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Isaiah:1:1 @ The (note:)That is, a revelation or prophecy, which was one of the two means by which God declared himself to his servants in old times, as in (Num_12:6) and therefore the prophets were called seers, (1Sa_9:9).(:note) vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw Isaiah was chiefly sent to Judah and Jerusalem, but not only: for in this book are prophecies concerning other nations also. concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Called also Azariah, (2Ki_15:1) of these kings read (2Ki. strkjv@14:1-21:1; 2Ch. strkjv@25:1-33:1). Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah. The Argument - God, according to his promise in (Deu_18:15) that he would never leave his Church destitute of a prophet, has from time to time accomplished the same: whose office was not only to declare to the people the things to come, of which they had a special revelation, but also to interpret and declare the law, and to apply particularly the doctrine contained briefly in it, for the use and profit of those to whom they thought it chiefly to belong, and as the time and state of things required. Principally in the declaration of the law, they had respect to three things which were the ground of their doctrine: first, to the doctrine contained briefly in the two tables: secondly to the promises and threatenings of the law: and thirdly to the covenant of grace and reconciliation grounded on our Saviour Jesus Christ, who is the end of the law. To which they neither added nor diminished, but faithfully expounded the sense and meaning of it. As God gave them understanding of things, they applied the promises particularly for the comfort of the Church and the members of it, and also denounced the menaces against the enemies of the same: not for any care or regard to the enemies, but to assure the Church of their safeguard by the destruction of their enemies. Concerning the doctrine of reconciliation, they have more clearly entreated it than Moses, and set forth more lively Jesus Christ, in whom this covenant of reconciliation was made. In all these things Isaiah surpassed all the prophets, and was diligent to set out the same, with vehement admonitions, reprehensions, and consolations: ever applying the doctrine as he saw that the disease of the people required. He declares also many notable prophecies which he had received from God, concerning the promise of the Messiah, his office and kingdom, the favour of God toward his Church, the calling of the Gentiles and their union with the Jews. Which are principal points contained in this book, and a gathering of his sermons that he preached. Which after certain days that they had stood upon the temple door (for the manner of the prophets was to post the sum of their doctrine for certain days, that the people might the better mark it as in (Isa_8:1; Hab_2:2)) the priests took it down and reserved it among their registers. By God's providence these books were preserved as a monument to the Church forever. Concerning his person and time he was of the king's stock (for Amos his father was brother to Azariah king of Judah, as the best writers agree) and prophesied more than 64 years, from the time of Uzziah to the reign of Manasseh who was his son-in-law (as the Hebrews write) and by whom he was put to death. In reading of the prophets, this one thing among others is to be observed, that they speak of things to come as though they were now past because of the certainty of it, and that they could not but come to pass, because God had ordained them in his secret counsel and so revealed them to his prophets.
geneva@Isaiah:1:6 @ From the (note:)Every part of the body, the least as well as the chiefest was plagued.(:note) sole of the foot even to the head [there is] no soundness in it; [but] wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, Their plagues were so grievous that they were incurable, and yet they would not repent. neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
geneva@Isaiah:2:6 @ Therefore thou (note:)The prophet seeing the small hope that the Jews would convert, complains to God as though he had utterly forsaken them for their sins.(:note) hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they are Full of the corruptions that reigned chiefly in the east parts. filled [with customs] from the east, and [are] soothsayers like the Philistines, They altogether gave themselves to the fashions of other nations. and they please themselves in the children of foreigners.
geneva@Isaiah: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:4:6 @ And there shall be a tabernacle for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm (note:)God promises to be the defence of his Church against all troubles and dangers.(:note) and from rain.
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:6:1 @ In the year that king Uzziah died (note:)God does not show himself to man in his majesty but according as man's capacity to comprehend him, that is, by visible signs as John the Baptist saw the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove.(:note) I saw also the Lord sitting upon a As a judge ready to give sentence. throne, high and lifted up, and his Of his garment, or of his throne. train filled the temple.
geneva@Isaiah:6:2 @ 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:6:3 @ And one cried to another, and said, (note:)This often repetition signifies that the angels cannot satisfy themselves in praising God, to teach us that in all our lives we should give ourselves to the continual praise of God.(:note) Holy, holy, holy, [is] the LORD of hosts: the whole His glory not only appears in the heavens but through all the world, and therefore all creatures are bound to praise him. earth [is] full of his glory.
geneva@Isaiah:6:4 @ And the posts of the door (note:)Which was to confirm the prophet, that it was not the voice of man: and by the smoke was signified the blindness that would come on the Jews.(:note) moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
geneva@Isaiah:6:5 @ Then said I, (note:)He speaks this for two reasons, the one because he who was a mortal creature and therefore had more need to glorify God than the angels, did not do it, and the other because the nearer that man approaches to God, the more he knows his own sin and corruption.(:note) Woe [is] me! for I am undone; because I [am] a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
geneva@Isaiah:6:6 @ Then one of the seraphims flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, [which] he had taken with the tongs from off the (note:)Of the burnt offerings where the fire never went out.(:note) altar:
geneva@Isaiah:6:7 @ And he laid [it] upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thy iniquity is taken away, and thy (note:)This declares that man cannot render due obedience to God, till he has purged us.(:note) sin purged.
geneva@Isaiah:6:8 @ Also I heard the voyce of the Lord, saying, Whome shall I send? and who shall goe for vs? Then I sayd, Here am I, send me.
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:6:10 @ Make the heart of this people fatte, make their eares heauie, and shut their eyes, lest they see with their eyes, and heare with their eares, and vnderstand with their hearts, and conuert, and he heale them.
geneva@Isaiah:6:11 @ Then said I, Lord, (note:)As he was moved with the zeal of God's glory, so was he touched with a charitable affection toward the people.(:note) how long? And he answered, Until the cities shall be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
geneva@Isaiah:6:12 @ And the Lord haue remoued men farre away, and there be a great desolation in the mids of the land.
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:7:6 @ Let us go up against Judah, and trouble it, and let us conquer it for ourselves and set a king in the midst of it, [even] the son of (note:)Who was an Israelite, and as it seems, enemy to the house of David.(:note) Tabeal:
geneva@Isaiah:8:6 @ Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of (note:)Which was a fountain at the foot of mount Zion, out of which ran a small river through the city: meaning, that they of Judah distrusting their own power which was small desired such power and riches as they saw in Syria and Israel.(:note) Shiloah that flow gently, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;
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: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:10:15 @ Shall the (note:)Here we see that no creature is able to do anything, but as God appoints him, and that they are all his instruments to do his work though the intentions are diverse, as in (Isa_10:6).(:note) axe boast itself against him that heweth with it? [or] shall the saw magnify itself against him that moveth it? as if the rod should shake [itself] against them that lift it, [or] as if the staff should lift [itself, as if it were] no wood.
