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Isaiah 9

2 The vocation of the Gentiles 6 A prophecie of Christ. 14 The destruction of the ten tribes for their pride and contempt of God.
1.Yet athe darkness shall not be according to the affliction, bthat it had when at the first he touched lightly the land of Zebulún & the land of Naphtalí, nor afterward when he was more grievous by the way of the sea beyond Jordan in Galile of cthe Gentiles.
2.The people that dwalked in darkness, have seen a great elight: they that dwelled in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the flight shined.
3.Thou hast gmultiplied the nation, and not increased their joy: they have rejoiced before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide a spoil.
4.For hthe yoke of their burden, and the staff of their shoulder and the rod of their oppressor hast thou broken as in the daie of Midian.
5.Surely every battle of the warrior is with noise, and with tumbling of garments in blood, but this shalbe iwith burning and devouring of fire.
6.For unto us a Child is born, and unto us a son is given and the government is upon his shoulder, and he shall call his name Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting kFather, The prince of peace,
7.The increase of his government and peace shall have none end: he shall sit upon the throne of David, & upon his kingdom, to order it, and to stablish it with judgement and with justice, from hence forth, even for ever lthe zeal of the Lord of hostes will perform this.
8.¶ The Lord hath sent a word into Jaakób, and it hath lighted upon mIsraél.
9.And all the people shall know, even Ephráim, & the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and presumption of the heart,
10.The nbricks are fallen, but we will build it with hewn stones: the wild figtrees are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
11.Nevertheless the Lord will raise up the adversaries of oRezín against him, and join his enemies together.
12.Arám before and the Philistíms behind, and they shall devour Israél with open mouth: yet for all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
13.For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the Lord of hostes.
14.Therefore will the Lord cut off from Israél head and tail, branch and rush in one daie.
15.The ancient and the honourable man, he is the head: and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
16.For the leaders of the people cause them to erre: and they that are led by them, are devoured.
17.Therefore shall the Lord have no pleasure in their young men, neither will he have compassion of their fatherless and of their widows, for every one is an hypocrite and wicked, and every mouth speaketh folly yet for all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
18.For wickedness pburneth as a fire: it devoureth the briers and the thornes and will kindle in the thick places of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
19.By the wrath of the Lord of hostes shall the land be darkened, and the people shalbe as the meat of the fire, no man shall qspare his brother.
20.And he shall snatch at the right hand, and be hungry: and he shall eat on the left hand, and shall not be satisfied, every one shall eat the rflesh of his own arm.
21.Manasséh, Ephráim and Ephráim Manasséh, and they both shalbe against Judáh: yet for all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Notes

1-a.
He comforts the Church again after these great threatenings, promising to restore them to great glory in Messiah.
1-b.
Wherewith Israel was punished, first by Tiglath-pileser, which was a light scourge in respect of that which they suffered afterward by Shalma- neier, who carried the Israelites away captives.
1-c.
Where as the Jews and Gentiles dwelt together by reason of those twenty cities, which Solomon gave to Hiram.
2-d.
Which were captive in Babylon and the Prophet speaks of that thing, which should come to pass threescore years after, as though it were now done.
2-e.
Meaning, the comfort of their deliverance.
2-f.
The captivity and deliverance were figures of our captivity by Satan and of our deliverance by Christ through the preaching of the Gospel, Mat. 4.15.
3-g.
Their number was greater when they went into captivity then when they returned, but their joy was greater at their return, Hag. 2.10.
4-h.
You gave them perfect joy, by delivering them and by destroying the tyrants that had kept them in cruel bondage, as you did deliver them by Gideon from the Midianites, Jud. 7.22.
5-i.
He speaks of the deliverance of his Church, which he has delivered marvelously from his enemies, but specially by the coming of Christ, of whom he speaks in the next verse.
6-k.
The author of eternity, and by whom the Church and every member thereof shall be preserved forever, and have immortal life.
7-l.
His singular love and care for his elect.
8-m.
This is another prophecy against them of Samaria, which were mockers and contemners of God’s promises and menaces.
10-n.
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.
11-o.
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, which on the other side were assailed by the Philistíms.
18-p.
Wickedness as a bellows kindled the fire of God’s wrath which consumes all his obstinate enemies.
19-q.
Though there were no foreign enemy yet they shall destroy one another.
20-r.
Their greediness shall be insatiable, so that one brother shall eat up another, as though he should decathet his own flesh.