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geneva@Isaiah:1:5 @ Why should ye be (note:)What good is it to seek to mend you by punishment, seeing that the more I correct you, the more you rebel?(:note) stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole By naming the chief parts of the body, he signifies that there was no part of the whole body of the Jews free from his rods. head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

geneva@Isaiah:1:9 @ Except the LORD of hosts (note:)Because he will always have a Church to call on his Name.(:note) had left to us a very small remnant, we should have been That is, all destroyed. as Sodom, we should have been like Gomorrah.

geneva@Isaiah:1:15 @ And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full (note:)He shows that where men are given to evil, deceit, cruelty and extortion, which is meant by blood, there God will show his anger and not accept them though they seem holy, as in (Isa_59:3).(:note) of blood.

geneva@Isaiah:1:18 @ Come now, (note:)To know if I accuse you without cause.(:note) and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be Lest sinners should pretend any rigour on God's part, he only wills them to be pure in heart, and he will forgive all their sins, no matter how many or great. white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

geneva@Isaiah:1:19 @ If ye (note:)He shows that whatever adversity man endures, it ought to be attributed to his own incredulity and disobedience.(:note) are willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

geneva@Isaiah:1:24 @ Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the (note:)When God will show himself merciful to his Church, he calls himself the Holy one of Israel, but when he has to do with his enemies, he is called Mighty, as against whom no power is able to resist.(:note) mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will I will take vengeance of my adversaries the Jews and so satisfy my desire by punishing them. rid myself of my adversaries, and avenge me of my enemies:

geneva@Isaiah: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:1:28 @ And the (note:)The wicked will not be partakers of God's promise, (Psa_92:9).(:note) destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners [shall be] together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.

geneva@Isaiah:1:31 @ And the strong shall be as a (note:)The false god's in which you put your confidence will be consumed as easily as a piece of wick.(:note) wick, and its maker as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench [them].

geneva@Isaiah:2:2 @ And it (note:)The decree and ordinance of God, concerning the restoration of the Church, which is chiefly meant by the time of Christ.(:note) shall come to pass in the last days, [that] the mount of the LORD'S house In an evident place to be seen and discerned. shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall When the kingdom of Christ will be enlarged by the preaching of the doctrine. Here also is declared the zeal of the children of God when they are called. flow to it.

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:2:5 @ O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us (note:)Seeing the Gentiles will be ready, make haste, and show them the way to worship God.(:note) walk in the light of the LORD.

geneva@Isaiah:2:11 @ The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be abased, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in (note:)Meaning, as soon as God will begin to execute his judgments.(:note) that day.

geneva@Isaiah:2:18 @ And the idoles will he vtterly destroy.

geneva@Isaiah:2:20 @ In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made [each one] for himself to worship, (note:)They will cast them into vile and filthy places when they perceive that they are not able to help them.(:note) to the moles and to the bats;

geneva@Isaiah:3:4 @ And I will give (note:)Not only in age: but in manners, knowledge and strength.(:note) children [to be] their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

geneva@Isaiah:3:6 @ When a man shall (note:)He shows that this plague will be so horrible that contrary to the common manner of men, who by nature are ambitious, no one will be found able or willing to be their governor.(:note) take hold of his brother of the house of his father, [saying], Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and [let] this ruin [be] under thy hand:

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:3:9 @ The (note:)When God examines their deed on which they now set an impudent face, he will find the mark of their impiety in their forehead.(:note) show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide [it] not. Woe to their soul! for they have rewarded evil to themselves.

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:3:25 @ Thy men shall fall by the (note:)Meaning that God will not only punish the women but their husbands who have permitted this dissoluteness and also the commonwealth which has not remedied it.(:note) sword, and thy mighty in the war.

geneva@Isaiah:4:1 @ And in that day (note:)When God will executes this vengeance there will not be one man found to be the head to many women, and they contrary to womanly shamefacedness will seek men, and offer themselves under any condition.(:note) seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only He our husband and let us be called your wives. let us be called by thy name, to take away our For so they thought it to be without a head and husband. reproach.

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:4:4 @ When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the (note:)That is, the cruelty, extortion, malice and all wickedness.(:note) blood of Jerusalem from the midst of it by the spirit of When things will be addressed that were amiss. judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

geneva@Isaiah: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:5:1 @ Now will (note:)The prophet by this song sets before the people's eyes their ingratitude and God's mercy.(:note) I sing to my That is, to God. wellbeloved a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a Meaning that he had planted his Church in a place most plentiful and abundant. vineyard in a very fruitful hill:

geneva@Isaiah:5:5 @ 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:5:6 @ And I will laye it waste: it shall not be cut, nor digged, but briers, and thornes shall growe vp: I will also commande the cloudes that they raine no raine vpon it.

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:5:27 @ None shall (note:)They will be prompt and lusty to execute God's vengeance.(:note) be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the belt of their loins be loosed, nor The enemy will have no impediment. the latchet of their shoes be broken:

geneva@Isaiah:5:30 @ And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if (note:)The Jews will find no comfort.(:note) [one] looketh to the land, behold darkness [and] sorrow, and the light is darkened in its In the land of Judah. heavens.

geneva@Isaiah:6:2 @ Above it stood the (note:)They were angels so called because they were of a fiery colour, to signify that they burnt in the love of God, or were light as fire to execute his will.(:note) seraphims: each one had six wings; with two he covered his Signifying that they were not able to endure the brightness of God's glory. face, and with two he covered his By which it was declared that man was not able to see the brightness of God in them. feet, and with two he Which declares the prompt obedience of the angels to execute God's commandment. flew.

geneva@Isaiah:6:9 @ And he said, Go, and tell this people, (note:)By which is declared that for the malice of man God will not immediately take away his word, but he will cause it to be preached to their condemnation, when as they will not learn by it to obey his will, and be saved: by this he exhorts the ministers to do their duty, and answers to the wicked murmurers, that through their own malice their heart is hardened, (Mat_13:14; Act_28:26; Rom_11:8).(:note) Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

geneva@Isaiah: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:7:3 @ 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:7:4 @ And say to him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking (note:)Which have but a little smoke and will quickly be quenched.(:note) firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

geneva@Isaiah:7:11 @ Ask thee (note:)For the confirmation of this thing that your enemies will be destroyed and you preserved.(:note) a sign from the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.

geneva@Isaiah:7:12 @ But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I (note:)Not to believe God's word without a sign, is to tempt God, but to refuse a sign when God offers it for the aid and help of our infirmity is to rebel against him.(:note) tempt the LORD.

geneva@Isaiah:7:13 @ And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; [Is it] a small thing for you to weary (note:)You think you have to do with men when you contemn God's messengers but it is God against whom you bend yourselves.(:note) men, but will ye weary my God also?

geneva@Isaiah:7:14 @ Therefore the Lord (note:)Forasmuch as you are unworthy, the Lord for his own promise sake will give a sign which will be that Christ the Saviour of his Church and the effect of all signs and miracles will be revealed.(:note) himself shall give you a sign; Behold, the virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

geneva@Isaiah:7:16 @ For before the (note:)Not meaning Christ, but any child: for before a child can come to the years of discretion, the kings of Samaria and Syria will be destroyed.(:note) child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken by both her kings.

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:7:21 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] a man shall (note:)He who before had a great number of cattle will be content with one cow and two sheep.(:note) nourish a young cow, and two sheep;

geneva@Isaiah:7:22 @ And it shall come to pass, for the (note:)The number of men will be so small that a few beasts will be able to nourish all abundantly.(:note) abundance of milk [that] they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.

geneva@Isaiah:7:25 @ And [on] (note:)The mountains contrary to their will, will be tilled by such as shall flee to them for comfort.(:note) all hills that shall be dug with the mattock, there shall not come there the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.

geneva@Isaiah:8:8 @ And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach [even] to the (note:)It will be ready to drown them.(:note) neck; and the spread of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O He speaks this to Messiah, or Christ, in whom the faithful were comforted and who would not suffer his Church to be destroyed utterly. Immanuel.

geneva@Isaiah:8:14 @ And he shall be for a (note:)He will defend you who are his elect, and reject all the rest, meaning Christ against whom the Jews would stumble and fall, (Luk_2:23; Rom_9:33; 1Pe_2:7,8).(:note) sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a trap and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

geneva@Isaiah:8:17 @ Therefore I will waite vpon the Lord that hath hid his face from the house of Iaakob, and I wil looke for him.

geneva@Isaiah:8:18 @ Behold, I and the (note:)Meaning, them who were willing to hear and obey the word of God whom the world hated, as though they were monsters and not worthy to live.(:note) children whom the LORD hath given me [are] for signs and for wonders in Israel This was a consolation in their troubles, knowing that nothing could come to them, but by the will of the Lord. from the LORD of hosts, who dwelleth in mount Zion.

geneva@Isaiah:8:19 @ And when they shall say to you, Seek to them that are mediums, and to wizards that peep, and that mutter: (note:)Answer the wicked thus, should not God's people seek comfort only from him?(:note) should not a people seek to their God? for the That is, will they refuse to be taught by the prophet, who is the mouth of God, and seek help from the dead, which is the illusion of Satan? living to the dead?

geneva@Isaiah:8:20 @ To the (note:)Seek remedy in the word of God, where his will is declared.(:note) law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, [it is] because [there is] no They have no knowledge but are blind leaders of the blind. light in them.

geneva@Isaiah:8:22 @ And they shall look to the earth; and behold trouble and (note:)They will think that heaven and earth and all creatures are bent against them to trouble them.(:note) darkness, dimness of anguish; and [they shall be] driven to darkness.

