COMMENTARY ON THE BOOK OF ISAIAH

By
Rev. Dr Jeffry David Camm
Contents
Dedication: .................................................................................... 5
Copyright: ..................................................................................... 5
Foreword: ..................................................................................... 5
Explanatory Notes: ........................................................................ 6
Background of Isaiah’s early life .................................................... 6
Chapter one: Isaiah Rebukes Judah ............................................... 6
Chapter two: The Coming Of Christ’s Kingdom .............................. 10
Chapter three: The Calamities coming upon Judah ........................ 12
Chapter four: Oppression & covetousness of the Rulers ................. 14
Chapter five: Parable of a Vineyard: God’s Judgement upon Sinners15
Chapter six: Isaiah’s Vision of God’s Glory .................................... 18
Chapter seven: Jesus is promised as a Sign ................................... 19
Chapter eight: A Prophecy against Syria and Israel. ...................... 22
Chapter nine: Christ’s Birth & Kingdom Foretold. ........................... 24
Chapter ten: God’s Judgement upon Israel & Assyria .................... 27
Chapter eleven: The Peaceful Kingdom of Christ Foretold ........... 30
Chapter twelve: A Joyful Thanksgiving .......................................... 32
Chapter thirteen: Babylon is Threatened ....................................... 32
Chapter fourteen: Restoration of Israel Promised.......................... 35
Chapter fifteen: The Threat Against Moab ..................................... 38
Chapter sixteen: I will Shepherd the Poor ..................................... 39
Chapter seventeen: Syria, Israel are Threatened. .......................... 40
Chapter eighteen: Ethiopia is Threatened. ..................................... 43
Chapter nineteen: In Egypt: Confusion among the Princes ............. 44
Chapter twenty: Egypt and her Captivity ....................................... 46
Chapter twenty-one: The Fall of Babylon ....................................... 47
Chapter twenty-two: The Invasion of Jewry .................................. 49
Chapter twenty-three: The Calling of Eliakim ................................ 51
Chapter twenty-four: Judgement Upon The Land ........................... 53
Chapter twenty-five: Isaiah Praises God for His Benefits ............... 55
Chapter twenty-six: A Song of Confidence in God .......................... 56
Chapter twenty-seven: God’s Care of His Vineyard ........................ 58
Chapter twenty-eight: Ephraim is Threatened ............................... 60
Chapter twenty-nine: The Judgement of God on Jerusalem............ 63
Chapter thirty: Confidence in Egypt Reproved. .............................. 65

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Chapter thirty-one: Folly of Trusting in Egypt ................................ 69
Chapter thirty-two: Of Christ’s Kingdom........................................ 70
Chapter thirty-three: Desolation & Restoration of Zions’ Enemies .. 72
Chapter thirty-four: Judgement ~ God Avenges His Church ........... 74
Chapter thirty-five: Flourishing of Christ’s Kingdom ..................... 76
Chapter thirty-six: Judah Invaded................................................. 77
Chapter thirty-seven: Isaiah Comforts Them ................................. 80
Chapter thirty-eight: Hezekiah’s life extended .............................. 84
Chapter thirty-nine: Captivity Foretold .......................................... 86
Chapter forty: Glad Tidings of the Gospel ...................................... 87
Chapter forty-one: God’s Church must Trust in Him ....................... 90
Chapter forty-two: The Office of Christ.......................................... 93
Chapter forty-three: God Comforts the Church with His Promises .. 95
Chapter forty-four: The Church Is Comforted ................................ 98
Chapter forty-five: God Calls Cyrus for the Church’s Sake. ........... 102
Chapter forty-six: Idols are not to be Compared with God. .......... 105
History of Israel Timeline ........................................................... 106
The History of Israel Started with Abraham ................................ 107
Chapter forty-seven: God’s Judgement upon Babylon & Chaldea. . 115
Chapter forty-eight: God Reveals His Prophecies & Exhorts Obedience
.................................................................................................. 117
Chapter forty-nine: Christ Sent to the Gentiles with Gracious Promises
.................................................................................................. 119
Chapter fifty: Restoration oF the Church ..................................... 123
Chapter fifty-one: Christ’s Patient Suffering ................................ 124
Chapter fifty-two: Christ’s Free Redemption ................................ 127
Chapter fifty-three: The Humiliation & Sufferings of Christ .......... 129
Chapter fifty-four: The Church is Comforted ................................ 130
Chapter fifty-five: A Call of Faith ................................................. 134
Chapter fifty-six: Sanctification................................................... 135
Chapter fifty-seven: Jewish Idolatry ........................................... 136
Chapter fifty-eight: The “Acceptable” Fast .................................. 139
Chapter fifty-nine: The Sins of the Jews ...................................... 140
Chapter sixty: Access of Christ to Gentiles .................................. 143
Chapter sixty-one: The OFFICE of Christ...................................... 145
Chapter sixty-two: the OFFICE of Ministers ................................. 147

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Chapter sixty-three: Christ’s Power to Save ................................ 148
Chapter sixty-four: THE Church’s Faith in God’s Power & Mercy ... 150
Chapter sixty-five: Rejection of the Jews ~ A Remnant to Be Saved151
Chapter sixty-six: All the Nations United in ONE Church .............. 154
APPENDICES Verses put to music............................................... 157
Jewish Messianic Interpretations of Isaiah 53............................. 158
The Targum 158
In the early cycle of synagogue readings: 158
Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 98b 159
Ruth Rabbah 5:6 159
The Karaite Yefeth ben Ali (10th c.) 159
Another statement from Yefeth ben Ali: 159
Another statement from Yefeth ben Ali: 159
Mysteries of R. Shim'on ben Yohai (midrash, date uncertain) 159
Lekach Tov (11th c. midrash) 159
Maimonides, Letter to Yemen (12th c.) 160
Zohar II, 212a (medieval) 160
Nachmanides (R. Moshe ben Nachman)(13th c.) 160
Yalkut ii: 571 (13th c.) 160
Yalkut ii. 620 (13th c.), in regard to Psalm 2:6 160
R. Mosheh Kohen ibn Crispin (14th c.) 161
Another comment from R. Mosheh Kohen ibn Crispin 161
R. Sh'lomoh Astruc (14th c.) 161
R. Elijah de Vidas (16th c.) 161
Rabbi Moshe Alshekh (El-Sheikh) of Sefad (16th c.) 161
Herz Homberg (18th-19th c.) 161
The musaf (additional) service for the Day of Atonement, Philips machzor
(20th c.) 161
Jewish Messianic Interpretations of Isaiah 53............................. 164
The Targum 164
In the early cycle of synagogue readings: 164
Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 98b 164
Ruth Rabbah 5:6 164
The Karaite Yefeth ben Ali (10th c.) 164
Another statement from Yefeth ben Ali: 165
Another statement from Yefeth ben Ali: 165
Mysteries of R. Shim'on ben Yohai (midrash, date uncertain) 165
Lekach Tov (11th c. midrash) 165

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 Maimonides, Letter to Yemen (12th c.) 165
Zohar II, 212a (medieval) 165
Nachmanides (R. Moshe ben Nachman)(13th c.) 166
Yalkut ii: 571 (13th c.) 166
Yalkut ii. 620 (13th c.), in regard to Psalm 2:6 166
R. Mosheh Kohen ibn Crispin (14th c.) 166
Another comment from R. Mosheh Kohen ibn Crispin 166
R. Sh'lomoh Astruc (14th c.) 166
R. Elijah de Vidas (16th c.) 167
Rabbi Moshe Alshekh (El-Sheikh) of Sefad (16th c.) 167
Herz Homberg (18th-19th c.) 167
The service for the Day of Atonement, Philips machzor (20th c.) 167
List of published Books by the Same Author ................................ 169
Bible College Course Notes With Links: ....................................... 170

DEDICATION:
This commentary is dedicated to my wife, Rani, who has been my soulmate, and
my encouragement, for these last 40 years, as we have travelled and preached in
many nations. There have been many good experiences, (and some not so good),
but throughout these travelling adventures for the Lord, He has always been
faithful; He is a person we have come to trust, in ALL situations ~ in the good, the
bad, and the ugly!

COPYRIGHT:
The contents of this book remain the copyright property of the author, Rev. Dr
Jeffry David Camm, and his estate, in succession. Permission is given for the use
of parts of this document for Bible Study Groups, Evangelism, or Private Study.
Permission is given for the whole of this document to be reproduced by Christian
organisations, for evangelistic and/or Bible College reference purposes, provided
it is not sold for profit.

FOREWORD:
The introduction to the Book of Isaiah, as stated in the Amplified Bible, goes like
this. Quote: It shows a picture of a Sign, which says: NO DUMPING! The Book of
Isaiah is a book of “the Signs of the Times.”
Some people just don’t read. Well, yes, they do BUT, it is so easy to rationalize
about sign messages [maybe it doesn’t really mean it, or maybe I won’t get
caught, or the sign is dumb, and I don’t see any good logic to it].
Isaiah, like the other 15 prophets, whose writings fill out the Old Testament, was
a man who posted “verbal signs” for God. He got a better response than some of
the others. Kings, like Hezekiah took him seriously; but most of the time, people
passed off God’s messages lightly ~ they just weren’t interested; or didn’t like
what they heard, or found some other way to ignore God’s Divine Word. Times
have not really changed ~ have they!

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EXPLANATORY NOTES:
Like the other prophetic books, some of the prophecies are for events which
happen in the New Testament. The codes below will indicate which time periods
these verses/chapters refer to.

Code Code Meaning Comments

[F] First Coming of Jesus Christ His first coming, ministry, death &
resurrection
[S] His Second coming back NOT, His “appearing” in the clouds.
physically to earth
[T] The Tribulation Period of 7 This is the tribulation period of Daniel’s
years prophecies & Revelation
[M] The Millennium Period The reign of Jesus on the “existing” earth
for 1,000 years.
[h]~ The Hebrew word The deeper Hebrew meaning is given for
the word identified
[P] Prophecy A promise made by God to be fulfilled.
*** “Therefore” When you see “therefore” in scripture, it
means “conclusion;” so go back and read
what has been concluded.

Isaiah is a condensed version of the whole Protestant Bible. It contains 66 chapters

and includes prophecies about Jesus; his birth, his early years coming out of
Egypt, His teenage years, His ministry years, His capture, His trial (by an unjust
court), His death (by a method that did not exist at the time Isaiah wrote these
prophetic words), His resurrection, and His ascension; and also, how He will come
back and defeat Satan, and his vast army, at the battle of Armageddon, and then
reign upon the earth for 1,000 years.

BACKGROUND OF ISAIAH’S EARLY LIFE

Isaiah was the son of Amos, who “tradition says,” was the brother of King
Amaziah; in which case he was the cousin of King Uzziah; but nothing is known
about this mother. This may explain why Isaiah had almost free entry into the
royal household, and was able to deliver God’s messages directly to kings ~ be
they good or bad!
Isaiah, in Hebrew means; “Jehovah saves,” or “Jehovah is my salvation,” so it
appropriate that he is the prophet chosen by God the Father, to make the
announcement about how that “Salvation” will be born, live, die, and be
resurrected once again.
Isaiah was married to “the prophetess,” and they had two sons, Shearjashub and
Maher-shalal-hash-baz, and Isaiah was murdered in the reign of the wicked King
Manasseh.

CHAPTER ONE: ISAIAH REBUKES JUDAH

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 1.The avision of Isaiah, the son of Amos, which he saw concerning Judah and
Jerusalem, in the days of bUzziah, cJotham, dAhaz, and eHezekiah, the kings
of Judah.
2. fHear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD has spoken, I have
nourished and brought up my children and they have rebelled against me.
3. gThe ox knows his owner, and the ass, is master’s crib: but Israel hdoes not
know, my people do not consider.
4. Ah, sinful nation, a people iladen with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children
that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the
Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are jgone away backwards.
These are the messages that came to Isaiah, the son of Amos, in the visions that
he saw, during the reigns of King Uzziah [783-742 BC] (his cousin), King Jotham
[750 - 735 BC], King Ahaz [735-720 BC], and King Hezekiah [716 - 687 BC], who
were all-of the kings of Judah during the time periods stated above.
In these messages, God told Isaiah what was going to happen to Judah and
Jerusalem in the times ahead. Some of these messages were for his lifetime, or
very soon after his death, whilst other were to happen centuries into the future.
Listen, all-of Heaven and earth to what the Lord is saying: The children that I
raised and cared for, for so long and tenderly, have turned their backs on me.
Even the animals ~ the ox and the donkey both know their masters, and
appreciate his care for them; but not my people Israel. No matter what I do for
them, they still don’t care, nor acknowledge me. Oh! What a sinful nation they
are! They walk with their backs bent over, from the weight of their guilt.
They are just like their fathers before them, who were evil too. Born to be bad,
they have followed in the father’s footsteps and turned their backs on the Lord,
and have therefore despised the Holy One of Israel. In doing this ~ they have cut
themselves off from my help.
5. kWhy should you be stricken anymore? You will revolt more and more: The
whole head is sick, and the whole heart is faint.
6. From the sole of the foot, even unto the head, there is no soundness in it:
but wounds and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been closed,
neither bound up, neither mollifies with lointments.
7. mYour country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land,
strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as noverthrown by
strangers.
8. And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a
garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
9. oExcept the LORD of hosts had left unto us pa very small remnant, we should
have been as qSodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
Oh, my people, are you a glutton for punishment? Will you force me to keep
whipping you, again and again? Must you be rebellious forever? From your head
to your feet, you are sick, weak, and faint, covered with bruises, welts and infected
wounds, unanointed, untreated, and unbound. Your country lies in ruins, your
cities are burnt & destroyed, and while you watch and take no action, foreigners
are coming in and destroying and plundering everything they see. You stand there
helpless and abandoned, like a watchman’s shanty in the field when the harvest

a l
b
See 2:1 1. g
Jeremiah 8:7 m
[h]~ oil
2 Kings 15:1,13; see 6:1 h
See 5:12-13 Deuteronomy 28:51-52
c n
2 Kings 15:32 i
[h]~ of heaviness [h]~ the overthrow of
d o
2 Kings 16:1 j
[h]~ alienated, or separated Romans 9:29
e p
2 Kings 18:1 k
See 9:13; Jeremiah 2:30 2 Kings 19:4
f q
Deuteronomy 32:1 See 13:19

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time is over ~ or when the crop is stripped and robbed. If the Lord of Hosts had
not stepped in to save a few of us, we would have all been wiped out, just like
Sodom and Gomorrah were.
10. Hear the words of the LORD: you rulers of aSodom; give ear unto the Law of
our God, you people of Gomorrah.
11. To what purpose is bthe multitude of your sacrifices unto me? Saith the LORD
God: I am full of the burnt offerings or rams, and the fat of fed beasts: and
I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of cmale goats.
12. When you come dto appear before me, who has required this at your hand,
to tread emy courts?
13. Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me: fthe new
moons and Sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, gI cannot away with; it is
h
iniquity; even the solemn meetings.
14. Your new moons and your appointed feasts MY soul hates: they are a trouble
unto me; I am weary to bear them.
15. [P] And when you spread forth your hands, iI will hide mine eyes from you:
Yes, when you jmake many prayers, I will not hear: kyour hands are full of
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blood.
Oh, my people, haven’t you been punished enough? Why do you do things which
require me to whip you again and again? Must you be rebellious forever?
Because of your rebellion, you are bruised from head to foot, sick and faint, and
covered with infected sores, which go untreated and unbound.
Your country lies in ruins, your cities have been burned, while you stood by and
watched the foreigners come in and burn, rob, steal and take everything they see.
Through all this you standby completely helpless and totally abandoned, just like
a watchman’s shanty, in a field after the harvest is completed; or when the crop
is stripped and robbed by invaders.
If the Lord had not stepped in and saved a few of us, we would have been
completely wiped out like what happened in Sodom & Gomorrah. THIS IS AN APT
COMPARISON!! “Listen! You leaders of Israel, you men of Sodom & Gomorrah are
what I call you now.” Listen to the Lord; “Listen very carefully to what He is telling
you!” The Lord says: “I am sick of your sacrifices. Don’t bring me anymore of
them. I don’t want you fat rams; I don’t want to see the blood from your offerings.
Who wants YOUR sacrifices, when you have no sorrow for your sins? The incense
that you bring to me is a stench to my nostrils. Your holy celebrations of the new
moon and the Sabbaths, and your special days of fasting ~ even you most pious
meetings and gatherings ~ they are all frauds!
I, the Lord, no longer want anything to do with them! I hate them all: I can’t even
stand the sight of them! From now on, when you pray, with your hands
outstretched to heaven, I will not hear, I will close my ears to your prayers,
because your hands are those of murderers; your hands are covered with the
blood of your innocent victims.”
We are told that “without repentance” we shall not see God. Here the Lord makes
it very clear. “Without repentance,” the Lord will not even hear our prayers.
16. mWash you, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from
before my eyes; cease to do evil;

a e j
Ezekiel 16: 46,48-49,55; Psalm 116:19 [h]~ multiply
f k
Revelation 11:8 1 Chronicles 23:31 See 59:3
b g l
1 Samuel 1:22: Psalm 40:8 Psalm 101:5 [h]~ bloods
c h m
[h]~ great he goats. [h]~ grief Jeremiah 1:14
d i
[h]~ to be seen See 59:2

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 17. Learn to do well; aseek judgement, brelieve the oppressed; judge the
fatherless, plead for cthe widow.
18. [P] Come now, and dlet us reason together, says the LORD: Though your sins
be as scarlet, ethey shall be as white as snow; though they be red like
crimson, they shall be as wool.
19. [P] If you be willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land:
20. [P] But, if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword: for
the mouth of the Lord has spoken it!
OK, Go and wash yourselves! Be clean! I don’t want to see you doing these evil
things anymore! Quit, all-of your evil ways, completely! Instead, learn to do good;
to be fair and to do good; help the poor, the fatherless and the widows.
“Come on. Let us sit down and talk this over; let us reason together,” says the
Lord. “NO matter how deep is the stain of your sins, I can remove them and make
you as clean as freshly fallen snow. Even if you are stained all crimson, I can make
you as white as wool. If you only let me help you, if you will only obey me, then I
will make you rich. But if you rebel and turn your backs and refused to listen to
me, then you will be killed by your enemies, killed by the sword. I, the Lord, have
spoken it.”
21. How is the faithful city fbecome a harlot? It was full of judgement;
righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
22. Thy silver has become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
23. gThy princes are rebellious, and companions are thieves; everyone loves
gifts, and follows after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither does
the cause of the widow come unto them.
24. Therefore, says the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, the mighty One of Israel; Ah, I
will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of my enemies:
Jerusalem was once my faithful wife. And now she has become a prostitute,
running after other gods! Once the “city of fair play,” but now it is controlled by a
mob of murderers. Jerusalem was once like sterling silver; but now mixed with a
worthless alloy! Once so pure, but now diluted like watered-down wine.
Your leaders are rebels, companions of thieves, all-of them take bribes and won’t
defend the widows, or the orphans. Therefore, the Lord of Hosts, the Mighty One
of Israel says: “I will pour out my anger upon you; you are now my enemies. I
will melt you in the melting pot myself, and skim off the slag, (the impurities.).”
God Almighty knows the end from the beginning, so it is not surprising that you
have prophecies about the end times, how Jesus will rule and reign, BEFORE you
have information about how he is to be born. The remainder of this chapter, verses
25-31, are prophetic and relate to the Second Coming and to the Millennium reign.
[S, M].
25. [S, M] “And I will turn my hand upon thee: and purely purge away thy dross:
and take away all-of thy tin:
26. [S, M] And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at
the beginning, and afterwards you shall be called the City of
Righteousness,hthe faithful city.
27. [S, M] Zion shall be redeemed with judgement, and iher converts with
righteousness.

a d g
Jeremiah 22:3; Micah 6:8: 1 Samuel 12:7; See 43:26; Hosea 9:15
h
Zechariah 7:9 Micah 6:2 See verse 21; Zechariah 8:3
b e i
[h]~ righten Psalm 51:7 [h]~ they that return of her
c f
James 1:27 Jeremiah 2:20; Revelation
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 28. [S, M] And the adestruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be
together: and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
29. [S, M] For they shall be ashamed of bthe oaks which you have desired, and
you shall be confounded by cthe gardens that you have chosen.
30. [S, M] For you shall be as dan oak whose leaves fade, and as a garden that
has no water.
31. [S, M] And the strong shall be as low, eand the maker of it, as a spark, and
they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
And after I have removed all-of the impurities, I will give you good judges, and
wise counsellors, just like you used to have in the last generation. Then, your city
shall again be called “The City of Justice,” and “The Faithfull Town”. Those who
return to the Lord, who are just and good, shall be redeemed. But all sinners,
(who refuse to repent), shall all perish because they refused to come to me.
Shame will cover you and you will blush to think of all-of those times that you
sacrificed to idols in your groves of “sacred” oaks. You will perish like a withered
tree, or a garden without any water. Even the strongest among you will disappear
like burning straw; your evil deeds will be the spark that sets the straw on fire;
and no-one will be able to put it out.

CHAPTER TWO: THE COMING OF CHRIST’S KINGDOM

The first five verses of this chapter are prophetically relating to the Millennium
Period. [M].
1. [M] The word that fIsaiah, the son of Amos saw concerning Judah and
Jerusalem.
2. [M] gAnd it shall come to pass hin the last days that the mountain of the
Lord’s House shall be iestablished in the top of the mountains, and shall be
exalted above the hills: and jall nations shall flow unto it.
3. [M] And many people shall go and say; kCome ye, and let us go up to the
mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us
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.
4. [M] And He shall judge among the nations, and rebuke many people: and
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they beat their swords into plough-shears, and their spears into mpruning
hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, nneither shall they learn
war anymore.
5. [M] O House of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.
This is another message that the Lord gave to Isaiah, concerning Judah and
Jerusalem: In the last days, Jerusalem and the Temple of the LORD will become
the world’s greatest attraction, and people from many nations shall come there to
worship the Lord. “Come,” everyone will say, “let us go up to the mountain of the
LORD, to the Temple of the God of Israel; there He will teach his laws, and we will
obey them.” For in those days the whole world will be ruled from Jerusalem. The
Lord will settle international disputes; all the nations will convert their weapons of
war into implements of peace. Then at last, all wars will cease, and all military
training will end. O Israel come, let us walk in the light of the LORD of Hosts, and
be obedient to His laws!
a g l
[h]~ breaking of See verse 4; Micah 4:1-3 Joel 3:10
b h m
See 57:5 Genesis 49:1 [h]~ scythes
c i n
See 65:3; 66:17 [h]~ prepared Psalm 46:9; Hosea 2:18;
d j
See 6:13 See 27:13; Luke 24:47 Zechariah 9:10
e k
[h]~ and his work Jeremiah 3:6; Zechariah
f
See 1:1 8:21,23

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 6.Therefore, you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, because they
be replenished afrom the east, and are bsoothsayers, clike the Philistines, and
they dplease themselves in the children of strangers.
7. Their land is also filled with silver and gold, neither is there any end of their
treasures; their land is also efull of horses, neither is there any end of their
chariots.
8. Their land is also ffull of idols: they worship the work of their own hands,
that which their own fingers have made.
9. And gthe mean man bows down, and the great man humbles himself:
therefore, forgive them not.
The Lord has rejected you, because you welcome foreigners from the east, who
practice magic, and communicate with evil spirits, as the Philistines do.
Israel has vast treasures of silver and gold, and a great number of horses and
chariots ~ and idols, the land is full of them! They are man-made, and yet you
worship shapes made with your own hands! Small and great among you, all bow
down before them: God will not forgive you for this sin!
10. hEnter into the rock and hide thee in the dust, ifor fear of the LORD, and for
the glory of His majesty.
11. jThe lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall
be bowed down, and kthe LORD alone shall be exalted lin that day.
12. For the day of the Lord of Hosts shall be upon everyone that is proud and
lofty, and upon everyone that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low.
13. And all-of the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all
the oaks Bashan,
14. And mupon 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 nthe ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
17. And the loftiness of men shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men
made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
18. And the idols oHe shall utterly abolish.
19. And pthey shall go into the holes in the rocks, and into the caves of the qearth,
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for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of His Majesty, when He arises to
shake terribly the earth.
20. In that day, a man shall cast shis idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which
they have made, teach one of them for himself to worship, to the moles and
to the bats;
21. To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, ufor
fear of the LORD, and for the glory of His Majesty, when He rises to shake
terribly the earth.
22. vCease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for wherein is he to be
accounted of?
Crawl into the crevices in the rocks and hide in terror from his glorious majesty,
for the day is coming, when your proud looks will be brought low; and the LORD
alone will be exalted. On that day, the LORD of HOSTS, will move against the

a i o
[h]~ more than the 2 Thessalonians 1:9 [h]~ shall utterly pass away
b j p
Deuteronomy 18:14 See verse 17 See verse 10; Luke 23:30
c k q
2 Kings 1:2 2 Corinthians 2:5 [h]~ dust
d l r
[h]~ abound with the See 4:1-2; 11:10-11; 12:1- See verse 10; Luke 23:30
e s
Deuteronomy 17:16 4; 24:1; 25:9; 26:1; 28:5; [h]~ the idols of his silver
f t
Jeremiah 2:28 29:18; Jeremiah 30:8; [h]~ for him
g u
See verse 11,17; 5:15 Ezekiel 38:14,19 See verse 10; Luke 23:30
h m v
See verse 19,21; Revelation See 30:25 Psalm 146:3
n
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proud and haughty and bring them all to dust. All-of the tall cedars in Lebanon,
and all the mighty oaks of Bashan shall bend low, and all-of the high mountains
and the hills, and every high tower and wall, and all-of the proud ocean ships, and
trim harbour crafts, all shall be crushed before the LORD on that day. All the glory
of mankind will bow low; the pride of men shall lie in the dust, and the LORD alone
shall be exalted. And all-of the idols will be utterly abolished and destroyed.
When the LORD stand up from His throne to shake up the earth, his enemies will
crawl with fear into holes in the rocks, and into the caves because of the glory of
his majesty. Then at last, they will abandon their gold and silver idols to the bats
and the moles, and crawl into the caverns to hide themselves among the jagged
rocks at the tops of the cliffs, to try to get away from the terror of the LORD, and
the glory of his majesty, when He rises to terrify the earth. Puny man! Frail is his
breath! Don’t ever put your trust in him!

CHAPTER THREE: THE CALAMITIES COMING UPON JUDAH

1. For, behold, the LORD, the LORD of Hosts, does take away from Jerusalem
and from Judah athe stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the
whole stay of water.
2. The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the
prudent, and the ancient.
3. The captain of fifty, and bthe honourable man, and the counsellor, and the
cunning artificer, and the celoquent orator.
4. And dI will children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
5. And the people shall be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by
his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient and
the base against the honourable.
6. When ea man shall take hold of his brother of his father, saying: “Thou has
clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:”
7. In that day, shall he fswear, saying: “I will not be a ghealer; for in my house
is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.”
8. For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongues and their
doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of His glory.
The LORD of Hosts shall cut off Jerusalem’s and Judah’s food and water supply,
and kill her leaders; he will destroy her armies, judges, prophets, elders, army
officers, businessmen, lawyers, magicians and politicians. Israel’s kings shall be
like babies, ruling childishly. The worst sort of anarchy will prevail ~ everyone
stepping on someone else, neighbours fighting neighbours, youths revolting
against authority, criminals sneering at honourable men. [Just like is happening
in the world right now!]
In those days, a man will say to his brother, “you have some extra clothing, so
you be our king, and take care of this mess.” “NO!” He will reply, “I cannot be of
any help! I have no extra food or clothes. Don’t get me involved!”
Israel’s civil government will be in utter ruin, because the Jews have spoken out
against their Lord, and will not worship Him; they offend Him and His glory.

a c f
Leviticus 26:26; Jeremiah [h]~ skillful of speech [h]~ lift up the hand to take
d
37:21 Ecclesiastes 10:16 an oath
b e g
[h]~ a man imminent in See 4:1 [h]~ binder up
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 9. The shew of their countenance does witness against them: and they declare
their sin aas Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their (evil) soul! For they
have rewarded evil unto themselves.
10. Say you to the righteous, bthat it shall be that it shall be well with him: for
c
they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
11. Woe unto the wicked! dIt shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands
shall be egiven him.
The very look on their faces gives them away, and shows their guilt. And they
boast that their sin is equal to the sin of Sodom; they are not even ashamed (but
they should be). What a catastrophe! They have doomed themselves.
But all is well for the godly man. Tell him, “What a reward you are going to get!”
But say to the wicked, “Your doom is sure. You too shall get your just deserts.
Your well-earned punishment is on the way.”
12. As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them.
O my people, they which flead thee, cause them to err, and gdestroy the way
of thy paths.
13. The Lord stands up hto plead (in the courtroom of Heaven) and stands to
judge the people.
14. The LORD iwill enter into judgement with the ancients of his people, and the
princes thereof: for you have jeaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor
is in your houses.
15. What mean you that you kbeat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of
the poor? Says the LORD GOD of Hosts.
O my people! Can’t you see what fools your rulers are? Weak as women! Foolish
as little children playing KING. True Leaders?? NO!! MIS-LEADERS! Leading you
down the garden path to destruction! The Lord stands up, (in the courtroom of
Heaven), He is the great Prosecuting Attorney, presenting His case against the
people! First to feel His wrath, will be the elders and the princes, for they have
defrauded the poor. They have filled their barns with grain extorted from the
helpless peasants. “How dare you grind my people in the dust like that?” the Lord
of Hosts will demand of them.
16. More-over the LORD says; lBecause the daughters of Zion are haughty, and
walk with stretched forth necks and mwanton eyes, walking and mincing as
they go, and making a tinkling with their feet.
17. Therefore, the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the
daughters of Zion, and the Lord will ndiscover their secret parts.
18. oIn that day, the LORD will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments
about their feet, and their pcauls, and their qround tires like the moon,
19. The rchains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers.
20. The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the
s
tablets, and the earrings.
21. The rings, and nose jewels,
22. The changeable suit of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the
crisping pins,
23. The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the veils.

a h o
Genesis 13:13; See 1:10 Hosea 4:1 See verse 7
b i p
Ecclesiastes 8:12 Psalm 143:2 [h]~ Networks
c j q
Psalm 128:2 [h]~ burnt Judges 8: 21,26
d k r
Psalm 11:6; Ecclesiastes 8:13 Psalm 94:5 Sweet backs
e l s
[h]~ done to him See 32:9-11 [h]~ houses of the souls
f m
[h]~ call the blessed [h]~ deceiving with their eyes
g n
[h]~ swallow up [h]~ make naked

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 24. And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink:
and instead of a stomacher, aa girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of
beauty.
25. Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy bmighty in the war.
26. And cher gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon
the ground.
Next, He will judge the haughty Jewish women, who mince along, noses in the air,
tinkling bracelets on their ankles, with wanton eyes, that rove among the crowds
to catch the glimpses of the men. The Lord will send a plague of scabs to ornament
their heads! He will expose their nakedness for all to see. No longer shall they
tinkle with self-assurance as they walk. For the LORD shall strip away their artful
beauty and their ornaments, their necklaces and bracelets, and their veils of
shimmering gauze. Gone shall be their scarves and ankle chains, head bands,
earrings, and perfumes, their rings and jewels, and party clothes, and negligees
and capes and ornate combs and purses; their mirrors, lovely lingerie, beautiful
dresses, and veils. Instead of smelling of sweet perfume, they’ll stink; for sashes
they’ll use ropes; their well-set hair will all fall out; they’ll wear sacks instead of
robes.
All-of their beauty will be gone; all that will be left to them is shame and disgrace;
Their husbands shall all die in battle; the women, ravaged shall sit crying on the
ground.

