A description of Christ.

CHAP. VI, VII. The graces of the church.

wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink,|Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as yea, drink abundantly, O beloved. an army with banners.

2 TI sleep, but my heart waketh: it is 5 Turn away thine eyes from me, for the voice of my beloved that knocketh, they have overcome me: thy hair is as a saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, flock of goats that appear from Gilead. my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

3 I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?

4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.

6 Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them.

7 As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.

8 There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.

9 My dove, my undefiled is but one; she

5 1 rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my is the only one of her mother, she is the fingers with sweet-smelling myrrh, upon choice one of her that bare her. The the handles of the lock. daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.

6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: 1 10 Who is she that looketh forth as sought him, but I could not find him; I the morning, fair as the moon, clear as called him, but he gave me no answer. the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?

7 The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wound- 11 I went down into the garden of nuts ed me: the keepers of the walls took to see the fruits of the valley, and to see away my vail from me. whether the vine flourished, and the pome

8 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusa-granates budded. lem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.

9 What is thy beloved more than another beloved, thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us? 10 My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.

ten thousand fine gold, his

locks are bushy, and black as a raven.
12 His eyes are as the eyes of doves by
the rivers of waters, washed with milk,
and fitly set.

13 His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping| sweet-smelling myrrh.

12 Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots of Ammi-nadib.

13 Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.

CHAP. VII.

OW beautiful are thy feet with shoes,

thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.

2 Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor; thy belly is like heap of wheat set about with lilies. 3 Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.

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14 His hands are as gold rings set with 4 Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory over-eyes like the fish-pools in Heshbon, by laid with sapphires. the gate of Bath-rabbim: thy nose is as 15 His legs are as pillars of marble, set the tower of Lebanon which looketh toupon sockets of fine gold: his countenance ward Damascus.

is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars. 5 Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, 16 His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is and the hair of thy head like purple; altogether lovely. This is my beloved, the King is held in the galleries. and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

CHAP. VI.

6 How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!

7 This thy stature is like to a palm-tree,

W thou fairest among women? whither

HITHER is thy beloved gone, O and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.

8 I said, I will go up to the palm-tree,

is thy beloved turned aside? that we may I will take hold of the boughs thereof: seek him with thee. now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of 2 My beloved is gone down into his the vine, and the smell of thy nose like garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in apples; the gardens, and to gather lilies.

3 I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.

9 And the roof of thy month like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are

4 T Thou art beautiful, O my love, as asleep to speak.

The church's love to Christ.

ISAIAH.

Isaiah's complaint of Judah. 10 ¶ I am my beloved's, and his desire 6¶ Set me as a seal upon thy heart, is toward me. as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong 11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: into the field; let us lodge in the villages. the coals thereof are coals of fire, which 12 Let us get up early to the vineyards; hath a most vehement flame. let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.

13 The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.

CHAP. VIII.

7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

8 ¶ We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for? 9 If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, THAT thou wert as my brother, that we will enclose her with boards of cedar. sucked the breasts of my mother! 10 I am a wall, and my breasts like when I should find thee without, I would towers: then was I in his eyes as one that kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised. found favour. 2 I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.

3 His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.

4 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.

5 Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple-tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.

11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.

12 My vineyard which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.

13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.

14 ¶ Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

¶ The Book of the Prophet ISAIAH.

CHAP. I.

THE vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz,

Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham,
Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a gar

9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom: give ear unto the law of 3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the our God, ye people of Gomorrah. ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not 11 To what purpose is the multitude of know, my people doth not consider. your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: 4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with I am full of the burnt-offerings of rams, iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children that and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight are corrupters! they have forsaken the LORD, not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel or of he-goats.

unto anger, they are gone away backward. 12 When ye come to appear before me, 5 Why should ye be stricken any more? who hath required this at your hand, to ye will revolt more and more: the whole tread my courts?

head is sick, and the whole heart faint. 13 Bring no more vain oblations: in6 From the sole of the foot even unto cense is an abomination unto me; the newthe head there is no soundness in it; but moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemwounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: blies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, they have not been closed, neither bound even the solemn meeting. up, neither mollified with ointment.

7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

14 Your new-moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.

15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you

Christ's coming prophesied.

CHAP. II.

Isaiah exhorts to fear. yea, when ye make many prayers, I will of the LORD, to the house of the God of not hear your hands are full of blood. Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

16 ¶ Wash you, make you clean: put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

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4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into plough-shares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.

6 ¶ Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers. 21 How is the faithful city become 7 Their land also is full of silver and a harlot! it was full of judgment; right- gold, neither is there any end of their treaeousness lodged in it; but now murderers. sures; their land is also full of horses, nei22 Thy silver is become dross, thy ther is there any end of their chariots: wine mixed with water:

23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

24 Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:

8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:

9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.