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:9:10 @ The (note:)We were but weak, when the enemy overcame us, but we will make ourselves so strong, that we will neither care for our enemies, nor fear God's threatenings.(:note) bricks have fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change [them into] cedars.

geneva@Isaiah:9:14 @ Therefore will the Lord cut off from Israel head and taile, branche and rush in one day.

geneva@Isaiah:9:17 @ Therefore shall the Lord haue no pleasure in their yong men, neither will he haue compassion of their fatherlesse and of their widowes: for euery one is an hypocrite and wicked, and euery mouth speaketh follie: yet for all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out stil.

geneva@Isaiah:9:19 @ Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall (note:)Though there was no foreign enemy, yet they will destroy one another.(:note) spare his brother.

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:10:3 @ And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation [which] shall come from (note:)That is, from Assyria.(:note) far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your Your riches and authority, that they may be safe and that you may receive them again. glory?

geneva@Isaiah:10:6 @ I will send (note:)That is, the Assyrians against the Jews who are hypocrites. In the sixth and seventh verse is declared the difference of the work of God and of the wicked in one very thing and act: for God's intention is to chastise them for their amendment, and the Assyrians purpose is to destroy them to enrich themselves. Thus in respect to God's justice, it is God's work, but in respect to their own malice, it is the work of the devil.(:note) him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I command him, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

geneva@Isaiah: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:10:22 @ For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, [yet] a remnant of them shall return: the full end (note:)This small number which seemed to be consumed and yet according to God's decree is saved, will be sufficient to fill all the world with righteousness.(:note) decreed shall overflow with righteousness.

geneva@Isaiah:10:23 @ For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a full end, even (note:)God will destroy this land as he has determined and later save a small portion.(:note) determined, in the midst of all the land.

geneva@Isaiah:10:32 @ Yet there is a time that he will stay at Nob: he shall lift vp his hand towarde the mount of the daughter Zion, the hill of Ierusalem.

geneva@Isaiah:10:33 @ Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the (note:)Fear and destruction will come on Judah for the princes and the people will all be led away captive.(:note) bough with terror: and the high ones of stature [shall be] hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.

geneva@Isaiah:11:4 @ But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall (note:)All these properties can agree to no one, but only to Christ: for it is he who touches the hearts of the faithful and mortifies their concupiscence: and to the wicked he is the favour of death and to them who will perish, so that all the world will be smitten with his rod, which is his word.(:note) smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

geneva@Isaiah:11:6 @ The (note:)Men because of their wicked affections are named by the names of beasts, in which the same affections reign: but Christ by his Spirit will reform them, and work in them such mutual charity, that they will be like lambs, favouring and loving one another and cast off all their cruel affections, (Isa_65:25).(:note) wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

geneva@Isaiah:11:9 @ They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as (note:)It will be in as great abundance as the waters in the sea.(:note) the waters cover the sea.

geneva@Isaiah:11:13 @ The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of (note:)Here he describes the consent that will be in his Church and their victory against their enemies.(:note) Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not distress Ephraim.

geneva@Isaiah:12:1 @ And in that day thou (note:)He shows how the Church will praise God, when they are delivered from their captivity.(:note) shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thy anger is turned away, and thou didst comfort me.

geneva@Isaiah:12:2 @ Behold, God [is] my (note:)Our salvation stands only in God, who gives us an assured confidence, constancy and opportunity to praise him for the same.(:note) salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD [is] my strength and [my] song; he also is become my salvation.

geneva@Isaiah:12:3 @ Therefore with joy shall ye (note:)The graces of God will be so abundant that you may receive them in as great plenty as waters out of a fountain that is full.(:note) draw water out of the wells of salvation.

geneva@Isaiah:13:3 @ I have commanded my (note:)That is, prepared and appointed to execute my judgments.(:note) sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for my anger, [even] them that rejoice in my Who willingly go about to the work to which I appoint them, but how the wicked do this, read (Isa_10:6). highness.

geneva@Isaiah:13:8 @ And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces [shall be as] (note:)The Babylonians anger and grief will be so much that their faces will burn as fire.(:note) flames.

geneva@Isaiah:13:10 @ For the (note:)They who are overcome will think that all the powers of heaven and earth are against them, (Eze_32:7; Joe_3:15; Mat_24:29).(:note) stars of heaven and its constellations shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

geneva@Isaiah:13:11 @ And I will punish the (note:)He compares Babylon to the whole world because they so esteemed themselves by reason of their great empire.(:note) world for [their] evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogance of the He notes the principal vice, to which they are most given as are all that abound in wealth. proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

geneva@Isaiah:13:12 @ I will make a (note:)He notes the great slaughter that will be, seeing the enemy will neither for gold or silver spare a man's life as in (Isa_13:17).(:note) man more rare than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

geneva@Isaiah:13:13 @ Therefore I will shake the heauen, and the earth shall remooue out of her place in the wrath of the Lord of hostes, and in the day of his fierce anger.

geneva@Isaiah:13:17 @ Beholde, I will stirre vp the Medes against them, which shall not regarde siluer, nor be desirous of golde.

geneva@Isaiah:13:20 @ It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the (note:)Who used to go from country to country to find pasture for their beasts, but they will find none.(:note) Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.

geneva@Isaiah:14:1 @ For (note:)He shows why God will haste to destroy his enemies, that is, because he will deliver his Church.(:note) the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers Meaning that the Gentiles will be joined with the Church and worship God. shall be joined with them, and they shall unite with the house of Jacob.

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:14:14 @ I wil ascend aboue ye height of the cloudes, and I will be like the most high.

geneva@Isaiah:14:22 @ For I wil rise vp against them (sayth the Lorde of hostes) and will cut off from Babel the name and the remnant and the sonne, and the nephew, sayth the Lord:

geneva@Isaiah:14:23 @ And I wil make it a possession to ye hedgehogge, and pooles of water, and I will sweepe it with the besome of destruction, sayeth the Lorde of hostes.

geneva@Isaiah:14:29 @ Rejoice not thou, all (note:)He wills the Philistines not to rejoice because the Jews are diminished in their power, for their strength will be greater than it ever was.(:note) Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth an adder, and his fruit [shall be] a fiery flying serpent.

geneva@Isaiah:14:30 @ And the (note:)The Israelites who were brought to most extreme misery.(:note) firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and That is, my people. he shall slay thy remnant.

geneva@Isaiah:14:32 @ What shall [one] then answer the (note:)Who will come to enquire of the state of the Church.(:note) messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded They will answer that the Lord defends his Church and those that join themselves to it. Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.

geneva@Isaiah: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:16:4 @ Let my outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner (note:)The Assyrians will oppress the Israelites but for a while.(:note) is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.

geneva@Isaiah:16:6 @ We have heard of the pride of Moab; [he is] very proud: [even] of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: [but] his (note:)Their vain confidence and proud bragging will deceive them, (Jer_48:2).(:note) lies [shall] not [be] so.

geneva@Isaiah:16:7 @ Therefore shall Moab wail for Moab, every one shall wail: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely [they are] (note:)For all your mourning, yet the city will be destroyed even to the foundation.(:note) stricken.