CHAPTER FOUR: OPPRESSION & COVETOUSNESS OF THE

RULERS
This whole chapter is prophetic and relates to the Second Coming and the
Millennium period [S, M].
1. [S, M] And din that day, seven women shall take hold of one man, saying;
“We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only elet us be called
by your name, to take away our reproach.”
2. [S, M] In that day shall fthe branch of the Lord be gbeautiful and glorious,
and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for hthem that are
escaped from Israel.
3. [S, M] And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that
remains in Jerusalem, ishall be called holy, even everyone, jthat is written,
k
among the living in Jerusalem.
4. [S, M] lWhen the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of
Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof
by the Spirit of Judgement, and by the Spirit of Burning.
5. [S, M] And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of Mount Zion, and
upon her assemblies, ma cloud and smoke by day, and nthe shining of a
flaming fire by night: for upon all-of the glory shall be a odefence.
6. [S, M] And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime heat, and
p
for a place of refuge, and a covert from storm and rain.

a f l
See 15:3 Jeremiah 23:5 Malachi 3:2-3
b g m
[h]~ might [h]~ beauty and glory Exodus 13:21
c h n
Jeremiah 14:2 [h]~ the escaping Zechariah 2:5
d i o
See 2:11 Obadiah 17 [h]~ covering
e j p
[h]~ let thy name be called Luke 10:20 See 25:4
k
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At that time, so few men will be left alive that seven women will fight over each
of them and say; “Let us all marry you! We will furnish our own food and clothing;
only let us be called by your name, so that we won’t be mocked as old maids.”
Those whose names are written down to escape the destruction of Jerusalem, will
be washed and rinsed of all their moral filth by the horrors and by fire. They will
be God’s holy people. And the land will produce for them its lushest bounty, and
its richest fruit. Then the Lord will provide shade in Jerusalem ~ over every home
and all-of its public grounds ~ a canopy of smoke and cloud throughout the day,
and clouds of fire at night, covering the Glorious Land, protecting it from daytime
heat and from rains and storms.

CHAPTER FIVE: PARABLE OF A VINEYARD: GOD’S

JUDGEMENT UPON SINNERS
1. Now will I sing to amy well beloved a song of my beloved touching bhis
vineyard, my beloved has a vineyard in ca very beautiful hill: And dhe efenced
it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine,
and built a tower in-the-midst-of it, and also made a winepress therein: and
f
he looked that it should bring forth grapes.
2. And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you,
betwixt me and my vineyard.
3. What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it?
Wherefore when I looked that I should bring forth grapes, brought it forth
wild grapes.
4. 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:
5. And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged: but there shall
come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no
rain upon it.
6. 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 judgement, but behold
oppression: for righteousness, but behold a cry.
Now, I will sing a song about His vineyard to the one I love. My beloved has a
vineyard on a very fertile hill. He ploughed it and took out all-of the rocks and
planted his vineyard with the choicest vines. He built a watchtower and cut a
winepress in the rocks. Then he waited for the harvest, but the grapes that grew
were wild and sow, and not at all the sweet ones he expected.
Now, men of Jerusalem and Judah, you have heard the case! You be the judge!
What more could I have done? Why did my vineyard give me wild grapes instead
of sweet? I will tear down the fences and let my vineyard go to pasture to be
trampled by cattle and sheep. I won’t prune it or hoe it, but let it become
overgrown with briars and thorns. I will command the clouds not to rain on it
anymore.
7. Woe unto them that join ghouse to house, that lay field to field, till there be
no place, that they may be placed alone in-the-midst-of the earth.
8. hIn my ears, says the LORD of Hosts, iof a truth, many houses shall be
desolate, even great, and fair, without inhabitants.

a e h
Psalm 60:5 [h]~ made a wall about [h]~This is in my ears says
b f
Psalm 80:8 Matthew 21:19 the Lord
c g i
[h]~ the horn of the son of oil Micah 2:2 [h]~ if not
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 9.Yes, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one abath, and the seed of a homer
shall yield an ephah.
In these bad times, you buy up property so that others have no place to live. Your
homes are built on great estates, so you can be alone in-the-midst-of the earth!
BUT the LORD of Hosts has sworn your awful fate: with my own ears I heard Him
say; “Many a beautiful home will lie deserted, their owners killed or gone. An acre
of vineyard will not even produce a gallon of juice! Ten bushels of seed will only
yield one bushel of crop!
10. bWoe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong
drink; that continue until night, till wine cinflame them!
11. And the harp and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine are in their feast:
but dthey regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider ethe operation
of their hands.
Woe to you who get up early and go out on long drinking bouts, that last until late
at night ~ woe to you drunken bums! You furnish lovely music at your grand
parties; the orchestras are superb! BUT, for the Lord you have no thought or care.
12. Therefore, my people are gone into captivity, because they have no
knowledge: and their f“honourable men” are famished, and their multitude
dried up with thirst.
13. Therefore, hell has enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without
measure: and their glory, and the multitude, and their pomp, and he that
rejoices, shall all descend into it.
14. And gthe mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be
humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
15. But hthe LORD of Hosts, shall be exalted in judgement, and iGod that is holy
shall be sanctified in righteousness.
16. Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of jthe
fat ones shall the kstrangers eat.
17. Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were
with a cart rope:
18. That say; Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it; and
let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may
know it!
Therefore, I will send you into exile, far away, because you neither know, nor care,
that I have done so much for you.
Your great and honoured men will starve, and the common men will die of thirst!
Hell is licking its chops in anticipation of this delicious morsel, Jerusalem. Her great
and small shall be all swallowed up, and all-of her drunken throngs. In that day,
the haughty shall be brought down to the dust; the proud shall be humbled; but
the LORD of Hosts is exalted above all, for He alone is holy, good, and just. In
those days, flocks shall feed among the ruins of Jerusalem. Lambs and calves and
kids will pasture there! [This is exactly what Prophet Ezekiel was telling the nation
of Israel on the steps of the Temple EVERYDAY for 23 years, and still they did not
listen and believe until the Babylonians came and besieged the city ~ but then, it
was too late.]
Woe to them, who drag their sins behind them, like a bullock on a rope ~ [cords
of falsehood]. They even mock the Holy One of Israel and dare the Lord to punish
them. “Hurry up and punish us, O Lord,” they say. “We want to see what you can

a e i
Ezekiel 45:11 Psalm 143:5 [h]~ the holy God
b f j
See verse 22 [h]~ glory are men of famine See 10:16
c g k
[h]~ pursue them See 2:9 Psalm 109:11
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do!” It is clear that they have forgotten all-of the miracles that God Almighty had
done for them in the past ~ but also, they believed that, because they are the
sons of Abraham, God would never hurt them. THEY WERE WRONG ON BOTH
COUNTS!
19. Woe unto them that acall evil good: and (that) call good evil; that put
darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet
for bitter!
20. Woe unto them that are bwise in their own eyes, and prudent cin their own
sight!
21. Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle
strong drink.
22. dWhich justify the wicked for ereward, and take away the righteousness of
the righteous from him!
23. Therefore, as the ffire devours the stubble, and then flame consumes the
chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossoms shall go up as
dust: because they have cast away the way of the LORD of Hosts, and
g
despised the word of hthe Holy One of Israel.
24. Therefore, is the anger of the Lord kindled against His people, and He has
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stretched out His hand against them, and has smitten them: and the hills did
tremble, and their carcasses were jtorn in-the-midst-of the streets. For all
this, His anger is not turned away, but His hand is outstretched still.
They say that what is right is WRONG! and what is wrong is RIGHT! THAT BLACK
IS WHITE, AND WHITE IS BLACK; BITTER IS SWEET, AND SWEET IS BITTER! [And
that the Vax will stop you getting COVID ~ if you keep having booster shots for
the rest of your life!]
Woe to those who are shrewd in their own eyes! Woe to those who are “heroes”
when it comes to drinking, and boast about the amount of liquor that they can
hold. They take bribes to pervert justice, letting the wicked go free, and putting
innocent men and women in jail. Therefore, God will deal with them and burn
them! They will disappear like straw on fire. Their roots will rot and their flowers
will wither, for they have thrown away the Laws of God, and despised the WORD
of the Holy One of Israel. That is why the anger of the Lord is hot against his
people; that is why He has reached out His hand to smash them. The hills will
tremble, and the rotting bodies of His people will be thrown as refuse into the
streets. But even so. His anger is not ended; His hand is heave on them still.
[I am amazed, as I look at what is going on around me in the nations; would you
really want to get on the wrong side of God Almighty, if He can do this to HIS
OWN PEOPLE? Imagine what He can do to nations that refuse to acknowledge Him
as the Messiah ~ or nations which bring defilement to His name by their evil
actions.]
25. kAnd He will lift up and ensign to the nations from far off, and He lwill hiss
unto them from the end of the earth: and behold, they shall come with speed
swiftly.
26. None shall be weary, nor stumble among them: none shall slumber nor
sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their
shoes be broken:

a e j
[h]~ say concerning evil that Exodus 23:8 [h]~ as dung
f k
it is good. [h]~ or skirts See 11:12
b g l
Romans 12:6 See 1:4 See 7:18
c h
[h]~ Before their face See 12:6
d i
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 27. Whose arrows are sharp, and their bows bent; their horses’ hooves shall be
counted like flint, and their wheels, like a whirlwind:
28. The roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar young lions: Yes, they shall
roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall
deliver it.
29. And ain that day, they shall roar against them like a roaring of the sea; and
b
if one looks unto the land, behold darkness and csorrow dand the light is
darkened in the heavens thereof.
He will send a signal to the nations far away, whistling to those at the ends of the
earth, and they will come racing towards Jerusalem. They never weary, never
stumble, never stop; their belts are tight, their bootstraps strong, they run without
stopping for rest, or for sleep. Their arrows are sharp, their bows are bent; sparks
fly from their horses’ hooves, and the wheels of their chariots spin like the wind.
They roar like lions and pounce on their prey. They seize my people and carry
them off into captivity, with none to rescue them. They growl over their victims
like the roaring of the seas. Over all-of Israel lies a pall-of darkness and sorrow,
and the heavens are black. [This is clearly the same vision that Jeremiah and
Ezekiel saw of the capture of the city and the destruction of Judah and Jerusalem.]

CHAPTER SIX: ISAIAH’S VISION OF GOD’S GLORY

1. eIn the year that King fUzziah died, gI saw also the LORD, sitting upon a
throne, high and lifted up, and hHis train filled the Temple.
2. Above it stood the seraphim, each one had isix wings; with two he covered
his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with the other two he did fly.
3. And jone cried out to another, and said, Holy, holy, holy is the LORD God of
Hosts: kthe whole earth is full of His glory.
4. And the posts of the ldoor loved at the voice of him that cried out, and the
house was filled with smoke.
In the year that King Uzziah died (793 B.C.) I saw the Lord! He was sitting on a
lofty throne, and the Temple was filled with His glory. Hovering about Him were
might six-winged seraphim. With two wings they covered their faces; with two
wings they covered their feet; and with the remaining two wings they flew. In a
great antiphonal chorus, they sang; “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD God of Hosts;
the whole earth is filled with His glory.” Such singing it was! It shook the Temple
to its foundations, and suddenly the whole sanctuary was filled with smoke.
5. mThen said I, “Woe is me! for I am nundone; because I am a man of unclean
lips, and I dwell in-the-midst-of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have
seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”
6. Then flew one of the seraphim unto me, ohaving a live coal in his hands,
which he had taken with tongs from off the altar;
7. And he plaid it on my mouth, and said; “Lo, this has touched thy lips; and
thine iniquities are taken away, and thy sin is purged.”
8. Also, I heard the voice of the LORD, saying: “Whom shall I send, and who
will go for us?” Then I said: “qHere am I, Lord; send me.”

a g m
See 2:11 John 12:41 Exodus 3:6
b h n
See 8:22 [h]~ the skirts thereof [h]~ cut off
c i o
[h]~ distress Revelation 4:8 [h]~ and in his hand a live
d j
[h]~ when it is light, it shall [h]~ this cried to this coal
k p
be dark in the destructions [h]~ His glory is the fullness [h]~ caused it to touch
e q
2 Kings 15:7 of the whole earth [h]~ behold me
f l
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Then I said; “My doom is sealed, for I am a foul-mouthed sinner, a member of a
sinful, foul-mouthed race (mankind): and I have looked upon the King, the Lord
of Heaven’s Armies.”
Then one of the seraphs flew over to the altar with a pair of tongs and picked up
a live burning coal. He touched my lips with it and said: “Now you are pronounced,
‘Not Guilty’ because the coal has touched your lips. Your sins are all forgiven.”
Then I heard the Lord asking; “Whom shall I send as a messenger to my people?
Who will go?” And I said; “Lord, I’ll go! Send me.”
Would you be prepared to answer like Isaiah, if you heard the Lord’s voice?
9. And He said: “Go, and tell my people; Hear you aindeed, but understand not;
and see you indeed, but perceive not.”
10. “Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their
eyes; lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and understand
with the heart, and convert, and be healed.”
11. [T] Then I said; “Lord how long” And He answered; “until the cities be
wasted and without inhabitants, and the houses without man, and the land
be butterly desolate.”
12. [T] And the LORD has removed men far away, and there is great forsaking
in-the-midst-of the land.
13. [T] But, yet in it shall be ca tenth, dand it shall return, and it shall be eaten:
as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast off
their leaves: so, the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
And the Lord said: “Yes, go! But tell my people this: ‘Though you hear my words
repeatedly, you won’t understand them. Though you watch as I perform my
miracles one after another, still you won’t know what they mean. Dull their
understanding, close their ears, and shut their eyes. I don’t want them to see or
hear or understand, or to turn to me to heal them” [God’s patience with His people
had finally exhausted].
Then I asked the Lord: “Lord, how long will it before they are ready to listen?” And
the Lord replied: “Not until their cities are destroyed ~ without a single person left
~ and the whole country becomes an utter wasteland, and they are all taken as
slaves to other countries far away, and all-of the land of Israel lies deserted! Yet
a tenth ~ a remnant ~ will survive; and though Israel is invaded again, yet Israel
shall be like a tree cut down, whose stump still lives to grow again.”
In the Book of Ezekiel, it says that Ezekiel was given a message by God Almighty,
for him to preach every morning from the Temple steps to the nation of Israel for
twenty-three years, and still the nation did not listen and Jerusalem was attacked,
seized, and the people taken into captivity in Babylon for 70 years.

CHAPTER SEVEN: JESUS IS PROMISED AS A SIGN

1. And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah,
King of Judah, that eRezin, the king of Syria, and fPekah, the son of Remaliah,
King of Israel went up towards Jerusalem to war against it, but could not
prevail against it.
2. And it was told the house of David, saying, “Syria gis confederate with
Ephraim. And his heart has moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees
of the wood are moved with the wind.”

a d e
[h]~ without ceasing [h]~ when it has been 2 Kings 15:25,37
b f
[h]~ desolate with desolation returned and has been 2 Kings 15:25,37
c g
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 3.Then said the Lord unto Isaiah; “Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and
a
Shearjash, your son, at the end of bthe conduit of the upper pool in the
c
highway, of the fuller’s field;
4. And say unto Him; “Take heed and be quiet: fear not, dneither be
fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger
of Rezin with Syria and of ethe son of Remaliah.
5. Because Syria, Ephraim, and fthe son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel
against you, saying:
6. Let us go up against Judah, and gvex it, and let us make a breach therein for
us, and set a king in-the-midst-of it, even the son of Tabeal.”
7. This says the Lord God: “It shall not shall stand, neither shall it come to pass.
8. For hthe head of Syria is iDamascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and
j
within three score and five years (65 years) shall Ephraim be broken, kthat
it be not a people. [God’s timing is different to ours; He tells Isaiah that in
65 years time (in the future) this will not happen.]
9. And the head of Ephraim is lSamaria, and the head of Samaria is mRemeliah’s
son. nIf you will not believe, then surely you shall not be established.
During the reign of King Ahaz, (the son of Jotham and the grandson of Uzziah),
Jerusalem was attacked by King Rezin of Syria, and King Pekah of Israel (the 10
rebellious tribes who set up their capital in Samaria), who is the son of Remaliah.
So, even 800 years before Jesus was born, there was fights and hatred between
Syria and Israel, and 2,000 years later, that hatred still exists.

Despite Jerusalem being attacked ~ it was not captured; the city stood firm.
However, when the news come to the royal court, “Syria is aligned with Israel (the
10 rebellious tribes) against us.” The hearts of the king and his people trembled
with fear, as the trees of the forest shake in a storm.
Then the Lord said to Isaiah; “Go out to meet King Ahaz, you and Shearjashub,
your son. You will find him at the end of the aqueduct which leads from Gihon
Spring to the upper reservoir, near the road that leads down to the bleaching field.
Tell Him to quit worrying,” the Lord said; “Tell him he needn’t be frightened by
the fierce anger of those two has-beens, Rezin and Pekah. Yes, the kings of Syria
and Israel are coming against you.” They say; ‘We will invade Judah and throw

a f l
[h]~ the remnant shall return. See 8:6 1 Kings 16:24
b g m
2 Kings 18:17 [h]~ awaken it See 8:6
c h n
[h]~ causeway 2 Samuel 8:6 [h]~ Do you not believe? it is
d i
[h]~ let not thy heart be See 17:1,3 because you are not stable.
j
tender 2 Kings 17:24
e k
See 8:6 [h]~ from a people

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her people into a panic. Then we’ll fight our way into Jerusalem and install the son
of Tabeal and their king.’
“But the Lord God says; ‘This plan shall not succeed, for Damascus shall remain
the capital of Syria alone, and King Rezin’s kingdom will not increase its
boundaries. And within sixty-five years Ephraim too, will be crushed and broken.
Samaria is the capital of Ephraim alone and King Pekah’s power shall not increase.
You don’t believe Me? If you want me to protect you, then you must learn to
TRUST & believe what I say.”
10. aMoreover, the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying;
11. Ask thee ba sign of the Lord thy God; cask it either in the depths, or in the
heights above;
12. But Ahaz said; dI will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord.
13. And He said: Hear you now eO House of David: Is it a small thing for you to
weary men, but will you weary my God also?
14. [F] Therefore, the LORD Himself shall give you a sign: fBehold, ga virgin shall
conceive, and bear a son, and hshall call His name iImmanuel.
[Here Isaiah says that God Almighty tells him that the virgin-born child shall be
called “Immanuel” ~ which means “God is with us.” In the account of the visitation
of Archangel Gabriel to Mary in Luke 1:31, Gabriel tells her that she will have a
son and call his name “Jesus.”] Who made the mistake? Did God change His mind
about the name, or did Gabriel give the wrong message?
No! God never makes mistakes, even if we think a mistake, then it is because our
level of spiritual understanding is not mature enough. [God is with us & His name
is Jesus]
15. jButter and honey shall he eat, kthat he may know to refuse the evil, and
choose the good.
16. lFor before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the
land that you abhorrest shall be forsaken of mboth her kings.
Not very long after this message, The Lord gave me a message telling King Ahaz
that the attacked against Judah and Jerusalem will fail, then the Lord sent this
further message to King Ahaz; “Ask for me a sign, Ahaz, to prove that I will crush
your enemies as I have said. Ask anything you like, in the heavens, or on the
earth.”
But the king refused. “No,” he said, “I’ll not bother the Lord with anything like
that.” Then Isaiah said; “O House of David, you aren’t satisfied to exhaust my
patience; you exhaust the Lord’s Patience as well! All right then, the Lord Himself
will choose the sign; a child shall be born to a nvirgin! And she shall call Him
Emmanuel ~ which means ~ God with us!” By the time this young child is weaned,
and knows right from wrong, the two kings that you fear so much ~ the kings of
Israel and Syria ~ will both be dead!”
17. The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon they father’s
house, days that have not come from the day that oEphraim departed from
Judah; even the King of Assyria.
18. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss pfor the fly
that is in the utmost parts of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in
the land of Assyria.

a g n
[h]~ and the Lord added to Genesis 3:15 [h]~this controversial Hebrew
h
speak. [h]~ thou o virgin shall call word here sometimes means
b i
2 Kings 19:29 See 8:8,10 virgin and otherwise means
c j
[h]~ make thy petition deep See verse 22 young woman.
d k o
2 Kings 16:7 Luke 2:40,52 1 Kings 12:16
e l p
Luke 1:27,69 See 8:4 2 Kings 1:23,29,33-35
f m
Matthew 1:23 2 Kings 15:30

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 19. And they shall come, and shall rest all-of them in the desolate valleys, and
in the holes of the rocks, and upon all-of the thorns, and all-of the abushes.
20. In the same day shall the Lord shave with ba razor that is hired, namely, cby
them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the
feet, and it shall consume the beard.
21. And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow,
and two sheep:
22. And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk, that they shall give, he
shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall everyone eat that is left in dthe
land.
23. And it shall come to pass, in that day, that every place shall be, where there
were a thousand vines, at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers
and thorns.
24. With arrows and with bows, shall men come thither: because all-of the land
shall become briers and thorns.
25. And on all-of the hills shall be digged with a mattock, there shall not come
thither the fear of briers and thorns: but is shall be for the sending forth of
oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.
But later on, the LORD will bring a terrible curse on you, your family, and on your
nation. There will be terror, such as has not been known since the division of
Solomon’s empire, into Israel and Judah~ the mighty king of Assyria will come,
with his great army! At that time the LORD will whistle for the army of Upper
Egypt, and of Assyria too, to swarm down upon you like flies and destroy you; like
bees to sting and kill.
They will come in vast hordes, spreading across the whole land, even into the
desolate valleys, and caves and thorny parts, as well as to all-of your fertile acres.
IN that day the LORD will take this razor ~ these Assyrians you have hired to save
you ~ and use them to shave off everything you have: your land, your crops, your
people.
When they finally stop plundering, the whole nation will be pastureland: Whole
flocks and herds will be destroyed, and a farmer will be fortunate to have a cow
and two sheep left. But the abundant pastureland will yield and plenty of milk,
and everyone will left will live on curds and wild honey. At that time the lush
vineyards will become patches of briars. All-of the land will become one vast thorn
field, a hunting ground overrun by wildlife. No one will go to the fertilised hillsides
where once the gardens grew, for the thorns will cover them; cattle and sheep
and goats will graze there.

CHAPTER EIGHT: A PROPHECY AGAINST SYRIA AND

ISRAEL.
1. Moreover, the LORD said unto me; Take thee a great roll, and ewrite in it
with a man’s pen concerning fMahershalahashbaz.
2. And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and
Zechariah, the son of Jeberechiah.
3. And I gwent unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then
said the LORD to me; call his name Mahershalahashbaz.

a d g
[h]~ commendable trees. [h]~ in-the-midst-of [h]~ approach unto
b e
Ezekiel 5:1 See 30:8
c f
2 Kings 16:8 [h]~ make speed

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 4.For before that 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 king of Assyria.
AGAIN, THE LORD sent me a message: “Make a large signboard and write on it
the birth announcement of a son I AM going to give you. USE CAPITAL LETTERS!
His name shall be Mahershalahashbaz [which means “your enemies will soon be
destroyed”].
I asked Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah, both known as
honest men, to watch me as I wrote, so that they could testify that I had written
it (before the child was even conceived). Then I had sexual intercourse with my
wife and she conceived, and bore me a son, and the LORD said; “Call him
Mahershalahashbaz. This name prophesies that within a couple of years, before
this child is even old enough to say ‘Daddy’ or ‘Mummy,’ the king of Assyria will
invade bother Damascus and Samaria and will carry away all-of their riches.
5. Then the Lord spoke to me again saying:
6. Forasmuch as this people refuse the waters of aShiloah that go softly, and
rejoice in bRezin and Remeliah’s son;
7. Now therefore, behold the Lord brings up upon them the waters of the river,
strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all-of his glory: and he shall
come up over all-of his channels, and go over all-of his banks:
8. And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over; he shall
reach even cto the neck; and the dstretching out of his wings shall fill the
breadth of thy land, O eImmanuel.
Then the LORD spoke to me again and said: “Since the people of Jerusalem are
careless refuse my gentle care and are enthusiastic about asking King Rezin and
King Pekah to come and aid them, Therefore, I will overwhelm my people the
Euphrates’ mighty flood; the king of Assyria and all-of his might armies will rage
against them. This flood will overflow all-of its channels and sweep right across
the land into Judah, O Immanuel, submerging it and covering it from end to end.
9. Associate yourselves, O you people, fand you shall be broken in pieces: and
give ear all-of you from foreign countries: gird yourselves, and you shall be
broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in piecesg.
10. Take counsel together; and it shall come to naught: speak the word, and it
shall not stand; for hGod is with us.
Do your worst, O Syria and Israel, our enemies but you will not succeed ~ you
will be shattered. Listen to me, all you enemies of ours: Prepare for war against
us ~ and perish!!! YES! Perish!!! Call your council of war develop your strategies,
prepare your plans for attacking us, and PERISH! For GOD is with us! [Hamas,
Syria, Iran, and the other Arab nations, please take note of this prophecy. IF you
attack Judah, you shall surely perish!]
11. For the Lord spoke this to me iwith a strong hand, and instructed me that I
should not walk in the way of this people saying;
12. Say you not a confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say; A
Confederacy: jneither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.
13. kSanctify the LORD of Hosts Himself: and llet Him be your fear; and let Him
be your dread.

a e h
Nehemiah 3:15 See 7:14 See 7:14
b f i
See 7:1,4 [h]~ yet [h]~ strength of hand
c g j
See 30:28 To make sure you 1 Peter 3:14-15
d k
[h]~ to the fullness of the understand God repeats his Number 20:12
l
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 14. And He shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock
of offence to both the Houses of Israel.
15. And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared,
and be taken.
16. Bind up the testimony, seal the law among the disciples.
17. And I will await upon the LORD, that bhides His face from the House of Jacob,
and I will look for Him.
18. cBehold, I and dthe children whom the Lord has given me are efor signs and
for fwonders in Israel, which dwells in Mount Zion.
The Lord has made known his thoughts in the strongest terms: “Do not, under
any circumstances, go along with the plans of Judah to surrender to Syria and
Israel (because that shows that you do not trust God). Don’t let people call you a
traitor, for staying true to God. Don’t you panic as so many of your neighbours
are doing, when they think of Syria and Israel attacking you.
Don’t fear anything except the LORD of the armies of heaven! If you fear him, you
need fear nothing else! He Will be your safety; but Israel and Judah have refused
his care and thereby stumbled against “the Rock of their salvation,” and lie fallen
and crushed beneath it; God’s presence among them has endangered them!
Write down all-of the things I am going to do; says the LORD, and seal it up for
the future. Entrust it to some godly man to pass down to other godly men of future
generations. I will wait for the LORD to help us, even though He is hiding now. My
only hope is in the Lord. I and the children that GOD has given me, have symbolic
names that reveals the plans of the Lord of Heaven’s armies, for his people; Isaiah
~ means “Jehovah will save” (his people). Shearjashub means “a remnant shall
return” and Mahershalahashbaz means “Your enemies will soon be destroyed.”
19. And when they shall say unto you; Seek unto gthem that have familiar spirits,
and unto wizards hthat peep, and that mutter; ishould not a people seek unto
their God? For the living to jthe dead?
20. kTo the law and to the testimony; lif they speak not according to the word, it
is because there is mno light in them.
21. And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come
to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and
n
curse their king and their God, and look upwards.
22. And they shall look unto the earth: and behold trouble and darkness, dimness
of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
So, why are you trying to find out the future by consulting witches and mediums?
Don’t listen to their whisperings & their mutterings. Can the living find out the
future from the dead? Why not ask your GOD???

CHAPTER NINE: CHRIST’S BIRTH & KINGDOM FORETOLD.

1. [F] Nevertheless, othe dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation,
when at the pfirst he lightly afflicted qthe land of Zebulun, and the land of
Naphtali, and afterwards more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea,
beyond Jordan, in Galilee rof the nations.

a h n
Habakkuk 2:3 See 10:14 Revelation 16:9,11,21
b i o
See 54:8 See 44:25 See 8:2
c j p
Hebrews 2:13 1 Samuel 28:11-14; Psalm Matthew 4:15-16
d q
See 7:3 106:28 2 Chronicles 16:4; 1
e k
See 7:14 Luke 16:29 Chronicles 5:6; 2 Kings
f l
Zechariah 3:8 1 John 4:6 15:19
g m r
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 2.[F] The apeople bthat walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that
dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them has the light shined.
3. [F] cThou has multiplied the nations, and dnot increased the joy; thy joy
before thee, according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they
divide the spoils.
4. eFor thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder,
the rod of his oppressor, as in fthe day of Midian.
5. gFor every battle of the warrior is with confused noise: and garments rolled
in blood; hbut this shall be with burning and ifuel of fire.
6. [F, S] jFor unto us a child is born, unto us ka son is given: and lthe
government shall be upon His shoulders: and His name shall be called,
m
Wonderful, Counsellor, The Almighty GOD, The Everlasting Father, nThe
Prince of Peace. [He is called the Prince of Peace, because His Father is the
King of Peace.]
7. [S] 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 judgement and with justice, and henceforth even for ever. The zeal of
the LORD of Hosts will perform it.
Nevertheless, that time of darkness and despair shall not go on forever. Though
soon the land of Zebulun and Naphtali will be under God’s judgement and
contempt, yet in the future these same lands Galilee and the Northern
Transjordan, where lies the road to the sea, will be filled with glory. [Jesus
commenced His ministry here].
The people who walk in darkness shall see a great Light ~ a Light that shall shine
on all those who live in the land of the shadow of death. For Israel shall again be
great, filled with joy like that of reapers, when the harvest time has come. And
like that of men dividing up the plunder that they have won. For God will break
the chains that bind HIS people and the whip that scourges them, just as He did
when He destroyed the vast host of the Midianites, by Gideon’s little band. In that
glorious day of peace there will no longer be the issuing of weapons and battle
gear: no more those blood-stained uniforms of war: all such things shall be
burned and destroyed.
For unto us a child is born: unto us a Son is given: and the government (of all-of
the world) shall be upon His shoulders. These shall be His royal titles: “Wonderful,”
“Counsellor,” “The Mighty God,” “The Everlasting Father,” “The Prince of Peace.”
His ever-expanding, peaceful government shall never end. He will rule with perfect
fairness and justice from the throne of His Father David. He will bring justice and
peace to all-of the nations of this “existing” world. This is going to happen because
the LORD of Heaven’s armies has dedicated Himself to do it!! [This is what
separates Jesus from all the false gods, He has put His own name on the fulfilment
of these prophecies, some 700 Years BEFORE JESUS WAS BORN AS A MAN.]
8. The LORD has sent a word into Jacob, and it has lighted upon Israel.
9. And all-of the people shall know, EVEN oEphraim and the inhabitants of
p
SAMARIA, that say in the pride and the stoutness of heart.
10. The bricks are fallen down, but we will rebuild with hewn stones: the
sycamores are cut down, but will change them into cedars.

a g l
Ephesians 5:8,14 [h]~ when the whole battle of Matthew 28:18
b m
Luke 1:79 the warrior Judge 13:18
c h n
See 26:15 [h]~ and it was Ephesian 2:14
d i o
[h]~ to him [h]~ meat. See 7:2
e j p
[h]~ when thou broke Luke 2:11 See 7:9
f k
Judges 7:22 See 7:14

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 11. Therefore, the LORD shall set up the adversaries of aRezin against him, and
b
join his enemies together.
12. cThe Syrians before, and dthe Philistines behind: and they shall devour Israel
with eopen mouth. fFor all-of this He anger is not turned away, but His hand
is stretched out still.
The LORD has spoken out against the braggard Israel, that says though our land
lies in ruins now, we will rebuild so that it is better than before. The sycamore
trees are cut down, but we will replace them with better cedar trees!
The Lord’s reply to your boasting is to bring your enemies down against you ~
The Syrians on the east, and the Philistines on the west. With their fangs bared,
they shall destroy and devour Israel (the 10 rebellious tribes). And even then, the
Lord’s anger against you will not be satisfied ~ His fist shall still be poised to
smash you.
13. For gthe people turns not unto them that smites them, neither do they seek
the LORD of Hosts.
14. THEREFORE, the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail and branch and
rush, hin one day.
15. The ancient and honourable is the head; and the prophet that teaches lies;
he is the tail.
16. For ithe leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are jled of
them, are destroyed.
17. Therefore, the Lord shall have no joy in the young men, neither shall have
mercy on the fatherless and the widows; for everyone is ka hypocrite and
an evildoer, and every mouth speaks lfolly. mFor all this His anger is not
turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.
For even after all-of this punishment, you still refuse to repent and turn back to
Him; the LORD of Heaven’s armies. THEREFORE, the Lord, IN ONE DAY, will
destroy all-of the leaders of Israel, and all-of the lying prophets. For the leaders
of His people have led them down the path of ruin. That is why the LORD has not
joy in the young men, and no mercy upon the widows and orphans; for they are
all filthy mouthed, wicked liars. That is why His anger in not yet satisfied, but His
fist is still poised to smash them all.
18. For wickedness nburns as the fire: it shall devour the briers and the thorns,
and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the
lifting up of smoke.
19. Through the wrath of the LORD of Hosts is the land darkened, and the people
shall be as the ofuel of the fire: pno man shall spare his brother.
20. And He shall qsnatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and rHe shall eat on
the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: sthey shall eat every man the
flesh of his own arm:
21. Manasseh, Ephraim, and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they shall together shall
be against Judah. For all-of this His anger is not turned away: but still His
hand is stretched out.
He will burn up all-of this wickedness, these thorns and briars; and the flames will
consume the forests, too, and send a vast cloud of smoke billowing up from their
burning. The land is blackened by that fire, by the anger of the Lord of Heaven’s

a h o
See 7:1 See 10:17 [h]~ meat
b i p
[h]~ mingle [h]~ they call them blessed Micah 7:2,6
c j q
2 Kings 16:6 [h]~ called blessed of [h]~ cut
d k r
2 Chronicles 28:18 See 10:6 Leviticus 26:26
e l s
[h]~ whole [h]~ villainy See 49:26
f m
See verses 17,21; 5:25; 10:4 See verse 12
g n
Hosea 7:10 See 10:17-18

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armies. The people are fuel for the fire. Each fights against His brother to steal his
food, but will never have enough. Finally, they will even eat their own children!
Manasseh against Ephraim, and Ephraim against Manasseh ~ and both of them
against JUDAH. Yet, even after all-of this, God’s anger is not satisfied. His hand is
still heavy upon them, to crush them.

