifer of three years old: for they shall go up the ascent of Luhith with weeping for in the way of Horonaim they He describes the miserable dissipation and flight of the Moabites. shall raise a cry of destruction.
geneva@Isaiah:15:7 @ Therefore the abundance they have gained, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the (note:)To hide themselves and their goods there.(:note) brook of the willows.
geneva@Isaiah:15:9 @ For the waters of Dimon shall be full (note:)Of them who are slain.(:note) of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions So that by no means would they escape the hand of God: thus will God punish the enemies of his Church. upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.
geneva@Isaiah:16:5 @ And in mercy shall the throne be established: (note:)Meaning, Christ.(:note) and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and swiftly executing righteousness.
geneva@Isaiah:16:9 @ Therefore I will (note:)He shows that their plague was so great that it would have moved any man to lament with them, as in (Psa_141:5).(:note) bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy The enemies are come upon you, and shout for joy when they carry your conveniences from you as in (Jer_48:33). harvest is fallen.
geneva@Isaiah:17:6 @ Yet gleaning grapes shall (note:)Because God would have his covenant stable, he promises to reserve some of this people, and to bring them to repentance.(:note) be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two [or] three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four [or] five in the outmost fruitful branches of it, saith the LORD God of Israel.
geneva@Isaiah:17:9 @ In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which (note:)As the Canaanites left their cities when God placed the Israelites there, so the cities of Israel will not be able to defend their inhabitants any more than bushes, when God will send the enemy to plague them.(:note) they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
geneva@Isaiah:18:2 @ That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of (note:)Which is those countries were great, so much so that they made ships from them for swiftness.(:note) bulrushes upon the waters, [saying], This may be taken that they sent others to comfort the Jews and to promise them help against their enemies, and so the Lord threatened to take away their strength, that the Jews should not trust in it: or that they solicited the Egyptians and promised them aid to go against Judah. Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and stripped, to a That is, the Jews who because of God's plague made all other nations afraid of the same, as God threatened in (Deu_28:37). people terrible from their beginning to this time; a nation measured by line and trodden down, whose land the Meaning the Assyrians, (Isa_8:7). rivers have laid waste!
geneva@Isaiah:18:3 @ All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when (note:)When the Lord prepared to fight against the Ethiopians.(:note) he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.
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:18:6 @ They shall be left together to the fowls of the mountains, and to the (note:)Not only men will contemn them, but the brute beast.(:note) beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
geneva@Isaiah:19:1 @ The (note:)Read (Isa_13:7).(:note) burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD Because the Egyptians trusted in the defence of their country, in the multitude of their idols and in the valiantness of their men the Lord shows that he will come over all their munitions in a swift cloud, and that their idols will tremble at his coming and that men's hearts will faint. rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
geneva@Isaiah:19:5 @ And the waters shall (note:)He shows that the sea and their great river Nile by which they thought themselves most sure, would not be able to defend them but that he would send the Assyrians among them, that would keep them under as slaves.(:note) fail from the sea, and the rivers shall be wasted and dried up.
geneva@Isaiah:19:6 @ And they shall turn the (note:)For the Nile ran into the sea by seven streams, as though they were many rivers.(:note) rivers far away; [and] the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
geneva@Isaiah:19:8 @ The fishermen also shall (note:)The Scriptures describe the destruction of a country by the taking away of the conveniences of it, as by vines, flesh, fish and such other things by which countries are enriched.(:note) mourn, and all they that cast hook into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
geneva@Isaiah:19:13 @ The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of (note:)Or Memphis, Alexandria, and now called the great Cairo.(:note) Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, [even they that are] the The principal upholders of it are the main cause of their destruction. support of its tribes.
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:21:2 @ A grievous vision is declared to me; the (note:)The Assyrians and Chaldeans who had destroyed other nations will be overcome by the Medes and Persians: and this he prophesied a hundred years before it came to pass.(:note) treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O By Elam he means the Persians. Elam: besiege, O Media; all her sighing have I made Because they will find no comfort, they will mourn no more, or I have caused them to cease mourning, whom Babylon had afflicted. to cease.
geneva@Isaiah:21:3 @ Therefore are my (note:)This the prophet speaks in the person of the Babylonians.(:note) loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing [of it]; I was dismayed at the seeing [of it].
geneva@Isaiah:21:7 @ And he saw a chariot [with] a couple of horsemen, a chariot of donkeys, [and] (note:)Meaning, chariots of men of war, and others that carried the baggage.(:note) a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:
geneva@Isaiah:21:8 @ And he cried, A (note:)Meaning, Darius who overcame Babylon.(:note) lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my post whole nights:
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:21:13 @ The burden upon Arabia. In (note:)For fear, the Arabians will flee into the woods and he appoints the way they will take.(:note) the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.
geneva@Isaiah:22:1 @ The burden of the (note:)Meaning, Judea, which was compassed about with mountains, and was called the valley of visions, because of the prophets, who were always there, whom they named Seers.(:note) valley of vision. What He speaks to Jerusalem, whose inhabitants fled up to the housetops for fear of their enemies. aileth thee now, that thou hast wholly gone up to the housetops?
geneva@Isaiah:22:16 @ What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre (note:)Meaning, that he was a stranger, and came up of nothing.(:note) here, [as] he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, [and] that cut out an habitation While he thought to make his name immortal by his famous sepulchre, he died most miserably among the Assyrians. for himself in a rock?
geneva@Isaiah:22:22 @ And the (note:)I will commit to him the full charge and government of the king's house.(:note) key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
geneva@Isaiah:22:24 @ And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, (note:)Meaning that both small and great who will come from Eliakim, will have praise and glory by his faithful officer.(:note) all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.