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:16:12 @ And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his (note:)They will use all means to seek help for their idols, and all in vain: for Chemosh their great god will not be able to help them.(:note) sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.

geneva@Isaiah:16:14 @ But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, (note:)He appointed a certain time to punish the enemies in.(:note) Within three years, as the years of an Who will observe justly the time for which he is hired and serve no longer but will ever long for it. hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be despised, with all that great multitude; and the remnant [shall be] very small [and] feeble.

geneva@Isaiah:17:3 @ The fortress also shall cease from (note:)It seems that the prophet would comfort the Church in declaring the destruction of these two kings of Syria and Israel, when as they had conspired the overthrow of Judah.(:note) Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the The ten tribes gloried in their multitude and alliance with other nations: therefore he says that they will be brought down and the Syrians also. glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Isaiah:17:5 @ And it shall be as when the reaper gathereth (note:)As the abundance of corn does not fear the harvest men that would cut it down: no more will the multitude of Israel make the enemies shrink, whom God will appoint to destroy them.(:note) the grain, and reapeth the heads with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth heads in the valley of A valley which was plentiful and fertile. Rephaim.

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:18:4 @ 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:18:7 @ In that time shall the (note:)Meaning that God will pity his Church, and receive that little remnant as an offering to himself.(:note) present be brought to the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and stripped, and from a people terrible from their beginning to this time; a nation measured by line and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.

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:19:2 @ And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall (note:)As he caused the Ammonites, Moabites and Idumeans to kill one another, when they came to destroy the Church of God, (2Ch_20:22; Isa_49:26).(:note) fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, [and] kingdom against kingdom.

geneva@Isaiah:19:3 @ And the (note:)Meaning, their policy and wisdom.(:note) spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of her; and I will destroy her counsel: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to the mediums, and to the wizards.

geneva@Isaiah:19:4 @ And I will deliuer the Egyptians into the hand of the cruell Lordes, & a mightie King shall rule ouer them, sayth the Lord God of hostes.

geneva@Isaiah:19:17 @ And the land of Judah shall be a terror (note:)Considering that through their opportunity the Jews did not make God their defence but put their trust in them, and were therefore now punished, they will fear least the same light on them.(:note) to Egypt, every one that maketh mention of it shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it.

geneva@Isaiah: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:19:19 @ In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and (note:)There will be evident signs and tokens, that God's religion is there: which manner of speech is taken of the patriarchs and ancient time, when God has not as yet appointed the place, and full manner how he would be worshipped.(:note) a pillar at its border to the LORD.

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:21:5 @ Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: (note:)While they are eating and drinking, they will be commanded to run to their weapons.(:note) arise, ye princes, [and] anoint the shield.

geneva@Isaiah:21:12 @ The watchman said, The (note:)He describes the unquietness of the people of Dumah, who were night and day in fear of their enemies, and ever ran to and fro to enquire news.(:note) morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.

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:21:14 @ The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought (note:)Signifying that for fear they will not tarry to eat or drink.(:note) water to him that was thirsty, they met with their bread him that fled.

geneva@Isaiah:22:4 @ Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep (note:)He shows what is the duty of the godly, when God's plagues hang over the Church, and especially of the ministers, (Jer_9:1).(:note) bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the plundering of the daughter of my people.

geneva@Isaiah:22:13 @ And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us (note:)Instead of repentance you were joyful and made great cheer, contemning the admonitions of the prophets saying Let us eat and drink for our prophets say that we will die tomorrow.(:note) eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.

geneva@Isaiah:22:17 @ Beholde, the Lord wil carie thee away with a great captiuitie, and will surely couer thee.

geneva@Isaiah:22:18 @ With violence he will surely turn and toss thee [like] a ball into a wide country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory [shall be] the (note:)Signifying that whatever dignity the wicked attain to, at length it will turn to the shame of those princes by whom they are preferred.(:note) shame of thy lord's house.

geneva@Isaiah:22:19 @ And I wil driue thee from thy station, and out of thy dwelling will he destroy thee.

geneva@Isaiah:22:20 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will (note:)To be steward again, out of which office he had been put, by the craft of Shebna.(:note) call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:

geneva@Isaiah:22:21 @ And with thy garments will I clothe him, and with thy girdle will I strengthen him: thy power also will I commit into his hande, and hee shalbe a father of the inhabitats of Ierusalem, and of the house of Iudah.

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:22:23 @ And I will fasten him [as] a (note:)I will establish him, and confirm him in his office, of this phrase read (Ezr_9:9).(:note) nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house.

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:23:6 @ Pass ye over to (note:)Tyrus wills other merchants to go to Cilicia, and to come no more there.(:note) Tarshish; wail, ye inhabitants of the isle.

geneva@Isaiah:23:10 @ Pass through thy land as a river, O (note:)Your strength will no more serve you: therefore flee to other countries for comfort.(:note) daughter of Tarshish: [there is] no more strength.

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:23:15 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of (note:)Tyrus will lie destroyed seventy years which he calls the reign of one king, or a man's age.(:note) seventy years shall Tyre Will use all craft and subtilty to entice men again to her. sing as an harlot.

geneva@Isaiah:23:16 @ Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; (note:)She will labour by all means to recover her first credit, as a harlot when she is long forgotten, seeks by all means to entertain her lovers.(:note) make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.

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:24:2 @ And it shall be, as with the people, so with the (note:)Because this was a name of dignity it was also applied to them who were not of Aaron's family, and so signifies also a man of dignity, as in (2Sa_8:18; 2Sa_20:25; 1Ch_18:17) and by these words the prophet signifies a horrible confusion, where there will be neither religion, order nor policy, (Hos_4:9).(:note) priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him.

geneva@Isaiah:24:13 @ When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, [there shall be] (note:)He comforts the faithful, declaring that in this great desolation the Lord will assemble his Church which will praise his Name, as in (Isa_10:22).(:note) as the shaking of an olive tree, [and] as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.

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:24:16 @ From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, [even] glory to the (note:)Meaning to God, who will publish his gospel through all the world.(:note) righteous. But I said, I am consumed with care, considering the affliction of the Church, both by foreign enemies and domestic. Some read, My secret, my secret: that is, it was revealed to the prophet, that the good would be preserved and the wicked destroyed. My leanness, my leanness, woe to me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.

geneva@Isaiah: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:25:1 @ O LORD, thou (note:)Thus the prophet gives thanks to God because he will bring under subjection these nations by his corrections, and make them of his Church, who before were his enemies.(:note) [art] my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful [things; thy] counsels of old [are] faithfulness [and] truth.

geneva@Isaiah:25:3 @ Therefore shall the (note:)The arrogant and proud who before would not know you will by your corrections fear and glorify you.(:note) strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.

geneva@Isaiah:25:5 @ Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the (note:)Meaning, that as the heat is abated by the rain, so shall God bring down the rage of the wicked.(:note) heat in a dry place; As a cloud shades from the heat of the sun, so God will assuage the rejoicing of the wicked against the godly. [even] the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.

geneva@Isaiah:25:7 @ And he will destroy on this mountain (note:)Meaning, that ignorance and blindness, by which we are kept back from Christ.(:note) the face of the covering cast over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations.

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:25:9 @ And in that day shall men say, Loe, this is our God: we haue waited for him, and he wil saue vs. This is the Lorde, we haue waited for him: we will reioyce and be ioyfull in his saluation.

geneva@Isaiah:26:1 @ In that day shall (note:)This song was made to comfort the faithful when their captivity would come, assuring them also of their deliverance, for which they should sing this song.(:note) this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; God's protection and defence will be sufficient for us. salvation will [God] appoint [for] walls and bulwarks.

geneva@Isaiah:26:5 @ For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; (note:)There is no power so high that it can hinder God, when he will deliver his.(:note) the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, [even] to the ground; he bringeth it [even] to the dust.

geneva@Isaiah:26:6 @ The foot shall tread it down, [even] the feet of the (note:)God will set the poor afflicted over the power of the wicked.(:note) poor, [and] the steps of the needy.

geneva@Isaiah:26:9 @ With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments [are] in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn (note:)Meaning that by afflictions men will learn to fear God.(:note) righteousness.

