altogether kings? Is not Calno, as Carchemish? is not Hamath, as Arpad? is not Samaria, as Damascus? As my hand hath found the kingdomes of the idoles, and whose graven images did excell them of Ierusalem and of Samaria: shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idoles, so doe to Ierusalem and her idoles ? Wherefore it shall come to passe, that when the Lord hath performed his whole worke upon mount Zion, and on Ierusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high lookes. For hee saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisedome, for I am prudent: and I have remooved the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put downe the inhabitants like a valiant man. And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth egges that are left, have I gathered all the earth, and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped. Shall the axe boast it selfe against him that heweth therewith? or shal the sawe magnifie it selfe against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake it selfe against them that lift it up, or as if the staffe should lift up it selfe, as if it were no wood. Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leannesse, and under his glory hee shall kindle a burning, like the burning of a fire. And the light of Israel shall bee for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burne and devoure his thornes and his briers in one day: and shall consume the glory of his forrest, and of his fruitfull field both soule and body: and they shall bee as when a standerd bearer fainteth. And the rest of the trees of his forrest shall be few, that a child may write them.

X

Israel shall be saved.

And it shal come to passe in that day, that the remnant of A remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Iacob, shall no more againe stay upon him that smote them: but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel in trueth. The remnant shall returne, even the remnant of Iacob, unto the mightie God. For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall returne: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousnesse. For the Lord God of hostes shall make a consumption, even determined in the middest of all the land.

promise of

Therfore thus saith the Lord God of hostes, O my people that Israel is dwellest in Zion, be not afraide of the Assyrian: he shall smite comforted with thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staffe against thee, after the deliverance maner of Egypt. For yet a very litle while, and the indignation from Assyria. shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction. And the LORD of hostes shall stirre up a scourge for him, according to the slaughter

CHAPTER
X

The peaceable
kingdome of
the Branch out
of the root
of Iesse.

of Midian at the rocke Oreb: and as his rod was upon the Sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt. And it shall come to passe in that day, that his burden shalbe taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy necke, and the yoke shalbe destroyed because of the anointing. He is come to Aiath, hee is passed to Migron: at Michmash he hath laid up his cariages. They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba, Ramah is afraid, Gebeah of Saul is fled. Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to bee heard unto Laish, O poore Anathoth. Madmenah is remooved, the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee. As yet shall hee remaine at Nob that day he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Ierusalem. Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hostes shall lop the bough with terrour: and the high ones of stature shal be hewen downe, and the haughtie shalbe humbled. And he shall cut downe the thickets of the forrests with yron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mightie one.

AN

CHAPTER XI

ND there shall come forth a rod out of the stemme of Iesse, and a branch shal grow out of his rootes. And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisedome and understanding, the spirit of counsell and might, the spirit of knowledge, and of the feare of the LORD: and shal make him of quicke understanding in the feare of the LORD, and he shall not iudge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his eares. But with righteousnesse shall he iudge the poore, and reproove with equitie, for the meeke of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rodde of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. And righteousnesse shalbe the girdle of his loines, and faithfulnesse the girdle of his reines. The wolfe also shall dwell with the lambe, and the leopard shall lie downe with the kid: and the calfe and the yong lion, and the fatling together, and a litle child shall lead them. And the cow and the beare shall feed, their yong ones shall lie downe together: and the lyon shall eate straw like the oxe. And the sucking childe shall play on the hole of the aspe, and the weaned childe shall put his hand on the cockatrice denne. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountaine : for the earth shall bee full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

And in that day there shall bee a roote of Iesse, which shall stand for an ensigne of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seeke,

XI

and his rest shall bee glorious. And it shall come to passe in that CHAPTER day, that the Lord shall set his hande againe the second time, to recover the remnant of his people which shalbe left, from Assyria, The victorious and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, restauration of Israel, and and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the ylands of the vocation of Sea. And he shall set up an ensigne for the nations, and shall the Gentiles. assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Iudah, from the foure corners of the earth. The envie also of Ephraim shal depart, and the adversaries of Iudah shalbe cut off: Ephraim shall not envie Iudah, and Iudah shall not vexe Ephraim. But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the West, they shall spoile them of the East together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon shall obey them. And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea, and with his mighty wind shall hee shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streames, and make men goe over dry-shod. And there shalbe an high way for the remnant of his people, which shalbe left from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that hee came up out of the land of Egypt.