CHAPTER TEN: GOD’S JUDGEMENT UPON ISRAEL &

ASSYRIA
1. Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and athat write
grievousness which they have prescribed:
2. To turn aside the needy from judgement, and to take away the right from
b
the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may
rob the fatherless!
3. And what will you do in cthe day of visitation, and in the desolation which
shall come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? And where will you
leave your glory?
4. Without me, they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall
under the slain. dFor all-of this his anger is not turned away, but His hand is
stretched out still.
WOE TO UNJUST JUDGES AND TO THOSE WHO ISSUE UNJUST & UNFAIR LAWS,
says the Lord! So that there is no justice for the poor, the widows, and the
orphans. Yes, it is true that they even rob the widows and the fatherless children!
OH, what will you do when I visit you in that day when I send desolation upon you
from a distant land? To whom will you turn then for help? Where will your treasures
be safe? I will not help you; you will stumble along as prisoners, or lie dead among
the slain. And even then, my anger will not be satisfied, but my fist will be still
poised to strike you.
5. eO fAssyrians, gthe rod of my anger, hand ithe staff in their hand is my
indignation.
7. I will send him against ja hypocritical nation, and against the people of mine
anger kwill I give him charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to
l
tread them down like the mire of the streets.
8. Howbeit he means not so; neither does his heart think so; but it is in his
heart to destroy and to cut off nations, not a few.
9. mFor he says; Are not my princes altogether kings?
10. Is not nCalnoas as oCarchemish? Is not pHamath as qArpad? Is not Samaria
as Damascus?
11. rAs my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images
did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria.
12. Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do also unto
Jerusalem and her sidols?

a g n
[h]~ to the writers that write See 9:4 Amos 6:2
h o
grievousness [h]~ though 2 Chronicles 35:20
b i p
See 14:32 See 9:4 1 Kings 8:65
c j q
Hosea 9:7; Luke 19:44 See 9:17 2 Kings 18:31
d k r
See 9:12 Jeremiah 34:22 2 Kings 18:33
e l s
[h]~ called blessed of [h]~ lay them a treading 2 Kings 18:14-16
f m
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 13. Wherefore it shall come to pass, that awhen the LORD has performed His
work upon Mt. Zion and upon Jerusalem, bI will cpunish the fruit of the stout
heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of His high looks.
14. dFor He has said; By the strength of my hand, I have done it; and by my
wisdom; for I am prudent; and I have removed the bounds of the people,
and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like ea
valiant man.
15. And my hand has found as a nest the riches of the people; as one gathers
eggs that are left, have I gathered all-of the earth; and there was none that
moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
16. Shall the axe boast itself against him that hews therewith? Or shall the saw
magnify itself against him that shakes it? As if the frod should shake itself
against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up gitself, as if it were
not wood.
17. Therefore, shall the Lord, the Lord of Hosts, send among his fat one’s
leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning, like the burning of a
fire.
18. And the light of Israel shall be on fire, and His Holy One for a flame: and it
shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers hin one day;
19. And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, iboth soul
and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer faints.
20. And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be jfew, that a child may write
them.
Assyria is the whip I will use for my anger; his military strength is my weapon
upon this godless nation, doomed and damned; he will put them into captivity; he
will enslave them, and plunder them, and trample them, like dirt beneath his feet.
But the king of Assyria will not have the spiritual wisdom to know that I have sent
him. He will merely think that he is attacking my people Israel, as part of his plan
to conquer the world. He will declare that everyone of his princes will soon be a
king, ruling a conquered land.
“We will destroy Calno, just as we did Carchemish,” he will say, “and Hamath will
go down before us as Arpad did; and we will destroy Samaria, just a we did
Damascus. Yes, we have finished off many a kingdom whose idols were far greater
than those in Jerusalem and Samaria; so when we have defeated Samaria and her
idols, we will destroy Jerusalem with hers.” [Do you really think that the Lord God
will allow the king of Assyria to get away with statements like that against His
eternal name?] The answer comes in the next verses.
After the Lord has used the king of Assyria to accomplish his purpose, then he will
turn upon the Assyrians and punish them too ~ for they are proud and haughty
men.
They boast, “We in our own power and our own wisdom have won these wars We
are great and wise. By our own strength we broke down the walls and destroyed
the people and carried off their treasures. In our greatness we have robbed their
nests of their riches and gathered up kingdoms as a farmer gathers up eggs, and
no-one can move a finger, or open his mouth, to make a peep against us.”

a f i
Jeremiah 25:29 [h]~ or a rod should shake [h]~ from the soul and even to
b
2 Kings 19:35-37 them that life it up the flesh
c g j
[h]~ visit upon [h]~ or that which is not [h]~ number
d
2 Kings 19:23 wood.
e h
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But the Lord God says, “Shall and axe boast greater power than the man who uses
it? Is the saw greater than the miller who saws? Can a rod strike anyone without
a hand moving it? Can a cane walk by itself?”
Because of all-of your evil boasting, O king of Assyria, The Lord God of Hosts, will
send a plague among your proud troops, and strike them down. God, the Light
and Holy One of Israel, will be the fire and the flame that will destroy them. In a
single night He will burn those thorns and briars, the Assyrians who destroyed the
land of Israela.
Assyria’s vast army is like a glorious forest, yet it will be destroyed ~ because
nothing is too difficult for Almighty God. The Lord will destroy them, mind, body
& spirit, as when a sick man wastes away. Only a few from that mighty army shall
be left; so, few, a child could count them on their fingers.
21. [T] And it shall come to pass, bin that day, that the remnant of Israel, and
c
such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, dshall no more again stay upon
him that smote them: but shall stay upon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel,
in Truth.
22. [T] eThe remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the Mighty
God.
23. [T] For fthough they people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant
g
of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with
righteousness.
24. [T] For the Lord God of Hosts shall make a consumption, even determined,
in-the- midst-of all the land.
Then at last, those few that are left in Israel, and in Judah will learn to Trust the
Lord, the Holy One of Israel, instead of being afraid and fearful of the Assyrians.
A remnant of them will return to the might God. But though Israel be now as many
as the sands along the sea shore, yet only a few of them will return at that time;
God Almighty has rightly decided to destroy his people. Yes! It has already been
decided by the Lord God of Hosts to consume them.
25. Therefore, thus says the Lord God of Hosts, O my people that dwells in Zion,
be not afraid of the Assyrians; he shall smite thee with a rod, hand shall lift
up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.
26. For iyet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger
in their destruction.
27. And the Lord of Hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to jthe
slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as khis rod was upon the sea,
so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.
28. And it shall come to pass lin that day, that his burden shall mbe taken away
from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be
destroyed because of nthe anointing.
29. He is come to Aiath, he is passed to oMigron; at pMishmash he has laid up
his qcarriages.
30. They are gone over rthe passage; they have taken up their lodgings at Geba;
Ramah is afraid, Gibeah of Saul is fled.

a g m
See 2 Kings 19:35, Isaiah [h]~ in, or among [h]~ remove
h n
37:36 [h]~ He shall lift up his staff Psalm 105:15; Daniel 9:24
b o
Verse 27; 2:11 for 1 Samuel 14:2
c i p
See 4:2 See 54:7 1 Samuel 13:2
d j q
2 Kings 16:7 See 9:4; Judges 7:25 Judges 18:21
e k r
See 7:3; 2 Chronicles 30:6; See 11:15; Exodus 14:26-27 1 Samuel 13:23
f l
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 31. aLift up thy voice, O daughter of bGallim: cause it to be heard at Laish, O
poor Anathoth.
32. Madmenah is removed: the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.
33. As yet shall he remain at cNob that day: he shall shake his hand against the
mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
34. Behold, the Lord, the Lord of Hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the
high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.
35. And he shall cut down dthe thickets of the forest with iron, and eLebanon shall
fall fby a mighty one.
Therefore, thus says the Lord God of Hosts; O my people of Israel, do not be afraid
of the Assyrians when they oppress you, just like the Egyptians did a long time
ago. It will not last a long time; in a little while my anger against you will cease,
and then it will rise against the Assyrians and destroy them.
The Lord God of Hosts will send his angel to slay them in a mighty slaughter, like
the time when Gideon triumphed over Midian at the rock of Oreb, or the time God
drowned all-of the Egyptian armies in the sea.
On that day, The Lord God of Hosts will end the bondage of his people. He will
break the slave-yoke off their necks, and destroy it as decreedg.
Look, the mighty armies of Assyria are coming! Now they are at Aiath, now at
Migron: they are storing some of their equipment at Mishmash and crossing over
the pass: they are staying overnight at Geba. Fear strikes the city of Ramah; all
the people of Gibeah ~ the city of Saul, are running for their lives.
Well may you scream in terror, O people of Gallim. Shout out a warning to Laish,
for the mighty army comes. O poor Anathoth, what a fate is yours!! There go the
people of Madmenah, all fleeing, and the citizens of Gebim are now preparing to
run. But the enemy stops at Nob for the remainder of that day. He shakes his fist
at Jerusalem on Mount Zion.
Then, look! Look! The Lord, the Lord of the heavenly armies (Jesus Christ) is
chopping down the mighty tree! He is destroying all-of that vast army, great and
small alike, both the officers and men. He, the Mighty One, will cut down the
enemy, as a woodsman’s axe cuts down the forest trees in Lebanon.

CHAPTER ELEVEN: THE PEACEFUL KINGDOM OF CHRIST

FORETOLD
1. [M] And there shall come forth ha rod out of the stem of iJesse and a Branch
shall grow out of his roots.
2. [M] And jthe Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, the Spirit of wisdom and
understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and
of the fear of the Lord;
3. And shall make him kof quick understanding in the fear of the Lord: and lhe
shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing
of his ears.
4. But mwith righteousness shall he judge the poor, and nreprove with equity for
the meek of the earth: and he shall osmite the earth with the rod of His
mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

a g j
[h]~ Cry shrill with [literally “because of Matthew 3:16; John 3:34
b k
1 Samuel 25:44 ointment.” Some scholars see [h]~ scent , or smell
c l
1 Samuel 21:1 this as a reference to the John 7:24
d m
See 9:18 Messiah, the “Anointed One”. Psalm 72:2
e h n
See 29:17 Psalm 110:2 [h]~ argue
f i o
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 5. And righteousness ashall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle
of his reins.
6. [M] bThe wolf will also 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.
7. [M] And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lay down
together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8. [M] And the sucking child shall play in the hole of an asp, and the weaned
child shall put his hand on the ccockatrice’s den.
9. [M] They shall not hurt nor destroy in all dmy holy mountain: efor the earth
shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD; as the waters cover the seas.
The royal line of David [Jesse] will be cut off, chopped down like a tree; but from
the stump shall grow a shoot [Christ the Messiah] ~ yes, a new branch, from the
old root. And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, the Spirit of wisdom,
understanding, counsel and might; the Spirit of knowledge, and of the fear of the
Lord. His delight will be obedience to the Lord. He will not judge by appearance,
false evidence, or hearsay, but [He] will defend the poor and the exploited. He will
rule against the wicked who oppress them. For He will be clothed with fairness
and truth.
In that day, the wolf and the lamb shall lie down together, and the leopard and
the goats shall be at peace. Calves and fat cattle shall be safe among lions, and a
little child shall lead them all. The cows will graze among bears; cubs and calves
will lie down together, and lions shall eat grass like the cows. Babies shall crawl
safely among poisonous snakes, and a little child who puts his hand into a nest of
deadly adders will pull it out unharmed. Nothing will hurt of destroy in all my holy
mountain, for as the waters fill the sea, so shall the earth be full of the knowledge
of the Lord. What a wonderful future has the Lord promised all those who trust in
His word, and put it into practise in their lives.
And fin that day, gthere shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for han ensign
of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be iglorious.
10. M] And it shall come to pass jin that day, that the Lord shall set his hand
again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be
left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from kPathros, and from lCush, and
from mElam, and from nShinar, and from oHamath, and from pthe islands of
the sea.
11. And qhe shall set up and ensign for the nations, and shall assemble rthe
outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four
corners of the earth.
12. sThe envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be
cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
13. But they shall fly upon the Philistines towards the west; they shall spoil tthem
of the east together; uthey shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and
the children of Ammon vshall obey them.

a i q
Ephesians 6:14 [h]~ Glory See 5:26
b j r
See 65:25; Hosea 2:18 See 2:11 See 27:13; Jeremiah 49:30
c k s
[h]~ Adder Jeremiah 44:1,15 See 9:21; Jeremiah 3:18;
d l
Psalm 78:54 2 Kings 19:9 Ezekiel 37:16-17,22
e m t
Habakkuk 2:14 Jeremiah 49:34-39 [h]~ the children of
f n u
See 2:11 Genesis 11:2 [h]~ Edom and Moab shall be
g o
Romans 15:12 1 Kings 8:65 the laying on of their hand
h p v
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 14. And the LORD ashall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with
his mighty wind shall he shake the hand over bthe river, and shall smite it in
the seven streams, and make men go over cdry-shod.
15. And dthere shall be a highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be
left, from Assyria; elike as it was to Israel in the day when he came up out
of the land of Egypt
In that day, he who created the royal dynasty of David will be a banner of salvation
to all-of the world. The nations will rally to him, for the land where he lives will be
a glorious place. At that time the LORD will bring back a remnant of his people for
a second time, returning them to the land of Israel from Assyria, Upper and Lower
Egypt, Ethiopia, Elam, Babylonia, Hamath, and all the distant coastal lands. He
will raise a flag among the nations for them to rally to; he will gather the scattered
Israelites from the ends of the earth. Then, at last, the jealousy between Israel
and Judah will end; they will not fight each other any more. Together they will fly
against the nations possessing their land on the east and on the west, uniting
forces to destroy them, and they will occupy the nation of Edom and Moab and
Ammon.

CHAPTER TWELVE: A JOYFUL THANKSGIVING

1. And fin that day thou shall say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou was
angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comforts me.
2. [M] Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid; for the gLORD
JEHOVAH is my hstrength and my song; he also is become my salvation
3. [M] Therefore, with joy shall you draw water out of the wells of salvation.
4. [M] And iin that day shall you say, Praise the LORD, call upon his name, declare
his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.
5. [M] jSing unto the LORD; for he has done excellent things: this is known in all
the earth.
6. Cry out and shout, thou inhabitants of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel
in-the-midst-of thee.
On that day you will say; “Praise the LORD! He was angry with me, but now He
comforts me. See, God has come to save me! I will trust [Him] and not be afraid,
for the Lord is my strength and my song; He is my salvation. Oh, the joy of
drinking deeply from the Fountain of Salvation!”
In the wonderful day, you will say, “Thank the Lord! Praise His name! Tell the
world about His wondrous love. How mighty He is!” Sing to the Lord for He has
done wonderful things. Make known His praise around the world. Let all the people
of Jerusalem shout His praise with joy. For great and mighty in the Holy One of
Israel, who lives among you.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: BABYLON IS THREATENED

1. The kburden of Babylon, lwhich Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
2. mLift up your banner nupon the high mountain, exalt thy voice unto them,
o
shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.

a f l
Zechariah 10:11 See 2:11 See 1:1
b g m
See 7:20 See 26;4 See 5:26
c h n
[h]~ in shoes Exodus 15:2; Psalm 118:14 Jeremiah 51:25
d i o
See 19:23 See 2:11 See 10:32
e j
Exodus 14:29; See 51:10; Psalm 98:1
k
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 3. I have commanded amy sanctified ones, I have also called bmy mighty ones
for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.
4. The noise of a multitude in the mountains, clike as of a great people; a
tumultuous noise of the kingdom of nations gathered together; the LORD of
hosts musters the host of the battle.
They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the
weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
This the vision that God Almighty showed to the Prophet Isaiah (son of Amoz)
concerning the destruction of Babylon.
See the flags waving as their enemy attacks them. Shout to them, O Israel, and
wave them on (encourage them) as they march against Babylon, to destroy the
palaces of the rich and powerful.
I, the LORD, have set apart these armies for this task; I have called those who
are rejoicing in their strength to do this work, to satisfy my anger. Hear the tumult
on the mountains! Listen to the armies march! It is the tumult, sound and shout
of many nations. The LORD of Hosts has brought them here, from countries far
away. They are His weapons against you, O Babylon, they carry His anger with
them, and they will destroy your whole land.
5. dHowl (all-of) you: for the day of the LORD is at hand: it shall come as a
destruction from the Almighty.
6. Therefore, shall all hands ebe faint, and every man’s heart shall melt;
7. And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; fthey
shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth; they shall gbe amazed hone at
another; their faces shall be as flames.
8. Behold, ithe day of the Lord comes; cruel both with wrath and fierce anger;
to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
9. For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give them
light: jthe sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not
cause her light to shine.
10. And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity;
and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the
haughtiness of the terrible.
11. kI will make a man more precious than fine gold; leven a man than the gold
of Ophir.
12. Therefore, mI will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her
place, in the wrath of the LORD of Hosts, and nin the day of his fierce anger.
13. And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man takes up;
o
they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee everyone into his own
land.
14. Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and everyone that is joined
unto them shall fall by the sword.
15. pTheir children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; qtheir
houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
16. Behold, I will stir up rthe Medes against them, which shall not regard silver;
and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

a h m
Psalm 50:5 [h]~ every man at his Haggai 2:6
b n
Joel 3:11 neighbour Lamentations 1:12
c i o
[h]~ the likeness of Malachi 4:1 Jeremiah 50:16
d j p
See 14:31 Matthew 24:29 Nahum 3:10
e q
[h ]~ fall down Zechariah 14:2
f k r
Hosea 13:13 See 24:6 See 21:2; Jeremiah 51:28;
g l
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 17. Their bows shall also dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no
pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare the children.
18. Scream in terror, for the Lord’s time has come, the time for the Almighty
to crush you. Your arms lie paralysed with fear; the strongest hearts melt,
and are afraid. Fear grips you with terrible pangs, like those of a woman in
labour. You look at one another, helpless, and the flames of the burning city
reflects upon your pale faces.
For see, the day of the Lord is coming, the terrible day of his wrath and his fierce
anger. The land shall be destroyed, and all-of the sinners with it. The heavens
shall be black above them; no light will shine from the stars or sun or the moon.
And I will punish the world for its evil, the wicked for their sin; I will crush the
arrogance of the proud man, and the haughtiness of the rich. Few will live when I
have finished up my work. Men will be as scarce as gold ~ of greater value than
the gold of Ophir. [Ophir is the name of a land, or city, somewhere to the South or
Southeast of Palestine, for which Solomon's ships along with Phoenician vessels set
out from Ezion-geber, at the head of the Gulf of Aqabah, returning with great
stores of gold, precious stones and "almug"-wood ~ 1 Kings 9:28; 1 Kings 10:11;
2 Chronicles 9:10; 1 Kings 22:48; 2 Chronicles 8:18].
For I will shake the heavens in my wrath and fierce anger, and the earth will
moved from its place in the skies. [One can assume that God Almighty is pretty
mad when He moves the earth from its position in the heavens. I sure don’t want
to be on the earth when this event takes place.]
The armies of Babylon will run until they are exhausted, fleeing back to their own
land, like deer chased by dogs, wandering like sheep that have been deserted by
their shepherd. Those who don’t run shall be slaughtered. Their little children shall
be dashed to death against the pavement, right before the eyes of their parents;
their homes shall be ransacked and their wives raped by the attacking hordesa.
For I will stir up the Medes against Babylon, and no amount of silver or gold will
buy them off. The attacking armies will have no mercy on the young people of
Babylon, or the babies, or the children.
And Babylon, bthe glory of the kingdoms of cthe Chaldees excellency, shall be das
God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
e
It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in, from generation to
generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch their tents there; neither shall the
shepherds make their fold there.f
g
But hwild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of
i
doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
And jthe wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their kdesolate houses, and dragons
in their pleasant palaces: and lher time is near to come, and her days shall not be
prolonged.

a d h
Just like is happening in [h]~ As the overthrowing of [h]~ Ziim
e i
Ukraine by the Russian Troops, Jeremiah 50:3; 51:29, 43, 62 [h]~ Ochim
f j
in 2022. For more than 2500 years this [h]~ Iim
b k
See 4:2 prophecy has remained true. [h]~ palaces
c g l
See 23:13 See 34:11,13, 15 Jeremiah 51:32

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CHAPTER FOURTEEN: RESTORATION OF ISRAEL
PROMISED
1. For the LORD awill have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set
them in their own land: and bthe strangers shall be joined with them, and
then shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
2. And the people shall take them, and cbring is their place, and the house of
Israel shall possess them, in the land of the LORD for servants and
handmaids: and they shall take them captives, dwhose captives they were;
and ethey shall rule over their oppressors.
3. And it shall come to pass in that day that the LORD shall give them rest from
thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein they were
made to serve.
BUT THE LORD will have mercy on the Israelis; they are still His special ones. He
will bring them back to settle once again in the land of Israel. And many
nationalities will come to join them there and be their loyal allies. The nations of
the world will help them to return, ad those coming to live in their land will serve
them. Those enslaving Israel will be enslaved ~ Israel shall rule their enemies! In
that wonderful day when the Lord gives his people rest from sorrow and fear, from
slavery and chains. This should be a warning to every nation that sets out to
destroy Israel. You will be defeated!
4. That thou shall ftake up this gproverb against the king of Babylon, and say,
Hoe has the oppressor ceased! The hgolden city ceased!
5. The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, and ithe sceptre of the rulers.
6. He who smote the people in wrath with ja continual stroke, he that ruled the
nations on anger, is persecuted and none hindered.
7. The whole earth is at rest; and is quiet; kthey break forth into singing.
8. Yes, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, since
thou art laid down, no feller has come up against thee.
9. lHell from beneath is moved for thee, to meet thee at thy coming: it stirs up
t dead for thee; even all-of the mchief ones of the earth; it has raised up from
their thrones all-of the kings of the nations.
10. All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we
[are]? Art, thou become like unto us?
11. Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm
is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
12. nHow are thou fallen from heaven, oO Lucifer, son of the morning! How are
thou cut down to the ground, which did weaken the nations!
13. For thou hast said in thine heart, pI will ascend into heaven, qI will exalt my
throne, above the stars of God: I will sit also upon rthe mount of the
congregation, in the ssides of the north:
14. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds: I will be like The Most High.

a g n
[h]~ See 60:10; Psalm 102: [h]~ taunting speech Revelation 8:10
13 h o
[h]~ exactress of gold [h]~ O, day star
b
See 60:4-5,10 i
See 9:4
p
Matthew 11:23
c
See 49:22; 60:9 j
[h]~ a stroke without
q
Daniel 8:10
d
[h]~ That had taken them removing r
See 2:2
captive k
See 44:23 s
e Psalm 48:2
See 60:14 l
[h]~ the grave
f
Micah 2:2; Habakkuk 2:6 m
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 15. Yet, athou shall be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
16. They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, saying; Is this the man
that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms:
17. That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that
b
opened not the house of his prisoners.
18. All-of the kings of the nations, even all-of them, lie in glory, every one in his
own house.
19. But you are cast out of your grave like an abominable branch, and as the
remnant of those that were slain, thrust through with the sword, that go
down to the stones of the pit; as a carcass trodden underfoot.
20. cYou shall not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed that
land and slain thy people: dthe seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.
21. Prepare slaughter for his children, efor the iniquity of their fathers: fthat they
do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
22. For I will rise up against them, says the LORD of Hosts, and cut off from
Babylon the name, and gremnant, and son, and nephew, says the LORD.
23. I will also make it a passion for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will
sweep it with the besom of destruction, says the Lord of Hosts.
You will jeer at the king of Babylon and say; “You bully, you! At last, you have got
what you deserved ~ what’s coming to you. For the LORD has crushed your wicked
power, and broken your evil rule.”
You persecuted my people with unceasing blows of rage and held the nations in
your angry grip. You were unrestrained in your tyranny. But at last, the whole
earth is at rest and is quiet! All-of the world begins to sing! Even the trees of the
forest ~ the fir tree and the cedars of Lebanon ~ sing out their joyous song: “Your
power in broken; no-one will bother us now; at last, we have peace!”
The denizens of hell crowd to meet you as you enter into their domain. World
leaders and the earth’s mightiest kings, long dead, are there to see you. With one
united voice they all cry out, “Now you are as weak as we are!” All-of your might
and power are gone; they are buried with you. All-of the pleasant music in your
palaces has ceased; now maggots are your sheets and worms are your blankets!
How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut
down to the ground ~ mighty though you were against the nations of the world.
For you said to yourself, “I will ascend to heaven and rule all-of the angelsh. I will
take the Highest Throne. I will preside on the Mount of Assembly far away in the
north. I will climb to the highest heavens and be like the Most-High God.” But
instead, you will be brought down to the pit of hell, down to its lowest depths.
Everyone there will stare at you and ask, “Can this be the one who shook the
whole earth and the kingdoms of this world? Can this be the one who destroyed
the world, and made into a shambles, and demolished its great cities and had no
mercy on his prisoners?”
The kings of the earth lie in stately glory in their graves, but your body is thrown
out like a broken branch: it lies in an open grave, covered by the dead bodies of
those slain in battle: it lies as a carcass in the road, trampled, and mangled by
horse’s hooves.

a d g
Obadiah 4 Psalm 21:10 Jeremiah 51:62
b e h
[h]~ did not let his prisoners Exodus 20:5 [h]~ the stars of God
loose homeward. f
Psalm 140:10
c
Ecclesiastes 6:3

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No monument will given you, for you have destroyed your nation, and slain your
people. Your son will not succeed you as king. Slay the children of this sinner! Do
not let them rise and conquer the land, nor rebuild the cities of the world.
I, Myself, have risen up against him, says the LORD of Heaven’s armies, and will
cut off his children, and his children’s children from ever sitting on his throne. I
will make Babylon into a desolate land of porcupines, full of swamps and marshes.
I will sweep the land with the broom of destruction, says the LORD of Heaven’s
armies.
24. The LORD of Hosts has sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it
come to pass; and I have purposed, so shall it stand:
25. aThat I will break the Assyrians in my land, and upon my mountains tread
him under foot; Then shall his yoke depart from them, and bhis burden
departs from off their shoulders.
26. This it’s the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the
hand that is stretched out upon all-of the nations.
27. For the LORD of Hosts had purposed, and who shall disannul it? And his hand
is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
28. In the years that cking Ahaz died was this dburden.
He has taken an oath to do it! For this is His purpose and plan. I have decided to
break the Assyrian army when they are in Israel and to crush them on my
mountains; my people shall no longer be their slaves.
This is my plan for the whole earth ~ I will do it by my mighty power that reaches
everywhere around the world. The LORD, the God of battle, has spoken ~ who
can change his plans? When his hand moves, who can stop him?
This is the message that came to me in the years that king Ahaz died:
29. Rejoice not thou, whole ePalestina, because the rod of him that smote thee
is broken; for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a fcockatrice, and his
fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
30. And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in
safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay the remnant.
31. Howl, O gate, Cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall
come from the north a smoke, and gnone shall be alone in his appointed
times.
32. What shall then one answer the messengers of the nation? That hthe LORD
has founded Zion, and ithe poor of His people shall jtrust in it.
Don’t rejoice Philistines, that the king who smote you is dead. That rod is broken,
yes! BUT his son will be a greater scourge to you than his father ever was! From
the snake will be born a deadly adder, a fiery serpent, to destroy you!
I will shepherd the poor of my people; they shall graze in my pasture! The needy
shall lie down in peace. BUT as for you lot! I will, wipe you out with famine and
with the sword.
Weep, Philistine cities ~ you are doomed! All-of your nation is doomed! For a
perfectly trained army is coming down from the north against you.
What shall we then tell the reporters? Tell them that the Lord has founded
Jerusalem and is determined that the poor of his people shall find refuge within
its walls.

a e i
See 37:36 See verse 31 See 10:2; Zechariah 11:7,11
b f j
See 10:27 [h]~ adder [h]~ betake themselves into
c g it.
2 Kings 16:20 [h]~ not be alone
d h
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CHAPTER FIFTEEN: THE THREAT AGAINST MOAB
1. The aburden of bMoab. Because cin the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and
d
brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and
brought to silence;
2. He is gone up to eBajith, and to fDibon, the high places, to weep: Moab
shall howl over gNebo, and over hMedeba: on all their heads shall be
i
baldness, and jevery beard cut off.
3. In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of
their houses and in their streets, everyone shall howl, kweeping
abundantly.
4. And Heshbon shall cry, and lElealeh: their voices shall be heard even unto
m
Jahaz: therefore, the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall
be grievous unto him.
5. My heart shall cry out for Moab: nhis fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, oan
heifer of three-year-old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping
shall they go it up: for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of
p
destruction.
6. For the waters of qNimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away,
the grass fails, there is no green thing.
7. Therefore, the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid
up, shall they carry away to the rbrook, of the willows.
8. For the cry has gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof
unto Eglaim and the howling thereof unto sBeer-Elim.
9. For the waters of tDimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring umore upon
Dimon, vlions upon him that escapes of Moab and upon the remnant of the
land.
Here is God’s message for Moab: IN ONE NIGHT, your cities of Ar and Kir will be
destroyed. Your people of Dibon go mourning to their temples to weep for the fate
of Nebo and Medeba; they shave their heads in sorrow and cut off their beards.
They wear sackcloth through the streets, and from every home comes the sound
of weeping. The cries from the cities of Heshbon and Elealeh are heard far away,
even in Jahaz. The bravest warriors in Moab cry out in utter terror.
My heart weeps for Moab! His people flee to Zoar and Eglath. Weeping they climb
the upward road to Luhith, and their crying will be herd all along the road to
Horonaim. Even the Nimrim river is desolate! The grassy banks are dried up and
all-of the tender plants are gone. The desperate refugees take with them only the
possessions that they can carry, and flee across the Book of Willow, to the
Arabians. The whole land of Moab is a land of weeping, from one end of it to the
other. The stream near Dibon, will run red with blood, but I am not through with
Dibon yet! Lions will hunt down the survivors, both those who escaped, and those
who remained.

a i o=m
See 13:1 See 3:24 Jeremiah 48:34
b j p
1 Samuel 14:7 Jeremiah 48:37 [h]~ destruction.
c k q
Jeremiah 48:1-47 [h]~ Descending into Numbers 32:3,36
d weeping r
[h]~ Cut off [h]~ Valley of the Arabians
l
e
Jeremiah 48:13 See 16:9 s
Numbers 21:16,18
m
f
Numbers 21:30 Jeremiah 48:34 t
See verse 2
n
g
Numbers 32:3 [h]~ to the borders thereof, u
[h]~ additions
h even to Zoar v
1 Chronicles 19:7 Nathaniel 2:11-13

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CHAPTER SIXTEEN: I WILL SHEPHERD THE POOR
1. Send you athe lamb to the ruler of the land from bSela to the wilderness, to
the mount of the daughter of Zion.
2. For it shall be, that as a wandering bird ccast out of the nest, so the
daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of dArnon.
3. eTake counsel, execute judgement; fmake thy shadow as the night in-the-
midst-of the noonday: hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wanders.
4. Let my outcasts dwell in thee: be you a covert to them from the face of the
spoiler: for the gextortioner is at the end, the spoiler ceases, the oppressors
are consumed out of the land.
5. [M] And in [His] mercy hshall the throne be iestablished: and He shall sit
upon it in truth, in the tabernacle of David, jjudging, and seeking
judgement, and hasting righteousness.
Moab’s refugees at Sela [Petra] send lambs, as a token of the alliance with the
king of Judah. The women of Moab are left at the fords of the Arnon river like
homeless birds (the ambassadors who accompany the gift to Jerusalem) plead for
advice and help. “Give us sanctuary. Protect us. Do not turn us over to our
enemies! God will reward you for your kindness to us. If you let Moab’s fugitives
settle among you, then, when the terror is past, God will establish David’s throne
forever, and on that throne, he will place a just and righteous king.
Isn’t it interesting, that here we have idol worshippers, who recognised that God
Almighty (whom they did not believe in) would bless the Jews if they extended
compassion to the refugees, prophesying that God Almighty will establish the
throne of David in Jerusalem, and a righteous king will sit upon that throne in
judgement?
6. kWe have heard of the pride of Moab: he is very proud: even of his
haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but lhis lies shall not be.
7. Therefore, shall Moab mhowl for Moab, everyone shall howl; for the
foundations of nKirhareseth shall you omourn; surely, they are stricken.
8. For pthe fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of
the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come
even unto qJazer, they wondered through the wilderness: her branches are
stretched out; they are gone over the sea.
Is this the proud Moab, that we have heard so much about? His arrogance and
insolence are all gone now! Therefore, all Moab weeps! Yes, Moab, you will mourn
for stricken Kirhareseth, and for all-of the abandoned farms of Heshbon and the
vineyards of Sibmah ~ all destroyed! The enemy warlords have cut down the best
of the grape vines; their enemies spread out as far as Jazer in the deserts, and
even down to the sea.
9. Therefore, I will bewail with weeping for Jazer the vines of Sibmah; I will
water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for rthe shouting for the
summer fruits for thy harvest in fallen.

a g m
2 Kings 3:4 [h]~ wringer Jeremiah 48:20,31
b h n
[h]~ Petra Luke 1:33 2 Kings 3:25
c i o
[h]~ a nest forsaken [h]~ prepared [h]~ mutter
d j p
Numbers 21:13-14, 24,26,28 Psalm 72:2 See 15:4
e k q
[h]~ bring Jeremiah 48:29 Numbers 21:32
f l r
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 10. aAnd the gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful fields; and in
the vineyards there shall be no more singing, neither shall there be
shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made
their vineyard shouting to cease.
11.Wherefore my bowels shall sound like a harp for Moab, and mine inward
parts for Kirharesh.
So, I wail and lament for Jazer and the vineyards of Sibmah. Mt tears shall flow
for Heshbon and Elealeh, for destruction has come upon their summer fruits and
harvest. Gone now is the gladness, gone also is the joy of the harvest. The happy
singing in the vineyards shall be heard no more; the treading out of the grapes in
the winepresses has ceased. See, I have ended all-of their harvest joys. Therefore,
I will weep, weep, weep, for Moab; and my sorrow for Kirharesh will be great.
12.And it shall come to pass: that when it is seen that Moab is weary on the
high place, that he will come to his sanctuary to pray: but he shall not
prevail.
13.This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning Moab bsince that
time.
14.But now the LORD has spoken, saying; Within three years, cas the years of
a hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all-of the great
multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and dfeeble.