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:26:13 @ O LORD our God, [other] (note:)The Babylonians, who have not governed according to your word.(:note) lords beside thee have had dominion over us: [but] by thee only will we make mention of thy name.

geneva@Isaiah:26:14 @ [They are] (note:)Meaning that the reprobate even in this life will have the beginning of everlasting death.(:note) dead, they shall not live; [they are] deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.

geneva@Isaiah:26:21 @ For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her (note:)The earth will vomit and cast out the innocent blood, which it has drunk, that it may care for vengeance against the wicked.(:note) blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

geneva@Isaiah:27:3 @ I the Lorde doe keepe it: I will water it euery moment: least any assaile it, I will keepe it night and day.

geneva@Isaiah:27:4 @ Fury (note:)Therefore he will destroy the kingdom of Satan, because he loves his Church for his own mercies sake, and cannot be angry with it, but wishes that he may pour his anger on the wicked infidels, whom he means by briers and thorns.(:note) [is] not in me: who would set the briers [and] thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.

geneva@Isaiah:27:5 @ Or let him (note:)He marvels that Israel will not come by gentleness, unless God make them to feel his rods, and so bring them to him.(:note) take hold of my strength, [that] he may make peace with me; [and] he shall make peace with me.

geneva@Isaiah:27:8 @ In (note:)That is, you will not destroy the root of your Church, though the branches of it seem to perish by the sharp wind of affliction.(:note) measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

geneva@Isaiah:27:10 @ Yet the (note:)Not withstanding his favour that he will show them later, yet Jerusalem will be destroyed, and grass for cattle will grow in it.(:note) fortified city [shall be] desolate, [and] the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume its branches.

geneva@Isaiah:27:11 @ When its boughs are withered, they shall be broken off: the (note:)God will not have need of mighty enemies: for the very women will do it to their great shame.(:note) women come, [and] set them on fire: for it [is] a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will show them no favour.

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:28:5 @ In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, to the (note:)Signifying that the faithful who do not put their trust in any worldly prosperity but made God their glory, will be preserved.(:note) remnant of his people,

geneva@Isaiah:28:6 @ And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for (note:)He will give counsel to the governor and strength to the captain to drive the enemies in at their own gates.(:note) strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.

geneva@Isaiah:28:11 @ For with stammering (note:)Let one teach what he can, yet they will no more understand him, than if he spoke in a strange language.(:note) lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

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:28:17 @ Judgment also will I lay to the line, and (note:)In the restitution of his Church, judgment and justice will reign.(:note) righteousness to the plummet: and the God's corrections and affliction. hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow Affliction will discover their vain confidence, which they kept secret to themselves. the hiding place.

geneva@Isaiah:28:19 @ From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a (note:)Terror and destruction will make you learn that which exhortations and gentleness could not bring you to.(:note) vexation only [to] understand the report.

geneva@Isaiah:28:20 @ For the bed is (note:)Your affliction will be so sore, that you are not able to endure it.(:note) shorter than that [a man] can stretch himself [on it]: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself [in it].

geneva@Isaiah:28:28 @ Bread corne when it is threshed, hee doeth not alway thresh it, neither doeth the wheele of his cart still make a noyse, neither will he breake it with the teeth thereof.

geneva@Isaiah:29:1 @ Woe to (note:)Or Ariel: the Hebrew word Ariel signifies the Lion of God, and signifies the Altar, because the altar seemed to devour the sacrifice that was offered to God, as in (Eze_43:16).(:note) Ariel, to Ariel, the city [where] David dwelt! add ye year to year; Your vain confidence in your sacrifices will not last long. let them kill sacrifices.

geneva@Isaiah:29:2 @ Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be to me (note:)Your city will be full of blood as an altar on which they sacrifice.(:note) as Ariel.

geneva@Isaiah:29:3 @ And I wil besiege thee as a circle, and fight against thee on a mount, and will cast vp ramparts against thee.

geneva@Isaiah:29:4 @ And thou shalt be brought down, [and] shalt speak out of the (note:)Your speech will be no longer be so lofty but abased and low as the very charmers who are in low places and whisper, so that their voice can scarcely by heard.(:note) ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, like a medium, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.

geneva@Isaiah:29:5 @ Moreover the multitude of thy (note:)Your hired soldiers in whom you trusted, will be destroyed as dust or chaff in a whirlwind.(:note) strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones [shall be] as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.

geneva@Isaiah:29:7 @ And the (note:)The enemies that I will bring to destroy you, and that which you place your vain trust in will come at unawares even as a dream in the night. Some read as if this was a comfort to the Church for the destruction of their enemies.(:note) multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her strong hold, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.

geneva@Isaiah:29:14 @ Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, [even] an wonderful work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise [men] shall (note:)Meaning, where God is not worshipped according to his word, both magistrates and ministers are fools and without understanding.(:note) perish, and the understanding of their prudent [men] shall be hid.

geneva@Isaiah:29:17 @ [Is] it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be (note:)Will there not be a change of all things? Carmel is a plentiful place in respect to what it will be then and may be taken for a forest, as in (Isa_32:15) and thus he speaks to comfort the faithful.(:note) turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?

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:30:9 @ That this [is] a rebellious people, lying children, children [that] will not (note:)He shows what was the cause of their destruction and brings also all misery to man: that is, because they would not hear the word of God, but delighted to be flattered and led in error.(:note) hear the law of the LORD:

geneva@Isaiah:30:14 @ And he shall break it as the breaking of the potter's vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it (note:)Signifying that the destruction of the wicked will be without recovery.(:note) a piece to take fire from the hearth, or to take water out of the pit.

geneva@Isaiah:30:16 @ 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:30:18 @ 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:30:21 @ And thy ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This [is] the way, (note:)God will direct all your ways and appoint you how to go either hither or thither.(:note) walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.

geneva@Isaiah:30:22 @ Ye shall (note:)You will cast away your idols which you have made of gold and silver with all that belongs to them, as a most filthy thing and polluted.(:note) defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a polluted cloth; thou shalt say to it, Showing that there can be no true repentance, unless both in heart and deed we show ourselves enemies to idolatry. Be gone from me.

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:31:2 @ Yet he also [is] (note:)And knows their crafty enterprises, and will bring all to nought.(:note) wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.

geneva@Isaiah:31:4 @ For thus hath the LORD spoken to me, As the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, [he] will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come (note:)He shows the Jews that if they would put their trust in him, he is so able, that no one can resist his power and so care over them, as a bird over her young, which ever flies about them for their defence: which similitude the scripture uses in various places, as in (Deu_32:11; Mat_23:37).(:note) down to fight for mount Zion, and for its hill.

geneva@Isaiah:31:7 @ For in that day every man shall (note:)By these fruits your repentance will be known, as in (Isa_2:20).(:note) cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made to you [for] a sin.

geneva@Isaiah:32:5 @ The (note:)Vice will no more be called virtue, nor virtue esteemed by power and riches.(:note) vile person shall be no more called noble, nor the churl said [to be] bountiful.

geneva@Isaiah:32:6 @ But the nigarde will speake of nigardnesse, and his heart will worke iniquitie, and do wickedly, and speake falsely against the Lorde, to make emptie the hungrie soule, and to cause the drinke of the thirstie to faile.

geneva@Isaiah:32:8 @ But the liberall man will deuise of liberall things, and he will continue his liberalitie.

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:32:10 @ Many days and years shall ye be troubled, (note:)Meaning that the affliction would continue long and when one year was past, yet they should look for new plagues.(:note) ye careless women: God will take from you the means and opportunities, which made you contemn him: that is, abundance of worldly goods. for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.

geneva@Isaiah:32:12 @ They shall lament for the (note:)By the breasts he means the plentiful fields, by which men are nourished as children with the breast: or, the mothers for sorrow and heaviness will lack milk.(:note) breasts, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

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:32:19 @ When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the (note:)They will not need to build it in high places for fear of the enemy: for God will defend it, and turn away the storms from hurting their conveniences.(:note) city shall be low in a low place.

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:33:1 @ Woe to thee that (note:)Meaning, the enemies of the Church, as were the Chaldeans and Assyrians, but chiefly of Sennacherib, but not only.(:note) layest waste, and thou [wast] not laid waste; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt When your appointed time will come that God will take away your power: and that which you have wrongfully gained, will be given to others, as in (Amo_5:11). cease to lay waste, thou shalt be wasted; [and] when thou shalt make an end of dealing treacherously, The Chaldeans will do the same to the Assyrians, as the Assyrians did to Israel, and the Medes and Persians will do the same to the Chaldeans. they shall deal treacherously with thee.