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:12:6 @ Cry aloud and shout, (note:)You who are of the Church.(:note) thou inhabitant of Zion: for great [is] the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
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:13:6 @ Wail (note:)You Babylonians.(:note) ye; for the day of the LORD [is] at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
geneva@Isaiah:14:6 @ He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, [and] (note:)That is, he permitted all violence and injuries to be done.(:note) none hindereth.
geneva@Isaiah:15:6 @ For the waters of Nimrim shal be dried vp: therefore the grasse is withered, the herbes consumed, and there was no greene herbe.
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:17:6 @ Yet gleaning grapes shall (note:)Because God would have his covenant stable, he promises to reserve some of this people, and to bring them to repentance.(:note) be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two [or] three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four [or] five in the outmost fruitful branches of it, saith the LORD God of Israel.
geneva@Isaiah:18:6 @ They shall be left together to the fowls of the mountains, and to the (note:)Not only men will contemn them, but the brute beast.(:note) beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
geneva@Isaiah:19:6 @ And they shall turn the (note:)For the Nile ran into the sea by seven streams, as though they were many rivers.(:note) rivers far away; [and] the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
geneva@Isaiah:20:6 @ And the inhabitant of this (note:)Meaning Judea which was encompassed by their enemies as an isle with waters.(:note) isle shall say in that day, Behold, such [is] our expectation, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?
geneva@Isaiah:21:6 @ For thus hath the (note:)That is, in a vision by the spirit of prophecy.(:note) Lord said to me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.
geneva@Isaiah:22:6 @ And Elam (note:)He reminds them how God delivered them once from Sennacherib, who brought the Persians and Syrians with him, that they might by returning to God avoid that great plague which they would suffer by Nebuchadnezzar.(:note) bore the quiver with chariots of men [and] horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
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:24:6 @ Therefore hath the (note:)Written in the law, as in (Lev_26:14; Deu_28:16) thus the prophets used to apply particularly the menaces and promises which are general in the law.(:note) curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell in it are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are With heat and drought, or else that they were consumed with the fire of God's wrath. burned, and few men left.
geneva@Isaiah:25:6 @ And on this (note:)That is, in Zion, by which he means his Church, which would under Christ be assembled of the Jews and the Gentiles, and is here described under the figure of a costly banquet, as in (Mat_22:2).(:note) mountain shall the LORD of hosts make to all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
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:27:6 @
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:28:16 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a (note:)That is, Christ, by whom all the building must be tried and upheld, (Psa_118:22; Mat_21:42; Act_4:11; Rom_9:33; 1Pe_2:6).(:note) tried stone, a precious corner [stone], a sure foundation: he that believeth He will be quiet, and seek no other remedies, but be content with Christ. shall not make haste.
geneva@Isaiah:29:6 @ Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hostes with thunder, and shaking, and a great noyse, a whirlewinde, and a tempest, and a flame of a deuouring fire.
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:31:1 @ Woe to them that (note:)There were two special reasons why the Israelites should not join with the Egyptians: first, because the Lord had commanded them never to return there, (Deu_17:16, Deu_28:68) lest they should forget the benefit of their redemption: and secondly, lest they should be corrupted with the superstition and idolatry of the Egyptians, and so forsake God, (Jer_2:18).(:note) go down to Egypt for help; and rely on horses, and trust in chariots, because [they are] many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not to the Holy One of Israel, neither Meaning, that they forsake the Lord, if they put their trust in worldly things: for they cannot trust in both. seek the LORD!
geneva@Isaiah:31:6 @ Turn ye to [him from] whom the children of Israel have (note:)He touches their conscience that they might earnestly feel their grievous sins, and so truly repent, for as much as now they are almost drowned and past recovery.(:note) deeply revolted.
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:33:6 @ And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of (note:)That is, in the days of Hezekiah.(:note) thy times, [and] strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD [is] his treasure.
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: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:35:9 @ No lion shall be there, nor [any] (note:)As he threatens the wicked with destruction by this, (Isa_30:6).(:note) ravenous beast shall go up on it, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk [there]:
geneva@Isaiah:36:6 @ 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:37:6 @ And Isaiah sayde vnto them, Thus say vnto your master, Thus saith the Lorde, Be not afrayd of the wordes that thou hast heard, wherewith the seruants of the king of Asshur haue blasphemed me.
geneva@Isaiah: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:39:6 @ Behold, the days come, that all that [is] in thy house, and [that] which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be (note:)By the grievousness of the punishment is declared how greatly God detested ambition and vain glory.(:note) carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
geneva@Isaiah:40:6 @ The (note:)The voice of God which spoke to the prophet Isaiah.(:note) voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh [is] grass, and all its Meaning, all man's wisdom and natural powers, (Jam_1:10; 1Pe_1:24). beauty [is] as the flower of the field:
geneva@Isaiah:41:6 @ They helped every one his neighbour; and [every one] said to his brother, (note:)He notes the obstinacy of the idolaters to maintain their superstitions.(:note) Be of good courage.
geneva@Isaiah: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: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:44:6 @ Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; (note:)I am always like myself, that is, merciful toward my Church, and most able to maintain it, as in (Isa_41:4, Isa_48:12; Rev_1:17, Rev_22:13).(:note) I [am] the first, and I [am] the last; and besides me [there is] no God.
geneva@Isaiah:45:6 @ That they may knowe from the rising of the sunne and from the West, that there is none besides me. I am the Lord, and there is none other.
geneva@Isaiah:45:7 @ I form the (note:)I send peace and war, prosperity and adversity, as in (Amo_3:6).(:note) light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these [things].
geneva@Isaiah:46:6 @ They draw gold out of the bagge & weigh siluer in the balance, and hire a goldsmith to make a god of it, and they bowe downe, and worship it.
geneva@Isaiah:47:6 @ I was angry with my people, I have polluted my inheritance, and given them into thy hand: thou didst show them no (note:)They abused God's judgments, thinking that he punished the Israelites, because he would completely cast them off, and therefore instead of pitying their misery, you increased it.(:note) mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.