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: SYRIA, ISRAEL ARE THREATENED.

1. The eburden of fDamascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being
a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
2. The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which gshall lie
down, and none shall make them afraid.
3. hThe fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from
Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the
children of Israel, says the LORD God of Hosts.
4. And in that day, it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be
made thin, and ithe fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
5. And it shall be jas when the harvest men gather the corn, ands reaps
the ears with his arm: and it shall be as he that gathers ears in the valley
of Rephaim.
The is God’s messages to Damascus, the capital of Syria: Look! Damascus is
destroyed! It is no longer a city ~ it has become a heap of ruins! The cities of
Aroerk, are deserted. Sheep now pasture there, lying down quiet and unafraid,
with no-one to chase them away. The strength of Israel and the power of
Damascus will end, and what is left of Syria will be destroyed. For Israel’s glory
has departed, (because of their sin), so theirs too, will disappear, declares the
LORD of Hosts. Yes, the glory of Israel will be very dim when poverty stalks the
land. Israel will be as abandoned as the harvest grain fields in the valley of
Rephaim.

a e i
Jeremiah 48:33 See 13:1 See 10:16
b f j
Amos 2:1,3 See 7:8 Jeremiah 51:53
c g k
See 21:16 See 27:10 Aroer is a biblical on the
d h north bank of the Arnon
[h]~ not many See 7:16 & 8:4
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 6. aYet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or
three berries in the top of the uttermost boughs, four or five in the outmost
fruitful branches thereof, says the LORD God of Israel.
7. At that day shall a man look to bhis Maker, and his eyes shall have respect
to the Holy One of Israel.
8. And has shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall
respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the cimages.
Oh, a very few of her people will be left, just a few stray olives are left on the
trees when the harvest is ended, two or three on the highest branches that the
pickers could not reach, four or five on the tips of the branches. That is how it will
be in Damascus and Israel ~ stripped bare of people except for a few of the poor
who remain. Then at last, they will think of God their creator and have respect for
the Holy One of Israel.
They will no longer ask their idols for help in that day, nether will they worship
what their hands have made! They will no longer have respect for the images of
Ashtaroth and the sun idols.
9. In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost
branch, which they left because of the children of Israel; and there shall be
desolation.
10. Because thou hast forgotten dthe God of thy salvation, and have not been
mindful of ethe rock of thy strength, therefore shall thou plant pleasant
plants, and shall set it with strange slips:
11. In that day shall thou make the plants to grow, and in the morning shall thou
make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be fa heap in the day of grief
and of desperate sorrow.
Their largest cities shall be as deserted wooded hills and mountain tops and
become like the abandoned cities of the Amorites, deserted when the Israelites
approached (a long time ago). Why? Because you have turned away from the God
who can save you ~ the Rock who can hide you; therefore, even though you plant
a wonderful rare crop of greatest value, and though it grows so well that it will
blossom on the very morning that you plant it, yet you will never harvest it ~ your
only harvest will be a pile of grief and incurable pain.
12. [T] Woe to the gmultitudes of many people, who make a noise like the noise
of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the
rushing of hmighty waters.
13. [T] The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall
rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of
the mountains before the wind, and like ia rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14. [T] And behold at evening tide trouble: and before the morning he is not.
j
This the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
Look! See the armies thundering towards God’s land. But though they roar as loud
as breakers upon the beach, God will silence them! They will flee, scattered like
chaff by the wind, like whirling dust before a storm. In the evening Israel waits in
terror, but by dawn all-of her enemies are dead! This is the just reward of those
who plunder and destroy the people of God. ALL NATIONS BE WARNED!!!

a e h
See 6:13 Deuteronomy 32:18 [h]~ many
b f i
Proverbs 14:31 [h]~ removed in the day of [h]~ thistledown
c sorrow, and there shall be j
[h]~ sun images See 31:1, 4
d deadly sorrow
Psalm 68:19-20 g
[h]~ noise

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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: ETHIOPIA IS THREATENED.
This whole chapter is prophetic, relating to the TRIBULATION PERIOD.

1. [T] aWoe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of
Ethiopia:
2. [T] That sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon
the waters, saying, Go, you swift messengers to ba nation cscattered and
peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto: a nation dmetered
out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
3. [T] All you inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see you, when
He lifts up an ensign on the mountains; and when He blows a trumpet, Hear
ye!
4. [T] For the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will econsider in my
dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the
heat of harvest.
5. [T] For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape in
ripening in the flower, he shall cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and
take away and cut down the branches.
6. [T] They shall be left together, unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the
beasts of the earth: ad the fowls shall summer upon them, and all-of the
beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
Ah, the land beyond the reaches of the upper reaches of the Nilef, where winged
sailboats glide along the river. The land that sends ambassadors in fast boats
down the Nile! Let swift messengers return to you, O strong and supple nation,
feared far and wide, a conquering, destroying nation, whose land the Upper Nile
divides. And this is the message sent to you:
And the Lords says: When I raise My flag upon the mountain, let all-of the world
take notice!!! When I blow the trumpet, LISTEN! For the LORD has told me this:
Let your mighty army advance against the land of Israel. God will watch quietly
from His Temple in Jerusalem ~ serene as on a pleasant summer day, or a lovely
autumn morning at harvest time. But even before you have begun the attack,
and while your plans are ripening like grapes, He will cut you off, as though with
pruning shears. He will snip the spreading tendrils. YOUR MIGHTY ARMY WILL BE
LEFT DEAD ON THE FIELDS for the mountain birds and the wild beasts to eat. For
the vultures to tear at the body flesh all summer, and all-of the wild animals to
gnaw at the bones all winter. THIS IS A WARNING FOR ANY NATION THAT WANTS
TO ATTACK ISRAEL. THIS WILL BE YOUR PUNISHMENT!!!
7. [T] In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of Hosts of a
people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning
hitherto: a nation metered out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers
have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of Hosts, the Mount Zion.
But the time will come when that strong and mighty nation, a terror to all both far
and near, that conquering, destroying nation, whose land the river divides, will
bring gifts to the LORD of Hosts in Jerusalem, where He has placed His name.

a d f
See 20:4:5; 2 Kings 19:9 [h]~ the meters out & treads Ethiopia was the seat of
b down power in the 25th Egyptian
See verse 7
e Dynasty (7340-660 B.C)
c
[h]~ outspread & polished [h]~ regard my asset
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CHAPTER NINETEEN: IN EGYPT: CONFUSION AMONG THE
PRINCES
1. The aburden of bEgypt. Behold, cthe LORD rides upon a swift cloud, ands shall
come into Egypt: and dthe idols of Egypt shall be oved at his presence, and
the heart of Egypt shall melt in-the-midst-of it.
2. And I will eset the Egyptians against the Egyptians; and they shall fight
everyone against his brother, ad everyone against his neighbour; city against
city, and kingdoms against kingdoms.
3. And the spirit of Egypt shall ffail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the
counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and the charmers, and the
them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
4. And the Egyptians will I ggive over into the hands of a cruel lord; and a fierce
king shall rule over them, says the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
5. And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river (Nile) hshall be wasted
and dried up.
6. And they turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied
and dried up; and the reeds and the flags shall wither.
7. The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and everything
sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, iand be no more.
8. jThe fishers shall also mourn, and all those that cast angle into the brooks
shall lament; and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
9. Moreover, they that work in kfine flax, and they that weave lnetworks, shall
be confounded.
10. And they shall be broken in the mpurpose thereof, all those that make sluices
and ponds for fish.
This is God’s message for Egypt: Look, the LORD is coming against Egypt, riding
on a swift cloud; the idols of Egypt tremble in their boots; the hearts of the
Egyptians melt with fear.
I will cause them to fight against each other ~ brother against brother, neighbour
against neighbour, city against city, even province against province. There shall
be all out civil war! Her wise counsellors are at their wits end; they don’t know
what to do; they plead with idols for wisdom, and call upon mediums, wizards and
witches, to show them what to do ~ and they are all silent!
I will hand over Egypt to a hard and cruel master, to a vicious king, says the Lord
of Hosts. And the waters of the river Nile will fail to rise and flood the fields; the
irrigation channels will be parched and dry, and all fouled up by rotting reeds. All
green things along the river bank will dry up and blow away. All-of the crops will
dry up and die; yes, everything will die.
The fishermen will weep for lack of work; those who fish with hooks and those
who use nets will all be unemployed. The weavers will have flax or cotton, for the
crops will fail. Great men and small ~ will all be crushed and broken.

a e j
See 13:1 [h]~ mingle Numbers 11:5
b f k
Jeremiah 46:13-26; Ezekiel [h]~ be emptied 1 Kings 10:28; Ezekiel 27:7
29:1; 31:2; g l
[h]~ shut up [h]~ white works
c
Psalm 18:10; 104:3 h
Jeremiah 51:36; Ezekiel
m
[h]~ foundations
d
Exodus 12:12; Jeremiah 30:12
43:12 i
[h]~ shall not be

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 11. Surely the princes of aZoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of
Pharaoh is become brutish; how say you unto Pharoah, I am the son of the
wise, the son of the ancient kings?
12. bWhere are they? Where are thy wise men? Let them tell thee now, and let
them know what the Lord of Hosts has purposed upon Egypt.
13. The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes cNoph are deceived; they
have also seduced Egypt, even dthey that are the stay of the tribes thereof.
14. The LORD has mingled ea perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have
caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggers in his
vomit.
15. Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which fthe head or tail, branch or
rush may do.
16. In that day shall Egypt be like unto women; and it shall be afraid and fears
because of the shaking of the hand of the Lord of Hosts, which he shakes
over it.
17. And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, everyone that makes
mention thereof, shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the Lord
of Hosts, which he has determined against it.
What fools the counsellors of Zoan are! Their best counsel to the king of Egypt is
utterly stupid and wrong! Will they still boast of their wisdom? Will they dare tell
Pharaoh about the long line of wise men that they have come from? What has
happened to your “wise counsellors,” O Pharaoh? If they are wise, the let them
tell you what the LORD is going to do to Egypt. The “wise men” from Zoan are
also fools, and those from Memphis (Noph) are utterly deluded. They are the best
that you can find? But they have ruined Egypt with their foolish counsel. The LORD
has sent a spirit of foolishness on them, so that all-of their suggestions are wrong;
they make Egypt stagger like a sick drunkard. Egypt cannot be saved by anything,
or anybody, because no-one can show her the way.
In that day, the Egyptians will be as weak as women, cowering in fear under the
upraised fist of God. Just to speak the name of Israel, will strike terror in their
hearts, for the Lord of Hosts has laid his perfect plans against them (and they will
come to pass)!
18. gIn that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt hspeak the language of
Canaan, and swear (allegiance) to the Lord of Hosts: one shall be called the
city iof destruction.
19. jIn the day, shall there be an altar to the Lord kin-the-midst-of the land of
Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord.
20. And it shall be for a sign and lfor a witness unto the Lord of Hosts in the land
of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the Lord, because of their oppressors, and
He shall send them a Saviour, and a great one, and He shall deliver them.
21. And the Lord shall be known to Egypt, and mthe Egyptians shall know the
LORD nin that day, and shall do sacrifice, and ooblation, yes: they shall vow
a vow unto the Lord to perform it.
22. And the Lord shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall
return even unto the Lord, and he shall be entreated of them, and shall heal
them.

a f k
Numbers 13:22 See 9:14 Psalm 68:31
b g l
1. Corinthians 1:20 See 2:11 Joshua 22:27
c h l
Jeremiah 2:16, 44:1 Zephaniah 3:9 Psalm 68:31
n
d
[h]~ governors
i
[h]~ Heres, or, of the sun. see 2:11
o
e
[h]~ a spirit of perversities
j
See 2:11 Malachi 1:11

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At that time, five of the cities in Egypt shall follow the Lord of Hosts and will begin
to speak the Hebrew language. One of these cities shall be Heliopolis, which was
previously known as “the city of the Sun,” shall now become “the city of the SON.”
And there will be an altar to the Lord in the heart of Egypt in those days, and a
monument to the Lord at its borders. This will be for a sign of loyalty to the Lord
of Hosts; then when they cry out to the Lord for help against those who oppress
them, he will send then a Saviour ~ and He shall deliver them.
In that day, the Lord will make Himself known to the Egyptians. Yes, they shall
know the Lord and give their sacrifices and offerings to Him; they will (unlike
politicians) make promises to God and keep them!
The Lord will smite Egypt, and then restore her! For the Egyptians will turn to the
Lord, and He will listen to their plea and heal them.
23. aIn the day, bshall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the
Assyrians shall come to Egypt, and the Egyptians into Assyria, and the
Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.
24. cIn that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt, and Assyria, even a blessing
in-the-midst-of the land:
25. Whom the Lord of Hosts shall bless, saying: Blessed be Egypt dmy people,
and Assyria ethe work of my hands, and Israel, fmine inheritance.
In that day, Egypt and Iraq, shall be connected by a highway, and the Egyptians
and the Iraqis shall freely move back and forth between their lands, and they shall
worship the same God. And Israel shall be their ally; the three will work together,
and Israel shall be a blessing to them. For the Lord will bless Egypt and Iraq,
because of their friendship with Israel. He will say, “Blessed by Egypt, my people;
blessed be Iraq, the land I have made; blessed be Israel, my inheritance.”

At the moment (2020 – 2022) many nations are signing peace agreements with
Israel. When this event occurs, described above (Egypt following the God of the
Torah & Ingeel and 5 cities now speaking Hebrew), and Iraq signing a peace pact
with Israel, God Almighty is lining up all-of the dominoes for the end-time harvest
and persecution, and we will roll over from Revelation chapter 3 in the chapters
from 4-22.

CHAPTER TWENTY: EGYPT AND HER CAPTIVITY

1. In the year that gTartan came unto hAshdod, (when Sargon, the king of
Assyria sent him), and fought against Ashdod, and took it:
2. At the same time spake the Lord iby jIsaiah the son of Amoz, saying; God
and loose kthe sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy
foot. And he did so, walking lnaked and barefoot.
3. And the LORD said, like as my servant has walked naked and barefoot (for)
three years for ma sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon nEthiopia;

a e j
See 2:11 See 29:23 See 1:1
b f k
See 11:16 Joel 3:2 Zechariah 13:4
c g l
See 2:11 2 Kings 18:17 1 Samuel 19:24
d h m
Hosea 2:23; Ephesians 1 Samuel 5:1 See 8:18
2:14,17 i n
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 4.So shall athe king of Assyria leads away bthe Egyptian prisoners, and the
Ethiopian prisoners, and the cEthiopians captives, young and old, naked and
barefoot, even dwith their buttocks uncovered, to the eshame of Egypt.
5. And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and fof
Egypt, their glory.
6. And the inhabitants of this gisle shall say in that day; Behold, such is our
expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria:
and how shall we escape?
In the year that Sargon was King of Assyria, and sent the commander-in-chief of
his army against the Philistine city of Ashdod and captured it. [655 B.C.]
The LORD told Isaiah, son of Amoz, to take off his clothing, including his shoes,
and walk around naked and barefoot. And Isaiah did as he was told. [Now this
would definitely be a test of your obedience to God’s instructions. Would YOU be
obedient?] Then the LORD said; My servant Isaiah, who has been walking naked
and barefoot for the last three years, is a symbol of the terrible troubles that I will
bring upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia.
For the king of Ethiopia will take away the Egyptians and the Ethiopians as
prisoners, making them walk naked and barefoot, both young and old, their
buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
Then how dismayed the Philistines shall be, who counted on “Ethiopians’ power,”
and their “glorious ally,” Egypt! And they will say: “If this can happen to Egypt,
what chance of survival do we have?”

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: THE FALL OF BABYLON

1. The hburden of the desert of ithe sea. As jwhirlwinds in the south pass
through; so, it comes from the desert, from a terrible land.
2. A kgrievous vision is declared unto me; lthe treacherous dealer deals
treacherously, and the Spoiler spoileth. Go up, mO Elam, besiege, nO Media:
all the sighing have I made to cease.
3. Therefore, are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold of me, as the
pangs of a woman that travails: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was
dismayed at the seeing of it.
4. My oheart panted; fearfulness affrighted me; pthe night of my pleasure has
he qturned into fear unto me.
5. Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower; eat, drink, arise, you princes,
and anoint the shield.
6. For this has the LORD said unto me; Go, set a watchman, let him declare
what he sees.
7. And he saw ra chariot, with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a
chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:

a h n
See 19:4 See 13:1 See 13:17
b i o
[h]~ the captivity of Egypt Jeremiah 51:36,42 [h]~ my mind wandered
c j p
See 18:1 Jeremiah 51:1; Zechariah Deuteronomy 28:67
d 9:14 q
2 Samuel 10:4 [h]~ put fear into me
k
e
[h]~ nakedness [h]~ hard r
See verse 9
l
f
See 30:3,5,7; 36:6 See 33:1
m
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 8. And ahe cried, A Lion: My lord, bI stand continually upon the watchtower in
the daytime, and I am set in my ward cwhole nights:
9. And, behold, here comes as chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And
he answered and said; dBabylon is fallen, is fallen; and eall-of the graven
images of her gods he has broken unto the ground.
10. O my fthreshing, and the gcorn of hmy floor; that which I have heard of the
LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.
This is God’s message concerning Babylon: Disaster is roaring down upon you
from the terrible desert, like a whirlwind coming off the Negeb. I saw an awesome
vision: Oh, the horror of it all! God is telling me what He is going to do. I see you
plundered and destroyed. Elamites and Medes will take part in the siege. Babylon
will fall, and the groaning of all-of the nations that that she enslaved will end.
My stomach restricts and burns with pain; sharp pangs of horror are upon me, like
the pangs of a woman giving birth to a child. I faint when I hear what God is
planning; I am terrified, blinded with dismay. My mind reels, my hearts races; I
am gripped with awful fear. All rest at night ~ so pleasant once ~ is now gone; I
lie awake, trembling ~ it is like a terrible nightmare!
Look! They are preparing a great banquet! They load the table with food; they pull
up their chars to eat … Quick! Grab your shields and prepare for battle! You are
being attacked! [A more detailed account of this feast is recorded in Daniel chapter
5, as this prophecy was fulfilled when Cyrus captured the city of Babylon.]
Meanwhile, (in my vision), the Lord has told me; “Put a watchman on the city wall
to shout out what he sees. When he sees riders in pairs on donkeys and camels,
then tell him, ‘This is it!’”
So, I put the watchman on the wall, and at last he shouted; “Sir, day after day
and night after night I have been here at my post. Now at last! Look! Here come
riders in pairs!” Then I heard a Voice shout out: “Babylon is fallen is fallen; and
all-of the idols of Babylon lie broken on the ground.” O my people, threshed and
winnowed, I have told you all that the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, has said.
11. The iburden of jDumah. He calls to me out of kSeir. Watchman, what of the
night? Watchman, what of the night?
12. The watchman said; The morning comes and also the night: if you will
inquire, inquire ye; return, come.
This is God’s message to Edom [Dumah]. Someone from among you keeps calling,
calling to me: “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? How
much time is left?” The watchman replies; “Your judgement day is dawning now.
Turn again to God, so that I can give you better news. Seek for Him, and then
come back and ask again!”
13. The burden upon lArabia. In the forest in Arabia shall you lodge, O ye
travelling companies of Dedanim.
14. The inhabitants of the land of Tema mbrought water to him that was thirsty,
they nprevented with their bread him that fled.
15. For they fled ofrom the swords, from the drawn swords, and from the bent
bow, and from the grievousness of war.

a f k
[h]~ cried as a lion Jeremiah 51:33 Ezekiel 35:2
b g l
Habakkuk 2:1 [h]~ son See 13:20
c h m
[h]~ every night Matthew 3:12 [h]~ bring ye
d i n
Revelation 14:8; 18:2 See 13:1 Matthew 17:25
e j o
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 16. For thus has the LORD said unto me; Within a year aaccording to the years
of a hireling, and all-of the glory of bKedar shall fail:
17. And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of
Kedar, shall be diminished; for the Lord God of Israel has spoken it!
This is God’s message concerning Arabia: O caravans from Dedan, you will hide
in the deserts of Arabia. O people of Tema, bring food and water to these weary
fugitives! They have fled from drawn swords and sharp arrows, and the terrors of
war! But a long year from now, says the Lord, “The great power of their enemy,
the mighty tribe of Kedar, will end. Only a few of their stalwart archers will
survive.” The Lord, the God of Israel has spoken! [The Dead Sea Scrolls read:
‘Within three years, according to the year of a hireling (like 16:4)].

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: THE INVASION OF JEWRY

1. The cburden of dthe valley of vision. What ails thee now, that you are wholly
gone up to the housetops?
2. Thou that are full of stirs, a tumultuous city, ea joyous city: thy slain men
are not slain by the sword, nor dead in battle.
3. fAll thy rulers have fled together, they are bound gby the archers; all that are
found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far.
4. Therefore, said I; Look away from me; I will hweep bitterly, labour not to
comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
5. For it is ia day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity jby the
LORD God of Hosts, in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of
crying to the mountains.
6. And kElam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and lKir
uncovered the shield.
7. And it shall come to pass, that mthy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots,
and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.
THIS IS GOD’S MESSAGE CONCERNING JERUSALEM: What is happening? Where
is everyone going? Why are they running to their rooftops? What are they looking
for?
The whole city is in a terrible uproar. What’s the trouble in this busy, happy city?
Bodies! They are lying everywhere, slain by plague, and not by the sword. On
seeing it, all-of your leaders flee ~ they surrender without resistance. The
remaining people try to slip away ~ but they are captured too. Leave me alone to
weep, do not try to comfort me ~ let me cry for the people, as I watch them being
destroyed. OH! What a day of crushing trouble! What a day of confusion and terror
from the LORD of Heaven’s Armies! The walls of Jerusalem are breached, and the
cry of death echoes from the mountain-sides and in the valleys.
Elamites are the archers; Syrians drive the chariots; the men of Kir hold up the
shields. They fill your choicest valleys and crowd against your gates.
8. And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to
the armour of nthe house of the forest.

a f k
See 16:14 2 Kings 25:2-11 Jeremiah 49:35
b g l
See 60:7 See 18:2: Revelation14:8 2 Kings 16:9
c h m
See 13:1 [h]~ be bitter in weeping [h]~ choice of thy valleys
d i n
See verse 5 See 37:3 1 Kings 7:2
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 9. You have also seen the breaches (in the walls) of the city of David, that they
a

are many: and byou gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
10. And you have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses you have
broken down to fortify the wall.
11. cYou made also a ditch between the two walls, for the water of the old pool;
but you have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto
him that fashioned it long ago.
12. And in that day did the LORD God of Hosts call dto weeping, and mourning,
and eto baldness, and to girding of sackcloth.
13. And behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh,
and drinking wine: flet us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die.
14. And it was revealed in mine ears, by the LORD of Hosts; Surely this iniquity
shall not be purged from you till you die, says the LORD God of Hosts.
God Almighty has removed His protective care from Judah and Jerusalem.
You run to the armoury for your weapons! You inspect the walls of Jerusalem, to
see what needs repair! You check over the houses and tear down some houses
and use the stones for fixing the walls. Between the city walls, you build a reservoir
for water from the lower pool! But all-of your feverish plans will not succeed,
because you failed to ask God for His help, who lets this calamity come upon you.
He is the one who planned it long ago. The LORD God of Hosts gave you warnings
through the prophets. The LORD God of Hosts called you to REPENT, to weep, and
mourn, and shave your heads in sorrow for your sins, and to wear clothes made
of sackcloth, to show your remorse. But instead, you sing and dance and play,
and feast and drink. “Let us eat, drink, and be merry,” you say: “What’s the
difference, for tomorrow we die.” The LORD of Hosts has revealed to me, that this
sin will never be forgiven you, until the day you die.
15. Thus says the Lord GOD of Hosts; GO, get thee unto the treasurer, even unto
g
Shebna, which is over the house, and say;
16. What hast thou here? And whom has thou here ~ that thou have hewed out
a sepulchre here, has he that heweth out a sepulchre on high, and that
graveth an habitation for himself in the rock?
17. Behold, the LORDi will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely
cover thee.
18. He shall violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there
thou shall die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy
lord’s house.
19. And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he put thee
down.
Furthermore, the same Lord GOD of heaven’s armies has told me this; Go and say
the Shebna, the palace administrator. “And who do you think you are, building
this beautiful sepulchre in the rock for yourself? For the Lord who allowed you to
be clothed so gorgeously, will hurl you away, sending you into captivity, O strong
man. He will roll you up in his hands like a ball and toss you into a distant and
barren land; there you will die, O glorious one ~ you, who disgrace your nation!
Yes, I will drive you out of office,” says the Lord, “and pull you down from your
high position.”

a e i
2 Chronicles 32:4-5 See 3:24 [h]~ who cover thee with an
b f excellent covering, and
2 Kings 20:20 1 Corinthians 15:32
c g clothed thee gorgeously
Nehemiah 3:16 2 kings 18:18,37; See 36:3
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 20. And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant aEliakim,
the son of Hilkiah.
21. And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and
I will commit thy government into his hands: and he shall be a father to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Israel.
22. And the key of the house of David will I lay bupon his shoulder; so che shall
open and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
23. And I shall fasten him as da nail in a sure place; and he shall be efor a glorious
throne to his father’s house.
24. And they shall hang upon him all-of the glory of his father’s house, the off-
spring, and the issue, all fvessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups,
even to all-of the vessels of flagons.
25. In that day, says the LORD of Hosts, shall gthe nail that is fastened in the
sure place be removed, and cut down, and fall; and the hburden that was
upon it shall be cut off; for the LORD has spoken it.
And then I will call my servant Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, to replace you. He shall
have your uniform and title and authority, and he will be a father to the people of
Jerusalem, and all-of Judah. I will give him responsibility over all-of my people;
whatever ever he says will be done; none will be able to stop him. I will make him
a strong and peg to support my people; they will load him with responsibility, and
he will be an honour to his family name. But the Lord will pull out the other peg,
which seems to be so firmly fastened to the wall! It will come out and fall to the
ground, and everything it supports will fall with it, For the Lord has spoken!