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:23:13 @ Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, [till] the (note:)The Chaldeans who dwelt in tents in the wilderness were gathered by the Assyrians into cities.(:note) Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up its towers, they raised up its palaces; [and] he The people of the Chaldeans destroyed the Assyrians: by which the prophet means that seeing the Chaldaeans were able to overcome the Assyrians who were so great a nation, much more will these two nations of Chaldea and Assyria be able to overthrow Tyrus. brought it to ruin.
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:23:18 @ And her merchandise and her hire shall be (note:)He shows that God yet by the preaching of the gospel will call Tyre to repentance and turn her heart from evil and filthy gain, to the true worshipping of God, and liberality toward his saints.(:note) holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, for sufficient food and for durable clothing.
geneva@Isaiah:24:1 @ Behold, the LORD maketh the (note:)This prophecy is as a conclusion of that which has been threatened to the Jews and other nations from the 13th chapter and therefore by the earth he means those lands which were named before.(:note) earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad its inhabitants.
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:24:14 @ They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from (note:)From the utmost coasts of the world, where the gospel will be preached as in (Isa_24:16).(:note) the sea.
geneva@Isaiah:24:18 @ And it shall come to pass, [that] he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the (note:)Meaning that God's wrath and vengeance would be over and under them, so that they would not escape no more than they did at Noah's flood.(:note) windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
geneva@Isaiah:24:21 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the LORD shall (note:)There is no power so high or mighty, but God will visit him with his rods.(:note) punish the host of the high ones [that are] on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
geneva@Isaiah:24:22 @ And they shall be gathered together, [as] prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be (note:)Not with his rods as in (Isa_24:21) but will be comforted.(:note) visited.
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: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:26:11 @ LORD, [when] thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: [but] they shall see, and be ashamed for [their] (note:)Through envy and indignation against your people.(:note) envy at the people; yea, the fire of thy The fire and vengeance with which you destroy your enemies. enemies shall devour them.
geneva@Isaiah:26:16 @ LORD, in trouble have they (note:)That is, the faithful by the rods were moved to pray to you for deliverance.(:note) visited thee, they poured out a prayer [when] thy chastening [was] upon them.
geneva@Isaiah:27:9 @ By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this [is] all the (note:)He shows that there is no true repentance nor full reconciliation to God, till the heart is purged from all idolatry and the monuments of it are destroyed.(:note) fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten asunder, the idols and images shall not stand up.
geneva@Isaiah:27:12 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the LORD shall gather from the channel of the (note:)He will destroy all from the Euphrates to the Nile: for some fled toward Egypt, thinking to have escaped.(:note) river to the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.
geneva@Isaiah:28:4 @ And the glorious beauty, which [is] on the head of the rich valley, shall be a fading flower, [and] as (note:)Which is not of long continuance, but is soon ripe and first eaten.(:note) the early fruit before the summer; which [when] he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
geneva@Isaiah:28:7 @ But (note:)Meaning, the hypocrites who were among them, and were altogether corrupt in life and doctrine, which is here meant by drunkenness and vomiting.(:note) they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are overwhelmed with wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble [in] judgment.
geneva@Isaiah:28:10 @ For (note:)They must have one thing often repeated.(:note) precept [must be] upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little:
geneva@Isaiah:28:13 @ But the word of the (note:)Because they will not receive the word of God, when it is offered, it comes of their own malice, if after their hearts are so hardened, that they care not for it, as before, (Isa_6:9).(:note) LORD was to them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
geneva@Isaiah:28:16 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a (note:)That is, Christ, by whom all the building must be tried and upheld, (Psa_118:22; Mat_21:42; Act_4:11; Rom_9:33; 1Pe_2:6).(:note) tried stone, a precious corner [stone], a sure foundation: he that believeth He will be quiet, and seek no other remedies, but be content with Christ. shall not make haste.
geneva@Isaiah:29:16 @ Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed (note:)For all your craft says the Lord, you are not able to escape my hands any more than the clay that is in the potter's hands has power to deliver itself.(:note) as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing formed say of him that formed it, He had no understanding?