geneva@Isaiah: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: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:50:6 @ I gave my back to the (note:)I did not shrink from God for any persecution or calamity. By which he shows that the true ministers of God can look for no other recompense of the wicked, but after this sort, and also that is their comfort.(:note) smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
geneva@Isaiah: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:52:6 @ Therefore my people shal know my Name: therefore they shall know in that day, that I am he that doe speake: beholde, it is I.
geneva@Isaiah:53:6 @ All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the (note:)Meaning, the punishment of our iniquity, and not the fault itself.(:note) iniquity of us all.
geneva@Isaiah:53:7 @ 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:54:6 @ For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a (note:)As a wife who was forsaken in your youth.(:note) wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
geneva@Isaiah:55:6 @ Seek ye the LORD while he may be (note:)When he offers himself by the preaching of his word.(:note) found, call ye upon him while he is near:
geneva@Isaiah:56:6 @ Also the strangers that cleaue vnto the Lord, to serue him, and to loue the Name of the Lord, and to be his seruants: euery one that keepeth the Sabbath, and polluteth it not and imbraceth my couenant,
geneva@Isaiah:57:6 @ Among the smooth [stones] (note:)Meaning every place was polluted with their idolatry: or every fair stone they found they made into an idol.(:note) of the stream [is] thy portion; they, they [are] thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in In the sacrifices which you offering before these idols thought you served God. these?
geneva@Isaiah:58:6 @ [Is] not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every (note:)That you leave off all your extortions.(:note) yoke?
geneva@Isaiah:59:6 @ Their webbes shall be no garment, neither shall they couer themselues with their labours: for their workes are workes of iniquitie, & the worke of crueltie is in their handes.
geneva@Isaiah:60:1 @ Arise, shine; for thy (note:)The time of your prosperity and happiness: while speaking of Babylon, he commanded her to go down, (Isa_47:1).(:note) light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
geneva@Isaiah:60:2 @ For, behold, the darkness shall cover the (note:)Signifying, that all men are in darkness till God gives them the light of his Spirit, and that this light shines to no one, but to those that are in his Church.(:note) earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
geneva@Isaiah:60:3 @ And the Gentiles shall come to (note:)Meaning, that Judea would be as the morning star, and that the Gentiles would receive light from her.(:note) thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
geneva@Isaiah:60:4 @ Lift up thy eyes around, and see: all (note:)An infinite number from all countries as in (Isa_49:18).(:note) they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at [thy] side.
geneva@Isaiah:60:5 @ Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thy heart shall fear, (note:)For joy, as the heart is drawn in for sorrow.(:note) and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted to thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come to thee.
geneva@Isaiah:60:6 @ The (note:)Meaning, that everyone will 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.
geneva@Isaiah:60:7 @ All the flocks of (note:)That is the Arabians, that have great abundance of cattle.(:note) Kedar shall be gathered together to thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister to thee: they shall come up with acceptance on my Because the altar was a figure of Christ, (Heb_13:10), he shows that nothing can be acceptable to him, which is not offered to him by this altar, who was both the offering and the altar itself. altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.
geneva@Isaiah:60:8 @ Who [are] these (note:)Showing what great number will come to the Church, and with what great diligence and zeal.(:note) [that] fly as a cloud, and as doves to their windows?
geneva@Isaiah:60:9 @ Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships (note:)The Gentiles that are now enemies, will become friends and set forth the Church.(:note) of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, to the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
geneva@Isaiah:60:10 @ And the sons of foreigners shall build up thy walls, and their (note:)Meaning Cyrus and his successors, but chiefly this is accomplished in them that serve Christ, being converted by his gospel.(:note) kings shall minister to thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.
geneva@Isaiah:60:11 @ Therefore thy gates shalbe open cotinually: neither day nor night shall they be shutte, that men may bring vnto thee the riches of the Gentiles, and that their Kings may be brought.
geneva@Isaiah:60:12 @ For the nation and (note:)He shows that God has given all power and authority here in earth for the use of his Church, and that they who will not serve and profit the same will be destroyed.(:note) kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, [those] nations shall be utterly wasted.
geneva@Isaiah:60:13 @ The (note:)There is nothing so excellent which will not serve the needs of the Church.(:note) glory of Lebanon shall come to thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my Signifying that God's majesty is not included in the temple, which is but the place for his feet, that we may learn to rise to the heavens. feet glorious.
geneva@Isaiah:60:14 @ The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending to thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves (note:)To worship their head Christ, by obeying his doctrine.(:note) down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
geneva@Isaiah:60:15 @ Where as thou hast bene forsaken and hated: so that no man went by thee, I will make thee an eternall glorie, and a ioye from generation to generation.
geneva@Isaiah:60:16 @ Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the (note:)Both high and low will be ready to help and comfort you.(:note) breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD [am] thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
geneva@Isaiah:60:17 @ For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers (note:)Your governors will love you, and seek your wealth and prosperity.(:note) peace, and thy exactors righteousness.
geneva@Isaiah:60:18 @ Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt (note:)Meaning not an earthly happiness, but spiritual, which is fulfilled in Christ's kingdom.(:note) call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
geneva@Isaiah:60:19 @ The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the (note:)Signifying that all worldly means will cease, and that Christ will be all in all, as in (Rev_21:23, Rev_22:5).(:note) moon give light to thee: but the LORD shall be to thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
geneva@Isaiah:60:20 @ Thy sunne shall neuer goe downe, neither shall thy moone be hid: for the Lord shalbe thine euerlasting light, and the dayes of thy sorowe shalbe ended.
geneva@Isaiah:60:21 @ Thy people also [shall be] all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the (note:)The children of the Church.(:note) branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
geneva@Isaiah:60:22 @ A little one shall become a (note:)Meaning, that the Church would be miraculously multiplied.(:note) thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in its time.
geneva@Isaiah:61:1 @ The Spirit of the Lord GOD [is] (note:)Thus belongs to all the prophets and ministers of God, but chiefly to Christ, of whose abundant graces everyone receives according as it pleases him to distribute.(:note) upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings to the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the To them that are lively touched with the feeling of their sins. brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the Who are in the bondage of sin. captives, and the opening of the prison to [them that are] bound;
geneva@Isaiah:61:2 @ To proclaim the (note:)The time when it pleased God to show his good favour to man, which Paul calls the fulness of time, (Gal_4:4).(:note) acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of For when God delivers his Church, he punishes his enemies. vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
geneva@Isaiah:61:3 @ To appoint to them that mourn in Zion, to give to them beauty for (note:)Which was the sign of mourning.(:note) ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called Trees that bring forth good fruits, as in (Mat_3:8). trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he may be glorified.
