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HE word that Isaiah, the sonne of Amoz, sawe concerning Isaiah proIudah and Ierusalem. And it shall come to passe in the phecieth the comming of last dayes, that the mountaine of the LORDS house shall be Christs established in the top of the mountaines, and shall be exalted kingdome. above the hilles; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall goe and say; Come yee and let us go up to the mountaine of the LORD, to the house of the God of Iacob, and he will teach us of his wayes, and we will walke in his pathes: for out of Zion shall goe forth the lawe, and the word of the LORD from Ierusalem. And hee shall iudge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beate their swords into plowshares, and their speares into pruning hookes: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learne warre any more. O house of Iacob, come yee, and let us walke in the light of the LORD.

the cause of Gods forsaking.

Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Iacob; Wickednesse is because they be replenished from the East, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers. Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures: their land is also full of horses; neither is there any end of their charets. Their land also is full of idoles they worship the worke of their owne hands, that which their owne fingers have made. And the meane man boweth downe, and the great man humbleth himselfe; therefore forgive them not.

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Maiestie.

Enter into the rocke, and hide thee in the dust, for feare of the Hee exhorteth LORD, and for the glory of his Maiestie. The loftie lookes of man to feare, because of shalbe humbled, and the hautines of men shalbe bowed downe: the powerfull and the LORD alone shalbe exalted in that day. For the day of effects of Gods the LORD of hostes shall bee upon every one that is proud and loftie, and upon every one that is lifted up, and he shalbe brought low; and upon all the Cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the okes of Bashan, and upon all the high mountaines, and upon all the hilles that are lifted up, and upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall, and upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures. And the loftinesse of man shall be bowed downe, and the hautinesse of men shalbe made low and the LORD alone shalbe exalted in that day. And the idoles hee shall utterly abolish. And they shall goe into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth for feare of the LORD, and for the glory of his Maiestie; when hee ariseth to

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The great con-
fusion which
commeth
by sinne.

The impudencie of the people.

The oppression and covetousnesse of

the rulers.

shake terribly the earth. In that day a man shall cast his idoles of silver, and his idoles of golde which they made each one for himselfe to worship, to the moules and to the battes: to go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rockes, for feare of the LORD, and for the glorie of his Maiestie; when hee ariseth to shake terribly the earth. Cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrels: for wherein is hee to be accounted of?

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NOR behold, the Lord, the LORD of hostes doeth take away from Ierusalem, and from Iudah, the stay and the staffe, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, the mighty man, and the man of warre; the Iudge and the Prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, the captaine of fiftie, and the honourable man, and the counseller, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent oratour. And I will give children to bee their Princes, and babes shall rule over them. And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the childe shall behave himselfe proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable. When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruine bee under thy hand: in that day shall he sweare, saying, I will not be an healer: for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people. For Ierusalem is ruined, and Iudah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glorie.

The shew of their countenance doeth witnesse against them, and they declare their sinne as Sodom, they hide it not: woe unto their soule, for they have rewarded evill unto themselves. Say yee to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eate the fruit of their doings. Woe unto the wicked, it shall be ill with him for the reward of his handes shalbe given him.

As for my people, children are their oppressours, and women rule over them: O my people, they which lead thee, cause thee to erre, and destroy the way of thy paths. The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to iudge the people. The LORD will enter into iudgement with the ancients of his people, and the Princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the Vineyard; the spoile of the poore is in your houses. What meane yee that yee beat my people to pieces, and grinde the faces of the poore, saith the Lord GoD of hosts?

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Moreover the LORD saith; Because the daughters of Zion are CHAPTER hautie, and walke with stretched forth necks, and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they goe, and making a tinkeling with The judgements their feet: therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crowne which shall be for the pride of of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover the women. their secret parts. In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinckling ornaments about their feete, and their caules, and their round tyres like the Moone, the chaines, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, the bonnets, and the ornaments of the legges, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earerings, the rings, and nose-iewels, the changeable sutes of apparell, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pinnes, the glasses, and the fine linnen, and the hoods, and the vailes. And it shall come to passe, that in steade of sweete smell, there shall bee stinke; and in stead of a girdle, a rent; and in stead of well set haire, baldnesse; and in stead of a stomacher, a girding of sackecloth; and burning, in stead of beautie. Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mightie in the warre. And her gates shall lament and mourne; and she being desolate, shall sit upon the ground.

