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Isaiah:1:1 @ The (note:)That is, a revelation or prophecy, which was one of the two means by which God declared himself to his servants in old times, as in (Num_12:6) and therefore the prophets were called seers, (1Sa_9:9).(:note) vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw Isaiah was chiefly sent to Judah and Jerusalem, but not only: for in this book are prophecies concerning other nations also. concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Called also Azariah, (2Ki_15:1) of these kings read (2Ki. strkjv@14:1-21:1; 2Ch. strkjv@25:1-33:1). Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah. The Argument - God, according to his promise in (Deu_18:15) that he would never leave his Church destitute of a prophet, has from time to time accomplished the same: whose office was not only to declare to the people the things to come, of which they had a special revelation, but also to interpret and declare the law, and to apply particularly the doctrine contained briefly in it, for the use and profit of those to whom they thought it chiefly to belong, and as the time and state of things required. Principally in the declaration of the law, they had respect to three things which were the ground of their doctrine: first, to the doctrine contained briefly in the two tables: secondly to the promises and threatenings of the law: and thirdly to the covenant of grace and reconciliation grounded on our Saviour Jesus Christ, who is the end of the law. To which they neither added nor diminished, but faithfully expounded the sense and meaning of it. As God gave them understanding of things, they applied the promises particularly for the comfort of the Church and the members of it, and also denounced the menaces against the enemies of the same: not for any care or regard to the enemies, but to assure the Church of their safeguard by the destruction of their enemies. Concerning the doctrine of reconciliation, they have more clearly entreated it than Moses, and set forth more lively Jesus Christ, in whom this covenant of reconciliation was made. In all these things Isaiah surpassed all the prophets, and was diligent to set out the same, with vehement admonitions, reprehensions, and consolations: ever applying the doctrine as he saw that the disease of the people required. He declares also many notable prophecies which he had received from God, concerning the promise of the Messiah, his office and kingdom, the favour of God toward his Church, the calling of the Gentiles and their union with the Jews. Which are principal points contained in this book, and a gathering of his sermons that he preached. Which after certain days that they had stood upon the temple door (for the manner of the prophets was to post the sum of their doctrine for certain days, that the people might the better mark it as in (Isa_8:1; Hab_2:2)) the priests took it down and reserved it among their registers. By God's providence these books were preserved as a monument to the Church forever. Concerning his person and time he was of the king's stock (for Amos his father was brother to Azariah king of Judah, as the best writers agree) and prophesied more than 64 years, from the time of Uzziah to the reign of Manasseh who was his son-in-law (as the Hebrews write) and by whom he was put to death. In reading of the prophets, this one thing among others is to be observed, that they speak of things to come as though they were now past because of the certainty of it, and that they could not but come to pass, because God had ordained them in his secret counsel and so revealed them to his prophets.
geneva@Isaiah:1:2 @ Hear, O (note:)Because men were obstinate and insensible, he calls to the dumb creatures, who were more prompt to obey God's word, as in (Deu_32:1).(:note) heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up He declares his great mercy toward the Jews as he chose them above all other nations to be his people and children as in (Deu_10:15). children, and they have rebelled against me.
geneva@Isaiah:1:4 @ Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a (note:)They were not only wicked as were their fathers, but utterly corrupt and by their evil example infected others.(:note) seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the That is, him that sanctifies Israel. Holy One of Israel to anger, they are gone away backward.
geneva@Isaiah:1:7 @ Your country [is] desolate, your cities [are] burned with fire: your land, foreigners devour it in your presence, and [it is] desolate, as overthrown by (note:)Meaning, of them who dwell far off, who because they look for no advantage of that which remains destroy all before them.(:note) foreigners.
geneva@Isaiah:1:10 @ Hear the word of the LORD, ye (note:)You who for your vices deserved to be destroyed, as they of Sodom, save that God from his mercy reserved a little number, (Lam_3:22).(:note) rulers of Sodom; give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
geneva@Isaiah:1:11 @ To what purpose [is] the multitude of your sacrifices to me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I (note:)Although God commanded these sacrifices for a time, as aids and exercises of their faith, yet because the people did not have faith or repentance, God detests them, (Psa_50:13; Jer_6:20; Amo_5:22; Mic_6:7).(:note) delight not in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.
geneva@Isaiah:1:12 @ When ye come to appeare before me, who required this of your hands to tread in my courts?