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:33:13 @ Ye [that are] (note:)His vengeance will be so great that all the world will talk of it.(:note) far off, hear what I have done; and, ye [that are] near, acknowledge my might.

geneva@Isaiah:33:16 @ He shall dwell on (note:)Meaning, that God will be a sure defence to all them that live according to his word.(:note) high: his place of defence [shall be] the strong holds of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters [shall be] sure.

geneva@Isaiah:33:17 @ Thy eyes shall (note:)They will see Hezekiah delivered from his enemies and restored to honour and glory.(:note) see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the They will be no more shut in as they were by Sennacherib, but go where it pleases them. land that is very far off.

geneva@Isaiah:33:18 @ Thy heart (note:)Before this liberty comes you will think that you are in great danger: for the enemy will so sharply assail you that one will cry «Where is the clerk that writes the names of them who are taxed?» another, «Where is the receiver?» another will cry for him that values the rich houses, but God will deliver you from this fear.(:note) shall meditate terror. Where [is] the scribe? where [is] the receiver? where [is] he that counted the towers?

geneva@Isaiah:33:21 @ But there the glorious LORD [will be] to us a place (note:)Let us be content with this small river of Shiloah and not desire the great streams and rivers, by which the enemies may bring in ships and destroy us.(:note) of broad rivers [and] streams; in which shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass through it.

geneva@Isaiah:33:22 @ For the Lorde is our Iudge, the Lord is our lawe giuer: the Lord is our King, he will saue vs.

geneva@Isaiah:33:23 @ Thy (note:)He derides the Assyrians and enemies of the Church, declaring their destruction as they who perish by shipwreck.(:note) tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the He comforts the Church, and shows that they will be enriched with all benefits both of body and soul. prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.

geneva@Isaiah:34:6 @ The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, [and] with the blood of (note:)That is, both of young and old, poor and rich of his enemies.(:note) lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in That famous city will be consumed as a sacrifice burnt to ashes. Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

geneva@Isaiah:34:7 @ And the (note:)The mighty and rich will be as well destroyed as the inferiors.(:note) unicorns shall come down with them, and the bulls with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.

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:35:1 @ The (note:)He prophecies of the full restoration of the Church both of the Jews and Gentiles under Christ, which will be fully accomplished at the last day: although as yet it is compared to a desert and wilderness.(:note) wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

geneva@Isaiah:35:2 @ It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the excellence of (note:)The Church which was before compared to a barren wilderness will by Christ be made most plenteous and beautiful.(:note) Carmel and Sharon, they shall He shows that the presence of God is the reason that the Church brings forth fruit and flourishes. see the glory of the LORD, [and] the excellence of our God.

geneva@Isaiah:35:4 @ Say to them [that are] of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come [with] (note:)To destroy your enemies.(:note) vengeance, [even] God [with] a recompence; he will come and save you.

geneva@Isaiah:35:6 @ Then shall the lame [man] leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing: for in the (note:)They who were barren and destitute of the graces of God, will have them given by Christ.(:note) wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.

geneva@Isaiah:35:8 @ And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of (note:)It will be for the saints of God and not for the wicked.(:note) holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it God will lead and guide them, alluding to the bringing forth of Egypt. [shall be] for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err [in it].

geneva@Isaiah:35:10 @ 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:36:6 @ Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; on which if a man lean, it will enter his hand, and pierce it: so [is] (note:)Satan laboured to pull the godly king from one vain confidence to another: that is, from trust in the Egyptians, whose power was weak and would deceive them, to yield himself to the Assyrians, and so not to hope for any help from God.(:note) Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.

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:36:15 @ Neither let Hezekiah make you to trust in the Lord, saying, The Lorde will surely deliuer vs: this citie shal not be giuen ouer into the hand of the King of Asshur.

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:37:24 @ By thy seruants hast thou railed on the Lord, and sayd, By the multitude of my charets I am come vp to the top of the mountaines to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut downe the hie cedars thereof, and the faire firre trees thereof, and I will goe vp to the heightes of his top and to the forest of his fruitfull 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:37:35 @ For I will defend this city to save it for my own sake, and for my servant (note:)For my promise sake made to David.(:note) David's sake.

geneva@Isaiah:38:1 @ In those (note:)Soon after that the Assyrians were slain: so that God will have the exercise of his children continually, that they may learn only to depend on God and aspire to the heavens.(:note) days was Hezekiah sick and near death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thy house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.

geneva@Isaiah:38:5 @ Goe, and say vnto Hezekiah, Thus saith the Lord God of Dauid thy father, I haue heard thy prayer, and seene thy teares: behold, I will adde vnto thy dayes fifteene yeeres.

geneva@Isaiah:38:6 @ And I will deliver thee and this city (note:)He not only promises to prolong his life, but to give him rest and quietness from the Assyrians, who might have renewed their army to revenge their former defeat.(:note) from the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.

geneva@Isaiah:38:7 @ And (note:)For Hezekiah had asked for a sign for the confirmation of his faith, as in (Isa_38:22; 2Ki_20:8), to which he was moved by the singular motion of God's spirit.(:note) this [shall be] a sign to thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken;

geneva@Isaiah:38:8 @ Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which hath gone down on the (note:)Read (2Ki_20:8).(:note) sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it had gone down.

geneva@Isaiah:38:11 @ I said, (note:)I will no more praise the Lord here in this temple among the faithful thus God permits his dearest children to want his consolation for a time that his grace afterward may appear when they feel their own weakness.(:note) I shall not see the LORD, [even] the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

geneva@Isaiah:38:12 @ My age hath departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I (note:)By my sin I have provoked God to take my life from me.(:note) have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day [even] That is, in one day, or shortly. to night wilt thou make an end of me.

geneva@Isaiah:38:13 @ I reckoned (note:)Overnight I thought that I would live till morning, but my pangs in the night persuaded me the contrary: he shows the horror that the faithful have when they apprehend God's judgment against their sin.(:note) till morning, [that], as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day [even] to night wilt thou make an end of me.

geneva@Isaiah:38:15 @ What shall I say? (note:)God has declared by his prophet that I will die and therefore I will yield to him.(:note) he hath both spoken to me, and himself hath done [it]: I shall go I will have no release, but continual sorrows while I live. softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

geneva@Isaiah:38:16 @ O Lord, (note:)They who will outlive the men that are now alive, and all they who are in these years will acknowledge this blessing.(:note) by these [things men] live, and in all these [things is] the life of my spirit: so wilt thou That after that you had condemned me to death you restored me to life. restore me, and make me to live.

geneva@Isaiah:38:19 @ The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I [do] this day: the father to the (note:)All posterity will acknowledge and the fathers according to their duty toward their children will instruct them in your graces and mercies toward me.(:note) children shall make known thy truth.

geneva@Isaiah:38:20 @ The LORD [was ready] to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of (note:)He shows what is the use of the Congregation and Church, that is, to give the Lord thanks for his benefits.(:note) our life in the house of the LORD.

geneva@Isaiah:40:1 @ Comfort (note:)This is a consolation for the Church, assuring them that they will never be destitute of prophets by which he exhorts the true ministers of God that then were, and those also that would come after him, to comfort the poor afflicted and to assure them of their deliverance both of body and soul.(:note) ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.

geneva@Isaiah:40:4 @ Every valley shall be exalted, and every (note:)Whatever may prevent or hinder this deliverance will be removed.(:note) mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:

geneva@Isaiah:40:5 @ And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all (note:)This miracle will be so great, that it will be known through all the world.(:note) flesh together shall see [it]: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken [it].

geneva@Isaiah:40:7 @ 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:40:10 @ Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong [hand], and (note:)His power will be sufficient without help of any other, and will have all means in himself to bring his will to pass.(:note) his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward [is] with him, and his work before him.

geneva@Isaiah:40:11 @ He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry [them] in his bosom, [and] shall gently lead those that are with (note:)He will show his care and favour over them who are weak and tender.(:note) young.

geneva@Isaiah:40:18 @ To whom then (note:)By this he arms them against the idolatry with which they would be tempted in Babylon.(:note) will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare to him?

geneva@Isaiah:40:20 @ He that [is] so (note:)He shows the rage of the idolaters, seeing that the poor who do not have enough to meet their own needs will defraud themselves to serve their idols.(:note) impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree [that] will not rot; he seeketh for himself a skilful workman to prepare a graven image, [that] shall not be moved.

geneva@Isaiah:40:25 @ To whom nowe will ye liken me, that I should be like him, saith the Holy one?