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ND in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, In the extremitie of evils, saying, We will eate our owne bread, and weare our owne Christes kingapparell: onely let us be called by thy name, to take dome shall be away our reproch. In that day shall the Branch of the LORD be a Sanctuarie. beautifull and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shalbe excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel. And it shall come to passe, that hee that is left in Zion, and hee that remaineth in Ierusalem, shall be called Holy, even every one that is written among the living in Ierusalem, when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Ierusalem from the middest thereof, by the spirit of iudgement, and by the spirit of burning. And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies a cloude, and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for upon all the glory shall be a defence. And there shalbe a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storme and from raine.

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Under the

Parable of a

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his severe iudgement.

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OW will I sing to my welbeloved, a song of my beloved

Now Vineyard, God touching his vineyard: my wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitfull hill. And hee fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a towre in the middest of it, and also made a winepresse therein : and he looked that it should bring foorth grapes, and it brought foorth wilde grapes. And now, O inhabitants of Ierusalem, and men of Iudah, Iudge, I pray you, betwixt me and my Vineyard. What could have beene done more to my Vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore when I looked that it should bring foorth grapes, brought it foorth wilde grapes? And now goe to; I will tell you what I will doe to my Vineyard, I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and breake downe the wall thereof, and it shall be troden downe. And I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned, nor digged, but there shall come up briars and thornes: I will also command the cloudes, that they raine no raine upon it. For the Vineyard of the LORD of hostes is the house of Israel, and the men of Iudah his pleasant plant: and he looked for iudgement, but beholde oppression; for righteousnesse, but behold a crie.

His iudge

ments upon covetousnesse,

Upon lasciviousnesse,

Upon impietie,

Woe unto them that ioyne house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth. In mine eares said the LORD of hostes, Of a trueth many houses shall be desolate, even great and faire without inhabitant. Yea ten acres of vineyard shall yeeld one Bath, and the seed of an Homer shall yeeld an Ephah.

Woe unto them that rise up earely in the morning, that they may follow strong drink, that continue untill night, till wine enflame them. And the harpe and the viole, the tabret and pipe, and wine are in their feasts: but they regard not the worke of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.

Therefore my people are gone into captivitie, because they have no knowledge and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. Therefore hell hath enlarged her selfe, and opened her mouth without measure and their glory, and their multitude, and their pompe, and hee that reioyceth, shall descend into it. And the meane man shall bee brought downe, and the mightie man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the loftie shall be humbled. But the LORD of hosts shalbe exalted in iudgement, and God that is holy, shall bee sanctified in righteousnesse. Then shall the lambes feed after their maner, and the

waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eate.

Woe unto them

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that draw iniquitie with cords of vanitie, and sinne, as it were with a cart rope that say, Let him make speede, and hasten his worke, that we may see it: and let the counsell of the holy one of Israel draw nigh and come, that wee may know it.

Woe unto them that call evill good, and good evill, that put and upon darkenes for light, and light for darkenesse, that put bitter for iniustice. sweete, and sweete for bitter. Woe unto them that are wise in their owne eyes, and prudent in their owne sight. Woe unto them that are mightie to drinke wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drinke. Which iustifie the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousnes of the righteous from him. Therfore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaffe, so their root shall be rottennes, and their blossome shall goe up as dust because they have cast away the Lawe of the LORD of hosts, and despised the worde of the Holy One of Israel. Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched foorth his hande against them, and hath smitten them and the hilles did tremble, and their carkeises were torne in the midst of the streets: for all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

And he will lift up an ensigne to the nations from farre, and wil The execuhisse unto them from the end of the earth: and behold, they shall tioners of Gods iudgements. come with speed swiftly. None shalbe weary, nor stumble amongst them: none shall slumber nor sleepe, neither shall the girdle of their loynes be loosed, nor the latchet of their shooes be broken. Whose arrowes are sharpe, and all their bowes bent, their horses hoofs shall bee counted like flint, and their wheeles like a whirlewind. Their roaring shalbe like a lyon, they shall roare like yong lions: yea they shal roare and lay hold of the pray, and shall carie it away safe, and none shall deliver it. And in that day they shall roare against them, like the roaring of the sea: and if one looke unto the land, behold darkenesse and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens therof.

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Lord in

N the yeere that King Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord sitting Isaiah in a upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his traine filled the vision of the Temple. Above it stood the Seraphims: each one had sixe his glory, wings, with twaine he covered his face, and with twaine hee covered his feete, and with twaine hee did flie. And one cried unto another, and sayd; Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hostes,