geneva@Isaiah:61:4 @ And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many (note:)That is, for a long time.(:note) generations.
geneva@Isaiah:61:5 @ And foreigners shall (note:)They will be ready to serve you in all your needs.(:note) stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien [shall be] your plowmen and your vinedressers.
geneva@Isaiah:61:6 @ But ye shall be named the (note:)This is accomplished in the time of Christ, by whom all the faithful are made priests and kings, (1Pe_2:9; Rev_1:6, Rev_5:10).(:note) Priests of the LORD: [men] shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the Read (Isa_60:11, Isa_60:16). riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.
geneva@Isaiah:61:7 @ For your shame [ye shall have] (note:)Abundant recompence as this word is used, (Isa_40:2).(:note) double; and [for] confusion That is, the Jews. they shall rejoice in That is, of the Gentiles. their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the While the Gentiles had dominion over the Jews in times past, now they will have double authority over them and possess twice as much. double: everlasting joy shall be to them.
geneva@Isaiah:61:8 @ For I the LORD love judgment, I hate (note:)I will not receive their offerings who are extortioners, deceivers, hypocrites or that deprive me of my glory.(:note) robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
geneva@Isaiah:61:9 @ And (note:)That is, of the Church.(:note) their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they [are] the seed [which] the LORD hath blessed.
geneva@Isaiah:61:10 @
geneva@Isaiah:61:11 @ For as the earth bringeth foorth her bud, and as the garden causeth to growe that which is sowen in it: so the Lord God will cause righteousnesse to grow and praise before all the heathen.
geneva@Isaiah:62:1 @ For Zion's sake I will not (note:)The prophet says that he will never cease to declare to the people the good tidings of their deliverance.(:note) hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until its righteousness shall go forth as Till they have full deliverance: and this the prophet speaks to encourage all other ministers to the setting forth of God's mercies toward his Church. brightness, and its salvation as a lamp [that] burneth.
geneva@Isaiah:62:2 @ And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by (note:)You will have a more excellent fame than you have had till now.(:note) a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name.
geneva@Isaiah:62:3 @ Thou shalt also be a (note:)He will value you as dear and precious as a king does his crown.(:note) crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
geneva@Isaiah:62:4 @ Thou shalt no more be termed (note:)You will no longer be contemned as a woman forsaken by her husband.(:note) Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be That it may be replenished with children. married.
geneva@Isaiah:62:5 @ For [as] a young man marrieth a virgin, [so] shall thy sons (note:)As they confess one faith and religion with you, they are in the same bond of marriage with you, and they are called the children of the Church, as Christ makes her plentiful to bring forth children to him.(:note) marry thee: and [as] the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, [so] shall thy God rejoice over thee.
geneva@Isaiah:62:6 @ I have set (note:)Prophets, pastors and ministers.(:note) watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, [which] shall never hold their peace day nor night: He exhorts the ministers never to cease to call on God by prayer for the deliverance of his Church and to teach others to do the same. ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,
geneva@Isaiah:62:7 @ And give him no rest, till he shall establish, and till he shall make Jerusalem a (note:)For the restoration of which all the world will praise him.(:note) praise in the earth.
geneva@Isaiah:62:8 @ The Lorde hath sworne by his right hand and by his strong arme, Surely I wil no more giue thy corne to be meate for thine enemies, & surely the sonnes of the strangers shall not drinke thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured.
geneva@Isaiah:62:9 @ But they that haue gathered it, shall eate it, and prayse the Lorde, and the gatherers thereof shal drinke it in the courtes of my Sanctuarie.
geneva@Isaiah:62:10 @
geneva@Isaiah:62:11 @ Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed to the end of the world, (note:)You prophets and ministers show the people of this their deliverance: which was chiefly meant of our salvation by Christ, (Zec_9:9; Mat_21:5).(:note) Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward [is] with him, and He will have all power to bring his purpose to pass, as in (Isa_40:10). his work before him.
geneva@Isaiah:62:12 @ And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A (note:)That is, one over whom God has had a singular care to recover her when she was lost.(:note) city not forsaken.
geneva@Isaiah:63:1 @ Who [is] this that cometh (note:)This prophecy is against the Idumeans and enemies who persecuted the Church, on whom God will take vengeance, and is here set forth all bloody after he has destroyed them in Bozrah, the chief city of the Idumeans: for these were their greatest enemies,and under the title of circumcision and the kindred of Abraham.(:note) from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this [that is] glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? God answers them that asked this question, «Who is this?» etc. and says «You see now performed in deed the vengeance which my prophets threatened.» I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
geneva@Isaiah:63:2 @
geneva@Isaiah:63:3 @ I haue troden the wine presse alone, and of all people there was none with mee: for I will treade them in mine anger, and tread them vnder foote in my wrath, and their blood shalbe sprinkled vpon my garments, and I will staine all my raiment.
geneva@Isaiah:63:4 @ For the day of vengeance [is] in my heart, and the (note:)Showing that when God punishes his enemies, it is for the profit and deliverance of his Church.(:note) year of my redeemed is come.
geneva@Isaiah:63:5 @ And I looked, and [there was] none to help; and I wondered that [there was] none to uphold: therefore my own (note:)God shows that he has no need of man's help for the deliverance of his, and though men refuse to do their duty through negligence and ingratitude, yet he himself will deliver his Church, and punish the enemies, (Isa_59:16).(:note) arm brought salvation to me; and my fury, it upheld me.
geneva@Isaiah:63:6 @ And I will tread down the people in my anger, and make them (note:)I will so astonish them and make them so giddy that they will not know which way to go.(:note) drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
geneva@Isaiah:63:7 @ I will (note:)The prophet speaks this to move the people to remember God's benefits in times past, that they may be confirmed in their troubles.(:note) mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, [and] the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.
geneva@Isaiah:63:8 @ For he said, Surely they [are] my (note:)For I chose them to be mine, that they should be holy, and not deceive my expectation.(:note) people, children [that] will not lie: so he was their Saviour.
geneva@Isaiah:63:9 @ In all their affliction he was (note:)He bore their afflictions and griefs as though they had been his own.(:note) afflicted, and the angel Which was a witness of God's presence, and this may be referred to Christ, to whom belongs the office of salvation. of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
geneva@Isaiah:63:10 @ But they rebelled and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore was hee turned to be their enemie and he fought against them.