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:1:17 @ Learn to (note:)This kind of reasoning by the second table, the scriptures use in many places against the hypocrites who pretend holiness and religion in word, but when charity and love for their brethren should appear they declare that they have neither faith nor religion.(:note) do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
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:1:20 @ But if ye refuse and be rebellious, ye shalbe deuoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
geneva@Isaiah:1:21 @ How is the (note:)That is, Jerusalem, which had promised happiness to me, as a wife to her husband.(:note) faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now Given to covetousness and extortion, which he signified before by blood, (Isa_1:15). murderers.
geneva@Isaiah:1:22 @ Thy (note:)Whatever was pure in you before, is now corrupt, though you have an outward show.(:note) silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
geneva@Isaiah:1:24 @ 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:1:27 @ Zion shall be redeemed with (note:)By justice is meant God's faithful promise, which is the reason for the deliverance of his Church.(:note) judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
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:1:29 @ For they shall be ashamed of the (note:)That is, the trees and pleasant places where you commit idolatry which was forbidden (Deu_16:22).(:note) oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
geneva@Isaiah:1:30 @ For ye shalbe as an oke, whose leafe fadeth: and as a garden that hath no water.
geneva@Isaiah:2:3 @ And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to (note:)Alluding to mount Zion, where the visible Church then was.(:note) the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the Meaning, the whole doctrine of salvation. law, and the word of the LORD from This was accomplished when the gospel was first preached in Jerusalem, and from there went through all the world. Jerusalem.
geneva@Isaiah:2:4 @ And (note:)The Lord, who is Christ, will have all power given to him.(:note) he shall judge among the nations, and shall That they may acknowledge their sins, and turn to him. rebuke many people: and they shall He shows the fruit of the peace which the gospel should bring, that is, that men should do good to one another, while before they were enemies. beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn He speaks not against the use of weapons and lawful war, but shows how the hearts of the godly will be affected one toward another, which peace and love begin and grow in this life, but will be perfected when we are joined with our head Jesus Christ. war any more.
geneva@Isaiah:2:6 @ Therefore thou (note:)The prophet seeing the small hope that the Jews would convert, complains to God as though he had utterly forsaken them for their sins.(:note) hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they are Full of the corruptions that reigned chiefly in the east parts. filled [with customs] from the east, and [are] soothsayers like the Philistines, They altogether gave themselves to the fashions of other nations. and they please themselves in the children of foreigners.
geneva@Isaiah:2:9 @ And the mean man boweth down, and the great man (note:)He notes the nature of the idolaters who are never satisfied in their superstitions.(:note) humbleth himself: therefore Thus the prophet spoke being inflamed with the zeal of God's glory, and that he might fear them with God's judgment. forgive them not.
geneva@Isaiah:2:10 @ Enter into the rocke, and hide thee in the dust from before the feare of the Lord, and from the glory of his maiestie.
geneva@Isaiah:2:12 @ For the day of the Lorde of hostes is vpon all the proude and hautie, and vpon all that is exalted: and it shalbe made lowe.
geneva@Isaiah:2:19 @ Then they shall goe into the holes of the rockes, & into the caues of the earth, from before the feare of the Lorde, and from the glory of his maiestie, when he shall arise to destroy the earth.
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:2:21 @ To goe into the holes of the rockes, and into the toppes of the ragged rockes from before the feare of the Lorde, and from the glory of his maiestie, when he shall rise to destroy the earth.
geneva@Isaiah:2:22 @ Cease ye from man, whose (note:)Cast off your vain confidence in man, whose life is so frail that if his nose is stopped he is dead and consider that you are dealing with God.(:note) breath [is] in his nostrils: for why is he to be esteemed?
geneva@Isaiah:3:1 @ For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the rod (note:)Because they trusted in their abundance and prosperity he shows that they should be taken from them.(:note) and the staff, the whole support of bread, and the whole support of water,
geneva@Isaiah:3:5 @ And the people shall be (note:)For lack of good regiment and order.(:note) oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the elder, and the base against the honourable.
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:3:11 @ Woe be to the wicked, it shalbe euill with him: for the reward of his handes shalbe giuen him.
geneva@Isaiah:3:12 @ [As for] my people, (note:)Because the wicked people were more addicted to their princes than to the commandments of God, he shows that he would give them such princes, by whom they would have no help, but that they would be manifest tokens of his wrath, because they would be fools and effeminate.(:note) children [are] their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they who lead thee cause [thee] to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
geneva@Isaiah: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:3:17 @ Therefore shall the Lord make the heades of the daughters of Zion balde, and the Lord shall discouer their secrete partes.