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: THE CALLING OF ELIAKIM

1. The iburden of jTyre. Howl, you “ships of Tarshish”; for it is laid waste, so
that there is no house, no entering in; from the land of kChittim, it is revealed
to them.
2. Be lstill, you inhabitants of the isle; you whom the merchants of Zidon, that
pass over the sea, have replenished.
3. And by great waters the seed of mSihor, the harvest of the river, is her
revenue; and nshe is a mart for the nations.
4. Be thou ashamed O Zidon: for the sea has spoken, saying; I travail not, nor
bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins.
5. As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the report
of Tyre.
6. Pass you over to Tarshish; howl, you inhabitants of the isle.
7. Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? Her own feet
shall carry her oafar off to sojourn.
8. Who has taken this counsel against Trye, the crowning city, whose merchants
are princes, whose ptraffickers are the honourable for the earth?
9. The Lord of Hosts has purposes it, qto stain the pride of all glory, and to bring
into contempt all-of the honourable of the earth.

a g l
See verse 15 See verse 23 [h]~ be silent
b h m
See 9:6 See 13:1 1 Chronicles 13:5
c i n
Job 12:14; Revelation 3:7 See 13:1 Ezekiel 27:3
d j o
Ezra 9:8; see verse 25 Jeremiah 25:22; see 27:3; [h]~ from afar off
e 47:4 p
See 9:7 See verse 11
k
f
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 10. Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no more
a
strength.
11. He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdom: The LORD
has given a commandment bagainst the merchant city, to destroy the
strongholds thereof.
12. And he said; Thou shalt no longer rejoice; O thou oppressed virgin, daughter
of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim: there also shall thou have no rest.
13. Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people were not; till the Assyrians
founded it for cthem that dwell in the wilderness; they raised up the palaces
thereof; and he brought it to ruin.
14. Howl; ye ships of Tarshish; for your strength is laid waste.
15. And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten (for)
d
seventy years, according to the days of one king; after the end of seventy
years eshall Tyre sing as a harlot (once again).
16. Take a harp, go about the city, thou harlot that has been forgotten; make
sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou maybe remembered.
THIS IS GOD’S MESSAGE TO TYRE: Weep, O ships of Tyre, returning home from
distant lands. [Trye was originally a colony of the mother-city, Sidon.] Weep for
your harbour for it is gone ~ completely destroyed! The rumours that you heard
in Cyprus are all true. Deathly silence is everywhere! Stillness reigns, where once
there was a bustling harbour full of ships from Sidon, bringing merchandise from
far across the ocean, from Egypt and along the Nile River.
You were the merchandise market of the whole world. Be ashamed, O Sidon,
stronghold of the sea; for you are childless now!
When Egypt hears the news, there will be great sorrow. Flee to Tarshish, men of
Tyre, weeping as you go. This silent ruin is all that is left of your once joyous land.
What a history was yours! Think of all the colonists that you sent to distant lands!
Who has brought this disaster on Tyre, empire builder and top trader of the world?
The Commander of the Armies of Heaven has done it to destroy your pride and
show his contempt for all-of the greatness of mankind. Sail on, O ships of Tarshish,
for your harbour is gone ~ completely destroyed! The LORD holds out His hand
over the seas; He shakes the kingdoms of the earth; He has spoken out against
this great merchant city, to destroy its strength.
He says: “Never again, O dishonoured virgin, daughter of Sidon, will you rejoice,
will you be strong? Even if you flee to Cyprus, you will find no rest there.”
It will be the Babylonians, (under Nebuchadnezzar) not the Assyrians, who consign
Tyre to the wild beasts. They will lay siege to it, raze its palaces, and make them
a heap of ruins. Wail, you ships’ that ply the oceans, for your home port is
destroyed!
For seventy years Tyre will be forgotten! Then, in the days of another king
(Darius), the city will come back to life once again; she will sing sweet songs as a
harlot sing; who, long absent from her lovers, walk the streets to look for them
again, and is remembered.
17. And it shall come to pass, after the end of the seventy years, that the LORD
will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and fshall commit fornication
with all-of the kingdoms of the world, upon the face of the earth.

a c e
[h]~ girdle Psalm 72:9; 74:14 [h]~ It shall be as unto Tyre
b d as the song of a harlot
[h]~ concerning a merchant Jeremiah 25:9-11; 27:3-6
f
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 18. And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it shall not
be treasured or laid up: for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell
before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for adurable clothing.
Yes! After seventy years, the LORD will revive Tyre, but she will be no different
than she was before; she will return again to all-of her evil ways around the world.
Yet, the distant time will come when all-of her businesses will give their profits to
the LORD. They will not be hoarded, but used for good food and fine clothes for
the priests of the LORD!

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: JUDGEMENT UPON THE LAND

1. Behold the LORD makes the earth empty, and makes it a wasteland, and
b
turns it upside down and scatters abroad the inhabitants thereof.
2. And it shall be, cas with the people, so with the dpriest; as with the servant,
so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer,
so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker
of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
3. The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD has
spoken this word.
4. The earth mourns and fades away the world languishes and fades away, ethe
haughty people on the earth do languish.
5. The earth is also defiled under the inhabitants thereof
6. Therefore, has the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are
desolate: Therefore, the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men
left.
7. fThe new wine mourns, and the vine languishes, all-of the merry-hearted do
sigh.
8. gThe mirth of tabrets ceases, the noise of them that rejoice ends, the joy of
the harp ceases.
9. They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them
that drink it.
10. The city of hconfusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man
may come.
11. Here is crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened; the mirth of the
land is gone.
12. In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
LOOK! The Lord is invading the land of Judah, and making is into a vast wasteland
of desolation. See how He is emptying out all-of its people, and scattering them
over the whole face of the earth. Look, the diaspora has started!
Priests and people, servants and masters, slave girls and mistresses, buyers and
sellers, lenders and borrowers, bankers, and debtors ~ none of these people will
be spared. The land will be completely looted and emptied. The LORD has spoken.
The land suffers for the sins of its people. The earth languishes, the crops fail and
wither, the skies refuse to rain. The land is defiled by crime; the people have
twisted the laws of God and broken have broken His everlasting commands.

a d g
[h]~ old [h]~ or prince Jeremiah 7:34
b h
[h]~ perverts the face See 34:11
e
thereof [h]~ the height of the people
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Therefore, the curse of God is upon them; they are left desolate; destroyed by the
drought. Few, yes very few will be left alive.
All-of the joys of life will go; the grape harvest will fail; the wine will all be gone;
the merrymakers will sigh and mourn. The melodious chords of the harp and
timbrel are heard no more; the happy days are over and ended. No more are the
joys of wine and song; even strong drink turns bitter in one’s mouth.
The cities lie in chaos; every home and shop are locked up tight, to keep out
looters. Mobs form in the streets, crying out for wine, joy has reached its lowest
ebb; gladness has been banished from the land. The city is left in ruins; its gates
are battered down.
13. When thus it shall be in-the-midst-of the land among the people, there shall
be aas the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes, when the
vintage is done.
14. They shall lift up their voices, bthey shall sing for the majesty of the LORD
God of Israel, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
15. Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God
of Israel, cin the isles of the sea.
16. From the duttermost parts of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to
the righteous. But I said; eMy leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! The
treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yes, the treacherous dealers
have dealt very treacherously.
Throughout the land, the story is the same, only a remnant is left. But all who are
left will shout and sing for joy: [because they have not been taken out of Israel,
and also because they are still alive ~ they have been spared the penalty of
death]. Yes, those in the west, will praise the majesty of God; and those in the
east will respond with praise.
Hear them singing to the Lord, from the ends of the earth, singing glory to the
righteous One. BUT; my heart is heavy with grief, for evil still prevails, and
treachery is everywhere.
17. fFear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitants of the earth.
18. And it shall come to pass, that he who flees from the noise of the fear shall
fall into the pit: and he that comes up out of the midst of the pit shall be
taken in the snare; for gthe windows from on high are open, and hthe
foundations of the earth do shake.
19. [T] The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth
is moved exceedingly.
20. [T] The earth shall ireel to and fro, like a drunkard, and shall be removed like
j
a cottage; and the transgressions thereof, shall be heavy upon it; and it shall
fall, and not rise again.
21. [T] And it shall come to pass kin that day, that the LORD shall lpunish the
host of the most-high ones, that are on high, and mthe kings of the earth,
upon the earth.
22. [T] And they shall be gathered together, nas prisoners are gathered in the
o
pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days they shall be
p
visited.

a f l
See 17:6 Jeremiah 48:43-44 [h]~ visit upon
b g m
See 35:10 Genesis 7:11 Psalm 76:12
c
See 11:11
h
Psalm 18:7
n
[h]~ With the gathering of
d i prisoners
[h]~ wing See 19:14
o
e
[h]~ my leanness to me, or
j
See 1:8 [h]~ dungeon
p
my secret to me k
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 23. [M] aThen the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the
b
LORD of Hosts shall reign in cMount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and dbefore His
ancients gloriously.
Terror, and the captivity of hell are still your lot. O men of the world. When you
flee in terror, you will fall int a pit ~ a dungeon, and if you escape the dungeon,
you will step into a trap, for destruction falls from heaven upon you; the world will
be shaken beneath your feet. The earth has broken down in utter collapse;
everything is lost; abandoned and confused. The world staggers like a drunkard;
it shakes like a tent in a storm. It falls and it will not rise again, for the sins of the
earth are very great.
On that day, the LORD will punish the fallen angels (who rebelled with Satan
before the creation of the World, and who have been locked up in Hades until
now), and the proud rulers of the nations on the earth. They will be rounded up
like prisoners, and imprisoned in a dungeon, until they are tried and condemned.
Then the LORD of Heaven’s Armies will mount His throne in in Zion and rule
gloriously in Jerusalem, in the sight of all-of the elders of His people. Such glory
there will be that all the brightness of the sun and moon will seem to fade away.

Now, if you do not believe anything else in this chapter, please believe this ~
because your eternal life depends upon it!

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: ISAIAH PRAISES GOD FOR HIS

BENEFITS
1. O LORD, thou art my God: I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for ethou
hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
2. For thou hast made fof a city a heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of
strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
3. Therefore, shall the strong people glorify thee: gthe city of the terrible
nations shall fear thee.
4. For thou hast been ha strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his
distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when thew blast
of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
5. Thou shall bring down the noise of the strangers, as the heat in a dry place;
even the heat with a shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall
be brought low.
O LORD, I will honour and praise your name, for you are my god; you do such
wonderful things! You planned them long ago, and now you have accomplished
them, just as you said you would! You turn mighty cities into heaps of ruins. The
strongest forts are destroyed and turned into rubble. Beautiful palaces in distant
lands disappear and will never be rebuilt. Therefore, strong nations will tremble
and shake before you: ruthless nations will obey you and glorify your name.
But the poor, O Lord, you are a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat;
a shelter from merciless men who are, like a driving rain that melts down an
earthen wall. As a hot, dry land is cooled by clouds, you will cool the pride of
ruthless nations.

a d g
Matthew 24:29 [H]~ glory before His See 19:24-25
b ancients. h
Revelations 11:15 See 27:5
e
c
Hebrews 12:22 Psalm 72:18
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 6.And in athis mountain shall the LORD of Hosts make unto all-of the people ba
feast of fat things, a feast of wine on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of
wines of the lees well refined.
7. And He will cdestroy in this mountain the face of the covering, dcast over all
people, and ethe veil that is spread over all nations.
8. fHe will swallow up death in victory; and gthe LORD God will wipe away tears
from all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all
the earth; for the LORD has spoken it.
Here on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, the LORD of Hosts will spread a wondrous feast
for everyone around the world ~ a delicious feast of good food, with clear, well-
aged wine and choice beef. At that time, He will remove the cloud of gloom, that
pall-of death that hangs over the earth; He will swallow up death forever. The
LORD God will wipe away all tears and take away forever all insults and mockery
against His land and His people. The LORD has spoken ~ surely, He will do it!
9. And it shall be said hin that day, lo, this is our God; iwe have waited from
him; and he will save us; this is the LORD: we have waited for him, jwe will
be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
10. For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and kMoab shall be
l
trodden down under him, even as straw is mtrodden down for the dunghill.
11. And he shall spread forth his hands in-the-midst-of them, as he that swims
spreads forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together
with the spoils of their hands.
12. And the fortress of nthe high fort of thy walls shall be bring down, lay low,
and bring to the ground, even to the dust.
In that day the people will proclaim; “This is our God, in whom we trust, for whom
we waited. Now at last he is here.” What a day of rejoicing! For the Lord’s good
hand shall rest upon Jerusalem, and Moab will be crushed as straw beneath his
feet and left to rot. God will push them down, just as a swimmer pushes down the
water with his hands. Her will end their pride and all-of their evil works. The high
walls of Moab will be demolished and brought to dust.
[This is what happens to nations that invade of steal land from Israel]

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: A SONG OF CONFIDENCE IN GOD

The whole of this chapter is prophetic, relating to the Millennium period of 1,000
years of Jesus’ reign on the existing earth. [M]

1. [M] oIn that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: We have a
strong city, psalvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
2. [M] qOpen ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps the truth may
enter in! [If there is no righteousness in your nation, you shall not enter into
the Millennium reign of Jesus Christ upon this existing earth!]
3. [M] Thou will keep him in rperfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee:
because he trusts in thee.

a g m
See 2:2-3 Revelation 7:17 threshed in Madmenah
b h n
Psalm 63:5; Proverbs 9:2; See 2:11 See 26:5
Matthew 22:4; Luke 14:16 i o
Genesis 49:18; See 26:8; See 2:11
c
[h]~ swallow up Titus 2:13 p
See 60:18
d
[h]~ covered
j
Psalm 9 :14 q
Psalm 118:19-20
e k
See 28:20 See 15:1 r
[h]~ peace, peace
f l
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 4. [M] Trust in the Lord aforever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is beverlasting
strength.
Listen to them singing! In that day, the whole land of Judah will sing this song:
“Our city is strong! We are surrounded by the walls of His salvation. Open the
gates to everyone, for all may enter in who love the Lord. He will keep in perfect
peace all-of those who trust in Him, whose thoughts turn often to the Lord. Trust
in the Lord God always, for in the Lord Jehovah is your everlasting strength.
5. [M] For che brings down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he lays it
low; even to the ground; he brings it even to the dust.
6. [M] The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of
the needy.
7. [M] The way of the just is uprightness; thou most upright, you dweigh the
path of the just.
8. [M] Yes, ein the way of they judgements, O LORD, have we waited for thee;
the desire of our soul is fto thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
9. [M] With my soul have I desired thee gin the night; yes, with my spirit within
me will I seek thee early; for when thy judgements are in the earth, the
inhabitants of the earth will learn righteousness.
10. [M] hLet favour be shown to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness;
in ithe land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the
majesty of the Lord.
11. [M] LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see; but they shall see,
and be ashamed for their envy jat the people; yes, the fire of thine enemies
shall devour them.
He humbles the proud and brings the haughty city to the dust; its walls come
crashing down. He presents it to the poor and needy for their use. But for good
men, the path is not uphill and rough. God does not give them a rough and
treacherous path, but smooths out the road before them. O LORD, we love to do
your will. Out heart’s desire is to glorify your name. All night long I search for you;
earnestly I seek for God; for only when you come in judgement upon the earth to
punish it will people turn away from wickedness and do what is right.
Your kindness to the wicked does not make them good: they keep on doing wrong,
and take no notice of your majesty. They do not listen when you threaten (them):
they will not look to see your upright fist; show them how much you love your
people. Perhaps then they will be ashamed! Yes, let them be burned up by the
fire, that is reserved for your enemies.
12. [M] LORD, you will ordain peace for us; for kyou also have wrought all our
works in us.
13. [M] O LORD our God, lother lords beside thee have had dominion over us;
but, mby thee only will we make mention of thy name.
14. [M] They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise;
Therefore, has thou visited and destroyed them, and nmade all-of their
memories to perish.
15. [M] oYou have increased the nation; O LORD, you have increased the nation;
you are glorified; you have removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.

a f k
See 45:17 Nehemiah 1:11 1 Corinthians 15:10
b g l
[h]~ the rock of ages Psalm 77:2 2 Chronicles 12:8
c h m
See 25:12 Ecclesiastes 8:12 2 Kings 18:4-6
d i n
Psalm 58:2 Psalm 143:10 Ecclesiastes 9:5
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 16. [M] LORD, ain trouble have they visited thee; they poured out a bprayer when
thy chastening was upon them.
17. [M] cLike a woman with child, that draws near to the time of her delivery, is
in pain, and cries out in her pangs; so, have we been in thy sight O LORD.
18. 18. [M] We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were
brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth;
neither have dthe inhabitants of the world fallen.
19. 19. [M] eThy dead men shall live; together with my dead body shall they
arise; Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for thy dew as is the dew
of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Lord, grant us peace; for all that we have and are, comes from you. O LORD our
God, once we worshipped other gods, but now we worship you alone. Those we
served before are dead and gone; never again will they return. You came against
them and destroyed them, and they are long forgotten. O praise the Lord! He has
made our nation very great. He has reclaimed the boundaries of our land.
Lord, in their distress they sought for you. When your punishment was on them,
they poured forth a whispered prayer. How we missed your presence, Lord! We
suffered as a woman giving birth, who cries out and writhes in pain. We too have
writhed in agony, but all to no avail. No deliverance has come from all-of our
efforts. Yet we have this assurance; Those who belong to God shall live again.
Their bodies shall rise again! Those who dwell in the dust shall awake and sing for
joy! For God’s light of life will fall like dew upon them!
20. [M] Come my people, fenter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors
about thee; hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation
be over past.
21. [M] For, behold, the LORD comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants
of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and
shall no longer cover her slain.
Go home my people, and lock your doors! Hide yourselves for a little while until
the Lord’s wrath against your enemies has passed. Look! The Lord is coming from
the heavens to punish the people of the earth for their sins. The earth will no
longer hide the murderers. The guilty will be found.

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: GOD’S CARE OF HIS VINEYARD

All-of this chapter is prophetic, 1-11 is about the Tribulation and verse 12 until
the end, is about the Second Coming of Jesus to the earth, and the Millennium
reign.

1. [T] gIn that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall
punish the hLeviathan, the ipiercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked
serpent; and he shall slay jthe dragon that is in the sea.
2. [T] In that day ksing ye unto her, a vineyard of red wine.
3. [T] lI the LORD do keep it: I will water it every moment; lest any hurt it, I
will keep it night and day.

a f j
Hosea 5:15 Matthew 6:6 Psalm 74:13-14; See 51:9;
b g Revelation 12:3
[h]~ secret speech See 2:11
k
c
See 13:8
h
Psalm 74:13-14; See 51:9; See 5:1: 26:1
l
d
Psalm 17:14 Revelation 12:3 Psalm 121:4-5
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 4.[T] Fury is not in me: who would set athe briers and thorns against me in
battle? I would go through them; I would burn them together.
5. [T] Or let him take hold of bmy strength, that he may make peace with me;
and he shall make peace with me.
6. He shall cause them to come to Jacob cto take root: Israel shall blossom and
bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
In that day, the LORD will take his terrible, swift sword and punish the leviathan,
the swiftly moving serpent, the coiling, writhing serpent, the dragon of the sea.
In that day [of Israel’s freedom] let this anthem be their song: Israel is my
vineyard; the LORD, will tend the fruitful vines; every day I’ll water them and day
& night I will watch to all enemies away. My anger against Israel is gone. If I find
briers and thorns bothering her, I will burn them up, unless these enemies of mine
surrender and beg for peace and my protection.
The time will come when Israel will take root and bud and blossom and fill the
whole earth with her fruit.
7. [T] Has he smitten him, das he smote those that smote him? Or is he slain
according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?
8. [T] In measure, when eit shoots forth, you will debate with it: fhe stays his
rough wind in the day of the east wind.
9. [T] By this therefore, shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged: and this is all-of
the fruit to take away his sin; when he makes all-of the stones of the altar
as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, gthe groves and himages shall not
stand up.
10. [T] Yet the defenced cities shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken,
and left like a wilderness; ithere shall be cow feed, and there shall he lie
down, and consume the branches thereof.
11. [T] When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the
women come and set them on fire: for jit is a people of no understanding:
therefore, he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that
formed them will not have mercy on them.
Has God punished Israel as much as He has punished her enemies? NO! For he
has devastated her enemies, while he has punished Israel but a little, exiling her
from her own land, as though blown away in a storm from the east. And why did
God do it? It was t purge away her sins, to rid her of all-of her altars and her idols.
They will never be worshipped again. Her walled cities will be silent and empty,
houses abandoned, streets overgrown with grass, cows gazing through the city,
munching on twigs and branches.
My people are like those dead branches of a tree; broken off and used to burn
beneath the cooking pots. They are a foolish nation, a witless, stupid people, for
they turn away from God. Therefore, he who made them will not have pity on
them, or show them his mercy.
12. [S, M] And it shall come to pass kin that day, that the LORD shall beat off
from the channel of lthe river munto the stream of Egypt, and you shall be
gathered one by one, O you children of Israel.

a e i
See 9:18 [h]~ thou sends forth See 7:21-25; 17:2; 32:14
b f j
See 25:4 [h]~ when he removes it Deuteronomy 32:28
c [with] k
See 37:1: Hosea 14:5 See 27:1
g
d
[h]~ according to the stroke See 17:8; 2 Kings 23:6-14; l
See 11:15
h
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 13. [S, M] And it shall come to pass ain that day, that bthe great trumpet shall
be blown, and they shall come that were ready to perish in the land of
Assyria, and cthe outcasts in the land of Egypt, and dshall worship the LORD
in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
Yet the time will come when the Lord will gather them together one by one, like
hand-picked grain, selecting them here and there from his threshing floor that
reaches all-of the way from the Euphrates River to the Egyptian boundary.
In that day, the great trumpet will be blown, and many about to perish among
their enemies, Assyria, and Egypt, will be rescued and brought back to Jerusalem,
to worship the Lord in his holy mountain.

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: EPHRAIM IS THREATENED

1. Woe to the ecrown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim whose fglorious
beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them
that are overcome with wine!
2. Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of ghail
and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast
down to the earth with the hand.
3. The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden hunder feet.
4. And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a
fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer: which when he
looks upon it sees, while it is yet in his hand, he eats it up.
Woe to the city of Samaria, surrounded by her rich valley ~ Samaria, the pride
and delight of the drunkards of Israel! Woe to her fading beauty, the crowning
glory of a nation of men lying drunk in the streets.
For the LORD will send a mighty army (the Assyrians) against you: like a mighty
hailstorm he will burst upon you, and dash you to the ground. The proud city of
Samaria ~ yes, the joy and delight of the drunkards of Israel, will be hurled to the
ground and trampled beneath the enemies’ feet. Once glorious, her fading beauty
surrounded by a fertile valley will all suddenly be gone, greedily snatched away as
an early fig is hungrily snatched and gobbled up!
5. iIn that day, shall the Lord of Hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem
of beauty, unto the residue of his people.
6. And for a Spirit of Judgement to him that sits in judgement, and for strength
to them that turn the battle jto the gate.
Then, at last, the LORD Himself will be their crowning glory, the diadem of beauty
to his people who are left. He will give a longing for justice to your judges and
great courage to your soldiers who are battling to the last before your gates.
7. But they have also khave erred through wine, and lthrough strong drink are
out of the way; mthe priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink,
they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink;
they err in vision, they stumble in judgement.
8. For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that this is no place clean.

a e j
See 17:1 See 28:3 Judges 5:8
b f k
Leviticus 25:9; Matthew See 28:4 Proverbs 20:1; Hosea 4:11
24:31; Revelation 11:15 g
See 30:30; 32:19
l
See 19:14
c
See 16:3 h
[h]~ with feet
m
See 56:10,12
d
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But Jerusalem is now led by drunkards. Her priests and prophets reel and stagger,
and make stupid mistakes. Their tables are covered with vomit, filth is
everywhere.
9. aWhom shall he teach knowledge? And whom shall he make to understand
b
doctrine? Them that are weaned from the cmilk, and drawn from the breast.
10. For precept dmust be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line
upon line; here a little, and there a little;
11. For ewith fstammering lips and another tongue will he speak to his people.
12. To whom he has said; This is the rest wherewith you may cause the weary
to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
13. But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon
precept: line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that
they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
“Who does Isaiah think he is,” the people say, “to speak to us like this! Are we
little children, barely old enough to talk? He keeps telling us the same thing over
and over again, a line at a time, and in such simple words!”
But they won’t listen; the only language they can understand is punishment! So,
God will punish them by sending against them foreigners who speak strange
gibberish! Only then will they listen to Him!
They could have rest in their own land if they would obey him, if they were kind
and good. He told them that, but they wouldn’t listen to Him. So, the LORD will
spell it out for them again, REPEATING IT OVER AND OVER, IN SIMPLE WORDS,
WHENEVER HE CAN; yet over this simple, straightforward message, they will
stumble and fall and be broken, trapped, and captured. [A recent survey says that
over 50% OF PEOPLE DWELLING IN ISRAEL do not believe in God! So, I suppose
that God will have to teach them another lesson, just to prove to them that He
does exist! Maybe coming in the clouds, as described in 1 Thessalonians chapter
4:16-17, Where every eye shall see Him, may do the trick!]
14. Wherefore, hear the word of the LORD, gyou scornful men, that rule this
people that is in Jerusalem.
15. Because you have said; We have made a covenant with death, and with hell
are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through; it
shall not come unto us; for we have made lies our refuge, and under
falsehood have we hid ourselves.
You have struck a bargain with DEATH, you say, and sold yourselves to the devil,
in exchange for his protection against the Assyrians. “They can never touch us,”
you say, “for we are under the care of the one who will deceive and fool them.”
[Guess who gets fooled and deceived?]
16. Therefore, thus says the LORD God; hBehold, I lay in Zion for a foundation ia
stone, ja tried stone, a precious corner stone, ka secure foundation; lhe that
believes shall not make haste.
17. Judgement will I also lay to mthe line, and righteousness to the plummet:
and the hail shall sweep over the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow
the hiding place.
BUT, the LORD God says, See, I am placing a Foundation Stone in Zion, a firm,
tested, precious Cornerstone that is safe to build on.

a f j
Jeremiah 6:10 [h]~ with stammering of lip Luke 23:35
b g k
[h]~ the hearing See verse 22; 29:20 1 Corinthians 3:11
c h l
Hebrews 6:1-3 1 Peter 2:6 Romans 10:11
d i m
[h]~ or has been Genesis 49:24; Psalm 2 Kings 21:13
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He who believes need never run away again. I will take the line and plummet of
justice to check the foundation wall you built; it looks so fine, but it is so weak
that a storm of hail will knock it down! The enemy will come in like a flood and
sweep it away, and you will be drowned.
18. And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with
hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then
you shall be trodden down by it!
19. From the time it goes forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it
pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only ato understand
the report.
20. For the bed is shorter than the man can stretch himself upon it; and the
covering narrower than he can wrap himself in it.
21. For the LORD will rise up bas in Mount Perazim, he shall be wroth cas in the
valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work; and bring to pass his act, his
strange act.
22. Now therefore, be you not mockers, lest your bands be made strong; for I
have heard from the LORD God of Hosts da consumption, even determined
upon the whole earth.
I WILL CANCEL YOUR AGREEMENT of compromise with DEATH and the DEVIL, so
that when the terrible enemy floods in, you will be trampled into the ground. [This
is a clear warning that IRRESPECTIVE of what plans mankind puts in place, GOD’S
plans shall still come to pass.] Again, and again that flood will come and carry you
off, until; at last, the unmixed horror of the truth of my warnings will finally dawn
on you. [You were warned many times by Ezekiel, Jeremiah and Isaiah that if you
did not turn from your wicked ways, you would be punished and taken into
captivity; but you refused to listen, but when that day comes, then the full
realization of the penalties shall be revealed to you ~ but by then it will be too
late to change!]
The bed you have made for yourself is too short to lie on; the blankets are too
narrow to cover you. The LORD will come suddenly and in anger, as at Mount
Gerizim and Gibeon, to do a strange, unusual thing ~ to destroy his own people!
So, scoff no more, lest your punishment be made even greater, for the LORD God
of Hosts has plainly told me that he is determined to crush you.
23. Give you ear, and hear my voice: hearken, and hear my speech.
24. Does the ploughman plough all day to sow? Does he open and ebreak the
clods of his ground?
25. When he has made plain the face thereof, does he not cast abroad the
fitches, and scatter the cumin, and cast in fthe principal wheat and the
appointed barley, and the grye in their place?
26. hFor his God doth instruct him to discretion, and does teach him.
27. For the fitches are not threshed with the threshing instrument, neither is a
cart wheel turned about upon the cumin; but the fitches are beaten out with
a staff; and the cumin with a rod.
28. Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it; nor break it
with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.

a d g
[h]~ he shall make you See 10:23 [h]~ spelt (rye); Ezekiel 4:9
understand doctrine e
Job 39:10
h
[h]~ and he binds it in such
b
2 Samuel 5:20; 1 Chronicles f
[h]~ the wheat in the sort as his God does teach
14:11 principal place, and the him.
c
Joshua 10:10,12; 2 Samuel barley in the appointed
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 29. This also comes forth from the LORD of Hosts, awhich is wonderful in counsel,
and excellent in working.
Listen to me; listen I plead: Does a farmer always plough and never sow? Ids he
forever harrowing the soil and never planting it? Does he not finally plant his
many kinds of grain, each in its own section of his land? He knows just what to
do, for God has made him see and understand. He doesn’t thresh all grains the
same. A sledge is never used on dill, but it is beaten with a stick. A threshing
wheel is never rolled on cumin, but it is beaten softly with a flail. Bread grain is
easily crushed, so he doesn’t keep on pounding it. The LORD of Hosts is a
wonderful teacher and gives the farmer wisdom.

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD ON

JERUSALEM
1. Woe to cAriel, to Ariel, dthe city ewhere David dwelt! Add year to year; let
b

them fkill sacrifices.

2. Yet, I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow; and it shall
be unto me as Ariel.
3. And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with
a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.
4. And you shall be brought down, and shall speak out of the ground, and your
speech shall be low, out of the dust, and your voice shall be, as of gone that
has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech shall whisper out of
the dust.
5. Moreover, the multitude of thy hstrangers shall be like small dust, and the
multitude of the terrible ones shall be ias chaff that passes away; yes, it shall
be jat an instant ~ suddenly.
6. Thou shall be visited of the Lord of Hosts with thunder; and with earthquake,
and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.
WOE TO JERUSALEM, the city of David. Year after year, you make your many
offerings, but I will send heavy judgement upon you and there will be much
weeping and sorrow. For Jerusalem shall become as her name “Ariel” means ~ an
altar covered with blood. The Lord God of Hosts says: “I will be your enemy!” I
will surround Jerusalem and lay siege against it, and build forts around it to
destroy it. Your voice will whisper like a ghost from the earth, where you lie buried.
But suddenly, your enemies will be driven off, like chaff before the wind. In an
instant, I, the Lord of Hosts, will come upon them with thunder, earthquakes,
whirlwind, and fire.
7. kAnd the multitude of all-of the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that
fight against her and her lmunition, and that distress her, shall be mas a
dream of a night vision.
8. It shall even be as when a hungry man ndreams, and behold, he eats: but
he is awakened, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreams,
and, behold, he drinks: but he wakes, and behold, he is faint, and his soul

a e j
[h]~ treading down to it. 2 Samuel 5:9 See 30:13
b f k
[h]~ O Arial, that is the lion [h]~ cut off the heads of See 37:36
of God g l
See 8:19 Proverbs 12:12
c
See verses 2,7; Ezekiel h
See 25:5
m
Job 28:8
43:16-17 i n
d Psalm 1:4 Psalm 73:20
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 has appetite: so, shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against
Mount Zion.
And all-of the nations fighting Jerusalem will vanish like a dream! As a hungry
man dreams of eating, but is still hungry, and so a thirsty man dreams of drinking,
but is still faint from thirst when he wakes up, so your enemies will dream of a
victorious conquest, but all to no avail.
9. Stay yourselves, and wonder; acry you out and cry: bthey are drunken, cbut
not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
10. For dthe LORD has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep, and has eclosed
your eyes: the prophets and your frulers, the seers have he covered.
11. gAnd the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a hbook ithat is
sealed, which men deliver t men that are learned, saying; Read this, I pray
thee; and he says; I cannot; for it is sealed:
12. And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying; Read this, I pray
thee; and he says, I am not learned.
You are amazed, incredulous? You don’t believe it? Then go ahead and be blind,
if you must! You are stupid ~ and not from drinking, either! Stagger, and not
from wine! For the LORD has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep. He has
closed the eyes of your prophets and seers, so that all-of these future events are
as a sealed book to them. When you give it to one who can read, he says; “I can’t
for it is sealed.” When you give it to another, he says, “sorry, I can’t read.”
13. Wherefore the LORD said; jForasmuch as this people draw near to me with
their mouths, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their
hearts far from me, and their fear towards me is taught by kthe precepts of
men:
14. Therefore, behold, I will lproceed to do a marvellous work among this people,
even a marvellous work and a wonder: for mthe wisdom of their wise men
shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden.
15. Woe unto nthem that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and
their works are in the dark, and they say; Who sees us? And who knows us?
16. Surely, your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the Potter’s
clay: for oshall the work say to him that made it, He made me not? Or shall
the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
17. Is it not yet a very little while, and pLebanon shall be turned into a fruitful
field, qand the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
And so, the LORD says; “Since these people say that they are mine, but they do
not obey me, and since their worship amounts to mere words learned off by rote,
therefore, I will take awesome vengeance on these hypocrites, and make their
wisest counsellors as fools.
Woe to those who try to hide their plans fro God, who try to keep him in the dark
about what they do! “God can’t see us,” they say to the3mselves. “He doesn’t
know what is going on!” How dumb and stupid can they be??? Isn’t He, the Potter,

a h n
[h]~ take your pleasure & riot [h]~ letter See 30:1
b i o
See 19:14 See 8:16; Daniel 12:4 See 45:9
c j p
See 51:21 Ezekiel 33:31; Matthew See 10:34
d 15:8-9; Mark 7: 6-7 q
Romans 11:8 32:15
k
e
See 6:10 Colossians 2:22
l
f
[h]~ heads [h]~ add
m
g
2 Corinthians 3:14-15 Jeremiah 49:7; Obadiah 8; 1
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greater that you, the jars he makes? Will you say to him, “He didn’t make us?”
Does a machine call the inventor dumb?
Soon ~ and it won’t be very long ~ the wilderness of Lebanon will be a fruitful
field again, a lush and fertile forest.
18. And ain that day bshall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of
the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
19. cThe meek shall also dincrease their joy in the LORD, and ethe poor among
men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
20. For fthe terrible one is brought to naught, and the gscorner is consumed, and
all that watch for iniquity are cut off.
21. That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for hhim that
reproves in the gate, and iturn aside the just for a thing of naught.
22. Therefore, thus says the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the
House of Jacob, Jacob shall not ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.
23. But when he sees his children, jthe work of mine hands, in the midst of him,
k
they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall
fear lthe God of Israel.
24. They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that
murmured shall learn doctrine.
In that day the deaf will hear the words of a book, and out of their gloom and
darkness the blind will see my plans. The meek will be filled with fresh joy from
the LORD, and the poor shall exult the Holy One of Israel.
Bullies will vanish, and scoffers will cease, and all those plotting evil will be killed;
the violent man who fights at the drop of a hat, the man who waits in hiding to
beat up the judge who sentenced him, and the man who uses any excuse to be
unfair.
That is why the LORD who redeemed Abraham says: My people will no longer pale
with fear, or be ashamed. For when they see the surging birth rate and the
expanding economy, then they will fear and rejoice in my name, and praise the
Holy One of Israel. And stand in awe of him. Those in error will believe the truth,
and complainers will be willing to be taught!