CHAPTER XII

ND in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: A ioyfull

AN though thou wast angrie with mee, thine anger is turned thanksgiving

of the faithfull

away, and thou comfortedst me. Behold, God is my for the mercies salvation: I will trust, and not be afraid; for the LORD IEHOVAH of God. is my strength and my song, he also is become my salvation. Therefore with ioy shall yee draw water out of the wels of salvation. And in that day shall yee say; Praise the LORD, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted. Sing unto the LORD; for hee hath done excellent things: this is knowen in all the earth. Cry out and shout thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the holy one of Israel in the midst of thee.

CHAPTER XIII

T

his wrath.

HE burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the sonne of Amoz did God mustereth see. Lift yee up a banner upon the high mountaine, exalt the armies of the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may goe into the gates of the nobles. I have commanded my sanctified ones: I have also called my mightie ones for mine anger, even them that reioyce in my highnesse. The noise of a multitude

CHAPTER in the mountaines, like as of a great people: a tumultuous noise of XIII the kingdomes of nations gathered together: the LORD of hostes mustereth the hoste of the battell. They come from a farre countrey from the end of heaven, even the LORD and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.

He threatneth to destroy Babylon by the Medes.

The desolation of Babylon.

Howle yee; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. Therefore shall all hands bee faint, and every mans heart shall melt. And they shalbe afraid: pangs and sorrowes shall take hold of them, they shalbe in paine as a woman that travelleth: they shalbe amazed one at another, their faces shalbe as flames. Behold, the day of the LORD commeth, cruell both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate; and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. For the starres of heaven, and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sunne shalbe darkened in his going forth, and the moone shall not cause her light to shine. And I will punish the world for their evill, and the wicked for their iniquitie; and I will cause the arrogancie of the proud to cease, and will lay low the hautinesse of the terrible. I will make a man more pretious then fine gold; even a man then the golden wedge of Ophir. Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place in the wrath of the LORD of hostes, and in the day of his fierce anger. And it shalbe as the chased Roe, and as a sheepe that no man taketh up: they shall every man turne to his owne people, and flee every one into his owne land. Every one that is found shall be thrust through: and every one that is ioyned unto them, shall fall by the sword. Their children also shalbe dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses shalbe spoiled, and their wives ravished. Beholde, I will stirre up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver, and as for gold, they shall not delight in it. Their bowes also shall dash the yong men to pieces, and they shall have no pitie on the fruit of the wombe; their eye shall not spare children.

And Babylon the glory of kingdomes, the beautie of the Chaldees excellencie, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there, neither shal the shepheards make their fold there. But wilde beastes of the desert shall lye there, and their houses shalbe full of dolefull creatures, and owles shall dwell there, and Satyres shall daunce there. And the wilde beastes of the Ilands shal cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is neere to come, and her dayes shall not be prolonged.

F

CHAPTER XIIII

CHAPTER
XIIII

of Israel.

OR the LORD wil have mercie on Iacob, and wil yet choose Gods mercifull Israel, and set them in their owne land: and the strangers restauration shalbe ioyned with them, and they shal cleave to the house of Iacob. And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place and the house of Israel shall possesse them in the land of the LORD, for servants and handmaides: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were, and they shall rule over their oppressours. And it shall come to passe in the day that the LORD shal give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy feare, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,

insultation

over Babel.

That thou shalt take up this proverbe against the king of Babylon, Their and say; How hath the oppressour ceased? the golden citie triumphant ceased? The LORD hath broken the staffe of the wicked, and the scepter of the rulers. He who smote the people in wrath with a continuall stroke; hee that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted and none hindereth. The whole earth is at rest and is quiet they breake foorth into singing. Yea the firre trees reioyce at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art layd downe, no feller is come up against us. Hell from beneath is mooved for thee to meet thee at thy comming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chiefe ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones, all the kings of the nations. All they shall speake and say unto thee; Art thou also become weake as we? art thou become like unto us? Thy pompe is brought downe to the grave, and the noyse of thy violes: the worme is spread under thee, and the wormes cover thee. How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, sonne of the morning? how art thou cut downe to the ground, which didst weaken the nations? For thou hast said in thine heart; I wil ascend into heaven, I wil exalt my throne above the starres of God: I wil sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the North. I wil ascend above the heights of the cloudes, I wil bee like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought downe to hel, to the sides of the pit. They that see thee shal narrowly looke upon thee, and consider thee, saying; Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdomes? That made the world as a wildernesse, and destroyed the cities thereof that opened not the house of his prisoners? All the kings of the nations, even all of them lie in glory, every one in his owne house. But thou art cast out of thy grave, like an abominable branch: and as the raiment of those that are slaine, thrust through with a sword, that 4: C

17