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:4:5 @ 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: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:5:1 @ 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:5:2 @ And he dug it, and removed its stones, and planted it with the choicest vine, (note:)He spared no diligence or cost.(:note) and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress in it: and he expected that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth In (Isa_5:7) he declares what they were. wild grapes.
geneva@Isaiah:5:3 @ And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, (note:)He makes them judges in their own cause, for as much as it was evident that they were the cause of their own ruin.(:note) between me and my vineyard.
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:5:7 @ For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts [is] the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for (note:)Judgment and righteousness are true fruit of the fear of God and therefore in the cruel oppression there is no religion.(:note) judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold Of them who are oppressed. a cry.
geneva@Isaiah:5:8 @ Woe to them that join house to house, [that] lay field to field, till [there is] no (note:)That is, for the poor to dwell in.(:note) place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
geneva@Isaiah:5:12 @ And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the (note:)They do not regard the provident care of God over them, nor for what end he has created them.(:note) work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
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:5:17 @ Then shall (note:)God comforts the poor lambs of his Church, who had been strangers in other countries, promising that they would dwell in these places again, of which they had been deprived by the fat and cruel tyrants.(:note) the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
geneva@Isaiah:5:20 @ Woe to them that call evil good, (note:)Who are not ashamed of sin, nor care for honesty but are grown to a desperate impiety.(:note) and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
geneva@Isaiah:5:23 @ Which iustifie the wicked for a rewarde, and take away the righteousnesse of the righteous from him.
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:5:25 @ Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his (note:)He shows that God had so sore punished this people, that the dumb creatures if they had been so plagued would have been more sensible, and therefore his plagues must continue, till they begin to seal them.(:note) hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills trembled, and their carcases [were] torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still.
geneva@Isaiah: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:6:1 @ 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:6:3 @ 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:6:5 @ 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:6:8 @ 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:6:13 @ But yet in it [shall be] (note:)Meaning, the tenth part: or as some write, it was revealed to Isaiah for the confirmation of his prophecy that ten kings would come before their captivity, as were from Uzziah to Zedekiah.(:note) a tenth, and [it] shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, For the fewness of them they will seem to be eaten up: yet they will later flourish as a tree, which in winter loses leaves, and seems to be dead, yet in summer is fresh and green. and as an oak, whose substance [is] in them, when they cast [their leaves: so] the holy seed [shall be] the substance of it.
geneva@Isaiah:7:1 @ And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, [that] Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, (note:)That is, the second time: for in the first battle Ahaz was overcome.(:note) went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
geneva@Isaiah:7:2 @ And it was told the house of (note:)Meaning, the kings house.(:note) David, saying, Syria is confederate with That is, Israel, because that tribe was the greatest, (Gen_48:19). Ephraim. And his heart was For fear. moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest are moved with the wind.
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:7:6 @ Let us go up against Judah, and trouble it, and let us conquer it for ourselves and set a king in the midst of it, [even] the son of (note:)Who was an Israelite, and as it seems, enemy to the house of David.(:note) Tabeal:
geneva@Isaiah:7:8 @ For the head of Syria [is] Damascus, and the head of Damascus [is] Rezin; and within (note:)Counting from the 25 years of the reign of Uzziah, at which time Amos prophesied this thing, and now Isaiah confirms that the Israelites would be led into perpetual captivity, which came to pass 20 years after Isaiah gave this message.(:note) sixty five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.
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:7:18 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the LORD shall hiss for the (note:)Meaning, the Egyptians: for since the country is hot and moist, it is full of flies, as Assyria is full of bees.(:note) fly that [is] in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that [is] in the land of Assyria.
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:7:23 @ And at the same day euery place, wherein shalbe a thousand vines, shalbe at a thousand pieces of siluer: so it shalbe for the briers and for the thornes.
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:8:4 @ For before the (note:)Before any child is able to speak.(:note) child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the That is, the army of Assyria. king of Assyria.