10 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.

11 The lofty looks of man shall be 25 ¶ And I will turn my hand upon humbled and the haughtiness of men shall thee, and purely purge away thy dross, be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall and take away all thy tin: be exalted in that day.

26 And I will restore thy judges as at 12 For the day of the LORD of hosts the first, and thy counsellors as at the be-shall be upon every one that is proud and ginning afterward thou shalt be called, lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; The city of righteousness, the faithful city. and he shall be brought low:

27 Zion shall be redeemed with judg- 13 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, ment, and her converts with righteousness. that are high and lifted up, and upon all 28 ¶ And the destruction of the trans- the oaks of Bashan, gressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.

29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye

have chosen.

14 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up, 15 And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,

16 And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.

17 And the loftiness of man shall be 30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf bowed down, and the haughtiness of men fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water. shall be made low: and the LORD alone 31 And the strong shall be as tow, and shall be exalted in that day. the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.

CHAP. II.

18 And the idols he shall utterly abolish. 19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

THE word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2 And it shall come to pass in the last 20 In that day a man shall cast his idols days, that the mountain of the LORD's of silver, and his idols of gold, which they house shall be established in the top of the made each one for himself to worship, to mountains, and shall be exalted above the the moles and to the bats; hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.

3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain

21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his

ISAIAH. Christ's kingdom a sanctuary.

majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly ton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, the earth.

26 And her gates shall lament and neither bread nor clothing: make me not mourn; and she, being desolate, shall sit

ND in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own 9 The shew of their countenance apparel: only let us be called by thy doth witness against them; and they de-name, to take away our reproach. clare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. 2 In that day shall the branch of the Wo unto their soul! for they have rewarded LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the evil unto themselves. fruit of the earth shall be excellent and

10 Say ye to the righteous, that it shall comely for them that are escaped of Israel. be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

12 As for my people, children are 4 When the LORD shall have washed their oppressors, and women rule over away the filth of the daughters of Zion, them. Omy people, they which lead thee and shall have purged the blood of Jecause thee to err, and destroy the way of rusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit thy paths. of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

5 And the LORD will create upon every 14 The LORD will enter into judgment dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon with the ancients of his people, and the her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, princes thereof for ye have eaten up the and the shining of a flaming fire by night: vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your for upon all the glory shall be a defence. houses. 6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a 15 What mean ye that ye beat my peo-shadow in the day time from the heat, and ple to pieces, and grind the faces of the for a place of refuge, and for a covert poor? saith the Lord GoD of hosts. from storm and from rain.

God's judgment on covetousness. CHAP. VI. God's judgment on injustice. vineyard. My well-beloved hath a vinc- ed in judgment, and God that is holy shal yard in a very fruitful hill: be sanctified in righteousness.

2 And he fenced it, and gathered out 17 Then shall the lambs feed after the stones thereof, and planted it with the their manner, and the waste places of the choicest vine, and built a tower in the fat ones shall strangers eat. midst of it, and also made a wine-press 18 Wo unto them that draw iniquity therein and he looked that it should bring with cords of vanity, and sin as it were forth grapes, and it brought forth wild with a cart-rope : grapes. 19 That say, Let him make speed, and 3 And now, hasten his work, that we may see it: and lem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel you, betwixt me and my vineyard. draw nigh and come, that we may know it! 20 Wo unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

O inhabitants of Jerusa

4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?

5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:

21 Wo unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! 22 Wo unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink :

23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

6 And I will lay it waste it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also 24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the command the clouds that they rain no rain stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, upon it. so their root shall be as rotterness, and

7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts their blossom shall go up as dust: because is the house of Israel, and the men of Ju- they have cast away the law of the LORD dah his pleasant plant: and he looked for of hosts, and despised the word of the judgment, but behold oppression; for Holy One of Israel. righteousness, but behold a cry.

25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD 8 Wo unto them that join house to kindled against his people, and he hath house, that lay field to field, till there be stretched forth his hand against them, and no place, that they may be placed alone hath smitten them: and the hills did tremin the midst of the earth! ble, and their carcasses were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

9 In mine ears, said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield 26 ¶ And he will lift up an ensign to one bath, and the seed of a homer shall the nations from far, and will hiss unto yield an ephah.

11 Wo unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!

12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.

them from the end of the earth; and behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:

27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumbernor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:

28 Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind.

13 T Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: 29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, and their honourable men are famished, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they and their multitude dried up with thirst. shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and 14 Therefore hell hath enlarged her- shall carry it away safe, and none shall self, and opened her mouth without mea- deliver it. sure and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:

16 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalt

30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold, darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.

CHAP. VI.

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