geneva@Isaiah:63:11 @ Then he (note:)That is, the people of Israel being afflicted, called to mind God's benefits, which he had bestowed on their fathers in times past.(:note) remembered the days of old, Moses, [and] his people, [saying], Where [is] he that brought them out of the sea with the Meaning, Moses. shepherd of his flock? where [is] he that put his Holy Spirit within That is, in Moses that he might well govern the people: some refer this giving of the spirit to the people. him?
geneva@Isaiah:63:12 @ He led them by the right hand of Moses with his owne glorious arme, deuiding the water before them, to make himselfe an euerlasting Name.
geneva@Isaiah:63:13 @ That led them through the deep, as an (note:)Peaceably and gentle, as a horse is led to his pasture.(:note) horse in the wilderness, [that] they should not stumble?
geneva@Isaiah:63:14 @ As the beast goeth downe into the valley, the Spirite of the Lorde gaue them rest: so diddest thou leade thy people, to make thy selfe a glorious Name.
geneva@Isaiah:63:15 @
geneva@Isaiah:63:16 @ Doubtless thou [art] our father, though (note:)Though Abraham would refuse us to be his children, yet you will not refuse to be our father.(:note) Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, [art] our father, our redeemer; thy name [is] from everlasting.
geneva@Isaiah:63:17 @ O LORD, why hast (note:)By taking away the Holy Spirit from us, by whom we were governed, and so for our ingratitude delivered us up to our own concupiscence, and punished sin by sin according to your just judgment.(:note) thou made us to err from thy ways, [and] hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy Meaning, for the covenant's sake made to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob his servants. servants' sake, the tribes of thy inheritance.
geneva@Isaiah:63:18 @ The people of thy holiness have possessed [it] but a little (note:)That is, in respect to the promise, which is perpetual: even though they had now possessed the land of Canaan for 1400 years: and thus they lament, to move God rather to remember his covenant, than to punish their sins.(:note) while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
geneva@Isaiah:63:19 @ We haue bene as they, ouer whome thou neuer barest rule, and vpon whom thy Name was not called.
geneva@Isaiah:64:1 @ O that thou wouldest (note:)The prophet continues his prayer, desiring God to declare his love toward his Church by miracles and mighty power, as he did in mount Sinai.(:note) rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
geneva@Isaiah:64:2 @ As [when] the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth (note:)Meaning, the rain, hail, fire, thunder and lightning.(:note) the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thy adversaries, [that] the nations may tremble at thy presence!
geneva@Isaiah:64:3 @ When thou diddest terrible things, which we looked not for, thou camest downe, and the mountaines melted at thy presence.
geneva@Isaiah:64:4 @ For since the beginning of the world [men] have not (note:)Paul uses the same kind of admiration, (1Co_2:9) marvelling at God's great benefit showed to his Church, by the preaching of the gospel.(:note) heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, besides thee, [what] he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
geneva@Isaiah:64:5 @ Thou meetest him (note:)You showed favour toward our fathers, when they trusted in you and walked after your commandments.(:note) that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, [those that] remember thee in thy They considered your great mercies. ways: behold, thou art angry; for we have sinned: in That is, in your mercies, which he calls the ways of the Lord. those is continuance, and we You will have pity on us. shall be saved.
geneva@Isaiah:64:6 @ But we are all as an unclean [thing], and all our (note:)We are justly punished and brought into captivity, because we have provoked you to anger, and though we would excuse ourselves, yet our righteousness, and best virtues are before you as vile cloths, or (as some read) like the menstruous cloths of a woman.(:note) righteousnesses [are] as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
geneva@Isaiah:64:7 @ And there is none that calleth vpon thy Name, neither that stirreth vp himselfe to take holde of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from vs, and hast consumed vs because of our iniquities.
geneva@Isaiah:64:8 @ But now, O LORD, thou [art] our father; we [are] the (note:)Even though O Lord by your just judgment you may utterly destroy us as the potter may his pot, yet we appeal to your mercies, by which it has pleased you to adopt us to be your children.(:note) clay, and thou our potter; and we all [are] the work of thy hand.
geneva@Isaiah:64:9 @ Be not very angry, O LORD, (note:)For so the flesh judges when God does not immediately send comfort.(:note) neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we [are] all thy people.
geneva@Isaiah:64:10 @
geneva@Isaiah:64:11 @ Our holy and our beautiful house, (note:)In which we rejoiced and worshipped you.(:note) where our fathers praised thee, is burned with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
geneva@Isaiah:64:12 @ Wilt thou restrain thyself (note:)That is, at the contempt of your own glory? Though our sins have deserved this, yet you will not permit your glory thus to be diminished.(:note) for these [things], O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and grievously afflict us?
geneva@Isaiah:65:1 @ I am sought by [them that] (note:)Meaning, the Gentiles who know not God, would seek him, when he had moved their heart with his Holy Spirit, (Rom_10:20).(:note) asked not [for me]; I am found by [them that] sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, to a nation [that] was not called by my name.
geneva@Isaiah:65:2 @ I have (note:)He shows the reason for the rejection of the Jews, because they would not obey him or any admonition of his prophets, by whom he called them continually and stretch out his hand to draw them.(:note) spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, which walketh in a way [that is] not good, after their own He shows that to delight in our own fantasies is the declining from God and the beginning of all superstitions and idolatry. thoughts;
geneva@Isaiah:65:3 @ A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in (note:)Which were dedicated to idols.(:note) gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of Meaning their altars, which he thus named by contempt. brick;
geneva@Isaiah:65:4 @ Which remain among the (note:)To consult with spirits, and to conjure devils, which was forbidden.(:note) graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat Which was contrary to God's commandment, (Lev_11:7; Deu_14:8). swine's flesh, and broth of abominable [things is in] their vessels;
geneva@Isaiah:65:5 @ Which say, (note:)He shows that hypocrisy is always joined with pride and contempt of others.(:note) Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These [are] a smoke in my nose, a fire that Their punishment will never have an end. burneth all the day.
geneva@Isaiah:65:6 @ Behold, [it is] (note:)So that the remembrance of it cannot be forgotten.(:note) written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,
geneva@Isaiah:65:7 @ Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers (note:)Will be both punished together: and this declares how the children are punished for their fathers faults, that is, when the same faults or like are found in them.(:note) together, saith the LORD, who have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.
geneva@Isaiah:65:8 @ Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and [one] saith, Destroy it not; for a (note:)That is, it is profitable: meaning that God will not destroy the faithful branches of his vineyard, when he destroys the rotten stocks, that is, the hypocrites.(:note) blessing [is] in it: so will I do for my servants' sake, that I may not destroy them all.