geneva@Isaiah:30:6 @ The (note:)That is, a heavy sentence or prophecy against the beasts that carried their treasures into Egypt, by the wilderness, which was south from Judah, signifying that if the beasts would not be spared, the men would be punished much more grievously.(:note) burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from which [come] the young and the old lion, the viper and flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures upon the humps of camels, to a people [that] shall not profit [them].
geneva@Isaiah:30:12 @ Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in (note:)Meaning, in their stubbornness against God and the admonitions of his prophets.(:note) oppression and perverseness, and lean upon it:
geneva@Isaiah:30:16 @ But ye said, No; for we will flee upon (note:)We will trust to escape by our horses.(:note) horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
geneva@Isaiah:30:17 @ One thousand [shall flee] at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the (note:)Whereas all the trees are cut down save two or three to make masts.(:note) top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.
geneva@Isaiah:30:18 @ And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be (note:)He commends the great mercies of God, who with patience waits to call sinners to repentance.(:note) gracious to you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD [is] a God of Not only in punishing but in using moderation in the same, as in (Jer_10:24, Jer_30:11). judgment: blessed [are] all they that wait for him.
geneva@Isaiah:30:25 @ And there shall be upon every high (note:)By these various manners of speech he shows that the happiness of the Church will be so great, that no one is able sufficiently to express it.(:note) mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers [and] streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
geneva@Isaiah:30:26 @ Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the (note:)When the Church is restored, the glory of it will pass seven times the brightness of the sun: for by the sun and moon which are two excellent creations, he shows what will be the glory of the children of God in the kingdom of Christ.(:note) sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
geneva@Isaiah:30:29 @ Ye shall have a song, as in the (note:)You will rejoice at the destruction of your enemies, as they who sang for joy at the solemn feast, which began in the evening.(:note) night [when] a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come upon the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.
geneva@Isaiah:30:32 @ And [in] every place where the grounded staff shall pass, (note:)It will destroy.(:note) which the LORD shall lay upon him, [it] shall be with With joy and assurance of the victory. tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight Against Babel, meaning the Assyrians and Babylonians. with it.
geneva@Isaiah:31:1 @ Woe to them that (note:)There were two special reasons why the Israelites should not join with the Egyptians: first, because the Lord had commanded them never to return there, (Deu_17:16, Deu_28:68) lest they should forget the benefit of their redemption: and secondly, lest they should be corrupted with the superstition and idolatry of the Egyptians, and so forsake God, (Jer_2:18).(:note) go down to Egypt for help; and rely on horses, and trust in chariots, because [they are] many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not to the Holy One of Israel, neither Meaning, that they forsake the Lord, if they put their trust in worldly things: for they cannot trust in both. seek the LORD!
geneva@Isaiah:32:1 @ Behold, (note:)This prophecy is of Hezekiah, who was a figure of Christ, and therefore it should chiefly be referred to him.(:note) a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall By judgment and justice is meant an upright government, both in policy and religion. rule in judgment.
geneva@Isaiah:32:9 @ Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye (note:)He prophecies of such calamity to come that they will not spare the women and children, and therefore wills them to take heed and provide.(:note) careless daughters; give ear to my speech.
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:32:20 @ Blessed [are] ye (note:)That is, upon fat ground and well watered, which brings forth in abundance, or in places which before were covered with waters, and now made dry for your uses.(:note) that sow beside all waters, that The fields will be so rank, that they will send out their cattle to eat up the first crop, which abundance will be signs of God's love and favour toward them. send forth [there] the feet of the ox and the donkey.
geneva@Isaiah:33:3 @ At the noise of the tumult the (note:)That is, the Assyrians fled before the army of the Chaldeans, or the Chaldeans for fear of the Medes and Persians.(:note) people fled; at the When you, O Lord, lifted up your arm to punish your enemies. lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.
geneva@Isaiah:33:4 @ And your spoil shall be gathered [like] the gathering of the (note:)You who as caterpillars destroyed with your number the whole world, will have no strength to resist your enemies the Chaldeans: but will be gathered on a heap and destroyed.(:note) caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall Meaning, the Medes and Persians against the Chaldeans. he run upon them.
geneva@Isaiah:33:10 @ Now will I (note:)To help and deliver my Church.(:note) rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.
geneva@Isaiah: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:34:5 @ For my sword shall be (note:)I have determined in my secret counsel and in the heavens to destroy them till my sword is weary with shedding blood.(:note) bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of They had an opinion of holiness, because they came from the patriarch Isaac, but in effect were cursed by God, and enemies to his Church as the papists are. my curse, to judgment.
geneva@Isaiah:34:11 @ But the cormorant (note:)Read (Isa_13:21; Zep_2:14).(:note) and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of In vain will any man go about to build it again. confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
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:35:10 @ And the (note:)Whom the Lord will deliver from the captivity of Babylon.(:note) ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
geneva@Isaiah:36:1 @ Now it came to pass (note:)This history is rehearsed because it is as a seal and confirmation of the doctrine before, both for the threatenings and promises: that is, that God would permit his Church to be afflicted, but at length would send deliverance.(:note) in the When he had abolished superstition, and idolatry, and restored religion, yet God would exercise his Church to try their faith and patience. fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, [that] Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.