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:8:7 @ Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of (note:)That is, the Assyrians who dwell beyond Euphrates.(:note) the river, strong and many, [even] the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks:
geneva@Isaiah:8:8 @ 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:8:10 @ Take counsell together, yet it shall be brought to nought: pronounce a decree, yet shall it not stand: for God is with vs.
geneva@Isaiah:8:11 @ For the LORD spoke thus to me (note:)To encourage me that I should not shrink for the infidelity of this people, and so neglect my office.(:note) with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,
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:8:21 @ And they shall pass through it, distressed and hungry: and it shall come to (note:)That is, in Judah, where they would have had rest, if they had not thus grievously offended God.(:note) pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, In whom before they put their trust. and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
geneva@Isaiah:9:1 @ Nevertheless (note:)He comforts the Church again after these great threatenings promising to restore them to great glory in Messiah.(:note) the dimness [shall] not [be] such as [was] in her distress, With which Israel was punished, first by Tiglath-pilesar, which was a light scourge in respect to that which they suffered afterward by Shalmaneser, who carried the Israelites away captive. when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict [her by] the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of While the Jews and Gentiles dwelt together by reason of those twenty cites, which Solomon gave to Hiram. the nations.
geneva@Isaiah:9:2 @ The people that (note:)Which were in captivity in Babylon and the prophets speaks of that thing which would come to pass 60 years later as though it were now done.(:note) walked in darkness have seen a great Meaning, the comfort of their deliverance. light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the This captivity and deliverance were figures of our captivity by sin and of our deliverance by Christ through the preaching of the Gospel, (Mat_4:15-16). light shined.
geneva@Isaiah:9:3 @ Thou hast (note:)Their number was greater when they went into captivity then when they returned but their joy was greater at their return, (Hag_2:9).(:note) multiplied the nation, [and] increased the joy: they rejoice before thee according to the joy in harvest, [and] as [men] rejoice when they divide the spoil.
geneva@Isaiah:9:4 @ For thou hast broken the (note:)You gave them perfect joy by delivering them, and by destroying the tyrants, that had kept them in cruel bondage, as you delivered them by Gideon from the Midianites, (Jdg_7:21).(:note) yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
geneva@Isaiah:9:5 @ For every battle of the warrior [is] with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but [this] shall be (note:)He speaks of the deliverance of his Church, which he has delivered miraculously from his enemies, but especially by the coming of Christ of whom he prophecies in the next verse.(:note) with burning [and] fuel of fire.
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:9:11 @ Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of (note:)Rezin king of Syria, who was in league with Israel, was slain by the Assyrians, after whose death, Aram that is, the Syrians were against Israel, who on the other side were assailed by the Philistines.(:note) Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;
geneva@Isaiah:9:12 @ Aram before and the Philistims behinde, and they shall deuoure Israel with open mouth: yet for all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
geneva@Isaiah:9:13 @ For the people turneth not vnto him that smiteth them, neither doe they seeke the Lord of hostes.
geneva@Isaiah:9:14 @ Therefore will the Lord cut off from Israel head and taile, branche and rush in one day.
geneva@Isaiah:9:16 @ For the leaders of the people cause them to erre: and they that are led by them are deuoured.
geneva@Isaiah:9:17 @ Therefore shall the Lord haue no pleasure in their yong men, neither will he haue compassion of their fatherlesse and of their widowes: for euery one is an hypocrite and wicked, and euery mouth speaketh follie: yet for all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out stil.
geneva@Isaiah:9:18 @ For wickedness (note:)Wickedness as a bellows kindles the fire of God's wrath which consumes all his obstinate enemies.(:note) burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up [like] the rising of smoke.
geneva@Isaiah: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:9:21 @ Manasseh, Ephraim: and Ephraim Manasseh, and they both shall be against Iudah yet for all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
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:10:5 @ O (note:)God calls for the Assyrians to be the executioners of his vengeance.(:note) Assyrian, the rod of my anger, and the staff in their hand is my indignation.
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:10:8 @ For he sayeth, Are not my princes altogether Kings?
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:10:13 @ Because he said, By ye power of mine owne hand haue I done it, and by my wisdome, because I am wise: therefore I haue remooued the borders of the people, and haue spoyled their treasures, and haue pulled downe the inhabitants like a valiant man.
geneva@Isaiah:10:16 @ Therefore shall the Lorde God of hostes send amog his fat men, leannes, & vnder his glorie he shall kindle a burning, like the burning of fire.
geneva@Isaiah:10:17 @ And the light of Israel shall be for a (note:)Meaning that God is a light to comfort his people and a fire to burn his enemies.(:note) fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour That is, the Assyrians. his thorns and his briers in one day;
geneva@Isaiah:10:18 @ And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul (note:)That is, body and soul utterly.(:note) and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer When the battle is lost and the standard taken. fainteth.
geneva@Isaiah:10:19 @ And the rest of the trees of his forest shalbe fewe, that a childe may tell them.