geneva@Isaiah:65:9 @ But I will bring a seede out of Iaakob, and out of Iudah, that shal inherit my mountaine: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my seruants shall dwell there.
geneva@Isaiah:65:10 @ And (note:)Which was a plentiful place in Judea to feed sheep, as Achor was for cattle.(:note) Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.
geneva@Isaiah:65:11 @ But ye [are] they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that (note:)By the multitude and number he means their innumerable idols of whom they thought they could never have enough.(:note) troop, and that furnish the drink offering to that number.
geneva@Isaiah:65:12 @ Therefore will I (note:)Seeing you cannot number your gods, I will number you with the sword.(:note) number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I By my prophets, whom you would not obey. spoke, ye did not hear; but did evil before my eyes, and did choose [that] in which I delighted not.
geneva@Isaiah:65:13 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall (note:)By these words, eat and drink, he means the blessed life of the faithful, who have always had consolation and full contentment of all things in their God, though sometimes they lack these corporal things.(:note) eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:
geneva@Isaiah:65:14 @ Beholde, my seruants shal sing for ioye of heart, and ye shal crye for sorow of heart, and shal howle for vexation of minde.
geneva@Isaiah:65:15 @ And ye shall leave your name for a curse to my (note:)Meaning, that he would call the Gentiles, who would abhor even the very name of the Jews for their infidelities sake.(:note) chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by Than by the name of the Jews. another name:
geneva@Isaiah:65:16 @ That he who blesseth himself in the (note:)By blessing, and by swearing is meant the praising of God for his benefits, and the true worshipping of him, who will not be only in Judea, but through all the world.(:note) earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former I will no longer permit my Church to be desolate as in times past. troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes.
geneva@Isaiah:65:17 @ For, behold, I create (note:)I will so altar and change the state of my church, that it will seem to dwell in a new world.(:note) new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
geneva@Isaiah:65:18 @ But be you glad and reioyce for euer in the things that I shall create: for beholde, I will create Ierusalem, as a reioycing and her people as a ioye,
geneva@Isaiah:65:19 @ And I wil reioyce in Ierusalem, and ioye in my people, and the voyce of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voyce of crying.
geneva@Isaiah:65:20 @ There shall be no more from there an infant of days, nor an old man that hath (note:)Meaning, in this wonderful restoration of the Church there would be no weakness of youth, nor infirmities of age, but all would be fresh and flourishing: and this is accomplished in the heavenly Jerusalem, when all sins will cease, and the tears will be wiped away.(:note) not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner [being] By which he shows that the infidels and unrepentant sinners have no part of this benediction. an hundred years old shall be accursed.
geneva@Isaiah:65:21 @ And they shall (note:)He proposes to the faithful the blessings which are contained in the law, and so under temporal things comprehends the spiritual promises.(:note) build houses, and inhabit [them]; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
geneva@Isaiah:65:22 @ They shall not build, and another inhabite: they shall not plant, and another eate: for as the dayes of the tree are the dayes of my people, and mine elect shall inioye in olde age the worke of their handes.
geneva@Isaiah:65:23 @ They shall not labour in vaine, nor bring forth in feare: for they are the seede of the blessed of the Lord, and their buds with them.
geneva@Isaiah:65:24 @ Yea, before they call, I will answere, and whiles they speake, I will heare.
geneva@Isaiah:65:25 @ The (note:)Read (Isa_11:6).(:note) wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox: and dust [shall be] the serpent's food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.
geneva@Isaiah:66:1 @ Thus saith the LORD, The (note:)My majesty is so great, that it fills both heaven and earth, and therefore cannot be included in a temple like an idol, condemning by this their main confidence which trusted in the temple and sacrifices.(:note) heaven [is] my throne, and the earth [is] my footstool: where [is] the house that ye build to me? and where [is] the place of my rest?
geneva@Isaiah:66:2 @ For all these [things] hath my hand made, (note:)Seeing that both the temple and the things in it, with the sacrifices were made and done by his appointment, he shows that he has no need of it, and that he can be without them, {{See Psa_50:10}}.(:note) and all these [things] have been, saith the LORD: but to this [man] will I look, [even] to [him that is] poor and of To him that is humble and pure in heart, who receives my doctrine with reverence and fear. a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
geneva@Isaiah:66:3 @ He that killeth an ox [is as if] he (note:)Because the Jews thought themselves holy by offering their sacrifices, and in the mean season had neither faith or repentance, God shows that he no less detests these ceremonies than he does the sacrifices of the heathen, who offered men, dogs and swine to their idols, which things were expressly forbidden in the law.(:note) slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, [as if] he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, [as if he offered] swine's blood; he that burneth incense, [as if] he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
geneva@Isaiah:66:4 @ I also will (note:)I will discover their wickedness and hypocrisy, with which they think to blind my eyes to all the world.(:note) choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did not hear: but they did evil before my eyes, and chose [that] in which I delighted not.
geneva@Isaiah:66:5 @ Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his (note:)He encourages the faithful by promising to destroy their enemies, who pretended to be as brethren, but were hypocrites, and hated them that feared God.(:note) word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.
geneva@Isaiah:66:6 @
geneva@Isaiah:66:7 @ Before (note:)Meaning, that the restoration of the church would be so sudden and contrary to all men's opinions as when a woman is delivered before she looked for it, and without pain in travail.(:note) she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a male child.
geneva@Isaiah:66:8 @ Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one (note:)This will pass the capacity of man to see such a multitude that will come up at once, meaning under the preaching of the gospel of which they who came out of Babylon were a sign.(:note) day? [or] shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
geneva@Isaiah:66:9 @ Shall I (note:)Declaring by this that as by his power and providence women travailed and delivered so he gives power to bring forth the Church at his appointed time.(:note) bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut [the womb]? saith thy God.
geneva@Isaiah:66:10 @ Reioyce ye with Ierusalem, and be gladde with her, all ye that loue her: reioyce for ioy with her, all ye that mourne for her,
geneva@Isaiah:66:11 @ That ye may nurse, (note:)That is may rejoice for all the blessings that God bestows on his Church.(:note) and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may draw milk, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.
geneva@Isaiah:66:12 @ For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend (note:)I will give her happiness and prosperity in great abundance.(:note) peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Read (Isa_60:16). Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye be nursed, ye shall be You will be cherished as her dearly beloved children. borne upon [her] sides, and be dandled upon [her] knees.
geneva@Isaiah:66:13 @ As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you, and ye shall be comforted in Ierusalem.