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:36:11 @ Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah to Rabshakeh, (note:)They were afraid, lest by his words, he should have stirred up the people against the king, and also pretended to grow to some appointment with him.(:note) Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand [it]: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that [are] on the wall.
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:37:7 @ Behold, I will send a wind upon him, and he shall hear a (note:)Of the Egyptians and Ethiopians, who will come and fight against him.(:note) rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
geneva@Isaiah:37:25 @ I have dug, (note:)He boasts of his policy in that he can find means to nourish his army: and of his power in that his army is so great, that it is able to dry up whole rivers, and to destroy the waters which the Jews had closed in.(:note) and drank water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.
geneva@Isaiah:37:27 @ Therefore their inhabitants [were] of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were [as] the grass of the field, and [as] the green herb, [as] the grass on the housetops, and [as grain] blighted (note:)He shows that the state and power of most flourishing cities endures but a moment in respect to the Church, which will remain forever, because God is the maintainer of it.(:note) before it is grown up.
geneva@Isaiah:37:29 @ Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into my ears, therefore I will put my (note:)Because Sennacherib showed himself as a devouring fish and furious beast, he uses these similarities to teach how he will take him and guide him.(:note) hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou You will lose your labour. camest.
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:38:14 @ Like a crane [or] a swallow, so I (note:)I was so oppressed with sorrow, that I was not able to utter my words, but only to groan and sigh.(:note) chattered: I mourned as a dove: my eyes fail [with looking] upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
geneva@Isaiah:38:17 @ Behold, for (note:)While I thought to have lived in rest and ease being delivered from my enemy, I had grief upon grief.(:note) peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul [delivered it] from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my He values more the remission of his sins, and God's favour than a thousand lives. sins behind thy back.
geneva@Isaiah:38:21 @ For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and (note:)Read (2Ki_20:7).(:note) lay [it] for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover.
geneva@Isaiah:38:22 @ Hezekiah also (note:)As in (Isa_38:7).(:note) had said, What [is] the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?
geneva@Isaiah:39:6 @ Behold, the days come, that all that [is] in thy house, and [that] which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be (note:)By the grievousness of the punishment is declared how greatly God detested ambition and vain glory.(:note) carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
geneva@Isaiah:40:7 @ The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the (note:)The spirit of God will discover the vanity in all that seems to have any excellency of themselves.(:note) breath of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people [is] grass.
geneva@Isaiah:40:9 @ O Zion, that bringest good tidings, go up upon the high (note:)To publish this benefit through all the world.(:note) mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift [it] up, be not afraid; say to the cities of Judah, Behold He shows in one word the perfection of all man's happiness, which is to have God's presence. your God!
geneva@Isaiah:40:24 @ Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also (note:)So that his power appears in every place we turn our eyes.(:note) blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
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:41:1 @ Keep (note:)God as though he pleaded his cause with all nations requires silence, that he may be heard in his right.(:note) silence before me, O isles; and let the people That is, gather all their power and supports. renew [their] strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.
geneva@Isaiah:41:2 @ Who raised up the (note:)Who called Abraham (who was the pattern of God's justice in delivering his Church) from the idolatry of the Chaldeans to go to and fro at his commandment and placed him in the land of Canaan.(:note) righteous [man] from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made [him] rule over kings? he gave [them] as the dust to his sword, [and] as driven stubble to his bow.
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:41:6 @ They helped every one his neighbour; and [every one] said to his brother, (note:)He notes the obstinacy of the idolaters to maintain their superstitions.(:note) Be of good courage.
geneva@Isaiah:41:8 @ But thou, Israel, [art] my (note:)And therefore ought not to pollute yourself with the superstition of the Gentiles.(:note) servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
geneva@Isaiah:41:10 @ Fear thou not; for I [am] with thee: be not dismayed; for I [am] thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the (note:)That is, by the force of promise, in the performance of which I will show myself faithful and just.(:note) right hand of my righteousness.
geneva@Isaiah:41:25 @ I have raised up [one] from the north, (note:)Meaning, the Chaldeans.(:note) and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he That is, Cyrus, who will do all things in my name and by my direction: by which he means that both their captivity and deliverance will be ordered by God's providence and appointment. call upon my name: and he shall come upon Both of the Chaldeans and others. princes as [upon] morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.
geneva@Isaiah:42:1 @ Behold (note:)That is, Christ, who in respect to his manhood is called here servant. The prophets used to make mention of Christ after they declared any great promise, because he is the foundation on which all the promises are made and ratified.(:note) my servant, For I have committed all my power to him, as to a most faithful steward: some read, I will establish him: that is, in his office by giving him the fulness of my Spirit. whom I uphold; my elect, [in whom] my soul Only he is acceptable to me and they that come to me by him: for there is no other means of reconciliation, (Mat_12:18; Eph_4:1) delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth He will declare himself governor over the Gentiles and call them by his word, and rule them by his Spirit. judgment to the Gentiles.