CHAPTER THIRTY: CONFIDENCE IN EGYPT REPROVED.

1. Woe to the rebellious children, says the LORD, mthat take counsel, but not of
me; and nthat cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, othat they may add
sin to sin.
2. That walk pto go down into Egypt, and have not qasked at my mouth; to
strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow
of Egypt!
3. Therefore, shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and rthe trust in the
shadow of Egypt your confusion.
4. For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.

a h m
See 2:11 Amos 5:10 See 29:15
b i n
See 35:5; Matthew 11:5 Amos 5:12 See 25:7
c j o
See 61:1; Matthew 5:5 See 19:25, 60:21 Deuteronomy 29:19
d k p
[h]~ add Matthew 6:9; 2 Corinthians See 31:1
e 5:5 q
Matthew 5:3 Numbers 27:21; 1 Kings
l
f
See verse 5 Exodus 24:10; See 41:17; 22:7; Jeremiah 21:2
48:1 r
g
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 5. aThey were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be any
help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
6. bThe burden of cthe beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish,
from whence come the young and the old lion, the viper and fiery flying
serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and
their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that will not profit
them.
7. For dthe Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore, have I
cried econcerning this; Their strength is to sit still.
Woe to my rebellious children says the LORD; you ask advice from everyone but
me; and decide to do what I don’t want you to do. You yoke yourselves to
unbelievers, thus piling up your sins. For without consulting me you have gone
down to Egypt, to find aid and have put your trust in Pharaoh for his protection.
[King Hezekiah was seeking a defensive alliance with Ethiopia’s Egyptian dynasty,
against Sennacherib of Assyria]. But in trusting in Pharaoh, you will be
disappointed, humiliated, and disgraced, for he can't deliver on his promises to
save you. For although his power extends to Zoan and Hanes, yet it will all turn
out to your shame ~ He won’t help you one little bit!
See them moving slowly over the terrible desert to Egypt ~ donkeys and camels
laden down with the treasures to pay for Egypt’s aid. On through the bad lands
they go, where lions and swift venomous snakes live ~ and Egypt will give you
nothing in return! For Egypt’s promises are worthless! “Then Reluctant Dragon” I
call her! [“Rahab who sits still”].
8. Now go, fwrite it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it maybe
for gthe time to come for ever and ever:
9. That hthis is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the
law of the LORD.
10. Which say to the iseers; see not! And to the prophets; jProphecy not to us
right things, kspeak unto us smooth things, prophecy deceits:
11. Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of
Israel to cease from before us.
12. Wherefore, thus says the Holy One of Israel; Because you despise this word,
and trust in loppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
13. Therefore, this iniquity shall be to you, mas a breach ready to fall, swelling
out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly at an instant.
14. And nhe shall break it as the breaking of a opotter’s vessel, that is broken in
pieces: he shall not spare; so that there shall not be found in the bursting of
the sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
15. For thus says the LORD God, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and prest
shall you be saved; qin quietness and confidence shall be your strength: and
you would not.
16. But you said no! For rwe will flee upon horses; therefore, shall you flee; and,
we will ride upon the swift; therefore, shall they that pursue you be swift.

a h n
Jeremiah 2:36 Deuteronomy 32:20; See Psalm 2:9
b 4:1; See verse 1 o
See 13:1 [h]~ the bottle of potters
i
c
See 51:9; Ezekiel 29:3 1 Samuel 9:9 p
See 28:12
j
d
See 20:5; Jeremiah 37:5,7 Jeremiah 11:21; Amos 2:12; q
Exodus 14:14; see 7:4
e 7:13; Micah 2:6 r
[h]~ to her k See 31:1; Hosea 14:3
f 1 Kings 22:13
Habukkuk 2:2 l
g [h]~ fraud
[h]~ for the latter days. m
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 17. aOne thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall you
flee: till you be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign
on a hill.
Now go and write down this word of mine concerning Egypt; so that it will stand
until the end of time, forever and forever, as an indictment of Israel’s unbelief.
For it you don’t write it they will claim that I never warned them. “Oh no,” they’ll
say, “you never told us that!”
For they are stubborn rebels. They tell my prophets. “Shut up! We don’t want to
hear anymore of your reports!” Or they say, “Don’t tell us the truth; tell us nice
things; tell us lies. Forget all this gloom; we’ve heard more than enough about
your ‘Holy One of Israel’ and all he says.”
This is the reply of the Holy One of Israel: Because you despise what I tell and
trust instead in frauds, and lies, and won’t repent, therefore, calamity will come
upon you suddenly, as upon a bulging wall that bursts and falls; in a moment it
comes crashing down. God will smash you like a broken dish; he will not act
sparingly. Not a piece will be left large enough to use for carrying coal from the
hearth, or a little water from the well. For the LORD God, the Holy One of Israel,
says: Only in returning to me and waiting for me, will you be saved; in quietness
and confidence is your strength; but you’ll have none of this.
“No,” you say. “We will get our help from Egypt: [from the ungodly] they will give
us swift horses for riding into battle.” But the only swiftness that you are going
to see is the swiftness of your enemies chasing you! For one of them will chase a
thousand of you! Five of them will scatter you until not even two of you are left
together. You will be all alone, like lonely trees on the distant mountain tops.
18. And btherefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and
therefore cwill he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you; for the
LORD is a God of judgement: dBLESSED ARE ALL THEY THAT WAIT FOR HIM!
19. For ethe people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more;
he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear
it, he shall answer thee.
20. And though the LORD give you fthe bread of adversity, and the water of
g
affliction, yet hshall not your teachers be removed into a corner any more,
but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
21. And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying; This is the way, walk
ye in it, when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left.
22. You shall also defile the covering of ithy graven images of silver, and the
ornaments of thy molten images of Gold: thou shalt jcast them away as a
menstruous cloth; kthou shalt say unto it; Get thee hence!
The remaining verses in this chapter are prophetic and relate to the Millennium
reign period. [M]
23. [M] Then shall he give the rain of the seed, that thou shall sow the ground
withal; and bread of the increase of the earth; and it shall be fat and
plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.
24. [M] The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat
l
clean provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

a e i
Leviticus 26:8; Deuteronomy See 65:9,19 [h]~ thy graven images of thy
28:25 f silver
1 Kings 22:27; Psalm 127:2
b j
Romans 2:4 g
[h]~ oppression [h]~ scatter
c k
Psalm 46:30 h
Psalm 74:9 Hosea 14:8
d l
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 25. [M] And there shall be upon every high mountain, and aupon every bhigh hill,
rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the
towers fall.
26. [M] Moreover, the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the
light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that
the LORD binds the breach of his people, and heals the stroke of their wound.
Then God will bless you with rain at planting time and with wonderful harvests,
and with ample pastures for your cows. The oxen and young donkeys that till the
ground, will eat grain, its chaff blown away by the wind. In that day when God
steps in to destroy your enemies, he will give your streams of water flowing down
each mountain and every hill. The moon shall be as bright as the sun, and the
sunlight brighter than seven days! So, it will be when the LORD begins to heal his
people and to cure the wounds that He gave them.
27. [M] Behold the name of the LORD comes from afar, burning with his anger,
and the cburden thereof is dheavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his
tongue as a devouring fire:
28. [M] And ehis breath as an overflowing stream, fshall reach to the midst of the
neck, gto sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be ha bridle
in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.
29. [M] You shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept: and
gladness of heart, as when one goes iwith a pipe to come into jthe mountain
of the LORD, to thek mighty One of Israel.
30. [M] And the LORD shall cause lhis glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew
the lightning down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the
flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest and hailstones.
31. [M] For mthrough the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrians be beaten down,
n
which smote with a rod.
32. [M] And oin every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD
shall play upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps; and in battles of
q
shaking will he fight rwith it.
33. [M] For sTophet is ordained tof old; yes, for the king it is prepared: he has
made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath
of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, does kindle it.
See, the LORD comes from afar, aflame with wrath, surrounded by thick rising
smoke. His lips are filled with fury; his words consume like fire. His wrath pours
out like floods upon them all, to sweep them all away. He will sift out the proud
nations and bridle them and lead them away to their doom. But the people of God
will sing a song of solemn joy, like songs in the night when holy feasts are held;
his people will have gladness of heart, as when a flutist leads a pilgrim band to
Jerusalem to the mountain of the LORD, the Rock of Israel. And the LORD shall
cause his majestic voice to be heard and shall crush down his mighty arm upon
his enemies, with angry indignation and with devouring flames and tornados and
terrible storms and huge hailstones.

a h o
See 2:14-15 See 37:29 [h]~ every passing of the
b i rod founded
[h]~ lifted up 1 Kings 1:40
p
c
[h]~ grievousness of flame
j
See 2:3 [h]~ cause to rest upon
q
d
[h]~ heaviness
k
[h]~ rock; Deuteronomy See 11:15; 19:16
r
e
See 11:4; 2 Thessalonians 32:4 [h]~ against them
l s
2:8 [h]~ the glory of his voice 2 Kings 23:10; see 26:14
f m t
See 8:8 See 37:36 [h]~ from yesterday
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The voice of the LORD shall punish the Assyrians, who had been his rod of
punishment (of the nation of Israel). And when the Lord smites them, his people
will rejoice with music and song.
The funeral pyre has long been ready, prepared for Molech, the Assyrian god; it
is piled high with wood. The breath of the LORD, like fire from a volcano, will set
it all on fire.

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: FOLLY OF TRUSTING IN EGYPT

1.Woe to them athat go down to Egypt for help; and bstay on horses, and trust
in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very
strong: but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!
2. Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and cwill not dcall back his words; but
will rise against then house of the evil doers, and against the help of them
that work iniquity.
3. Now, the Egyptians are men, and not GOD; and their horses’ flesh, not spirit.
When the Lord shall stretch out his hand, both he that helps shall fall, and
he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all fail together.
4. For thus has the LORD spoken unto me; eLike as the lion and the young lion
roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against
him, he will not be afraid of their voices, nor abase himself for the fnoise of
them: gso, shall the LORD of Hosts come down to fight for Mount Zion, and
for the hill thereof.
5. [LD] hAs birds flying, so will the LORD of Hosts defend Jerusalem: defending
he will also deliver it: and passing over, He will preserve it.
Woe to those who run to Egypt for help, trusting in their mighty cavalry and
chariots, instead of looking to the Holy One of Israel and consulting and trusting
Him. In His wisdom, He will send great evil upon His people and He will not change
His mind. He will rise up against them for the evil that they have done, and crush
their allies to! For these Egyptians are just mere men, not God! There horses are
puny flesh, not mighty spirits! When the LORD clenches His fist against them, they
will stumble and fall among those that are trying to help. All will fail together.
But the LORD has told me this: When a lion, even a young lion, kills a sheep, he
pays no attention to the shepherd’s shouts and noise. He goes right on and eats.
In such manner, the LORD will come and fight upon Mount Zion. He will not be
frightened away! He, the LORD of Hosts, will hover over Jerusalem, as birds hover
round their nests, and He will defend the city and deliver it.
6. Turn you unto Him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.
7. For in that day, shall ievery man cast away his idols of silver, and jhis idols
of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.
Therefore, O my people, though you are such wicked rebels, come and return to
God. I know the glorious day will come when everyone of you will throw away his
golden idols, and silver images ~ which in your sinfulness you have made.

a d h
See 30:2 [h]~ Remove Deuteronomy 32:11; Psalm
b e 91:4
Psalm 20:7; 33:17; See Hosea 11:10; Amos 1:2
i
30:16; 36:9 f
[h]~ multitude See 2:20; 30:22
c j
Numbers 23:10 g
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 8.Then shall athe Assyrians fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the
sword not of a mighty man shall devour him: but he shall flee bfrom the
sword, and his young men shall be cdiscomfited.
9. And dHe shall pass over to ehis strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be
afraid of fthe ensign, says the LORD, gwhose fire is in Zion, and His furnace
in Jerusalem.
And the Assyrians shall be destroyed, but not by the swords of men. The “Sword
of God” will smite them. They will panic and flee, and the strong, young Assyrians,
will be taken away as slaves. Even their generals shall quake in fear and terror
and flee when they see the battle flags of Israel, says the Lord. For the flame of
God burns brightly in Jerusalem.

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO: OF CHRIST’S KINGDOM

The first 8 verses of chapter thirty-two are prophetic, relating to God’s kingdom
being established in Jerusalem.
1. [M] Behold, ha king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in
judgement.
2. [M] And a man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and ia covert from
the tempest; as rivers of water jin a dry place, as kthe shadow of a lgreat
rock in a weary land.
3. [M] And mthe eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them
that hear shall hearken.
4. [M] The heart also of the nrash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue
of othe stammerers shall be ready to speak pplainly.
5. [M] The vile person shall no more be called liberal, nor the churl said to be
bountiful.
6. [M] For the vile person shall speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity,
to practice hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty
the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
7. [M] The instruments also of the churl are evil: he devises wicked devices to
destroy the poor with lying words, even when qthe needy speak righteously.
8. [M] But the liberal devises liberal things; and by liberal things shall he rstand.
LOOK, a RIGHTEOUS KING IS COMING, with righteous princes! He will shelter
Israel from the storm and the wind. He will refresh her as a river in the desert and
the cooling shadow of a mighty rock within a hot and weary land. Then at last, will
the eyes of Israel be opened wide to God; and His people will finally listen to His
voice. Even the hotheads among them will be full of sense and understanding, and
those who stammer in uncertainty will speak out plainly.
In those days the ungodly, the atheists, will not be heroes! Wealthy cheaters will
not be spoken of as generous, outstanding men! Everyone will recognise an evil
man when he sees him, and hypocrites will fool no-one at all. Their lies about God
and their cheating of the hungry will be plain for all to see.

a g n
See 37:36 See 24:15 [h]~ hasty
b h o
[h]~ for fear of Psalm 45:1; 72:1,2,4; See 28:11
c Jeremiah 23:5 p
[h]~ tributary, or, for [h]~ elegantly
i
melting, or tribute See 4:6 q
[h]~ he speaks against the
d j
[h]~ his rock shall pass See 25:5 poor in judgement
away for fear k
See 4:6
r
[h]~ be established
e
[h]~ His strength l
[h]~ heavy
f
See 11:10 m
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The smooth tricks of evil men will all be exposed, as will all-of the lies that they
use to oppress and exploit the poor in the courts. But good men will be generous
to others and will be blessed of God for all they do.
9. Rise up, you women athat are at ease: hear my voice; you careless
daughters; give ear unto my speech.
10. bMany days and years shall you be troubled, you careless women; for the
vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
11. Tremble, you women that are at ease: be troubled, you careless ones: strip
you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
12. They shall lament for the teats, for the cpleasant fields, for the fruitful vines.
13. dUpon the land of my people shall come up thorns & briers; eyes, upon all-of
the houses of joy in the joyous city:
14. [M] fBecause the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be
left; the gforts and towers shall be for dens forever, a joy of wild asses, a
pasture of flocks.
15. [M] Until hthe spirit is poured out upon us from on high, and ithe wilderness
will be a fruitful field, jand the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
16. [M] Then judgement shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness shall
remain in the fruitful field.
17. [M] And kthe work of righteousness shall be lpeace; and the effect of
righteousness are quietness and assurance forever.
18. [M] And my people shall dwell in a peaceful habitation, and in sure dwellings,
and is sure resting places.
19. [M] When it shall hail, coming down on the forest, and the city shall be low,
in a low place.
20. [M] Blessed are you that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the
feet of mthe ox and the ass.
Listen you women, who loll around in lazy ease; listen to me and I will tell you
what your reward is. In a short time ~ in less than one year, suddenly you will
care, O careless ones. For the crops of fruit will fail; the harvest will not take place.
Tremble, O women of ease; throw off your unconcern. Strip off your pretty clothes
~ wear sackcloth for your grief. Beat your breasts in sorrow, for those bountiful
farms of yours that will soon be gone, and for those fruitful vines of other years.
For you land will thrive with thorns and briers; your joyous homes and happy cities
will be all gone. Your palaces and mansions will all be deserted, the crowded cities
empty. Wild herds of donkeys and goats will graze upon the mountains where the
watch towers are, until at las the spirit is poured down upon us from Heaven.
Then, once again enormous crops will come. The justice will rule through all-of
the land, and out of justice ~ peace. Quietness and confidence will reign
forevermore.
My people will live in safety, quietly at home, but the Assyrians will be destroyed
ad their cites laid low. And God will greatly bless His people. Wherever they plant,
bountiful crops will spring up, and their flocks and herds will graze in green
pastures.

a f k
Amos 6:1; See 3:16-24 See 27:10 James 3:18
b g l
[h]~ days above a year [h]~ cliffs and watchtowers Psalm 119:165
c h m
[h]~ fields of desire Joel 2:28 See 30:24
d i
See 34:13; Hosea 9:6; See 35:1-2
e j
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CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE: DESOLATION & RESTORATION
OF ZIONS’ ENEMIES
1.Woe to thee athat spoil, and thou were not spoiled: and bdeals treacherously,
and they dealt not treacherously with Thee! cWhen you shall cease to spoil,
you shall be spoiled; and when you shall make and end to dealing
treacherously, they will deal treacherously with thee!
2. O LORD, be gracious unto us; dwe have waited for thee: & be thou their arm
every morning, our salvation also in our time of trouble.
3. At the noise of the tumult, the people fled: eat the lifting up of thyself the
nations were scattered.
4. And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar: as the
running to and fro of locusts shall be run upon them.
5. fThe LORD is exalted: for He dwells on high: He has filled Zion with
judgement and righteousness.
6. And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and the
strength of gsalvation: the fear of the Lord is His treasure. [it is also the first
step of wisdom].
7. Behold, their hvaliant ones shall cry without: ithe ambassadors bitter will
weep bitterly.
8. jThe highways lay waste, the wayfaring man ceases; he khas broken the
covenant, he has despised the cities, he regards no man.
9. lThe earth mourns and languishes: Lebanon is ashamed, and mhewn down:
n
Sharon is like a wilderness; and oBashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
10. Now will I rise, Says the LORD: now will I be exalted: now will I lift up
p

myself.
11. You shall conceive chaff; you shall bring forth stubble; your breath, as fire,
shall devour you.
12. And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: qas thorns cut up shall they
be burned in the fire.
WOE TO YOU ASSYRIANS, who have destroyed everything around you, but have
never felt destruction for yourselves. You expect others to respect their promises
to you, while you betray them! Now you too, will be betrayed and destroyed.
But to us, O LORD, be merciful, for we have waited for you. Be our strength each
day and our salvation in time of trouble.
The enemy runs at the sound of your voice. When you stand up, the nations flee.
Just as locusts strip the fields and vines, so will Jerusalem strip the fallen army of
Assyriar.
The LORD is very great, and lives in heaven. He will make Jerusalem the home of
Justice and goodness and righteousness. An abundance of salvation is stored up
for Judah, in a safe place, along with wisdom and knowledge and reverence for
God.
But now your ambassadors weep in bitter disappointment, for Assyria has refused
their cry for peace. Your ads lie in ruins; travellers detour on back roads. The

a g m
See 21:2; Habakkuk 2:8 [h]~ salvations [h]~ Withered away
b h n
See 21:2 [h]~ messengers See 35:2
c i o
Revelation 13:10 2 Kings 18:37 See 2:13
d j p
See 25:9; 26:8 Judges 5:6 Psalm12:5
e k q
Psalm 68:1 2 Kings 18:14-17 See 9:18
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Assyrians have broken their peace pack, and care nothing for the promises they
made in the presence of witnesses ~ they have no respect for honour, or for
anyone. All the land of Israel is in trouble; Lebanon has been destroyed; Sharon
has become a wilderness; Bashan and Carmel are plundered.
But the LORD says; I will stand up and show my power and might. You Assyrians
will gain absolutely nothing by all-of your efforts. Your own breath will turn to fire
and kill you. Your armies will be burned to lime, like thorns cut down and tossed
into the fire.
13. Hear you, that are afar off, what I have done; and, you that are near,
acknowledge my might.
14. The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness has surprised athe hypocrites. Who
among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with
everlasting burnings?
15. He that walks brighteously, and speaks cuprightly; he that despises the gain
of doppressions, that shakes his hands from holding bribes, that stops his
ears from hearing of eblood and shuts his eyes from seeing evil;
16. fHe shall dwell on ghigh: his place of defence shall be the place of rocks:
bread shall be given him; hhis waters shall be sure.
17. [M] Thine eyes shall see ithe king in his beauty: they shall behold the land
j
that is very far off.
18. Thine heart shall meditate terror. kWhere is the scribe? Where is the
l
receiver? Where isa he that counted the towers?
19. mYou shall not see fierce people, na people of a deeper speech than you can
perceive; of a ostammering tongue, that you cannot understand.
20. Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: pthine eyes shall see Jerusalem
a quiet habitation, a tabernacle, that shall be not taken down; qnot one of
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the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords
thereof be broken.
21. But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place sof broad rivers and
streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ships pass
thereby.
22. For the LORD is our judge; the LORD is our tlawgiver, uthe LORD is our king;
He will save us.
23. vThe tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast; they
could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame
takes the prey.
24. And wthe inhabitants shall not say, I am sick: xthe people that dwell therein
shall be forgiven their iniquity.
Listen to what I have done all-of you nations far away! And you that are near
acknowledge my might! The sinners among my people shake in fear. “Which one
of us,” they cry, “can live here in the presence of this all-consuming, Everlasting
Fire?” I will tell you who can live here: All who are honest and fair, who reject

a i q
See 9:17 See 6:5 See 37:33
b j r
[h]~ in righteousness [h]~ of far distances See 54:2
c k s
[h]~ uprightness 1 Corinthians 1:20 [h]~ broad of spaces
d l t
[h]~ deceits [h]~ the weigher [h]~ statute maker
e m u
[h]~ bloods 2 Kings 29:32 Psalm 89:18
f n v
See 15:2 Deuteronomy 28:49 [h]~ They have forsaken thy
g o tacklings
[h]~ heights, or high places [h]~ ridiculous
w
h
2 Chronicles 32:30
p
Psalms 46:5; 125:1-2 Psalm 103:3; See 38:1-8
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making profit by fraud; who hold back their hands from taking bribes, who refuse
to listen to those who plot murder, who shut their eyes to all enticements to do
wrong. Such as these shall dwell on high. The rocks of the mountains shall be their
fortress of safety; food will be supplied to them, and they will have all-of the water
that they need.
Your eyes will see the King in His beauty, and the highlands of heaven far away.
Your mind will think back to this time of terror, when the Assyrians officers outside
your walls are counting your towers and estimating how much booty they will get
from your fallen city.
But soon they will all be gone. These fierce violent people, with a strange jabbering
language, that you cannot understand, will all disappear. Instead, you will see
Jerusalem at peace, a place where God is worshipped, a city quiet and unmoved.
The glorious LORD will be to us as a wide river of protection, that no enemy can
cross. For the LORD is our Judge, our Lawgiver, and our King: He will care for us
and save us.
The enemies’ sails hang loose on broken masts and useless tackle. Their treasures
shall be divided by the people of God; even the lame will win their share. The
people of Israel will no longer say; “We are sick and helpless,” for the LORD will
forgive them their sins and bless them.

CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR: JUDGEMENT ~ GOD AVENGES

HIS CHURCH
The first fifteen verses of this chapter are prophetic, and refer to the Seven Years
of the Tribulation Period of Daniel and the Book of Revelation. [T]
1. [T] aCome near, ye nations, to hear: and hearken, you people: blet the earth
hear, and all that are therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.
2. [T] For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and His fury upon all-
of their armies; He has utterly destroyed them, He has delivered them to the
slaughter.
3. [T] Their slain shall also be cast out, and ctheir stink shall come up out of
their carcasses, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
4. [T] And dall-of the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and ethe heavens shall
be rolled together as a scroll: and fall their host shall fall down, as the leaf
fallen from off the vine, and as the falling fig from the fig tree.
5. [T] For gmy sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, hit shall come down
upon Idumea; and upon the people of my curse to judgement.
6. [T] The Sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and
with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for
i
the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of
Idumeans.
7. [T] And the junicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the
bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with
fatness.
8. [T] For it is kthe day of the LORD’S vengeance, and the year of recompenses
for the controversy of Zion.

a e j
Psalm 49:1 Revelation 6:14 [h]~ rhinoceros
b f k
Deuteronomy 32:1; See 1:2 See 14:12 See 61:2; 63:4; Revelation
c g 9:15
Joel 2:20 Jeremiah 46:10
d h
Psalm 102:26; Matthew Jeremiah 49:7; Malachi 1:4
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 9. [T] And athe streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof
into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
10. [T] It shall not be quenched night nor day; bthe smoke thereof shall go up
forever: from generation to generation, it shall lie waste; none shall pass
through it for ever and ever.
Come here & listen, O Nations of the earth; let the world and everything in it hear
my words. For the LORD is enraged against the nations; his fury is against their
armies. He will utterly destroy them and deliver them to slaughter. Their dead
shall be left unburied, and the stench of rotting bodies, will fill the land, and the
mountains will flow with their blood.
At that time, the heavens above will melt away and disappear, just like a rolled-
up scroll, and the stars will fall from the heavens, just like leaves, as ripe fruit
from the trees.
And when my sword has finished its work in the heavens, then watch, for it will
fall upon Edom, the people I have doomed. [Because they refused to allow my
people safe passage through their land on the roads, as they travelled with Joshua
to the Promised Land].
The sword of the LORD is sated with blood; it is gorged with flesh as though used
for slaying lambs and goats for sacrifice. For the LORD will slay a great sacrifice
in Edom and a mighty slaughter there. The strongest will perish, young boys and
veterans too. The land will be soaked in blood, and the soil made rich with fat. For
it is the day of vengeance, the year of recompense for what Edom has done to
Israel. The streams of Edom shall be filled with burning pitch, and the ground will
be covered with fire. The judgement of Edom will never end. Its smoke will rise
up forever. The land shall be deserted from generation to generation; no-one will
live there anymore.
11. [T] But the ccormorants and the bitterns shall possess it: the owl also and
the raven shall dwell in it: and dhe shall stretch out upon it the line of
confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
12. [T] They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom; but none shall be there,
and all of her princes will be nothing.
13. [T] And ethorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the
fortresses thereof; and it shall be a habitation of dragons and fa court for
g
owls.
14. hThe wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with ithe wild beasts of the
island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the jscreech owl also shall rest
there, and find herself a place of rest.
15. There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay her eggs, and hatch, and
gather under her shadow: then shall the vultures also be gathered, every
one with her mate.
There the hawks and the porcupines shall live, and owls and ravens. For God will
observe that land and find it worthy of destruction. He will test its nobles and find
them worthy of death. It will be forever called “The Land of Nothing,” and its
princes will soon all be gone. [This is what happens to lands where the princes
plot against Israel!]. Thorns will overrun their palaces, and nettles will grow in
their forts, and it will become the haunt of jackals and a home for ostriches. The
wild animals of the desert will mingle there with the wolves and the hyenas. Their

a d g
Deuteronomy 29:23 2 Kings 21:13; Lamentations [h]~ ostriches
b 2:8 h
Revelation 14:11 [h]~ Ziim
e
c
[h]~ pelicans See 32:13 i
[h]~ Ijim
f
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howls will fill the night. There the night-monsters will scream at each other, and
the demons will come there to rest.
There the owl will make her nest, and lay her eggs and hatch her young and nestle
them beneath her wings, and the kites and vultures will come, each with its mate.
16. Seek you out the book of the LORD, no one of these shall afail, none shall
want her mate; for my mouth it has commanded, and His spirit it has
gathered them.
17. And He has cast the lor for them, and His hand has divided it unto them by
line: they shall possess it forever: from generation to generation, shall they
dwell therein.
Search the Book of the Lord and see all that He will do; not one detail shall He
miss (because God’s plans are always perfect). Not one kite, or vulture will be
there without its mate, for The LORD has said it, and His Holy Spirit will make sure
that it all comes true. He has surveyed and subdivided the land and deeded it to
those doleful creatures; they shall possess it forever, from generation to
generation.

CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE: FLOURISHING OF CHRIST’S

KINGDOM
The ten verses of this chapter are prophetic and relate to the Millennium period;
the establishment of Christ’s Kingdom on this “existing earth.” [M].
1. [M] bThe wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the
desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
2. [M] It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the
glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon,
they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.
Even the wilderness and the desert will rejoice in those days: the desert will
blossom with flowers. Yes, there will be an abundance of flowers, and singing and
joy! The deserts will become as green as the Mountains in Lebanon, as lovely as
Mount Carmel’s pastures and Sharon’s meadows; for the LORD will display His
glory there, the excellency of our God.
3. [M] cStrengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
4. [M] Say to them that are of a dfearful heart; Be strong, fear not: Behold
your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense; He will
come and save you.
5. [M] Then ethe eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the fears of the deaf
shall be unstopped.
6. [M] Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb
sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
7. [M] And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs
of water; in gthe habitation of dragons, where each lay shall be grass with
reeds and rushes.
8. [M] And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called “The Way
of Holiness”: hthe unclean shall not pass over it; ibut it shall be for those; the
wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.

a h
See 40:26 See 52:1; Joel 34:17
e
b
See 55:12 Psalm 146:8; See 29:18, i
[h]~ but He shall be with them
c 32:3
Hebrews 12:12 f
d Mark 7:32-35
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 9.[M] aNo lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it
shall not be found there; but the “redeemed” shall walk there:
10. [M] bAnd the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with
songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and
gladness, and csorrow and sighing shall flee away.
With this news bring cheer to all the discouraged ones. Encourage those who are
afraid. Tell them; “Be strong, fear not, for your God is coming to destroy all or
your enemies. He is coming to save you!” And when He comes, He will open the
eyes of the blind, and unstop the ears of the deaf. The lame man will leap up like
a deer, and those who could not speak will shout and sing! Springs will burst forth
in the wilderness, and streams in the desert. The parched ground will become a
pool, with springs of water in a thirsty land. Where desert jackals lived, there will
be grass, reeds and bullrushes!
And a main road will go through that once-deserted land: it will be named “The
Holy Highway.” No evil-hearted men (or women) will be allowed to walk on it. God
will walk there with you; even the most stupid cannot miss the way.
No lion will lurk along its course, nor will there be any other dangers; only “the
redeemed of the Lord” will travel there. These, the ransomed of the LORD, will go
home along that road to Zion, singing songs of everlasting joy. For them all sorrow
and all sighing will be gone forever: only joy and gladness will be there.

CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX: JUDAH INVADED

1.Now it came to pass din the fourteenth year, of king Hezekiah, that
Sennacherib, the king of Assyria came up against all of the defenced cities
of Judah, and took them.
2. eAnd the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king
Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool
in the highway of the fuller’s field.
3. Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah’s son, fwhich was over the house,
and Shebna the gscribe, and Joah, Asaph’s son, the recorder.
In the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came
to fight against the walled cities of Judah and conquered them. Then he sent his
personal representative with a great army from Lachish to confer with king
Hezekiah of Jerusalem. He camped near the outlet of the upper pool, along the
road past the field where cloth is bleached.
Then Eliakim, Hilkiah’s son, who was the Prime Minister of Israel, and Shebna, the
king’s scribe, and Joah Asaph’s son, the royal secretary, formed a truce tea, and
went out of the city to meet with him.
4. And Rabshakeh said unto them; Say ye now to Hezekiah; Thus, says that
great king, the king of Assyria; What confidence is this wherein thou trust?
5. I say, says you, (but they are only hvain words) iI have counsel and strength
for war: now on whom do you trust, that you rebel against me?

a d g
Leviticus 26:6; see 11:7-9 2 kings 18:13; 2 [h]~ secretary
b
See 51:11 Chronicles 32:1 h
[h]~ a word of lips
c e i
See 28:5; 65:19; Revelation See 37:38; 2 Kings 18:17- But counsel & strength for the
7:17; 21:4 19, 37; war
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 6.Lo, you trust in this staff of this broken reed, on Egypt: Whereon if a man
leans, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: aso is Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to
all who trust him.
7. But, if you say to me; We trust in the LORD oud GOD: is it not he, whose
high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and said to Judah
and to Jerusalem; You shall worship at this altar?
8. Now therefore give bpledges, I pray thee, to my master, the king of Assyria,
and I will give you two thousand horses, if you be able on your part to set
riders upon them.
9. How then will you turn away from the face of one captain of the least of my
master’s servants, and cput your trust on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?
10. And am I come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? Then
Lord said to me; Go up against this land and destroy it.
The Syrian Ambassador told them to go and say to Hezekiah; “The mighty king of
Assyria says that you are a fool to think that the king of Egypt will help you. What
are the Pharoah’s promises worth? Mere words will not substitute for strength,
yet you rely on him for help, and have rebelled against me! Egypt is a dangerous
ally. She is a sharpened stick, that will pierce your hand if you lean of it. That is
the experience of everyone that has ever looked towards her for help.
But perhaps you say; ‘We are trusting in the LORD our God!’ Isn’t He the one that
your king insulted, tearing down his temples and altars in the hills, and making
everyone in Judah worship only at the altars here in Jerusalem?
My master, the king of Assyria, wants to make a little bet with you! ~ that you
don’t have 2,000 men left in your entire army! If you do have 2,000 men, he will
give you 2,000 horses for them to ride on!
With that tiny army, how can you think of proceeding against even the smallest
and worst contingent of my master’s troops? For you will get no help from Egypt!
What’s more, do you think I have come here without the Lord’s telling me to come
and take this land? The LORD said to me; ‘Go and destroy it!’”
[Here is a person, whose king worships another god, stating that it is the God of
Abraham, the God of the Jews, that has told him to send his army, to destroy
Jerusalem, as punishment for king Hezekiah’s sins in breaking down the temples
and altars to God Almighty across the land.]
11. Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah to Rabshakeh; Speak, I pray thee,
unto thy servants in the Syrian (Syriac) language; for we understand it; and
speak not to us in the Jews’ (Hebrew) language, in the ears of the people
that are on the wall.
12. But Rabshakeh said; Has my master sent me to thy master and to thee to
speak these words? Has He not sent me to the men that sit on the walls, that
they may eat their own dung and drink their own piss with you?
13. Then Rabshakeh stood and cried out in a loud voice in the Hebrew language,
and said; Hear ye the words of the great king of Assyria.
14. Thus says the king; Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able
to deliver you.
15. Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying; The LORD will
surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered int the hands of the king of
Assyria.
16. Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus says the king of Assyria; dMake an
agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one

a d
See 30:3; 31:1 [h]~ seek my favour by a
c
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 of his vines, and every one of his fig trees, and drink ye every one of the
waters of his own cistern.
17. Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn
and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
18. Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying; The LORD will deliver us. Has
any of the gods of the (other) nations delivered his land out of the hands of
the king of Assyria?
19. Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? Where are the gods of
Sepharvaim? And have they delivered aSamaria (the 10 rebellious tribes of
Israel) out of my hand?
20. Who are they among all-of the gods of these lands, that have delivered their
land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
21. But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s
commandment was, saying; Answer him not.
22. Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and
Shebna the scribe, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah, with their
clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to him; “Please talk to us in the Syriacb
language, for we understand it quite well. Don’t speak in Hebrew, for the people
on the walls will hear you.” [These talks are supposed to be private, not for
everyone’s ears.]
But he replied: “My master wants everyone in Jerusalem, to hear this, not just the
king’s servants. He wants them to all know that if you don’t surrender, this city
will be put under siege, until everyone is so hungry and thirsty, that he will eat
his own dung and drink his own urine.”
[This prophetic warning was given to the people of Judah from the Temple steps
every morning for 23 years, during the grace period of God Almighty. But the
people refused to listen to the warnings of Ezekiel and Jeremiah, and now the
judgement of the LORD is about to descend down upon them].
Then He stood up and shouted in Hebrew, to the Jews listening from the city walls.
“Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria: Don’t let Hezekiah fool you
~ nothing he can do will save you! Don’t let him talk you into trusting in the Lord,
by telling you that the Lord won’t let you be conquered by the king of Assyria.
Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for here is the king of Assyria’s offer to you: Give me a
present as a token of surrender; open the gates and come out, and I will let you
each have your own farm and garden and water, until I can arrange to take you
to a country very similar to this one ~ a country where there is bountiful harvests
of grain and grapes, a land of plenty.
Don’t let Hezekiah deprive you of all-of this by saying that the Lord will deliver
you from my armies. Let me ask you: Have any other nation’s gods ever gained
victory over the armies of the king of Assyria? Don’t you remember what I did to
Hamath and Arpad? Did their gods save them? And what about Sepharvaim and
Samaria [the 10 rebellious tribes of Israel]? Where are their gods now? Of all-of
the gods of these lands, which one has ever delivered their people from my power?
Name just one! And do you think that this GOD of yours can deliver Jerusalem
from me? Don’t be ridiculous!” But the people were silent and answered not a
word, for Hezekiah had told them to say nothing in reply.
Then Eliakim (son of Hilkiah), the prime minister, and Shebna, the royal scribe,
and Joash, (son of Asaph), the royal secretary, went back to Hezekiah, with

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clothes ripped to shreds as a sign of their despair, and told him all that had
happened.

CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN: ISAIAH COMFORTS THEM

1.And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes,
and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.
2. And he sent Eliakim, was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and
the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet,
the son of Amoz.
3. And they said unto him; Thus Hezekiah; This day is aa day of trouble, and of
rebuke, and of bblasphemy: for cthe children are come to the birth, and there
is not strength to bring forth.
4. It may be that the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom
the king of Assyrian his master has sent to reproach the living God, and will
reprove the words which the LORD they God has heard: Wherefore lift up thy
prayer for dthe remnant that is eleft.
5. So, the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
When king Hezekiah heard the outcome of the meeting, he tore his robes and
wound himself in sackcloth, as a sign of humility and mourning, and went over to
the Temple to pray.
Meanwhile he sent Eliakim his Prime Minister, and Shebna, his royal scribe, and
the older priests ~ all dressed in sackcloth ~ to Isaiah the prophet, son of Amoz.
They brought him the message from king Hezekiah: “This is a day of trouble and
frustration and blasphemy; it is a serious time, just like when a woman is in heavy
labour trying to give birth, and the child does not come. But perhaps the LORD
your God heard the blasphemy of the king of Assyria’s representative as he scoffed
at the Living God. [Notice king Hezekiah does not say “My God,” or “Our God,”
but “Your God”]. Surely God Almighty will not let him get away with this! Surely
God will rebuke him for those words. Oh Isaiah, pray for us who are left!” So, they
took the king’s message to Isaiah.
6. And Isaiah said unto them: Thus, shall you say unto your master, Thus, says
the LORD; Be not afraid of the words you have heard, wherewith the servants
of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
7. Behold, I willf send a blast upon him, and ghe shall hear a rumour, and return
to his own land: and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
Then Isaiah replied; “tell King Hezekiah that the LORD says: Don’t be disturbed
by this speech from the servant of the king of Assyria, and his blasphemy. For a
report from Assyria will reach the king that he is needed at home at once, and he
will return to his own land, where I will have him killed.
8. So, Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against
Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
9. And hhe heard say concerning Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, he is come forth to
make war with thee. And when He heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah
saying;

a d g
See 22:5 See verse 32 Jeremiah 51:46; Obadiah 1
b e h
[h]~ provocation [h]~ found See 20:5
c f
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 10. Thus, you shall speak to Hezekiah, the king of Judah saying; Let not thy God,
in whom you trust deceive you, saying; Jerusalem shall not be given into the
hands of the king of Assyria.
11. Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all-of the
lands, by destroying them utterly; and thou shall be delivered?
12. Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have
destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden,
which were in Telassar?
13. Where is the king of aHamath, and the king of aArphad, and the king of the
city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?
Now the Syrian envoy left Jerusalem and went to consult the king, who had left
Lachish and was besieging Libnah. But, at this point, the Assyrian king received
word that Tirhakah, the crown prince of Ethiopia, was leading an army against him
~ from the south. Upon hearing this, he sent messengers back to Jerusalem to
Hezekiah, with this message: “Don’t let this God that you trust in fool you, by
promising that Jerusalem will not be captured by the king of Assyria. Just
remember what has happened wherever the king of Assyria has gone; for they
have crushed everyone that has opposed them. Do you think that you will be any
different? Did their gods save the cities of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, or the people of
Eden in Telassar? No! The Assyrian kings completely destroyed them! And don’t
forget what happened to the king of Hamath, to the king of Arpad, and to the
kings of the cities of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah.”
14. And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read
it: and Hezekiah went unto the House of the LORD, and spread it before the
LORD.
15. And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD saying:
16. O LORD of Hosts, God of Israel, that dwells between the cherubims, thou are
the God, even thou alone of all-of the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made
the heavens and the earth.
17. bIncline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD, and see;
and hear all-of the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the
living God.
18. Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all-of the cnations, and
their countries.
19. And have dcast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work
of men’s hands, wood and stone: therefore, they have destroyed them.
20. Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all-of the
kingdoms, of the earth may know that you are the LORD, even you only.
As soon as king Hezekiah had read this letter, he went over to the TEMPLE and
spread the letter out before the LORD, and prayed saying; “O LORD of Hosts, the
God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, you alone are GOD, of all the
kingdoms of the earth. You alone mad the heavens and the earth. Listen as I
plead: see me as I pray. Look at this letter from king Sennacherib, for he has
mocked the Living God. It is true, O LORD, that the king of Assyria has destroyed
all those nations, just as the letter says, and thrown their gods into the fire; for
they weren’t gods at all, but merely idols, carved by men from wood and stone.
Of course, the Assyrians could destroy them. O LORD, our GOD, save us, so that
all the kingdoms on the earth will know (without any doubt) that you alone are
God.

a c
Jeremiah 49:23 [h]~ lands
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 21. Then Isaiah the son of Amoz, sent unto Hezekiah saying: Thus says the LORD
God of Israel; Whereas you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of
Assyria:
22. This is the word which the LORD has spoken concerning him: The virgin,
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the daughter of Zion, has despised thee and laughed thee to scorn; the
daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at thee.
23. Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? And against whom have you
exalted your voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? Even against the Holy
One of Israel.
24. bBy thy servants you have reproached the Lord, and has said; By the
multitudes of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to
the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down cthe tall cedars thereof, and the
choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the heights of his border, and
d
the forest of his Carmel.
25. I have dug and drank water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all
of the rivers of the ebesieged places.
26. fHave you not heard long ago, how I have done it: and of ancient times, that
I have formed it? Now have I brought it to pass, that you should be to lay
waste defenced walled cities into ruined heaps.
27. Therefore, their inhabitants were gof small power, they were dismayed and
confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as
the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it is grown up.
28. But I know thy habode, and thy going out and thy coming in, and thy rage
against me.
29. Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult has come up into my ears,
therefore, will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle on thy lips, and I will
turn thee back, by the way which you came.
30. And this shall be a sign unto you; you shall eat this year such that grows of
itself; and the second year, that which springs up the same: and iin the third
year, sow and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.
31. And jthe remnant that has escaped of the house of Judah shall again take
root downward, and bear fruit upward:
32. For out of Jerusalem shall go forth ka remnant, and they that escape out of
Mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of Hosts shall do this.
33. Therefore, thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria; lhe shall not
come into the city nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields,
nor mcast a bank against it.
34. By the way that he came, by the same way shall he return, and shall not
come into this city, says the LORD.
35. For nI will defend this city to save it for my own sake, and for my servant
David’s sake.

a f i
See 10:32; Zechariah 2:10; [h]~ Have you not heard See 20:3
9:9 how I have made it long ago j
[h]~ the escaping of the
b and formed it of ancient
[h]~ by the hands of thy house of Judah that remains
servants times, should I now bring it k
to be laid waste, and See verse 4
c
[h]~ the tallness of the defensed cities to be made l
See33:20
cedars thereof into ruined heaps? m
d Luke 19:43
[h]~ his forest and his g
[h]~ short of hand n
fruitful fields See 38:6
h
e [h]~ sitting
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 36. Then, the Angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the
Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand (185,000): and when
they arose early in the morning, behold they were all dead corpses.
37. So, Sennacherib, king of Assyria departed, and awent and returned, and
dwelt in Nineveh.
38. And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch, his god,
that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and
they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esarhaddon his (other) son
reigned in his stead.
Then Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent this message to king Hezekiah: “The LORD
God of Israel says; This is my answer to your prayer against Sennacherib, the
king of Assyria. The Lord says to him: My people ~ the helpless virgin daughter
of Zion ~ laughs at you and scoffs and shakes her head at your scorn. Who is it
that you scoffed against and mocked? Whom did you revile? At whom did you
direct your violence and your pride? It was against the Holy One of Israel!
Do you really understand what you have done? You have sent your messengers
to mock the Lord God of Hosts. You boast; ‘I came with my mighty army against
the nations of the west. I cut down the tallest cedars and choicest cypress trees.
I conquered their highest mountains and destroyed their thickest forests.’
“You boast of wells that you have dug in many countries that you have conquered,
and Egypt with all-of its armies is not an obstacle to you! But do you not yet
understand, that it was I who decided all-of this a long time ago? That it was I
who gave you all-of this power from ancient times? I have cause all-of this to
happen, just as I had planned it ~ that you should crush walled cities in ruined
heaps. That’s why those people had so little power, and were such easy prey for
you.
They were as helpless as the grass, as tender plants that you trample down under
your feet, as grass upon the housetops, burnt yellow by the sun. But I know you
well, ~ your comings and your goings, and all that you do ~ and the way that you
have raged against me.
Because of your anger against the LORD ~ and I heard it all! I have put a hook in
your nose, and a bit in your mouth, and led you back to your own land by the
same road on which you came.”
Then God said to Hezekiah: “Here is the proof that I AM the one, who is delivering
this city from the king of Assyria. This year, He will abandon his siege. Although
now it is too late to plant your crops, and you will only have volunteer grain this
fall, still it will give you enough seed for a small harvest next year ~ and two years
from now, you will be living in luxury again.
And you who are left in Judah will take root again in your own soil and flourish
and multiply. For the remnant shall go out from Jerusalem to repopulate the land;
the power of the LORD of Hosts will cause all-of this to come to pass.”
“As for the king of Assyria, his armies shall not enter Jerusalem, nor shoot their
arrows there, nor march outside the gates, nor build up an earthen bank against
its walls. He will return to his own country, by the same road that he came on,
and he will not enter the city, says the Lord. For my own honour, I will defend it,
and in memory of my servant David.”
That night the Angel of the LORD went out to the camp of the Assyrians and killed
185,000 soldiers, without any sound. And when the remaining soldiers woke up
next morning, all-of these dead bodies were around them. Then Sennacherib, king
of Assyria returned to his own country, to Nineveh. And one day when he was

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worshipping in the temple of Nisroch his god, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer
killed him with their swords; then they escaped into the land of Ararat, and
Esarhaddon his other son, became king.

CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT: HEZEKIAH’S LIFE EXTENDED

1. In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet, the
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son of Amos came to him and said; Thus, says the LORD; bset thine house
in order; for thou shall die and not live.
2. Then Hezekiah turned his face towards the wall, and prayed to the LORD.
3. And said; Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked
before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is
good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept csore.
It was just before all of this that Hezekiah became deathly sick and Isaiah the
prophet (the son of Amos), went to visit him, and gave him a message from the
LORD: “Set your affairs in order, for you are going to die; you will not recover
from this illness.”
When Hezekiah heard this news from the LORD, he turned his face towards the
wall and prayed: “O LORD, don’t you remember how true I have been to you, and
how I’ve always tried to obey you in everything that you have said?” Then he
broke down with great sobs.
4. Then came (another) word from the LORD, saying;
5. Go (back) and say to Hezekiah; Thus says the LORD, the God of David thy
father; I have heard thy prayer; I have seen thy tears; behold, I will add
unto thy day (an extra) fifteen years.
6. And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hands of the king of Assyria:
and dI will defend this city.
7. [P] And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do
this thing that He has spoken.
8. [P] Behold, I will again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the
sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backwards. So, the sun returned ten degrees
backward, by which degrees it had gone down.
So, the LORD told Isaiah to go back and give Hezekiah another message: “Go and
tell Hezekiah that the LORD God of your forefather David hears your praying and
sees your tears and will let you live fifteen more years. He will deliver you and this
city from the king of Assyria. I will defend you, says the Lord; and here is my
guarantee: I will the sun back ten degrees, as measured on Ahaz’s sun dial!” So,
the sun retraced ten degrees that it had gone down!
9. The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick and was
recovered from his sickness:
10. I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I
am deprived of the residue of my years.
11. I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, ein the land of the living: I
shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
12. Mine age is departed, and is removed from me flike a shepherd’s tent: I have
cut off glike a weaver my life: he will cut me off hwith pining sickness; from
day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

a d g
See verse 8 See 37:35 Job 7:6
b e h
[h]~ give charge concerning Psalm 27:13 [h]~ from the thrum
your house. f
2 Corinthians 5:1
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 13. I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all-of my bones; from
day even till night, will thou make and end of me.
14. Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: amine
eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed: undertake for me.
15. What shall I say? He has both spoken unto me, and Himself has done it: I
shall bgo softly all-of my years in the bitterness of my soul.
16. O LORD, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my
spirit: so, will you recover me, and make me to live.
17. Behold, cfor peace I had great bitterness: but dyou have in love to my soul
delivered it from the pit of corruption: for you have cast all-of my sins behind
my back.
18. For ethe grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: fthey that go
down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
19. The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: gthe father of the
children shall make known the truth.
20. The LORD was ready to save me: Therefore, we will sing my songs to the
stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.
21. For hIsaiah had said: Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister
[poultice] upon the boil, and he shall recover.
22. Hezekiah also had said; What is the sign that I shall go up to the House of
the LORD?
When King Hezekiah fully recovered from his illness, he wrote this poem about his
experience:
“My life is but half done and I must leave it all.
I am robbed of my normal years and now I must enter the gates of Sheol.
Never again will I see the LORD in the land of the living.
Never again will I see my friends in this world.
My life is blown away like a shepherd’s tent;
It is cut short as when a weaver stops his work at the loom,
In one short day my life hangs by a thread.
All night I moaned: it was like torn apart by lions.
Delirious, I chattered like a swallow, and mourned like a dove;
My eyes grew weary of looking up for help.
‘O God,’ I cried, ‘I am in trouble ~ help me.’
But what can I say? For He Himself has sent this sickness.
All-of my sleep has fled because of my soul’s bitterness.
O LORD, your discipline is good and leads to life and health.
Oh, heal me and make me live!
Yes, now I see it all ~ it was good for me to undergo this bitterness,
For you have lovingly delivered me from death;
You have forgiven all-of my sins.
For dead men cannot praise you.
They cannot be filled with hope and joy.
The living, only the living, can praise you, as I do today.
One generation makes known your faithfulness to the next.
Think of it! The Lord healed me!
Every day of my life from now on,

a d g
Psalm 69:3 [h]~ or, but you have loved Deuteronomy 4:9; Psalm
b my soul from the pit 78:3-4
1 Kings 21:27
e h
c
[h]~ or, on my peace came Psalm 6:5; Ecclesiastes 9:10 2 Kings 20:7
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 I will sing my songs of praise in the Temple,
Accompanied by the orchestra.”

(For Isaiah had told Hezekiah’s servants: “Make an ointment of figs and spread it
as a poultice over the boil, and he will get will again.” And then Hezekiah had
asked; “What sign will the LORD give me to prove that he will heal me?”

CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE: CAPTIVITY FORETOLD

1.At that time, Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent
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letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been sick,
and was recovered.
2. And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of bhis precious
things, cthe silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment,
and all-of the house of his darmour, and all that was found in his treasures:
there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed
them not.
Soon afterwards, The King of Babylon, (Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan)
sent Hezekiah a present and his best wishes, for he had heard that Hezekiah had
been very sick and now was well again. [But the real reason was that Merodach-
baladan was at that time, planning a revolt in the east against Sennacherib, so he
was very interested in Hezekiah’s activities in the west].
Hezekiah appreciated this and took the envoys from Babylon on a tour of the
palace; showing them his treasure house full of silver, gold, spices and perfumes.
He took them into his jewel rooms too, and opened to them all-of his treasures ~
everything.
3. Then came Isaiah the Prophet unto King Hezekiah and said unto him; What
said these men? And from where do they come unto thee? And Hezekiah
said: They are come efrom a far country unto me, even from Babylon.
4. Then he (Isaiah) said: What have they seen in thy house? And Hezekiah
answered; All that is in my house they have seen; there is nothing among
my treasures that I have not showed to them.
5. Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah; Hear the word of the LORD of Hosts:
6. [P] Behold, the days come, that is all that is in thy house, and that which thy
fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon;
nothing shall be left, says the Lord.
7. And of thy sons that though issue from thee; which thou shall beget, shall
they take away: and fthey shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of
Babylon.
8. Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah; Good is the word of the LORD, which thou hast
spoken. He said moreover; For there shall be peace and truth in my days.
Then Isaiah the prophet came to the king and said; “What did they say to you?
Where are they from?” ‘From far away in Babylon,” Hezekiah replied.
“How much have they seen in your palace?” asked Isaiah. And Hezekiah replied;
“I showed them everything I own, including all-of my priceless treasures.”

a c e
See verse 8; 2 Kings 20:12- 2 Kings 18:15-16; See See 5:26
19 33:1,23 f
Daniel 1,2,3,7
b d
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Then Isaiah said to him: “Listen to this message from the LORD of Hosts: ‘The
time is coming when everything that you have ~ all-of your treasures stored up
by your fathers ~ will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left. And some of
your own sons will become slaves, yes, eunuchs, in the palace of the king of
Babylon.”
“All right.” Hezekiah replied. “Whatever the LORD says is good. At least, there will
be peace in my lifetime!”
[The Moral of this chapter: Beware who you invite into your home; not all who
come bearing gifts are your “FRIENDS.” Some come to deceive, kill, rob, and
destroy. Unless you have the Holy Spirit Gift of Discernment, operating in your
life, you will not be able to identify the “intentions of their hearts.” This was what
happened here. These envoys came as “sheep,” but were in fact “wolves in sheep’s
clothing,” seeking out what they could devour in the king’s palace.]

CHAPTER FORTY: GLAD TIDINGS OF THE GOSPEL

1.Comfort ye, Comfort ye my people, says the LORD.
2.Speak ye acomfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, bwarfare is
accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she has received of the
LORD’S hand double for all of her sins.
COMFORT, OH, COMFORT my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem
and tell her that her sad days are over and gone. Her sins are pardoned, and the
Lord will give her “Twice as many Blessings,” as He gave her punishments before.
3. [P] cThe voice of him that cries in the wilderness; dPrepare ye the way of the
LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
4. [P] eEvery valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made
low; and the crooked shall be made fstraight, and the rough places gplain:
5. [P] And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, hand ALL flesh shall see it
together: for the Lord has spoken it.
6. The voice said, CRY. And he said; What shall I cry? iAll flesh is grass, and all
the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field.
7. The grass withers, the flower fades; because the Spirit of the LORD blows
upon it: surely the people are grass.
8. [P] The grass withers, the flower fades: but the Word of our God shall stand
forever.
Listen! I hear the voice of someone shouting; “Make a way for the Lord through
the wilderness; make him a straight smooth road through the desert. Fill the
valleys, level the hills; straighten out the crooked paths and smooth off the rough
spots in the road. The glory of the LORD will be seen by all-of mankind together.”
The Lord has spoken it ~ so shall it be! The voice says; “SHOUT!” “What shall I
shout?” I asked. “Shout that man is like grass that dies away, and all-of his beauty
fades away like dying flowers. The grass withers, the flowers fade, beneath the
breath of God. And so, it is with fragile man. The grass withers, the flowers fade,
BUT the word of our GOD shall stand forever!”

a d h
[h]~ to the heart Malachi 3:1 Luke 3:6
b e i
[h]~ her appointed time Luke 3:5 1 Peter 1:24
c f
See 58:1; Matthew 3:3; [h]~ made a straight place
Mark 1:3; Luke 3:4; John g
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 9. O Zion, that brings good tidings, get thee up int the high mountain; bO
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Jerusalem, that brings good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength, lift it us,
be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah; Behold your God!
10. [M] Behold, the LORD God will come cwith strong hand, and His arm shall
rule for him: behold, His reward is with him, and dHis work before Him.
11. [M] eHe shall feed His flock like a shepherd: He shall gather the lambs with
His arms, and carry them in His bosom, and shall gently lead those fthat are
with young.
O Crier of Good News, shout out to Jerusalem from the mountain tops! Shout
Louder! Don’t be afraid! Tell the cities of Judah; “Your God is Coming!” Yes, the
Lord God is coming with mighty power; He will rule with awesome strength. See,
His reward is with Him, to each as He has done. He will feed His flock like a
shepherd: He will carry the lambs in His arms and gently lead the ewes with young.
12. Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out
heaven with a span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in ga measure,
and weighted the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
13. hWho has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being iHis counsellor, has taught
Him?
14. With whom took He counsel, and who jinstructed him, and taught him in the
path of judgement, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way
of kunderstanding?
15. Behold, the nations are a drop in the bucket, and are counted as the small
dust of the balance: behold, He takes up the isles as a very little thing.
16. And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a
burnt offering.
17. All of the nations before Him are las nothing; and they are counted to him
less than nothing, and vanity
Tell me: Who else held the oceans in His hands, and measured off the heavens
with His ruler? Who else knows the weight of all the earth, and who weighs the
mountains and the hills? Who can advise the Spirit of the LORD, or be His teacher,
or give Him counsel? Has He ever needed anyone’s advice? Did He need instruction
as to what is right and best? NO! For all-of the peoples of the earth are nothing in
comparison to Him ~ they are just a drop in the bucket, dust on the scales. He
picks up the islands as if they have no weight at all. All-of Lebanon’s forests do
not contain sufficient fuel to consume a sacrifice large enough to honour Him, nor
are all its animals enough to offer to our God. All the nations are as nothing to
him; in His eyes they are less than nothing ~ mere emptiness and froth.
18. To whom will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare unto Him?
19. mThe workmen melt the graven image, and the goldsmith spreads it over
with gold, and casts silver chains.
20. He that nis so impoverished that he has no oblation chooses a tree that will
not rot; he seeks unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image,
o
that shall not be moved.

a f k
[h]~ O, those that tell good [h]~ or that give suck [h]~ understandings
tidings to Zion g l
[h]~ A tierce ~ and old Psalm 62:9; Daniel 4:35
b
[h]~ O, those that tell good measure equivalent to 42 m
See 41:7; 42:12-13; 46:6;
tidings to Jerusalem gallons of wine Jeremiah10:3-4
c h
[h]~ against the strong Romans 11:34; 1 n
[h]~ is poor of oblation
d Corinthians 2:16
[h]~ recompence for his work o
See 41:7; Jeremiah 10:4
i
e
Ezekiel 34:23; Zechariah [h]~ man of His counsel
j
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 21. aHave you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told to you from
the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
22. bIt is he [The Messiah] that sits upon that the circle of the earth, and the
inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; cthat stretches out the heavens, das
a curtain; and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in:
23. eThat brings the princes to nothing; he makes the judges of the earth as
vanity.
24. Yes, they shall not be planted; yes, they shall not be sown; yes, their stock
shall not root in the earth; and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall
wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
25. fTo whom then will you liken me, or shall I be equal? Says the Holy One.
26. Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who has created these things that
brings out their host by number: gHe calls them all by name by the greatness
of his might, for that He is strong in power; not one fails.
27. Why say you; O Jacob, and speaks; O Israel, MY way is hidden from the Lord,
and hmy judgement is passed over from my God?
How can we describe God? With what can we compare Him? With an Idol? An idol
made from a mould, overlaid with gold, and with silver chains around its neck?
The man too poor to buy expensive gods like that described above will find a tree
that is free from rot and hire a man to carve a face on it, and that’s his god ~ a
god that cannot even move!
Are you so ignorant? Are you so deaf to the words of God ~ the words that He
gave before the worlds began? Have you never heard nor understood? It is God
who sits above the circle of the earth. (The people below must seem to him to be
like grasshoppers!) He is the one who stretches out the heavens like a curtain and
makes his tent from them. He dooms the great men of the world and bring them
all to naught ~ to nothing! They hardly get started, barely take root, when He
blows on them, and their work withers and the winds carry them off like straw.
“With whom shall you compare me? Who is my equal?” Asks the Holy One.
Look up unto the heavens! I ask you: Who created all-of those stars? As a
shepherd leads his sheep, calling each one by its pet name, and counts them to
see that none are lost or strayed, so God does with the stars and the planets!
O Jacob, O Israel, how can you say that the Lord doesn’t see your troubles and
isn’t being fair?
28. Have you not known? Have you not heard, that the everlasting God, the
LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, faints not, neither is weary?
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There is no searching of His understanding.
29. He gives power to the faint (hearted); and to them that have no might He
increases (their) strength.
30. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly
fall:
31. [P] BUT, they that wait upon the LORD jshall krenew their strength; they shall
mount up with wings of eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall
walk and not faint.
Don’t you understand yet? Don’t you know by now that the everlasting God, the
Creator of the farthest parts of the earth, never grows faint or weary? No one can

a e i
Psalm 19:1; Acts 14:17; Job 12:21; Psalm 107: 40; Romans 11:33
Romans 1:19-20 See 46:11 j
Psalm 103:5
b f
[h]~ Him that sits Deuteronomy 4:5-16 k
[h]~ change
c g
Job 9:8 Psalm 147:4
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fathom the depths of His understanding. He gives power to the tired and worn
out, and strength to the weak. Even the youths shall be exhausted, and the young
men will all give up. But they that wait upon the LORD, shall renew their strength.
They shall mount up with the wings of eagles; they shall run and not be weary,
they shall walk and not faint.