geneva@Isaiah:66:14 @ And when ye see [this], your heart shall rejoice, and your (note:)You will have new strength and new beauty.(:note) bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants, and [his] indignation toward his enemies.
geneva@Isaiah:66:15 @ For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to (note:)This vengeance God began to execute at the destruction of Babylon and has always continued it against the enemies of his Church, and will do till the last day, which will be the accomplishment of it.(:note) render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
geneva@Isaiah:66:16 @ For the Lord will iudge with fire, and with his sworde all flesh, and the slaine of the Lorde shall be many.
geneva@Isaiah:66:17 @ They that sanctify (note:)Meaning, the hypocrites.(:note) themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one [tree] in the midst, eating By which are meant them that maliciously transgressed the law, by eating beasts forbidden, even to the mouse which nature abhors. swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
geneva@Isaiah:66:18 @ For I [know] their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my (note:)The Gentiles will be partakers of that glory, which before I showed to the Jews.(:note) glory.
geneva@Isaiah:66:19 @ And I will set a (note:)I will make these that I chose, that they perish not with the rest of the infidels: by which he alludes to the marking of the posts of his people, whom he preserved, (Exo_12:7).(:note) sign among them, and I will send those that I will scatter the rest of the Jews, who escaped destruction, into various nations. escape of them to the nations, [to] That is, Cecilia. Tarshish, Meaning Africa. Pul, and That is Lydia, or Asia minor. Lud, that draw the Signifying the Parthians. bow, [to] Italy. Tubal, and Greece. Javan, [to] the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and Meaning, the apostles, disciples and others who he first chose of the Jews to preach to the Gentiles. they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.
geneva@Isaiah:66:20 @ And they shall bring all your (note:)That is the Gentiles, who by faith will be made the children of Abraham as you are.(:note) brethren [for] an offering to the LORD out of all nations upon By which he means that no necessary means will want, when God will call the Gentiles to the knowledge of the gospel. horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD.
geneva@Isaiah:66:21 @ And I will also take of them for (note:)That is, of the Gentiles, as he did Luke, Timothy and Titus first, and others after to preach his word.(:note) priests [and] for Levites, saith the LORD.
geneva@Isaiah:66:22 @ For as the new (note:)By this he signifies the kingdom of Christ in which his Church will be renewed, and where before there were appointed seasons to sacrifice in this there will be one continual Sabbath, so that all times and seasons will be meet.(:note) heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.
geneva@Isaiah:66:23 @ And from moneth to moneth, and from Sabbath to Sabbath shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord.
geneva@Isaiah:66:24 @ And they shall go forth, and look upon the (note:)As he who declared the happiness that will be within the Church for the comfort of the godly, so does he show what horrible calamity will come to the wicked, that are out of the Church.(:note) carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their Meaning, a continual torment of conscience, which will always gnaw them, and never permit them to be at rest, (Mar_9:44). worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorrence This is the just recompense for the wicked, who contemning God and his word, will be by God's just judgments abhorred by all his creatures. to all flesh.
geneva@Jeremiah:1:6 @ Then said I, (note:)Considering the great judgments of God which according to his threatening would come on the world, he was moved with a certain compassion on the one hand to pity them that would thus perish, and on the other hand by the infirmity of man's nature, knowing how hard a thing it was to enterprise such a charge, as in (Isa_6:11; Exo_3:21, Exo_4:1).(:note) Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I [am] a child.
geneva@Jeremiah:2:6 @ Neither said they, Where [is] the LORD that brought us out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of (note:)Where for lack of all things needed for life, you could look for nothing every hour but present death.(:note) the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
geneva@Jeremiah:2:20 @ For of old time I have broken thy yoke, [and] burst thy bands; and thou saidst, (note:)When I delivered you out of Egypt, (Exo_19:8; Deu_5:27; Jos_24:16; Ezr_10:12; Heb_8:6).(:note) I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.
geneva@Jeremiah:3:6 @ The LORD said also to me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen [that] which backsliding (note:)Meaning the ten tribes.(:note) Israel hath done? she hath gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.
geneva@Jeremiah:3:25 @ We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: (note:)They justify not themselves, or say that they would follow their fathers, but condemn their wicked doings and desire forgiveness for the same, as in (Ezr_9:7; Psa_106:6; Isa_64:6).(:note) for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
geneva@Jeremiah:4:6 @ Set up the standard toward Zion: (note:)He speaks this to admonish them of the great danger when every man will prepare to save himself, but it will be too late, (2Ki_25:4).(:note) retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
geneva@Jeremiah:5:6 @ Wherefore a (note:)Meaning, Nebuchadnezzar and his army.(:note) lion from the forest shall slay them, [and] a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out from there shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, [and] their backslidings are increased.
geneva@Jeremiah:6:1 @ O ye children of (note:)He speaks to them chiefly because they should take heed by the example of their brethren the other half of their tribe, who were now carried away prisoners.(:note) Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Which was a city in Judah, six miles from Bethlehem, (2Ch_11:6). Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Read (Neh_3:14). Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.
geneva@Jeremiah:6:2 @ I have likened the daughter of Zion to (note:)I have intreated her gently, and given her abundance of all things.(:note) a comely and delicate [woman].
geneva@Jeremiah:6:3 @ The shepherds with their flocks (note:)She will be so destroyed that the sheep may be fed in her.(:note) shall come to her; they shall pitch [their] tents against her on every side; they shall feed every one in his place.
geneva@Jeremiah:6:4 @
geneva@Jeremiah:6:5 @ Arise, and let vs goe vp by night, and destroy her palaces.
geneva@Jeremiah:6:6 @ For thus hath the Lord of hostes said, Hewe downe wood, and cast a mounte against Ierusalem: this citie must be visited: all oppression is in the middes of it.
geneva@Jeremiah:6:7 @ As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: (note:)He shows the reason why it would be destroyed, and how it comes from themselves.(:note) violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually [are] grief and wounds.
geneva@Jeremiah:6:8 @ Be thou instructed, O (note:)He warns them to amend by his correction, and turn to him by repentance.(:note) Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
geneva@Jeremiah:6:9 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn (note:)He exhorts the Babylonians to be diligent to search out all and to leave none.(:note) back thy hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.
geneva@Jeremiah:6:10 @ To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear [is] (note:)They delight to hear vain things, and to shut up their ears to true doctrine.(:note) uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is to them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
geneva@Jeremiah:6:11 @ Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: (note:)As the Lord had given him his word to be as a fire of his indignation to burn the wicked, (Jer_5:14) so he kindles it now when he sees that all remedies are past.(:note) I will pour it out upon the No one will be spared. children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with [him that is] full of days.