geneva@Isaiah:42:2 @ He shall not (note:)His coming will not be with pomp and noise, as earthly princes.(:note) cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
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:42:11 @ Let the wilderness and its cities lift up [their voice], the villages [that] (note:)Meaning, the Arabians, under whom he comprehends all the people of the East.(:note) Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
geneva@Isaiah:42:13 @ The LORD shall go forth as a (note:)He shows the zeal of the Lord, and his power in the conservation of his Church.(:note) mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.
geneva@Isaiah:43:2 @ When thou passest through the (note:)By water and fire he means all kinds of trouble and peril.(:note) waters, I [will be] with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
geneva@Isaiah:43:14 @ Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have (note:)By Darius and Cyrus.(:note) brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry [is] in They will cry when they would escape by my water, seeing that the course of the Euphrates is turned another way by the enemy. the ships.
geneva@Isaiah:43:22 @ But thou hast not (note:)You have not worshipped me as you ought to have done.(:note) called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been Because you have not willingly received that which I commanded you, you grieved me. By which he shows that his mercies were the only reason for their deliverance, as they had deserved the contrary. weary of me, O Israel.
geneva@Isaiah:44:3 @ For I will pour water upon him that is (note:)Because man of himself is as the dry and barren land, he promises to moisten him with the waters of his Holy Spirit, (Joe_2:28; Joh_7:38; Act_2:17).(:note) thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thy offspring:
geneva@Isaiah:44:4 @ And they (note:)That is, your children and posterity will increase wonderfully after their deliverance from Babylon.(:note) shall spring up [as] among the grass, as willows by the water courses.
geneva@Isaiah:44:11 @ Behold, all his (note:)That is, who in any way consent either to the making or worshipping.(:note) fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they [are] of men: let them all be gathered together, let them Signifying, that the multitude will not then save the idolaters, when God will take vengeance, although they excuse themselves by it among men. stand up; [yet] they shall fear, [and] they shall be ashamed together.
geneva@Isaiah:44:26 @ That confirmeth the word of his (note:)Of Isaiah and the rest of his prophets, who assured the Church of God's favour and deliverance.(:note) servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up her decayed places:
geneva@Isaiah:44:27 @ That saith to the (note:)He shows that God's work would be no less notable in this their deliverance, than when he brought them out of Egypt, through the sea.(:note) deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
geneva@Isaiah:45:8 @ Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down (note:)He comforts the Jews as if he would say, «Though when you look to the heavens and earth for comfort you see nothing now but signs of God's wrath, yet will cause them to bring forth certain tokens of your deliverance, and of the performance of my promise»: which is meant by righteousness.(:note) righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have I have appointed Cyrus to this use and purpose. created it.
geneva@Isaiah:45:12 @ I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, [even] my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their (note:)That is, the stars.(:note) host have I commanded.
geneva@Isaiah:45:13 @ I have raised (note:)That is, Cyrus, that I may show by him the faithfulness of my promise in delivering my people.(:note) him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for Meaning, freely and without ransom, or any grievous condition. price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.
geneva@Isaiah:45:14 @ Thus saith the LORD, The labour (note:)These people were tributaries to the Persians, and so king Artahshashte gave this money toward the building of the temple, (Ezr_7:27).(:note) of Egypt, and merchandise of Cush and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to thee, and they shall be While they were your enemies, they will now honour you and you will rule them: which was accomplished in the time of Christ. thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down to thee, they shall make supplication to thee, [saying], Surely God [is] in thee; and [there is] none else, [there is] no God.
geneva@Isaiah:45:20 @ Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, (note:)All you idolaters who though you seem to have worldly dignity yet in God's sight you are vile and abject.(:note) ye [that have] escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray to a god [that] cannot save.
geneva@Isaiah:46:1 @ Bel boweth down, (note:)These were the chief idols of Babylon.(:note) Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the Because they were of gold and silver, the Medes and Persians carried them away. beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages [were] heavily loaded; [they were] a burden to the weary [beast].
geneva@Isaiah:47:6 @ I was angry with my people, I have polluted my inheritance, and given them into thy hand: thou didst show them no (note:)They abused God's judgments, thinking that he punished the Israelites, because he would completely cast them off, and therefore instead of pitying their misery, you increased it.(:note) mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.
geneva@Isaiah:47:9 @ But these two [things] shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their (note:)So that your punishment will be so great, as is possible to be imagined.(:note) perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, [and] for the great abundance of thy enchantments.
geneva@Isaiah:48:2 @ For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves (note:)They make a show, as though they would have no other God.(:note) upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts [is] his name.
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:49:6 @ And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give (note:)To declare my gospel to the Gentiles, as in (Isa_42:6; Act_13:47; Luk_2:32).(:note) thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation to the end of the earth.