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:41:10 @ 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:41:12 @ Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not (note:)Because they will be destroyed.(:note) find them, [even] them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of naught.

geneva@Isaiah:41:13 @ For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying vnto thee, Feare not, I wil helpe thee.

geneva@Isaiah:41:14 @ Fear not, thou (note:)Thus he calls them because they were contemned of all the world, and that they considering their own poor estate should seek him for help.(:note) worm Jacob, [and] ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

geneva@Isaiah:41:15 @ Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the (note:)I will make you able to destroy all your enemies no matter how mighty, and this chiefly is referred to the kingdom of Christ.(:note) mountains, and beat [them] small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.

geneva@Isaiah:41:17 @ [When] (note:)That is, they who will be afflicted in the captivity of Babylon.(:note) the poor and needy seek water, and [there is] none, [and] their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

geneva@Isaiah:41:18 @ I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry (note:)God would rather change the order of nature than that they should want anything, who cry to him by true faith in their miseries: declaring to them by this that they will lack nothing by the way, when they return from Babylon.(:note) land springs of water.

geneva@Isaiah:41:19 @ I will set in the wildernesse the cedar, the shittah tree, and the mirre tree, and the pine tree, and I will set in the wildernesse the firre tree, the elme and the boxe tree together.

geneva@Isaiah:41:20 @ That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel (note:)That is, has appointed and determined that it will come to pass.(:note) hath created it.

geneva@Isaiah:41:25 @ 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:41:27 @ The first [shall say] to Zion, Behold, behold (note:)That is, the Israelites who return from the captivity.(:note) them: and I will give to Jerusalem That is, a continual succession of prophets and ministers. one that bringeth good tidings.

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:42:4 @ He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he hath (note:)Till he has set all things in good order.(:note) set judgment in the earth: and the The Gentiles will desire to receive his doctrine. isles shall wait for his law.

geneva@Isaiah:42:6 @ I the LORD have called thee in (note:)Meaning, to a lawful and just calling.(:note) righteousness, and will hold To assist and guide you. thy hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a As him, by whom the promise made to all nations in Abraham will be fulfilled. covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;

geneva@Isaiah:42:8 @ I [am] the LORD: that [is] my name: and my (note:)I will not permit my glory to be diminished: which I would do if I were not faithful.(:note) glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.

geneva@Isaiah:42:9 @ Behold, the former things have (note:)As in time past I have been true in my promises, so will I be in time to come.(:note) come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.

geneva@Isaiah:42:14 @ I have long time held my peace; I have been still, [and] restrained myself: [now] will I cry like a (note:)I will haste to execute my vengeance, which I have so long deferred as a woman that desires to be delivered, when she is in labour.(:note) travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.

geneva@Isaiah:42:15 @ I will make waste mountaines, and hilles, and drie vp all their herbes, and I will make the floods ylands, and I will drie vp the pooles.

geneva@Isaiah:42:16 @ And I will bring the (note:)That is, my poor people, who are in perplexity and care.(:note) blind by a way [that] they knew not; I will lead them in paths [that] they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do for them, and not forsake them.

geneva@Isaiah:42:21 @ The Lorde is willing for his righteousnesse sake that he may magnifie the Lawe, and exalt it.

geneva@Isaiah:42:22 @ But this [is] a people (note:)Because they will not acknowledge this blessing from the Lord, who is ready to deliver them, he permits them to be spoiled by their enemies through their own fault and incredulity.(:note) robbed and plundered; [they are] all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, There will be no one to comfort them, or to will the enemy to restore that which he has spoiled. Restore.

geneva@Isaiah:42:23 @ Who among you will give ear to this? [who] will hearken and hear for (note:)Meaning, God's wrath.(:note) the time to come?

geneva@Isaiah:43:1 @ But now thus saith the LORD (note:)After these threatenings he promises deliverance to his Church, because he has regenerated them, adopted them, and called them.(:note) that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, When you see dangers and conspiracies on all sides, remember this benefit and the love of your God, and it will encourage you. Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called [thee] by thy name; thou [art] mine.

geneva@Isaiah:43:2 @ 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:43:4 @ Since thou hast been precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give (note:)I will not spare any man, rather than you should perish, for God values one of his faithful more than all the wicked in the world.(:note) men for thee, and people for thy life.

geneva@Isaiah:43:5 @ Fear not: for I [am] with thee: I will bring thy seed from the (note:)He prophecies of their deliverance from the captivity of Babylon, and so of the calling of the universal Church, alluding to that which is written in (Deu_30:3).(:note) east, and gather thee from the west;

geneva@Isaiah:43:6 @ I will say to the North, Giue: and to the South, Keepe not backe: bring my sonnes from farre, & my daughters from the ends of the earth.

geneva@Isaiah:43:8 @ I will bring foorth the blinde people, and they shall haue eyes, and the deafe, and they shall haue eares.

geneva@Isaiah:43:9 @ Let all the nations be gathered (note:)Signifying that no power can resist him in doing this miraculous work, nor are all their idols able to do the same, as in (Isa_41:22).(:note) together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and show us former things? let them bring forth their To prove that the things which are spoken of them are true. witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them Showing that the malice of the wicked hinders them in the knowledge of the truth, because they will not hear when God speaks by his word. hear, and say, [It is] truth.

geneva@Isaiah:43:13 @ Yea, before the day was, I am, and there is none that can deliuer out of mine hand: I will doe it, and who shall let it?

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:43:19 @ Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the (note:)Meaning, that their deliverance out of Babylon would be more famous than that from Egypt was, (Jer_23:7; Hag_2:10; 2Co_5:17; Rev_21:5, Rev_21:7).(:note) wilderness, [and] rivers in the desert.

geneva@Isaiah:43:20 @ The (note:)They will have such abundance of all things as they return home, even in the dry and barren places, that the very beasts will feel my blessings and will acknowledge them: much more men ought to be thankful for the same.(:note) beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, [and] rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.

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:43:25 @ I, euen I am he that putteth away thine iniquities for mine owne sake, and will not remember thy sinnes.

geneva@Isaiah:44:2 @ Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed (note:)He treated and chose you from the beginning of his own mercy, and before you could merit anything.(:note) thee from the womb, [who] will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, Whom God accepts as righteous: or who had opportunity to it because of the law, and your holy calling. whom I have chosen.

geneva@Isaiah:44:3 @ 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:44:5 @ One shall say, I [am] the LORD'S; and another (note:)By this diversity of speech he means one thing, that is, that the people will be holy, and receive the true religion from God, as in (Psa_87:5).(:note) shall call [himself] by the name of Jacob; and another shall write [with] his hand to the LORD, and surname [himself] by the name of Israel.

geneva@Isaiah:44:7 @ And who, as I, shall (note:)And appoint them that will deliver the Church.(:note) call, and shall declare it, and set That is, tell me how I should proceed in this. it in order for me, since I appointed the God calls the Israelites ancient, because he preferred them to all others in his eternal election. ancient people? and the things that are coming, and shall come, let Meaning, their idols. them show to them.

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:44:14 @ He will hewe him downe cedars, and take the pine tree and the oke, and taketh courage among the trees of the forest: he planteth a firre tree, and the raine doeth nourish it.

geneva@Isaiah:44:15 @ Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take of it, and (note:)He sets forth the obstinacy and malice of the idolaters who though they see by daily experience that their idols are no better than the rest of the matter of which they are made, yet they refuse the one part, and make a god of the other, as the papists make their cake god, and the rest of their idols.(:note) warm himself; indeed, he kindleth [it], and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth [it]; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down to it.

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:45:1 @ Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to (note:)To assure the Jews of their deliverance against the great temptations that they would abide, he names the person and the means.(:note) Cyrus, whose Because Cyrus would execute the office of a deliverer, God called him his anointed for a time, but after another sort than he called David. right hand I have held, to To guide him in the deliverance of my people. subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;

geneva@Isaiah:45:2 @ I will go before thee, and make the (note:)I will take away all impediments and hindrances.(:note) crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut asunder the bars of iron:

geneva@Isaiah:45:3 @ And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest (note:)Not that Cyrus knew God to worship him correctly, but he had a certain particular knowledge as profane men may have of his power, and so was compelled to deliver God's people.(:note) know that I, the LORD, who call [thee] by thy name, [am] the God of Israel.