geneva@Jeremiah:6:12 @ And their houses with their landes, & wiues also shalbe turned vnto strangers: for I will stretch out mine hande vpon the inhabitants of the land, sayeth the Lord.
geneva@Jeremiah:6:13 @ For from the least of them, euen vnto the greatest of them, euery one is giuen vnto couetousnesse, and from the Prophet euen vnto the Priest, they all deale falsely.
geneva@Jeremiah:6:14 @ They have healed also the hurt [of the daughter] of my people slightly, saying, (note:)When the people began to fear God's judgments, the false prophets comforted them by flatterings, showing that God would send peace and not war.(:note) Peace, peace; when [there is] no peace.
geneva@Jeremiah:6:15 @ Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not ashamed, no neither coulde they haue any shame: therefore they shall fall among the slaine: when I shall visite them, they shall be cast downe, sayth the Lorde.
geneva@Jeremiah:6:16 @ Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the (note:)In which the patriarchs and prophets walked, directed by the word of God: signifying that there is no true way, but that which God prescribes.(:note) old paths, where [is] the good way, and walk in it, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk [in it].
geneva@Jeremiah:6:17 @ Also I set (note:)Prophets who would warn you of the dangers that were at hand.(:note) watchmen over you, [saying], Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.
geneva@Jeremiah:6:18 @ Therefore hear, ye (note:)God takes all the world to witness and the insensible creatures of the ingratitude of the Jews.(:note) nations, and know, O congregation, what [is] among them.
geneva@Jeremiah:6:19 @ Heare, O earth, beholde, I will cause a plague to come vpon this people, euen the fruite of their owne imaginations: because they haue not taken heede vnto my woordes, nor to my Lawe, but cast it off.
geneva@Jeremiah:6:20 @ To what purpose cometh there to me (note:)Read (Isa_1:11; Amo_5:21).(:note) incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a distant country? your burnt offerings [are] not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet to me.
geneva@Jeremiah:6:21 @ Therefore thus sayeth the Lorde, Beholde, I will laie stumbling blockes before this people, and the fathers and the sonnes together shall fall vpon them: the neighbour and his friende shall perish.
geneva@Jeremiah:6:22 @ Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the (note:)From Babylon by Dan, which was north of Jerusalem.(:note) north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.
geneva@Jeremiah:6:23 @ With bowe and shield shal they be weaponed: they are cruell and will haue no compassion: their voyce roareth like the sea, and they ride vpon horses, well appointed, like men of warre against thee, O daughter Zion.
geneva@Jeremiah:6:24 @ We have heard the report of it: our hands become (note:)For fear of the enemy: he speaks this in the person of the Jews.(:note) feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, [and] pain, as of a woman in travail.
geneva@Jeremiah:6:25 @ Goe not foorth into the fielde, nor walke by the way: for the sword of the enemie and feare is on euery side.
geneva@Jeremiah:6:26 @ O daughter of my people, girde thee with sackecloth, and wallowe thy selfe in the ashes: make lamentation, and bitter mourning as for thine onely sonne: for the destroier shall suddenly come vpon vs.
geneva@Jeremiah:6:27 @ I have set (note:)Meaning, Jeremiah, whom God had appointed to try out the godly from the wicked, as a founder does the pure metal from the dross.(:note) thee [for] a tower [and] a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.
geneva@Jeremiah:6:28 @ They are all rebellious traitours, walking craftily: they are brasse, and yron, they all are destroyers.
geneva@Jeremiah:6:29 @ The (note:)All the pain and labour that has been taken with them is lost.(:note) bellows is burned, the lead is consumed by the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
geneva@Jeremiah:6:30 @ They shall call them reprobate siluer, because the Lord hath reiected them.
geneva@Jeremiah:7:6 @ And oppresse not the stranger, the fatherlesse and the widow and shed no innocent blood in this place, neither walke after other gods to your destruction,
geneva@Jeremiah:7:12 @ But go ye now to my place which [was] in Shiloh, (note:)Because they depended so much on the temple, which was for his promise, that he would be present and defend them where the ark was, he sends them to God's judgments against Shiloh, where the ark had remained about 300 years, and after was taken, the priests slain, and the people miserably discomfited, (1Sa_4:11; Jer_26:6).(:note) where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
geneva@Jeremiah:7:29 @ Cut off thy (note:)In sign of mourning, as in (Job_1:20).(:note) hair, [O Jerusalem], and cast [it] away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his Against whom he had just opportunity to pour out his wrath (Mic_1:6). wrath.
geneva@Jeremiah:8:6 @ I hearkened and heard, [but] they spoke not aright: no man repented of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every (note:)They are full of hypocrisy, and everyone follows his own fantasy without any consideration.(:note) one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth to the battle.
geneva@Jeremiah:9:6 @ Thy habitation [is] in the midst of deceit; (note:)They would rather have forsaken God than left their wicked trade.(:note) through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
geneva@Jeremiah:10:6 @ Forasmuch as [there is] none like thee, O LORD; (note:)He teaches the people to lift up their eyes to God, who has all power and therefore ought only to be feared: and in this he shows them not only the evil that they ought to hate: but the good which they ought to follow, (Rev_15:4).(:note) thou [art] great, and thy name [is] great in might.
geneva@Jeremiah:10:25 @ Pour out (note:)As God cannot only be known and glorified by his mercy that he uses toward his Church, but also by his justice in punishing his enemies, he prays that this glory may fully appear both in the one and the other, (Psa_79:6).(:note) thy fury upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
geneva@Jeremiah:11:6 @ Then the Lord saide vnto me, Cry all these words in the cities of Iudah, and in the streetes of Ierusalem, saying, Heare yee the words of this couenant, and doe them.
geneva@Jeremiah:12:6 @ For euen thy brethren, and the house of thy father, euen they haue delt vnfaithfully with thee, and they haue cryed out altogether vpon thee: but beleeue them not, though they speake faire to thee.
geneva@Jeremiah:13:6 @ And after many dayes, the Lorde sayde vnto mee, Arise, goe towarde Perath, and take the girdle from thence, which I commaunded thee to hide there.
geneva@Jeremiah:14:6 @ And the wild donkeys stood in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like (note:)Who are so hot by nature, that they cannot be cooled by drinking water, but still gasp for the air to refresh them.(:note) dragons; their eyes failed, because [there was] no grass.![[pBiblx2]](/img/pbiblx2_logo3.png){kind=logo}