geneva@Isaiah:10:20 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the remnant of Israel, and such as have escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again lean upon him that smote them; but shall (note:)This is the end of God's plagues toward his, to bring them to him, and to forsake all trust in others.(:note) lean upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
geneva@Isaiah:10:22 @ 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:10:24 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of (note:)As the Egyptians punished you.(:note) Egypt.
geneva@Isaiah:10:26 @ And the LORD of hosts shall raise up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of (note:)Read (Isa_9:4).(:note) Midian at the rock of Oreb: and [as] his rod [was] upon the When the Israelites passed through by the lifting up of Moses' rod, and the enemies were drowned, (Exo_14:28). sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.
geneva@Isaiah: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:10:34 @ And he shall cut away the thicke places of the forest with yron, and Lebanon shall haue a mightie fall.
geneva@Isaiah:11:1 @ And there shall come forth a (note:)Because the captivity of Babylon was a figure of the spiritual captivity under sin, he shows that our true deliverance must come by Christ: for as David came out of Jesse, a man without dignity, so Christ would come of a poor carpenter's house as out of a dead stock, (Isa_53:2).(:note) rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
geneva@Isaiah:11:3 @ And shall make him prudent in the feare of the Lord: for he shall not iudge after the sight of his eies, neither reproue by ye hearing of his eares.
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:11:10 @ And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the (note:)He prophecies of the calling of the Gentiles.(:note) people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his That is, the Church which he also calls his rest, (Psa_132:14). rest shall be glorious.
geneva@Isaiah:11:11 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the Lord shall set his hand (note:)For God first delivered his people out of Egypt and now promises to deliver them out of their enemies hands as from the Parthians, Persians, Chaldeans and them of Antioch among whom they were dispersed and this is chiefly meant of Christ, who calls his people being dispersed through all the world.(:note) again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the isles of the sea.
geneva@Isaiah:11:15 @ And the LORD shall utterly destroy the (note:)Meaning a corner of the sea that enters into the land and has the form of a tongue.(:note) tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand That is, Nile, the great river of Egypt which enters into the sea with seven streams. over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make [men] go over dryshod.
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:12:4 @ And ye shall say in that day, Prayse the Lord: call vpon his Name: declare his workes among the people: make mention of them, for his Name is exalted.
geneva@Isaiah:12:5 @ Sing vnto the Lorde, for he hath done excellent things: this is knowen in all the worlde.
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:13:7 @ Therefore shal all hands be weakened, and all mens hearts shall melt,
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:13:16 @ Their (note:)This was not accomplished when Cyrus took Babylon, but after the death of Alexander the great.(:note) children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be plundered, and their wives ravished.
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:14:2 @ And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for (note:)Signifying that the Jews would be superior to the Gentiles and that they would be brought under the service of Christ by the preaching of the Apostles, by which all are brought to the subjection of Christ, (2Co_10:5).(:note) servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
geneva@Isaiah:14:7 @ The whole earth is at (note:)Meaning that where tyrants reign, there can be no rest or quietness and also how detestable a thing tyranny is, seeing the insensible creatures have opportunity to rejoice at their destruction.(:note) rest, [and] is quiet: they break forth into singing.
geneva@Isaiah:14:9 @ Hell from beneath is moved for thee to (note:)As though they feared, lest you should trouble the dead, as you did the living and here he derides the proud tyranny of the wicked, who know not that all creatures wish their destruction, that they may rejoice.(:note) meet [thee] at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, [even] all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
geneva@Isaiah:14:12 @ How art thou fallen from heaven, O (note:)You who thought yourself most glorious and as it were placed in the heaven for the morning star that goes before the sun, is called Lucifer, to whom Nebuchadnezzar is compared.(:note) Lucifer, son of the morning! [how] art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
geneva@Isaiah:14:13 @ For thou hast said in thy heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the (note:)Meaning, Jerusalem of which the temple was of the north side, (Psa_48:2).(:note) north:
geneva@Isaiah:14:20 @ Thou shalt not be ioyned with them in the graue, because thou hast destroied thine owne lande, and slaine thy people: the seede of the wicked shall not be renoumed for euer.
geneva@Isaiah: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:14:29 @ 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:14:31 @ Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, all Palestina, [art] dissolved: for there shall come from the (note:)That is, from the Jews or Assyrians: for they were brought to extreme misery.(:note) north a smoke, and none [shall be] But they shall all be ready and join together. alone in his appointed times.
geneva@Isaiah:15:4 @ And Heshbon shall crie, and Elealeh: their voyce shall bee heard vnto Iahaz: therefore the warriers of Moab shall showt: the soule of euery one shall lament in him selfe.