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:49:16 @ Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of [my] (note:)Because I would not forget you.(:note) hands; thy Meaning, the good order of policy and discipline. walls [are] continually before me.
geneva@Isaiah:49:17 @ Thy children shall make (note:)I have continual care to build you up again and to destroy your enemies.(:note) haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth from thee.
geneva@Isaiah:49:18 @ Lift up thy eyes around, and behold: all these gather themselves together, [and] come to thee. [As] I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely (note:)He shows what are the ornaments of the Church: to have many children, who are assembled by the word of God, and governed by his Spirit.(:note) clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them [on thee], as a bride [doeth].
geneva@Isaiah:49:22 @ Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the (note:)He shows that Christ will not only gather this great number from the Jews but also from the Gentiles.(:note) Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in [their] arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon [their] shoulders.
geneva@Isaiah:49:23 @ And kings (note:)Meaning, that kings will be converted to the gospel, and bestow their power and authority for the preservation of the Church.(:note) shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow to thee with [their] face toward the earth, and lick up the Being joined with the Church, they will humble themselves to Christ their head, and give him all honour. dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
geneva@Isaiah:51:5 @ My (note:)The time that I will accomplish my promise.(:note) righteousness [is] near; my salvation is gone forth, and my My power and strength. arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on my arm shall they trust.
geneva@Isaiah:51:6 @ Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the (note:)Forewarns them of the horrible changes and mutations of all things, and how he will preserve his church in the midst of all these dangers.(:note) heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall become old like a garment, and its inhabitants shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
geneva@Isaiah:51:11 @ Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall (note:)From Babylon.(:note) return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy [shall be] upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
geneva@Isaiah:51:17 @ Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drank at the hand of the LORD the (note:)You have been justly punished and sufficiently as (Isa_40:2) and this punishment in the elect is by measure, and according as God gives grace to hear it: but in the reprobate it is the just vengeance of God to drive them to an insensibleness and madness, as (Jer_25:15-16).(:note) cup of his fury; thou hast drank the dregs of the cup of trembling, [and] wrung [them] out.
geneva@Isaiah:51:22 @ Thus saith thy Lorde God, euen God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Beholde, I haue taken out of thine hande the cuppe of trembling, euen the dregges of the cuppe of my wrath: thou shalt drinke it no more.
geneva@Isaiah:52:7 @ How (note:)Signifying that the joy and good tidings of their deliverance would make their affliction in the mean time more easy: but this is chiefly meant of the spiritual joy, as in (Nah_1:15; Rom_10:15).(:note) beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that proclaimeth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that proclaimeth salvation; that saith to Zion, Thy God reigneth!
geneva@Isaiah:52:14 @ As many were astonished at thee; his visage was so (note:)In the corrupt judgment of man, Christ in his person was not valued.(:note) marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
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:53:5 @ But he [was] wounded for our transgressions, [he was] bruised for our iniquities: the (note:)He was chastised for our reconciliation, (1Co_15:3).(:note) chastisement for our peace [was] upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
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:54:5 @ For thy (note:)That regenerated you by his Holy Spirit.(:note) Maker [is] thy husband; the LORD of hosts [is] his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole His glory will shine through the whole world, which seemed before to be shut up in Judea. earth shall he be called.
geneva@Isaiah:55:6 @ Seek ye the LORD while he may be (note:)When he offers himself by the preaching of his word.(:note) found, call ye upon him while he is near:
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:55:13 @ Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD (note:)To set forth his glory.(:note) for a name, for an everlasting Of God's deliverance, and that he will never forsake his Church. sign [that] shall not be cut off.
geneva@Isaiah:56:7 @ Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt (note:)By this he means the spiritual service of God, to whom the faithful offer continual thanksgiving, yea themselves and all that they have, as a lively and acceptable sacrifice.(:note) offerings and their sacrifices [shall be] accepted upon my altar; for my house shall be called an house of prayer for Not only for the Jews, but for all others, (Mat_21:13). all people.
geneva@Isaiah:57:7 @ Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy (note:)That is, your altars in an open place, like an impudent harlot, that cares not for the sight of her husband.(:note) bed: even there thou wentest up to offer sacrifice.
geneva@Isaiah:57:8 @ Behind the (note:)Instead of setting up the word of God in the open places on the posts and doors to have it in remembrance, (Deu_6:9, Deu_27:1) you have set up signs and marks of your idolatry in every place.(:note) doors also and the door posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast uncovered [thyself to another] than me, and hast gone up; thou hast That is, increased your idolatry more and more. enlarged thy bed, and made thee [a covenant] with them; thou didst love their bed where thou sawest [it].