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:45:11 @ Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me (note:)Instead of murmuring, humble yourselves and ask what you will for the consolation of my children, and you will be sure of it as you are of these things which are at your command. Some read it with an interrogation, and make it the application of the comparison.(:note) of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.

geneva@Isaiah:45:13 @ I have raised (note:)That is, Cyrus, that I may show by him the faithfulness of my promise in delivering my people.(:note) him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for Meaning, freely and without ransom, or any grievous condition. price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Isaiah:45:14 @ Thus saith the LORD, The labour (note:)These people were tributaries to the Persians, and so king Artahshashte gave this money toward the building of the temple, (Ezr_7:27).(:note) of Egypt, and merchandise of Cush and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to thee, and they shall be While they were your enemies, they will now honour you and you will rule them: which was accomplished in the time of Christ. thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down to thee, they shall make supplication to thee, [saying], Surely God [is] in thee; and [there is] none else, [there is] no God.

geneva@Isaiah:45:15 @ Verily thou [art] a God that (note:)By this he exhorts the Jews to patience, though their deliverance is deferred for a time: showing that they would not repent their long patience, but the wicked and idolaters will be destroyed.(:note) hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.

geneva@Isaiah:45:22 @ Look to me, and be ye saved, all (note:)He calls the idolaters to repentance, willing them to look on him with the eye of faith.(:note) the ends of the earth: for I [am] God, and [there is] none else.

geneva@Isaiah:45:23 @ I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth [in] (note:)That is, that the thing which I have promise will be faithfully performed.(:note) righteousness, and shall not return, That to me every The knowledge of God and the true worshipping will be through all the world, (Rom_14:11; Phi_2:10) by which he signifies that we must not only serve God in heart, but declare the same also by outward profession. knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.

geneva@Isaiah:45:24 @ Surely, (note:)Meaning the faithful will feel and confess this.(:note) shall [one] say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: [even] to him shall [men] come; and all that are All the contemners of God. incensed against him shall be ashamed.

geneva@Isaiah:46:4 @ And [even] to [your] old age I [am] he; and [even] to gray hairs will I carry [you]: (note:)Seeing I have begotten you, I will nourish and preserve you forever.(:note) have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver [you].

geneva@Isaiah:46:5 @ To whom will ye liken me, and make [me] equal, and (note:)The people of God setting their own calamity, and the flourishing estate of the Babylonians, would be tempted to think that their God was not so mighty as the idols of their enemies: therefore he describes the original of all the idols to make them to be abhorred by all men: showing that the most that can be spoken in their commendation, is but to prove them vile.(:note) compare me, that we may be like?

geneva@Isaiah:46:10 @ Which declare the last thing from the beginning: and from of olde, the things that were not done, saying, My counsell shall stand, and I will doe whatsoeuer I will.

geneva@Isaiah:46:11 @ Calling a ravenous (note:)That is, Cyrus, who will come as swift as a bird and fight against Babylon.(:note) bird from the east, the man that executeth my Him by whom I have appointed to execute that which I have determined. counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken [it], I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed [it], I will also perform it.

geneva@Isaiah:46:13 @ I bring (note:)He shows that man's incredulity cannot abolish the promise of God, (Rom_3:3).(:note) near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not delay: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.

geneva@Isaiah:47:1 @ Come down, and sit in the dust, O (note:)Which has lived in wealth and wantonness and has not yet been overcome by any enemies.(:note) virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: [there is] no Your government will be taken from you. throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.

geneva@Isaiah:47:2 @ Take the millstones, and (note:)You will be brought to most vile servitude: for to turn the mill was the office of slaves.(:note) grind meal: uncover thy locks, The things in which she sets her greatest pride, will be made vile, even from the head to the foot. make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.

geneva@Isaiah:47:3 @ Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet [thee as] a (note:)I will use no humanity nor pity toward you.(:note) man.

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:47:14 @ Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: [there shall] not [be] a coal (note:)They will utterly perish, and no part of them remain.(:note) to warm at, [nor] fire to sit before it.

geneva@Isaiah:47:15 @ Thus shall they be to thee with whom thou hast laboured, [even] thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his (note:)They will flee everyone to that place, which he thought by his speculations to be most sure: but that will deceive them.(:note) quarter; none shall save thee.

geneva@Isaiah:48:6 @ Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye (note:)Will you not acknowledge my blessing, and declare it to others?(:note) declare [it]? I have showed ye new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.

geneva@Isaiah:48:9 @ For my name's sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, (note:)As it was my free mercy that I chose you: so it is my free mercy that must save you.(:note) that I cut thee not off.

geneva@Isaiah:48:11 @ For my own sake, [even] for my own sake, will I do [it]: for how should [my name] (note:)God joins the salvation of his with his own honour: so that they cannot perish, but his glory would be diminished, as in (Deu_32:27).(:note) be profaned? Read (Isa_42:8). and I will not give my glory to another.

geneva@Isaiah:48:14 @ All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; who among them hath declared these [things]? The LORD hath loved (note:)Meaning, Cyrus, whom he had chosen to destroy Babylon.(:note) him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm [shall be on] the Chaldeans.

geneva@Isaiah:48:17 @ Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I [am] the LORD thy God who teacheth thee (note:)What things will do you good.(:note) to profit, who leadeth thee by the way [that] thou shouldest go.

geneva@Isaiah:48:21 @ And they (note:)He shows that it will be as easy to deliver them, as he did their fathers out of Egypt.(:note) thirsted not [when] he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he broke the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

geneva@Isaiah:49:3 @ And said to me, Thou [art] my servant, O (note:)By Israel is meant Christ, and all the body of the faithful, as the members and their head.(:note) Israel, in whom I will be glorified.

geneva@Isaiah:49:5 @ And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb [to be] his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, (note:)Though the Jews refuse my doctrine, yet God will approve my ministry.(:note) yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength.

geneva@Isaiah:49:6 @ 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:49:7 @ Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, [and] his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a (note:)Meaning, the Jews whom tyrants kept in bondage.(:note) servant of rulers, Kings shall see and The benefit of their deliverance will be so great, that great and small will acknowledge it, and revere God for it. arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, [and] the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.

geneva@Isaiah:49:8 @ Thus saith the LORD, (note:)Thus he speaks of his Church when he would show his mercy toward it, (2Co_6:2).(:note) In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give Meaning, Christ alone. thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the Signifying that before Christ renewed the earth by his word, there is nothing but confusion and disorder. earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;

geneva@Isaiah:49:9 @ That thou mayest say to the (note:)To them who are in the prison of sin and death.(:note) prisoners, Go forth; to them that [are] in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their Being in Christ's protection, they will be safe against all dangers, and free from fear of the enemies. pastures [shall be] in all high places.

geneva@Isaiah:49:11 @ And I will make all my mountaines, as a way, and my paths shalbe exalted.

geneva@Isaiah:49:12 @ Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of (note:)Meaning, the south country, so that Christ will deliver his from all the parts of the world.(:note) Sinim.

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:49:22 @ 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:49:25 @ But thus saith the LORD, (note:)This is the answer to their objection, that no one is stronger than the Lord, neither has a more just title to them.(:note) Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.

geneva@Isaiah:49:26 @ And I will feed them that oppress thee with (note:)I will cause them to destroy one another as in (Jdg_7:22; 2Ch_20:22; Isa_19:2).(:note) their own flesh; and they shall be drunk with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD [am] thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

geneva@Isaiah:50:7 @ For the Lord God will helpe me, therefore shall I not bee confounded: therefore haue I set my face like a flint, and I knowe that I shall not be ashamed.

geneva@Isaiah:50:8 @ Hee is neere that iustifieth mee: who will contend with me? Let vs stande together: who is mine aduersarie? let him come neere to me.

geneva@Isaiah:50:9 @ Beholde, the Lord God will helpe me: who is he that can condemne me? loe, they shall waxe olde as a garment: the mothe shall eate them vp.

geneva@Isaiah:50:11 @ Behold, all ye that kindle (note:)You have sought consolation by your own devises, and have refused the light and consolation which God has offered: therefore you will remain in sorrow and not be comforted.(:note) a fire, that surround [yourselves] with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks [that] ye have kindled. This shall ye have of my hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.

geneva@Isaiah:51:3 @ For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness (note:)As plentiful as paradise, (Gen_2:8,9).(:note) like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found in it, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

geneva@Isaiah:51:4 @ Hearken to me, my people; and give ear to me, O my nation: for a (note:)I will rule and govern my Church by my word and doctrine.(:note) law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.