geneva@Isaiah:15:5 @ My (note:)The prophet speaks this in the person of the Moabites: or as one who felt the great judgment of God that God would come on them.(:note) heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives [shall flee] to Zoar, Meaning that it was a city that always lived in pleasure and never felt sorrow. an heifer of three years old: for they shall go up the ascent of Luhith with weeping for in the way of Horonaim they He describes the miserable dissipation and flight of the Moabites. shall raise a cry of destruction.
geneva@Isaiah:15:6 @ 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: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:15:8 @ For the crie went round about the borders of Moab: and the howling thereof vnto Eglaim, and the skriking thereof vnto Beer Elim,
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:16:2 @ For it shall be, [that], as a (note:)There is no remedy but that you must flee.(:note) wandering bird cast out of the nest, [so] the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.
geneva@Isaiah:16:3 @ Take counsel, execute judgment; (note:)He shows what Moab would have done, when Israel their neighbour was in affliction, to whom because they would give no shadow or comfort, they are now left comfortless.(:note) make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; discover not him that wandereth.
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:16:7 @ 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:16:8 @ For the fields of Heshbon languish, [and] the vine of Sibmah: (note:)That is, the Assyrians and other enemies.(:note) the lords of the nations have broken down her principal plants, they have come [even] to Meaning that the country of Moab was now destroyed, and all the precious things of it were carried into the borders yea into other countries and over the sea. Jazer, they wandered [through] the wilderness: her branches are extended, they have gone over the sea.
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:16:10 @ And gladnes is taken away, and ioy out of the plentifull fielde: and in the vineyardes shall be no singing nor shouting for ioy: the treader shall not tread wine in the wine presses: I haue caused the reioycing to cease.
geneva@Isaiah:16:11 @ Wherefore my (note:)For sorrow and compassion.(:note) heart shall sound like an harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kirharesh.
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:17:2 @ The cities of (note:)It was a country of Syria by the river Arnon.(:note) Aroer [are] forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make [them] afraid.
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:17:9 @ 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:17:10 @ Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with foreign (note:)Which are excellent and brought out of other countries.(:note) slips:
geneva@Isaiah:17:13 @ The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but [God] shall (note:)He adds this for the consolation of the faithful who were in Israel.(:note) rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
geneva@Isaiah:17:14 @ And behold at the time of evening (note:)He compares the Assyrians to a tempest which rises overnight and in the morning is gone.(:note) trouble; [and] before the morning he [is] not. This [is] the portion of them that plunder us, and the lot of them that rob us.
geneva@Isaiah:18:2 @ That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of (note:)Which is those countries were great, so much so that they made ships from them for swiftness.(:note) bulrushes upon the waters, [saying], This may be taken that they sent others to comfort the Jews and to promise them help against their enemies, and so the Lord threatened to take away their strength, that the Jews should not trust in it: or that they solicited the Egyptians and promised them aid to go against Judah. Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and stripped, to a That is, the Jews who because of God's plague made all other nations afraid of the same, as God threatened in (Deu_28:37). people terrible from their beginning to this time; a nation measured by line and trodden down, whose land the Meaning the Assyrians, (Isa_8:7). rivers have laid waste!
geneva@Isaiah:18:4 @ 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:18:5 @ For afore the haruest when the floure is finished, and the fruite is riping in the floure, then he shall cut downe the branches with hookes, and shall take away, and cut off the boughes:
geneva@Isaiah:19:6 @ And they shall turn the (note:)For the Nile ran into the sea by seven streams, as though they were many rivers.(:note) rivers far away; [and] the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
geneva@Isaiah:19:10 @ For their nettes shalbe broken, and all they, that make pondes, shalbe heauie in heart.
geneva@Isaiah:19:14 @ The LORD hath mingled a (note:)For the spirit of wisdom he has made them drunken and giddy with the spirit of error.(:note) perverse spirit in the midst of it: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work of it, as a drunken [man] staggereth in his vomit.
geneva@Isaiah:19:15 @ Neither shall there be [any] work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may (note:)Neither the great or the small, the strong or the weak.(:note) perform.
geneva@Isaiah:19:16 @ In that day shall Egypt be like vnto women: for it shall be afraide and feare because of the moouing of the hand of the Lorde of hostes, which he shaketh ouer it.