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:58:1 @ Cry (note:)The Lord thus speaks to the prophet willing him to use all diligence and severity to rebuke the hypocrites.(:note) aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
geneva@Isaiah:58:12 @ And [they that shall be] of thee shall build the old (note:)Signifying that of the Jews would come such as would build again the ruins of Jerusalem and Judea: but chiefly this is meant of the spiritual Jerusalem, whose builders were the Apostles.(:note) waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
geneva@Isaiah:59:14 @ And (note:)There is neither justice nor uprightness among men.(:note) judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
geneva@Isaiah:59:17 @ For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an (note:)Signifying that God has all means at hand to deliver his Church and to punish their enemies.(:note) helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance [for] clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.
geneva@Isaiah:59:19 @ So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall (note:)He shows that there will be great affliction in the Church, but God will always deliver his.(:note) come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
geneva@Isaiah:59:21 @ As for me, this [is] my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that [is] upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, (note:)Because the doctrine is made profitable by the virtue of the Spirit, he joins the one with the other, and promises to give them both to his Church for ever.(:note) shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.
geneva@Isaiah:60:1 @ Arise, shine; for thy (note:)The time of your prosperity and happiness: while speaking of Babylon, he commanded her to go down, (Isa_47:1).(:note) light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
geneva@Isaiah:60:2 @ For, behold, the darkness shall cover the (note:)Signifying, that all men are in darkness till God gives them the light of his Spirit, and that this light shines to no one, but to those that are in his Church.(:note) earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
geneva@Isaiah:60:4 @ Lift up thy eyes around, and see: all (note:)An infinite number from all countries as in (Isa_49:18).(:note) they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at [thy] side.
geneva@Isaiah:60:7 @ All the flocks of (note:)That is the Arabians, that have great abundance of cattle.(:note) Kedar shall be gathered together to thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister to thee: they shall come up with acceptance on my Because the altar was a figure of Christ, (Heb_13:10), he shows that nothing can be acceptable to him, which is not offered to him by this altar, who was both the offering and the altar itself. altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.
geneva@Isaiah:60:10 @ And the sons of foreigners shall build up thy walls, and their (note:)Meaning Cyrus and his successors, but chiefly this is accomplished in them that serve Christ, being converted by his gospel.(:note) kings shall minister to thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on 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:61:4 @ And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many (note:)That is, for a long time.(:note) generations.
geneva@Isaiah:62:6 @ I have set (note:)Prophets, pastors and ministers.(:note) watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, [which] shall never hold their peace day nor night: He exhorts the ministers never to cease to call on God by prayer for the deliverance of his Church and to teach others to do the same. ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,
geneva@Isaiah:63:5 @ And I looked, and [there was] none to help; and I wondered that [there was] none to uphold: therefore my own (note:)God shows that he has no need of man's help for the deliverance of his, and though men refuse to do their duty through negligence and ingratitude, yet he himself will deliver his Church, and punish the enemies, (Isa_59:16).(:note) arm brought salvation to me; and my fury, it upheld me.
geneva@Isaiah:63:17 @ O LORD, why hast (note:)By taking away the Holy Spirit from us, by whom we were governed, and so for our ingratitude delivered us up to our own concupiscence, and punished sin by sin according to your just judgment.(:note) thou made us to err from thy ways, [and] hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy Meaning, for the covenant's sake made to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob his servants. servants' sake, the tribes of thy inheritance.
geneva@Isaiah:65:2 @ I have (note:)He shows the reason for the rejection of the Jews, because they would not obey him or any admonition of his prophets, by whom he called them continually and stretch out his hand to draw them.(:note) spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, which walketh in a way [that is] not good, after their own He shows that to delight in our own fantasies is the declining from God and the beginning of all superstitions and idolatry. thoughts;
geneva@Isaiah:65:3 @ A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in (note:)Which were dedicated to idols.(:note) gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of Meaning their altars, which he thus named by contempt. brick;
geneva@Isaiah:65:7 @ Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers (note:)Will be both punished together: and this declares how the children are punished for their fathers faults, that is, when the same faults or like are found in them.(:note) together, saith the LORD, who have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.
geneva@Isaiah: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:66:8 @ 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@Isaiah:66:12 @ For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend (note:)I will give her happiness and prosperity in great abundance.(:note) peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Read (Isa_60:16). Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye be nursed, ye shall be You will be cherished as her dearly beloved children. borne upon [her] sides, and be dandled upon [her] knees.
geneva@Isaiah:66:20 @ And they shall bring all your (note:)That is the Gentiles, who by faith will be made the children of Abraham as you are.(:note) brethren [for] an offering to the LORD out of all nations upon By which he means that no necessary means will want, when God will call the Gentiles to the knowledge of the gospel. horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD.
geneva@Isaiah:66:24 @ 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:1:10 @ See, I have this day set thee over the (note:)He shows what is the authority of God's true ministers, who by his word have power to bear down whatever lifts itself up against God: and to plant and assure the humble and such as give themselves to the obedience of God's word, (2Co_10:4-5; Heb_4:12), and these are the keys which Christ has left to loose and bind, (Mat_18:18).(:note) nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
geneva@Jeremiah:1:14 @ Then the LORD said to me, Out of the (note:)Syria and Assyria were northward in respect to Jerusalem, which was the Chaldeans dominion.(:note) north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
geneva@Jeremiah:1:17 @ Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak to them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I (note:)Which declares that God's vengeance is prepared against them who do not execute their duty faithfully, either for fear of man, or for any other reason, (1Co_9:16).(:note) confound thee before them.