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:51:19 @ These two (note:)Of which the one is outward as of the things that come to the body, as war, and famine and the other is inward, and belongs to the mind: that is, to be without comfort: therefore he says «How will you be comforted?»(:note) [things] have come to thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?

geneva@Isaiah:51:23 @ But I will put it into their hande that spoile thee: which haue said to thy soule, Bowe downe, that wee may goe ouer, and thou hast layde thy bodie as the grounde, and as the streete to them that went ouer.

geneva@Isaiah:52:1 @ Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no (note:)No wicked tyrant, who will subvert God's true religion and oppress the conscience.(:note) more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.

geneva@Isaiah:52:3 @ For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for (note:)The Babylonians paid nothing to me for you: therefore I will take you again without ransom.(:note) nothing; and ye shall be redeemed without money.

geneva@Isaiah:52:4 @ For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went (note:)When Jacob went there in times of famine.(:note) down in times past into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian The Egyptians might pretend some reason to oppress my people because they went there and remained among them, but the Assyrians have no title to excuse their tyranny by, and therefore I will punish them more than I did the Egyptians. oppressed them without cause.

geneva@Isaiah:52:12 @ For ye shall not go out (note:)As your fathers did out of Egypt.(:note) with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel [will be] your rear guard.

geneva@Isaiah:52:15 @ So (note:)He will spread his word through many nations.(:note) shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their In sign of reverence, and as being astonished at his excellency. mouths at him: for [that] which had not been told them shall they see; and [that] which they had not heard shall they By the preaching of the gospel. consider.

geneva@Isaiah:53:1 @ Who (note:)The prophet shows that very few will receive their preaching from Christ, and from their deliverance by him, (Joh_12:38; Rom_10:16).(:note) hath believed our report? and to whom is the Meaning, that no one can believe but whose hearts God touches with the virtue of his Holy Spirit. arm of the LORD revealed?

geneva@Isaiah:53:2 @ For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a (note:)The beginning of Christ's kingdom will be small and contemptible in the sight of man, but it will grow wonderfully and flourish before God.(:note) root out of a dry Read (Isa_11:1). ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, [there is] no beauty that we should desire him.

geneva@Isaiah:53:7 @ He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he (note:)But willingly and patiently obeyed his father's appointment, (Mat_26:63; Act_8:32).(:note) opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.

geneva@Isaiah:53:8 @ He was taken from (note:)From the cross and grave, after that he was condemned.(:note) prison and from judgment: Though he died for sin, yet after his resurrection he will live forever and this his death is to restore life to his members, (Rom_6:9). and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off from the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

geneva@Isaiah:53:10 @ Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put [him] to grief: when (note:)Christ by offering up himself will give life to his Church, and so cause them to live with him forever.(:note) thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong [his] days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

geneva@Isaiah:53:11 @ He shall see of the (note:)That is, the fruit and effect of his labour, which is the salvation of his Church.(:note) travail of his soul, [and] shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my Christ will justify by faith through his word, while Moses could not justify by the law. righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

geneva@Isaiah:53:12 @ Therefore I will divide to him [a portion] with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because (note:)Because he humbled himself, therefore he will be extolled to glory, (Phi_2:7-12).(:note) he hath poured out his soul to death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bore the sin That is, of all that believe in him. of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

geneva@Isaiah:54:1 @ Sing, O (note:)After he has declared the death of Christ, he speaks to the Church, because it would feel the fruit of the same, and calls her barren, because in the captivity she was a widow without hope to have any children.(:note) barren, thou [that] didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou [that] didst not travail with child: for more [are] the children of the The Church in this her affliction and captivity will bring forth more children, than when she was free, or this may be spoken by admiration, considering the great number that would come from her. Her deliverance under Cyrus was as her childhood, and therefore this was accomplished when she came of age, which was under the gospel. desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.

geneva@Isaiah:54:5 @ 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:54:7 @ For a litle while haue I forsaken thee, but with great compassion will I gather thee.

geneva@Isaiah:54:9 @ For this [is as] the (note:)As sure as the promise that I made to Noah, that the waters would no longer overflow the earth.(:note) waters of Noah to me: for [as] I have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more overflow the earth; so have I sworn that I will not be angry with thee, nor rebuke thee.

geneva@Isaiah:54:11 @ O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, [and] not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with (note:)By this he declares the excellent estate of the Church under Christ.(:note) fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.

geneva@Isaiah:54:12 @ And I will make thy windowes of emeraudes, and thy gates shining stones, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.

geneva@Isaiah:54:14 @ In (note:)In stability and sureness, so that it will stand forever.(:note) righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.

geneva@Isaiah:54:15 @ Behold, they shall surely assemble, [but] not by (note:)And therefore will not prevail.(:note) me: whoever shall assemble Meaning, the domestic enemies of the Church, as are the hypocrites. against thee shall fall for thy sake.

geneva@Isaiah:55:2 @ Why do ye spend money for [that which is] not bread? (note:)He reproves their ingratitude, who refuse those things that God offers willingly, and in the mean time spare neither cost nor labour to obtain those which are not profitable.(:note) and your labour for [that which] satisfieth not? hearken diligently to me, and eat ye [that which is] good, and let your soul delight itself in You will be fed abundantly. fatness.

geneva@Isaiah:55:3 @ Incline your ear, and come to me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, [even] the (note:)The same covenant which through my mercy I ratified and confirmed to David, that it would be eternal, (2Sa_7:13; Act_13:34).(:note) sure mercies of David.

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:55:11 @ So shall my (note:)If these small things have their effect, as daily experience shows much more will my promise which I have made and confirmed, bring to pass the things which I have spoken for your deliverance.(:note) word be that proceedeth from my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper [in the thing] for which I sent it.

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:56:1 @ Thus saith the LORD, (note:)God shows what he requires of them after he has delivered them: that is, the works of charity by which true faith is declared.(:note) Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation [is] near to come, and my Which I will declare toward you, and pour into your hearts by my Spirit. righteousness to be revealed.

geneva@Isaiah:56:3 @ Neither let the son of the foreigner, that (note:)Let no one think himself unfit to receive the graces of the Lord: for the Lord will take away all impediments, and will forsake no one who will keep his true religion, and believe in him.(:note) hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I [am] a dry tree.

geneva@Isaiah:56:5 @ Even to them will I give in my (note:)Meaning, in his Church.(:note) house and within my walls a place and a They will be called after my people, and be of the same religion: yea, under Christ the dignity of the faithful will be greater than the Jews were at that time. name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, 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:56:10 @ His (note:)He shows that this affliction will come through the fault of the governors, prophets and pastors, whose ignorance, negligence, greed and obstinacy provoked God's wrath against them.(:note) watchmen [are] blind: they are all ignorant, they [are] all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

geneva@Isaiah:56:12 @ Come ye, [say they], I will bring wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to (note:)We are well yet, and to morrow will be better: therefore let us not fear the plagues before they come: thus the wicked contemned the admonition and exhortations which were made to them in the Name of God.(:note) morrow shall be as this day, [and] much more abundant.

geneva@Isaiah:57:1 @ The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth [it] to heart: and merciful men [are] taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away (note:)From the plague that is at hand, and also because God will punish the wicked.(:note) from the evil [to come].

geneva@Isaiah:57:12 @ I will declare thy righteousness, (note:)That is, your naughtiness, idolatry and impiety which the wicked call God's service: thus he derides their obstinacy.(:note) and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.

geneva@Isaiah:57:16 @ For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always angry: (note:)I will not use my power against frail man, whose life is but a blast.(:note) for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls [which] I have made.

geneva@Isaiah:57:18 @ I have seen his ways, and will (note:)Though they were obstinate, yet I did not withdraw my mercy from them.(:note) heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.

geneva@Isaiah:57:19 @ I create the (note:)That is, I frame the speech and words of my messengers who will bring peace.(:note) fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to [him that is] As well to him that is in captivity as to him that remains at home. far off, and to [him that is] near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.

geneva@Isaiah: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:58:2 @ Yet they (note:)They will seem to worship me and have outward holiness.(:note) seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.

geneva@Isaiah:58:4 @ Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as [ye do this] day, to make your voice to be (note:)So long as you use contention and oppression, your fasting and prayers will not be heard.(:note) heard on high.

geneva@Isaiah:58:8 @ Then shall thy (note:)That is, the prosperous estate with which God will bless you.(:note) light break forth as the morning, and thy health shall spring forth speedily: and thy The testimony of your goodness will appear before God and man. righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rear guard.

geneva@Isaiah:58:10 @ And [if] thou shalt (note:)That is, have compassion on their miseries.(:note) draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in Your adversity will be turned into prosperity. obscurity, and thy darkness [be] as the noonday:

geneva@Isaiah:59:2 @ But your iniquities haue separated betweene you and your God, and your sinnes haue hidde his face from you, that he will not heare.

geneva@Isaiah:59:15 @ Yea, truth faileth; and he [that] departeth from evil maketh himself (note:)The wicked will destroy him.(:note) a prey: and the LORD saw [it], and it displeased him that [there was] no judgment.

geneva@Isaiah:59:18 @ According to [their] deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the (note:)That is, your enemies who dwell in various places, and beyond the sea.(:note) isles he will repay recompence.

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:60:6 @ The (note:)Meaning, that everyone honour the Lord with that with which he is able: Signifying that it is no true serving of God unless we offer ourselves to serve his glory, and all that we have.(:note) multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall show forth the praises of the LORD.

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