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:19:20 @ And it shall be for a sign and for a witness to the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry to the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them (note:)This declares that this prophecy would be accomplished in the time of Christ.(:note) a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.
geneva@Isaiah:19:21 @ And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do (note:)By these ceremonies he comprehends the spiritual service under Christ.(:note) sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow to the LORD, and perform [it].
geneva@Isaiah:19:22 @ So ye Lord shall smite Egypt, he shall smite and heale it: for he shall returne vnto ye Lord, and he shall be intreated of them and shall heale them.
geneva@Isaiah:19:25 @ For the Lorde of hostes shall blesse it, saying, Blessed be my people Egypt and Asshur, the worke of mine hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
geneva@Isaiah:20:2 @ At the same time spoke the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the (note:)Which signifies that the prophet lamented the misery that he saw prepared before the three years that he went naked and barefooted.(:note) sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
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:21:2 @ A grievous vision is declared to me; the (note:)The Assyrians and Chaldeans who had destroyed other nations will be overcome by the Medes and Persians: and this he prophesied a hundred years before it came to pass.(:note) treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O By Elam he means the Persians. Elam: besiege, O Media; all her sighing have I made Because they will find no comfort, they will mourn no more, or I have caused them to cease mourning, whom Babylon had afflicted. to cease.
geneva@Isaiah:21:3 @ Therefore are my (note:)This the prophet speaks in the person of the Babylonians.(:note) loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing [of it]; I was dismayed at the seeing [of it].
geneva@Isaiah:21:6 @ For thus hath the (note:)That is, in a vision by the spirit of prophecy.(:note) Lord said to me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.
geneva@Isaiah:21:13 @ 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:21:15 @ For they flee from the drawen swords, euen from the drawen sword, & from the bent bowe, and from the grieuousnesse of warre.
geneva@Isaiah:21:16 @ For thus hath the Lord said to me, Within a year, (note:)He appoints them respite for one year only, and then they would be destroyed.(:note) according to the years of an Read (Isa_16:14). hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:
geneva@Isaiah:21:17 @ And the remainder of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of (note:)Which was the name of a people of Arabia: and by the horrible destruction of all these nations, he teaches the Jews that there is no place for refuge or to escape God's wrath, but only to remain in his Church, and to live in his fear.(:note) Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken [it].
geneva@Isaiah:22:1 @ The burden of the (note:)Meaning, Judea, which was compassed about with mountains, and was called the valley of visions, because of the prophets, who were always there, whom they named Seers.(:note) valley of vision. What He speaks to Jerusalem, whose inhabitants fled up to the housetops for fear of their enemies. aileth thee now, that thou hast wholly gone up to the housetops?
geneva@Isaiah:22:2 @ Thou that art full of (note:)Which was wont to be full of people and joy.(:note) shoutings, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain [men are] not slain But for hunger. with the sword, nor dead in battle.
geneva@Isaiah:22:3 @ All thy rulers have fled together, they are (note:)And led into captivity.(:note) bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, [who] have fled from Who have fled from other places to Jerusalem for comfort. far.
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:22:5 @ For [it is] a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of (note:)That is, the shout of the enemies whom God had appointed to destroy the city.(:note) crying to the mountains.
geneva@Isaiah:22:8 @ And he uncovered the (note:)The secret place where the armour was: that is, in the house of the forest, (1Ki_7:2).(:note) coverings of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.
geneva@Isaiah:22:9 @ Ye have seen also (note:)You forfeited the ruinous places which were neglected in times of peace: meaning, the whole City, and the City of David, which was within the compass of the other.(:note) the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
geneva@Isaiah:22:10 @ And ye have numbered the houses (note:)Either to pull down such as might hurt, or else to know what men they were able to make.(:note) of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.
geneva@Isaiah:22:11 @ Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the (note:)To provide if need should be of water.(:note) water of the old pool: but ye have not looked to To God who made Jerusalem: that is, they trusted more in these worldly means than in God. its maker, neither had respect to him that fashioned it long ago.