geneva@Jeremiah:2:3 @ Israel [was] (note:)Chosen above all others to serve the Lord only and the first offered to the Lord of all other nations.(:note) holiness to the LORD, [and] the firstfruits of his increase: all Whoever challenged this people, or else annoyed them, was punished. that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.
geneva@Jeremiah:2:8 @ The priests said not, (note:)They did not teach the people to seek after God.(:note) Where [is] the LORD? and they that handle the As the scribes, who would have expounded the law to the people. law knew me not: the Meaning, the princes and ministers: signifying, that all estates were corrupt. rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by That is, spoke vain things, and brought the people from the true worship of God to serve idols: for by Baal, which was the chief idol of the Moabites, are meant all idols. Baal, and walked after [things that] do not profit.
geneva@Jeremiah:2:15 @ The young (note:)The Babylonians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians.(:note) lions roared upon him, [and] yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without Not one will be left to dwell there. inhabitant.
geneva@Jeremiah:2:18 @ And now what hast thou to do in the way of (note:)To seek help from man, as though God was not able enough to defend you, which is to drink from the puddles and to leave the fountain, (Isa_31:1).(:note) Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the That is, Euphrates. river?
geneva@Jeremiah:2:20 @ For of old time I have broken thy yoke, [and] burst thy bands; and thou saidst, (note:)When I delivered you out of Egypt, (Exo_19:8; Deu_5:27; Jos_24:16; Ezr_10:12; Heb_8:6).(:note) I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.
geneva@Jeremiah:2:24 @ A wild (note:)He compares the idolaters to a wild ass: for she can never be tamed nor yet wearied: for as she runs she can take her wind at every opportunity.(:note) donkey used to the wilderness, [that] snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her That is, when she is with foal, and therefore the hunters wait their time: so though you cannot be turned back now from your idolatry, yet when your iniquity will be at the fall, God will meet with you. month they shall find her.
geneva@Jeremiah:2:34 @ Also in thy (note:)The prophets and the faithful are slain in every corner of your country.(:note) skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.
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:3:2 @ 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:3:6 @ 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:3:12 @ Go and proclaim these words toward (note:)While the Israelites were now kept in captivity by the Assyrians, to whom he promises mercy, if they will repent.(:note) the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; [and] I will not cause my anger to fall upon you: for I [am] merciful, saith the LORD, [and] I will not keep [anger] for ever.
geneva@Jeremiah: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:4:6 @ Set up the standard toward Zion: (note:)He speaks this to admonish them of the great danger when every man will prepare to save himself, but it will be too late, (2Ki_25:4).(:note) retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
geneva@Jeremiah:4:7 @ The (note:)Meaning Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, (2Ki_24:1).(:note) lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
geneva@Jeremiah:4:13 @ Behold, he shall come up as (note:)Meaning that Nebuchadnezzar would come as suddenly as a cloud that is carried with the wind.(:note) clouds, and his chariots [shall be] as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. This is spoken in the person of all the people, who in their affliction would cry thus. Woe to us! for we are laid waste.
geneva@Jeremiah:4:20 @ Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my (note:)Meaning, the cities which were as easily cast down as a tent.(:note) tents ruined, [and] my curtains in a moment.
geneva@Jeremiah:5:3 @ O LORD, [are] not thy eyes upon the (note:)Do you not love uprightness and faithful dealing?(:note) truth? thou hast You have often punished them, but all is in vain, (Isa_9:13). stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, [but] they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
geneva@Jeremiah:5:12 @ They have (note:)Because they gave no credit to the words of his prophets, as in (Isa_28:15).(:note) lied about the LORD, and said, [It is] not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:
geneva@Jeremiah:5:15 @ Lo, I will bring a nation upon you (note:)That is, the Babylonians and Chaldeans.(:note) from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it [is] a mighty nation, it [is] an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.
geneva@Jeremiah:5:31 @ 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:6:1 @ O ye children of (note:)He speaks to them chiefly because they should take heed by the example of their brethren the other half of their tribe, who were now carried away prisoners.(:note) Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Which was a city in Judah, six miles from Bethlehem, (2Ch_11:6). Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Read (Neh_3:14). Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.
geneva@Jeremiah:6:10 @ To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear [is] (note:)They delight to hear vain things, and to shut up their ears to true doctrine.(:note) uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is to them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
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:7:10 @ And come and stande before mee in this House, whereupon my Name is called, and saye, We are deliuered, though we haue done all these abominations?
geneva@Jeremiah:7:14 @ Therefore will I do vnto this House, wherupon my Name is called, wherein also yee trust, euen vnto the place that I gaue to you & to your fathers, as I haue done vnto Shilo.
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:7:29 @ 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:7:30 @ For the children of Iudah haue done euill in my sight, sayth the Lorde: they haue set their abominations in the House, whereupon my Name is called, to pollute it.