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:22:15 @ Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, repair to this (note:)Because the Hebrew word also signifies one who nourishes and cherishes, there are those of the scholars who think that this wicked man nourished a secret friendship with the Assyrians and Egyptians to betray the Church and to provide for himself against all dangers: in the mean season he packed craftily, and got of the best offices into his hand under Hezekiah, ever aspiring to the highest.(:note) treasurer, [even] to Shebna, who [is] over the house, [and say],
geneva@Isaiah:22:16 @ What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre (note:)Meaning, that he was a stranger, and came up of nothing.(:note) here, [as] he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, [and] that cut out an habitation While he thought to make his name immortal by his famous sepulchre, he died most miserably among the Assyrians. for himself in a rock?
geneva@Isaiah:22:23 @ 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:22:25 @ In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the (note:)He means Shebna, who in man's judgment should never have fallen.(:note) nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that [was] upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken [it].
geneva@Isaiah:23:1 @ The (note:){{See Isa_13:1}}(:note) burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of You of Cilicia that come here for merchandise. Tarshish; for Tyrus is destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar. it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of By Chittim they meant all the isles and countries west of Palestine. Chittim it is All men know of this destruction. revealed to them.
geneva@Isaiah:23:4 @ Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the (note:)That is, Tyrus, which was the chief part of the sea.(:note) sea hath spoken, [even] the strength of the sea, saying, I I have no people left in me, and am as a barren woman, that never had children. travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish young men, [nor] bring up virgins.
geneva@Isaiah:23:10 @ 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:23:12 @ And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed (note:)For Tyre was never touched nor afflicted before.(:note) virgin, Because Tyrus was built by them of Zidon. daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest.
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:23:14 @ Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your (note:)That is, Tyrus by whom you are enriched.(:note) strength is laid waste.
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:24:1 @ Behold, the LORD maketh the (note:)This prophecy is as a conclusion of that which has been threatened to the Jews and other nations from the 13th chapter and therefore by the earth he means those lands which were named before.(:note) earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad its inhabitants.
geneva@Isaiah:24:3 @ The earth shalbe cleane emptied, and vtterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this worde.
geneva@Isaiah:24:5 @ The earth (note:)That is, does not give her fruit for the sin of the people, whom the earth deceived of their nourishment because they deceived God of his honour.(:note) also is defiled under its inhabitants; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
geneva@Isaiah:24:6 @ Therefore hath the (note:)Written in the law, as in (Lev_26:14; Deu_28:16) thus the prophets used to apply particularly the menaces and promises which are general in the law.(:note) curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell in it are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are With heat and drought, or else that they were consumed with the fire of God's wrath. burned, and few men left.
geneva@Isaiah:24:11 @ [There is] a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the (note:)Because they did not use God's benefits correctly their pleasures would fail, and they would fall to mourning.(:note) mirth of the land is gone.
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:24:15 @ Wherefore praise yee the Lord in the valleis, euen the Name of the Lorde God of Israel, in the yles of 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:24:18 @ And it shall come to pass, [that] he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the (note:)Meaning that God's wrath and vengeance would be over and under them, so that they would not escape no more than they did at Noah's flood.(:note) windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
geneva@Isaiah:24:22 @ 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:25:2 @ For thou hast made of a (note:)Not only of Jerusalem, but also of these other cities which have been your enemies.(:note) city an heap; [of] a fortified city a ruin: a palace That is, a place where all vagabonds may live without danger and as it were at ease as in a palace. of foreigners to be no city; it shall never be built.
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:25:4 @ For thou hast been a defence to the poor, a defence to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast (note:)The rage of the wicked is furious, till God breaks the force of it.(:note) of the terrible ones [is] as a storm [against] the wall.
geneva@Isaiah:25:8 @ 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:25:10 @ For on this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and (note:)By Moab are meant all the enemies of his Church.(:note) Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the There were two cities by this name: one in Judah, (1Ch_6:81) and another in the land of Moab, (Jer_48:2) which seems to have been a plentiful place of corn, (Isa_36:17). dunghill.
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:26:4 @ Trust in the Lord for euer: for in the Lord God is strength for euermore.
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:26:8 @ Yea, in the way of thy (note:)We have constantly abode in the adversities with which you had afflicted us.(:note) judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of [our] soul [is] to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
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:26:11 @ 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:26:12 @ Lord, vnto vs thou wilt ordeine peace: for thou also hast wrought all our workes for vs.
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:26:16 @ LORD, in trouble have they (note:)That is, the faithful by the rods were moved to pray to you for deliverance.(:note) visited thee, they poured out a prayer [when] thy chastening [was] upon them.
geneva@Isaiah:26:18 @ We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth (note:)Our sorrows had no end, neither did we enjoy the comfort that we looked for.(:note) wind; we have not wrought any deliverance on the earth; neither have the inhabitants of The wicked and men without religion were not destroyed. the world fallen.
geneva@Isaiah:26:20 @ Come, my people, (note:)He exhorts the faithful to be patient in their afflictions and to wait on God's work.(:note) enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation shall be past.