CHAPTER FORTY-ONE: GOD’S CHURCH MUST TRUST IN

HIM
1. Keep silence before me, O bislands: and clet the people renew their strength:
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let them come near: then let them speak: let us come near together to
judgement.
2. Who raised up the drighteous man efrom the east, called him to his foot, gave
the nations before him, and fmade him rule over kings? He gave them as the
dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.
3. He pursued them, and passed gsafely; even by the way that he had not gone
with his feet.
4. Who has wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I,
the LORD, hthe first and the last; I AM he.
5. The isles saw it, and feared; then ends of the earth were afraid, drew near,
and came.
6. They helped everyone his neighbour; and everyone said to his brother, ibe
of good courage.
7. So, the carpenter encouraged the jgoldsmith, and he that smooths with the
hammer, khim that smote the anvil, lsaying; It is ready for the msoldering;
and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.
8. But you, Israel, are my servant, Jacob nwhom I have chosen, the seed of
o
Abraham, my friend.
9. You, whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from
the chief men thereof, and said unto thee; Thou are my servant; I have
chosen thee, and have not cast you away.
Listen in silence before me, O lands beyond the sea. Bring your strongest
arguments. Come now and speak. The court of heaven is ready for your case.
Who has stirred up this one from the east [Cyrus the great of Persia ~ see Isaiah
44:28], whom victory meets at every step? Who, indeed, but the LORD? God has
given him victory over many nations and permitted him to trample kings
underfoot, and to put entire armies to the sword. He chases them away and goes
on safely, though the paths he treads are new. Who has done such mighty deeds,
directing the affairs of generations of mankind as they march by? It is I, the LORD,
the First and the Last; I alone am he.
The lands beyond the sea watch in fear and wait for word of Cyrus’ new campaigns.
Remote lands tremble and mobilize for war. Each man encourages his neighbour

a g l
Zechariah 2:13 [h]~ in peace [h]~ saying of the soder it is
b h good
See verse 5; 40:15; 42:4,10 See verse 27; 43:10,13;
m
c
See 40:31 44:6; 48:12; Revelation [h]~ soldering
1:11 n
d
[h]~ righteousness Deuteronomy 7:6; 10:15;
i
e [h]~ be strong 14:2; Psalm 135:4; See
See 46:11 j 43:20
f [h]~ founder
See 45:1 o
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and says; “Don’t worry, he won’t win.” But they rush to make a new idol; the
carver hurries the goldsmith, and the moulder helps at the anvil. “Good,” they
say. “It’s coming along fine. Now we can solder on the arms.”
Carefully they join the parts together, and then fasten the thing in place so it won’t
fall over.
But as for you, O Israel, you are mine, my chosen ones; for you are Abraham’s
family, and he was my friend. I have called you back from the ends of the earth
and said that you must serve but me alone, for I have chosen you and I will not
throw you away.
10. aFear not! bFor I am with thee: be not dismayed: for I AM thy God; I will
strengthen you: Yes, I will help you; Yes, I will uphold you with the right
hand of my righteousness.
11. Behold, all that they incensed against you shall be ashamed and confounded:
they shall be as nothing, and cthey that strive with you shall perish.
12. You shall seek them, and shall not find them, even dthem that contended
with you: they that war against you shall be as nothing, and as a thing of
naught!
13. For I, the LORD thy God, will hold your right hand, saying unto you, Fear
not: I will help you.
14. Fear not, ethou worm, Jacob, and you fmen of Israel: I will help you; says
the LORD, and gthy redeemer; hthe Holy One of Israel.
15. Behold, I will make thee a new, sharp, threshing instrument, having iteeth;
thou shall thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and you shall make
the hills as chaff.
16. Thou shall jfan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind
shall scatter them; and thou shall rejoice in the LORD, and shall glory in the
Holy One of Israel.
17. When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongues
fails for thirst, I, kthe LORD, will hear them, I, the God of Israel will not
forsake them.
18. lI will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys;
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I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry lands, springs of
water.
19. I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and
the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree
together:
20. That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that
the hand of the LORD has done this, and that the Holy One of Israel has
created it.
21. nProduce your cause, says the LORD: brig forth your strong reason, says the
King of Jacob.
22. oLet them bring forth, and shew us what shall happen; let them show the
former things; what they be, that we may pconsider them, and know the
latter end of them: or declare us things for to come.

a f l
See verses 13,14 [h]~ few men See 35:6-7
b g m
Deuteronomy 31:6,8 See 54:5,8 Psalm 107:35
c h n
[h]~ the men of thy strife See 12:6; See verse 16 [h]~ cause to come near
d i o
[h]~ the men of thy [h]~ Having mouths See 45:21
contention j p
Jeremiah 51:2 [h]~ set our hearts upon
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 23. aShow the thing which are to come hereafter, that we may that you are gods;
yes, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.
24. Behold, you are bof nothing, and your work cof naught; an abomination is
he that chooses you.
25. [P] I have raised up one dfrom the north, and he shall come: from the rising
of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as
upon mortar, and as the potter treads clay.
26. eWho has declared from the beginning, that we may know? And before time,
that we may say; He is righteous? Yes, there is none that shows, yes, there
is none that declares, yes, there is none that hears your words.
27. fThe first gshall say to Zion; Behold, behold them; and I will give to Jerusalem
on that brings good tidings.
28. hFor I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no
counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could ianswer a word.
29. Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing; their molten images are
wind and confusion.
Fear not! For I am with you. Do not be dismayed, I AM your God. I will strengthen
you; I will help you; I will uphold you with my victorious right hand. (Or, with the
right hand of my righteousness).
See, all-of your angry enemies lie confused and shattered. Anyone who opposes
you will die. You will look for them in vain~ they will be gone. I am holding you
by your right hand~ I, the LORD your God ~ and I say to you; Don’t be afraid, IO
am here to help you.
Despised though you are, fear not, O Israel; for I will help you. I AM the LORD,
your redeemer, I AM the Holy One of Israel. You shall be a new and sharp-toothed
threshing instrument to tear all-of the enemies apart, making chaff of mountains.
You shall toss them into the air; and the wind shall blow them all away; and the
whirlwinds shall scatter them. And the joy of the Lord shall fill you full; you shall
glory in the God of Israel.
When the poor and needy seek water and there is none, and their tongues are
parched with thirst, then I will I answer when they cry out to me. I, Israel’s God,
will never forsake them. I will open up rivers for them on the high plateaus! I will
give them fountains of water in the valleys! I will provide pools of water in the
desert, and rivers that feed from springs shall flow across the parched land. I will
plant trees ~ cedars, myrtle, olive trees, the cypress, fir and pine ~ on barren
land, and they shall flourish.
Everyone shall see this miracle and clearly understand that it is God Almighty who
did it, the Holy One of Israel.
Can your idols make such claims as these? Let them come and see what they can
do! Says the Lord God, the King of Israel. Let them try to tell us what has occurred
in years gone by, or what will happen in the future. Yes, that’s it! If you are gods,
then tell us what will happen in the days ahead! Or do some mighty miracles that
make us stare, amazed. But no! You are less than nothing, and can do nothing at
all. Anyone who chooses you needs to have their heads examined!
But I have stirred up Cyrus from the north and the east; he will come against the
nations can call upon my name, and I will give him victory over kings and princes.
He will treat them as a potter that tramples on the clay.

a d g
See 44:7 Jeremiah 50:3 See 40:9
b e h
[h]~ worse than nothing See 43:9 See 63:5
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Who but I, have told you that this would happen? Who else predicted this, making
you admit that he was right? No one else! None other said a word! I was the first
to tell Jerusalem, “Look! Look! Help is on the way! Not one of your idols told you
this. Not one gave any answer when I asked. See, they are foolish, worthless
things; your idols are all as empty as the wind.

CHAPTER FORTY-TWO: THE OFFICE OF CHRIST

The first four verses of this chapter are prophetic, and relating to the First Coming
if Jesus Christ. [F]

1. [F] Behold amy servant whom I uphold: bmine elect, in whom cmy soul
delights: dI have put my Spirit upon him: He shall bring forth judgement to
the Gentiles.
2. [F] He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the streets.
3. [F] A bruised reed he shall not break, and the esmoking flax shall he not
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quench: he shall bring forth judgement unto truth.
4. [F] He shall not fail or be gdiscouraged until he has set judgement in the
earth: hand the isles shall wait for his law.
See my Servant, [not Cyrus of chapter 41, but Jesus Christ] whom I uphold: my
Chosen One, in whom I delight. I will put my Spirit upon Him: he will reveal justice
to the nations of the world. He will be gentle ~ He will not shout, nor quarrel in
the streets. He will not break the bruised reed, nor quench the dimly burning
flame. He will encourage the faint hearted, those tempted to despair. He will see
full justice given to all who have been wronged. He won’t be satisfied until truth
and righteousness prevail throughout the earth, nor until the distant lands beyond
the seas have put their trust in Him.
5. Thus says God, the LORD, he that created the heavens and stretched them
out; He that spread for the earth, and that comes out of it; He that gives
breath unto the people upon it, and Spirit to them that walk therein.
6. [F] I, the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand,
and will keep thee, and igive thee for a covenant of the people; jfor a light of
the Gentiles.
7. [F] kTo open the blind eyes, to lbring out the prisoners from the prisons, and
m
them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
8. I AM the LORD: that is my name: nand my glory will I not give to another,
neither my praise to graven images. [Note: God will not allow His glory to be
given to any graven images ~ even inside churches!]
9. Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things do I declare:
before they spring forth, I tell you of them.

a f k
See 43:10; 52:13; 53:11; [h]~ quench it See 35:5
Zechariah 3:8; Philippians g l
[h]~ broken See 49:9; 61:1: Luke 4:18;
2:7 h 2 Timothy 2:26; Hebrews
b See 60:9; Matthew 12:21
See 49:7 i 2:14-15
c See 49:8 m
Matthew 3:17 j Luke 1:79
d See 49:6; 51:4; 60:1-3; n
See 11:2; 61:1; John 3:34 See 48:11
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 10. aSing unto the LORD a new song; and his praise from the ends of the earth,
b
you that go down to the sea, and call that is therein; dthe isles, and the
inhabitants thereof.
11. eLet the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice; the villages that
f
Kedar does inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from
the top of the Mountains.
12. Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare His praise in the Islands.
13. The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, He shall stir up jealousy like a
man of war: He shall cry, yes, roar; He shall gprevail against His enemies.
14. I have long time holden my peace; I have been still; and refrained myself;
now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and hdevour at once.
15. I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up their herbs; and I will
make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
16. And I will bring the blind by the way that they know not; I will lead them in
paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and
the crooked things istraight. These things will I do unto them and not forsake
them.
The LORD God who created the heavens, and stretched them out and created the
earth and everything in it, and who gives life, and breathe, and spirit, to everyone
in all-of the world, He is the one who says [to His servant, the Messiah].
“I the Lord, have called you to demonstrate my righteousness. I will guard and
support you, for I have given you to my people “as the personal confirmation of
my covenant with them. You shall also be a light to guide the nations unto me.
You will open the eyes of the blind, and release those who sit in prison darkness
and despair. I AM the LORD! That is my name, and I will not give my glory to
anyone else; I will not share my praise with carved idols. Everything I prophesied
came true, and now I will prophesy again. I will tell you the future before it
happens.
Sing a new song unto the Lord; sing His praises, all-of you who live in earth’s
remotest corners! Sing, O sea! Sing, all you who live in distant lands beyond the
sea! Join the chorus, you desert cities ~ Kedar and Sela! And you too, dwellers in
the mountain tops. Let the western coastlands glorify the Lord and sing His mighty
power.
The Lord will be a mighty warrior, full of fury toward his foes. He will give a great
shout and prevail. Long has He been silent; He has restrained Himself. But now
He will give full vent to His anger & wrath; He will groan and cry like a woman
giving birth to her child.
He will level the mountains and the hills and blight their greenery. He will dry up
the rivers and pools. He will bring blind Israel along a path that they have never
seen before. He will make the darkness bright before them, and smooth and
straighten out the road ahead. He will not forsake them.
17. They shall be jturned back, kthey shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in
graven images, that say to the molten images; You are our gods.
18. Hear you deaf, and look you blind; that you may see!
19. lWho is blind, but my servant? Or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? Who
is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as mthe LORD’S servant?

a e j
Psalm 33:3 See 55:12 See 50:5
b f k
Psalm 107:23 See 60:7 Psalm 97:7; See 1:29;
c g 44:11; 45:16
[h]~ the fullness thereof [h]~ behave Himself mightily
l
d
Psalm 72:10; See verses 4,
h
[h]~ swallow, or, sup up See 43:8
m
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 20. Seeing many things, abut you observe not: bopening your ears, but hearing
not.
21. The LORD is well please for His righteousness’ sake; He will magnify the law,
and make cit honourable.
22. But this is a people robbed and spoiled; dthey are all-of them snared in holes,
and they are hidden in prison houses; they are for a prey; and none delivers;
for a spoil, and none says, Restore.
23. Who among you will give ear to this? Who will hearken and hear efor the time
to come?
24. Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? Did not the LORD? He
who against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in His ways,
neither were they obedient unto His laws.
25. Therefore, (Conclusion) He has poured upon him the fury of His anger, and
the strength of battle; and it has set him on fire round about, yet he knew
not; and it burned him; yet he laid it not to heart.
But those that trust in idols and call them gods will be greatly disappointed; they
will be turned away. Oh, how blind and deaf you are towards God! Why won’t you
listen? Why won’t you see? Who in all-of the world is as blind as my people, who
are designed (in their DNA) to be my messengers of truth? Who is so blind as my
“dedicated one,” the “Servant of the LORD?” You see and understand what is right,
but won’t heed, not do it; you hear, but you won’t listen.
The LORD has magnified His law and made it truly glorious. Through it He had
planned to show the world that He is righteous. But what a sight His people are~
those who were to demonstrate to all-of the world the glory of His law; for they
are robbed, enslaved, imprisoned, trapped, fair game for all, with no-one to
protect them.
Won’t even one of you learn and apply these lessons from the past and see thew
ruin that awaits you up ahead in your future. Who let Israel be robbed and hurt?
Did not the Lord? It is the Lord that they sinned against, for they would not go
where He sent them, nor listen to His laws.
That is why God poured out poured out such fury and wrath on His people and
destroyed them in battle. Yet, though set on fire and burned, they will not
understand the reason why ~ that it is God, wanting them to repent, turn from
their wicked ways and turn back to Him.

CHAPTER FORTY-THREE: GOD COMFORTS THE CHURCH

WITH HIS PROMISES
1. [P] But now, thus says the LORD that created you, O Jacob and He that
formed you, O Israel: ‘Fear not: ffor I have redeemed you, gI have called you
by name; you are mine.
2. [P] hWhen you pass through the waters, I will be there with you; and through
the rivers, they shall not overflow you; when you walk through the fire, you
shall not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon youi.

a d g
Romans 2:21 [h]~ in snaring all-of the See 45:3-4
b young men of them h
Matthew 13:14 Deuteronomy 32:16
e
c
[h]~ him [h]~ for the after-time i
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 3.[P] For I AM the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, athy Saviour: I gave
up bEgypt, for your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for you.
4. [P] Since you were precious in my sight, you have been honourable, and I
have loved you: Therefore, will I give men for you, and people for your clife.
5. [P] dFear not: For I AM with you: I will bring your seed from the east, and
gather them from the west;
6. [P] I will say to the north; Give up, and to the south; Keep not back; bring
my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth.
7. [P] Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my
glory, I have formed him; yes, I have made him.’
But now, the LORD who created you, O Israel, says; Don’t be afraid, for I have
ransomed you; I have called you by name, you are mine! When you go through
deep waters and great troubles, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of
difficulty, you will not drown! When you walk through the fire of oppression, you
will not be burned up ~ the flames will not consume you. For I AM the LORD your
God, your Saviour, the Holy One of Israel. I gave (up) Egypt and Ethiopia and
Seba (to Cyrus) in exchange for your freedom, as your ransom (price).
Others died so that you may live; I traded their lives for yours because you are
precious to me and honoured, and I love you.
Don’t be afraid, for I AM with you. I will gather you from the east and the west,
from the north and the south. I will bring my sons and daughters back to Israel
from the farthest corners of the earth. All who claim me as their God will come,
for I have made them for my glory; I created them.
8. eBring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.
9. Let all-of the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled:
f
who among them can declare this, and show us former things? Let them
bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and
say, “IT IS THE TRUTH!”
10. gYou are my witnesses, says the LORD, and hmy servant whom I have
chosen: that you may know and believe me, and understand that I AM he;
i
before me, there was jno God formed, neither shall there be after me.
11. I, even I, AM the LORD; and beside me there is no Saviour.
k

12. I have declared, and have saved, and I have showed, when there was no
l
strange god among you; therefore, you are my witnesses, says the LORD,
that I AM God.
13. Yes, mbefore this day was, I AM he; and there is none that can deliver out of
my hand; I will work, and who shall nlet it?
Bring them back to me ~ blind as they are and deaf when I call [although they
can see and they can hear, they ignore me!]
Gather the nations together! Which of all-of their idols have ever foretold such
things? Which of them can predict even one single day ahead? Where are the
witnesses of anything that they said? If there are no witnesses, then they must
confess that only God can prophesy.

a e j
See 49:26; 60:16 See 42:19 [h]~ nothing formed of God
b f k
Psalm 68:31 See 41:26 See 45:21; Hosea 7:9
c g l
[h]~ person See 44:8 Deuteronomy 32:16
d h m
See verse 1; 41:10,13-14; See 42:1; 55:4 Psalm 92:2
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But I have witnesses, O Israel, says the LORD! You are my witnesses, and my
servants, chosen to know and to believe me and to understand that I alone am
God. There is no other God; there never was and there never will be!a
I AM the Lord, and there is no other Saviour. Whenever you have thrown away
your idols, I have shown you, my power. With one word I have saved you. You
have seen me do it! You are my witnesses that it is true. From eternity to eternity,
I AM God. No one can oppose what I do.
14. Thus says the LORD, byour Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake
I have sent to Babylon and have brought down all-of their nobles, and the
Chaldeans who cry is in the ships.
15. I AM the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King.
16. Thus says the LORD, cwhich makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty
waters.
17. dWhich brings forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they
shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are
quenched as tow.
The LORD, your Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel, says: For your sakes I will
send an invading army against Babylon, that will walk into that country almost
unscathed. The boasts of the Babylonians will turn into cries of fear. I AM the
LORD, the Holy One, Israel’s Creator and King. I AM the LORD, who opens a way
through the waters, making a path right through the sea. [Reminding Israel of the
crossing of the Red Sea]. I called forth the mighty army of Egypt, with all-of its
chariots and horses, to lie beneath the waves, dead, their lives snuffed out like
candlewicks.
18. eRemember not the formed things, neither consider the things of old.
19. [P] Behold, I will do a new thing: now it shall spring forth: Shall you not
know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and frivers in the desert.
20. The beasts of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the gowls; because
h
I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my
people, my chosen.
21. This people have I formed for myself; they shall show forth my praise.
But forget all-of that! It is nothing, compared to what I am going to do! For I am
going to do a brand-new thing, something that you have never seen before. See,
I have already started! Don’t you see it? I will make a road through the wilderness
of this world for my people to go homei, and create rivers for them in the desert.
The wild animals in the fields will thank me, the jackals and the ostriches too, for
giving them water in the wilderness, yes, springs in the desert, so that my people,
my chosen ones, can be refreshed.
I have made Israel for myself, and these people will someday honour me before
the whole word. [Please note: God did not make a two-state solution! Any nation
who proposes, or supports such a proposal, is going directly against God’s Holy
Word, & therefore will suffer the consequences!]
22. But you have not called upon me, O Jacob; but jyou have been wearied of
me, O Israel

a f returning to Israel from

Muslims, please take note! Exodus 17:6; 41:18; 48:21
b g many countries every year.
See 44:6,24; 48:17; 63:16 [h]~ or, ostriches j
c h Micah 6:3; Malachi 1:13
Exodus 14:16,22 Exodus 17:6; 41:18; 48:21
d i
Exodus 14:4-9,25 This promise is coming to
e pass before our very eyes as
Jeremiah 16:14; 23:7
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 23. aYou have not brought me the bsmall cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither
have you honoured me with your sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve
with an offering, nor wearied you with incense.
24. You have not brought me any sweet cane with money, neither have you
c
filled me with the fat of your sacrifices: but you have made me to serve with
your sins, you have dwearied me with thine iniquities.
25. [P] I, even I AM He, that blots out your transgressions efor my own sake,
and will not remember your sins.
26. Put me in remembrance: let us plead together; declare yourself, that you
may be justified.
27. Your first father (Adam) has sinned, and your fteachers have transgressed
against me.
28. Therefore, (Conclusion) gI have profaned the hprinces of the sanctuary, and
have given Jacob to the course, and Israel to reproaches.
But O my people, you won’t ask my help; you have grown tired of me! You have
not brought me the lambs for the burnt offerings; you have not honoured me with
sacrifices. Yet, my requests for offerings and incense have been very few! I have
not treated you as slaves. You have not brought me any sweet-smelling incense,
nor pleased me with sacrificial fat. No, you have presented me only with your sins,
and wearied me with all-of your faults.
I, yes, I alone, am He that blots out your sins, for my own sake, and will never
think of them again. Oh, remind me of this promise of forgiveness, for we must
talk about your sins, Plead your case for my forgiving you. From the very first,
your ancestors sinned against me ~ all-of you forebears transgressed my law.
That isa why I have deposed your priests and destroyed Israel, leaving her to
shame.

CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR: THE CHURCH IS COMFORTED

1. Yet now hear, iO Jacob, my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen. [Note:
When God Almighty choses a nation, then other nations better respect His
choice, otherwise there will be trouble ~ for THEM!]
2. Thus says the LORD that made thee, and jformed thee from the womb, which
will help thee; kFear not, O Jacob, my servant, and thou lJesurun, whom I
have chosen.
3. [M] For I will pour water on him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry
ground: mI will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine
offspring.
4. And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.
5. One shall say, I am the LORD’S; and another shall call himself by the name
of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD, and
n
surname himself by the name of Israel.

a f k
Amos 5:25 [h]~ interpreters See 43:5
b g l
[h]~ lambs, or kids See 47:6; Lamentations 2:2 Deuteronomy 32:15
c h m
[h]~ made me drink, or, [h]~ holy princes See 32:15; Joel 28; John
abundantly moistened i 4:10; 7:38; Acts 2:18
See 41:8
d n
See 1:14 j
See 43:1,7 See 45:4
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 6.Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, the LORD of
Hosts; I aAM the first and I AM the last; and bbeside me there is no (other)
God.
7. And who, as I, shall I call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me,
since I appointed the ancient people? And the things that are coming, and
shall come, let them show unto them.
8. Fear ye not, neither be afraid: chave I not told you from that time, and have
declared it? dYou are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? Yes,
there is eno God; I know not any.
Listen to me, O my servant Israel, O my chosen ones. The LORD who made you,
who will help you, says, O servant of mine, don’t be afraid. For I will give you
abundant water for your thirst, and for your parched fields. And I will pour out my
Spirit and my blessings on your children. They shall thrive like watered grass, like
willows on a river bank. “I am the Lord’s,” they will proudly say, or “I am a Jew,”
and tattoo upon their hands the name of God, or the honoured name of Israel.
The LORD, the King of Israel, says; Yes! It is Israel’s Redeemer, the Lord of Hosts
who says it. I AM the first (Alpha [Alif]f)and the Last (Omega [Tua]); There is no
other God! [God Almighty makes it very clear; Allah is NOT a god!] Who else can
tell you what is going to happen in the days ahead? Let them tell you if they can,
and prove their (divine) power. Let them do as I have done from ancient times.
Don’t, I repeat, don’t be afraid. Haven’t I proclaimed from ages past, that I would
be your protector and save you? You are my witnesses ~ is there any other God?
No! None that I know about! There is no other Rock!
9. They that make a graven imageg are all-of them vanity; and their hdelectable
things shall not profit (them); and they are their own witnesses; ithey see
not nor know; that they may be ashamed.
10. Who has formed a god, or molten or graven image jthat is profitable for
nothing? [Statues of Jesus on the Cross, or Statues of Mary; God says is a
waste of money ~ there is no profit in them at all, as far as He is concerned]
11. Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed; and the workmen, they are of men:
Let them all be gathered together, let them stand up, yet shall they fear, and
they shall be ashamed together.
12. kThe smith lwith the tongs both work in the coals, and fashioned it with
hammers, and works it with the strength of his arms: yes, he is hungry, and
his strength fails him, he drinks no water and is faint.
13. The carpenter stretches out his rule; he marks it out with a line; he first it
with planes, and he marks it out with a compass, and makes if after the
figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the
house,
14. He hews him down cedars, and takes the cypress and the oak, which he
m
strengthens for himself among the trees of the forest: he plants an ash,
and the rain does nourish it.
15. Then shall it be for man to burn, for he will take thereof, and warm himself;
yes, kindles it, and bakes bread; yes, he makes a god and worships it; he
makes it a graven image, and nfalls down thereto.

a f k
See 41:4 Greek & Hebrew See 40:19; Jeremiah 10:3-5
b g l
Psalm 86:10; see verse 8 Like in the Catholic church [h]~ or, with an axe
c h m
See 41:22 [h]~ desirable [h]~ takes courage
d i n
See 43:10, 12 Psalm 115:5 See verses 17 & 19; 46:6
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 16. He burns part thereof in the fire; with part thereof, he eats flesh; he roasts
the roast, and is satisfied; yes, he warms himself, and says; aha, I am warm,
I have seen the fire:
17. And the residue thereof he makes a god, even his graven image; he falls
down unto it; and worships it, and aprays unto it, and says; Deliver me; for
thou art my god.
18. They have not known or understood; for he has bshut their eyes, that they
cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
19. And none cconsiders in his heart, neither is their knowledge nor
understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire: Yes, I have also
baked bread on the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it; and
shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? Shall I fall down at the
d
stock of a tree?
20. He feeds on ashes: ea deceived heart has turned him aside, that he cannot
deliver his soul, nor say; Is there not a lie in my right hand?
What fools they are that manufacture idols for their gods. Their hopes remain
unanswered. They themselves are their own witnesses that this is so ~ that this
is a fact; for their idols can neither see, nor know. No wonder those who worship
them are ashamed. Who, but a fool would make his own god? An idol that can
help him not one whit! Don’t they know that it has eyes that cannot see, ears that
cannot hear, a mouth that cannot speak hands and feet that cannot move ~ and
no brains!
All-of the people who worship these idols will stand before the LORD God Almighty
in shame, along with the carpenters, ~ mere men ~ who claim that they made a
god. This applies to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Muslims and all-of the cults, who
worship man-made images and call them gods. They will stand in terror before
the LORD. The metal-smith stands before his forge to make an axe, pounding on
the metal with all-of his might. He grows hungry and thirsty, weak and faint. Then
the woodcarver takes the axe and uses it to make an idol. He measures and marks
out a block of wood, and carves out the figure of a man. Now, he has a wonderful
idol, that can’t so much as even move from the location where it has been placed!
He cuts down cedars, he selects the cypress and the fir trees, he plants the ash in
the forest, to be nourished by the rain.
And after his care, he uses part of the wood to make a fire to warm himself, and
also to bake his bread, and then ~ he really does ~ he takes the rest of it and
makes himself a god ~ a god for men to worship! An idol to fall down and worship
and praise! How stupid is that?
Part of the tree he burns to roast his meat and to keep him warm and fed and
content, and with what is left he makes his god; a carved idol! He falls down before
it, and prays to it. “Deliver me,” he says. “You are my god!”
Such stupidity and ignorance! God Almighty has shut their eyes so that they
cannot see, and closed their minds from understanding. The man never stops to
think or figure out, “Why it’s just a block of wood! I’ve burned it for heat, and used
it to bake my bread and roast my meat. How can the “rest of it be a god? Should
I fall down before a chunk of wood?”
The poor deluded fool feeds on ashes; he is trusting something which can never
give him any help at all. Yet he cannot bring himself to ask, “Is this thing, this
idol, that I am holding in my hand, is it a lie?”

a d
See 45:20 [h]~ that which comes of a
b tree
[h]~ daubed
e
c
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 21. Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for ayou are my servant; I have formed
you; you are my servant O Israel, you shall not be forgotten of me.
22. I bhave blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud,
your sins; (therefore) return unto me, for cI have redeemed you.
23. dSing, O ye Heavens; for the LORD has done it: Shout! eYou lower parts of
the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree,
therein; for the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and glorified Himself in Israel.
24. Thus says the LORD; fThy Redeemer, and gHe that formed thee from the
womb, I AM the LORD that makes all things; that stretches forth the heavens
alone; that spreads abroad the earth by myself;
25. That frustrates the tokens of the liars, and makes hdiviners mad; that turns
wise men backwards, and imakes their knowledge foolish;
26. That confirms the word of jhis servant, and performs the counsel of his
messengers; that says to Jerusalem; Thou shall be inhabited; and to the
cities of Judah; You shall be built; and I will raise up the kdecayed places
thereof;
27. lThat says the deep; Be dry, and I will dry up the rivers. [Note: July 2022,
the Euphrates River is at its lowest ever recorded levels. Remember, the
Euphrates River dries up so that 100 million troops from the east can cross
it on dry land to go and prepare to attack Israel.]
28. That says of mCyrus; He is my shepherd, and shall perform all-of my
pleasure: even saying nto Jerusalem; Thou shall be built; and to the Temple;
Thy foundation shall be laid.
Pay attention Israel; for you are my servant; I made you, and I will not forget to
help you! I have blotted out your sins; they are gone like morning mist at noon!
Oh, return to me, for I have paid the price to set you free.
Sing, O Heavens, for the Lord has done this wondrous thing. Shout! O earth; break
forth into song, O mountains and forests, yes, and every tree; for the LORD
redeemed Jacob, and is glorified in Israel!
The LORD, your Redeemer, who made you, says; ALL things were made by Me; I
alone stretched out the heavens. By myself I made the earth and everything in it.
I AM the one who shows what liars and false prophets are, by causing something
else to happen ~ than the things that they say. I make wise men give opposite
advice to what they should give; and make them into fools.
But what my “true” prophets say, I do: when they say that Jerusalem will be
delivered, and the cities of Judah lived in once again ~ it shall be done! When I
speak to the rivers and say; “Be dry!” They shall be dry! When I say to King Cyrus
that “He is My shepherd,” he will certainly do as I say; and Jerusalem shall be
rebuilt, and the Temple shall be restored: For I, the LORD, have spoken it!

a f k
44:1-2 See verse 6 [h]~ waste
b g l
43:25 See verse 2; 49:5 Jeremiah 50:38: 51:32, 36
c h m
43:1; 48:20 Deuteronomy 18:14 45:1
d i n
49:13 1 Corinthians 1:20 2 Chronicles 36:22-23; Ezra
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CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE: GOD CALLS CYRUS FOR THE
CHURCH’S SAKE.
1.[P] Thus says the LORD to ahis anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I bhave
held to subdue nations before him: and I will lose the loins of kings, to open
before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut.
2. [P] I will go before you: and cmake the crooked places straight; dI will break
into pieces the gates of brass: and cut in sunder the bars of iron;
3. [P] And I will give thee ethe treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret
places, (so) that you may know that I, the LORD, which calls you fby thy
name, am gthe God of Israel.
4. For hJacob, my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, have I called thee by
name; I have isurnamed you, (even) though you have not known me.
This is Jehovah’s message to Cyrus, God’s anointed, whom He has chosen to
conquer many lands. God shall empower (strengthen) his right hand and he shall
crush the strength of mighty kings. [You may find it strange that God Almighty
would anoint an “unbeliever,” to be His instrument to destroy nations.]
God shall open the gates of Babylon to him; the gates shall not be shut against
him anymore. I will go before you, Cyrus, and level the mountains and smash
down the city gates of brass and iron bars. And I will give you treasures that are
hidden in the darkness, and secret riches; and you will know that I AM doing this
~ I, the LORD, the God of Israel, the one who calls you by name.
And why have I selected you and named you for this work? For the sake of Jacob,
my servant, ~ Israel, my chosen. I called you by name when you didn’t know me.
5. jI AM the LORD, and there is no one else! There is no God beside me: I girded
thee, though thou hast not known me.
6. That they may know that kfrom the rising of the sun, and from the west, that
there is none beside me. I AM the LORD and there in none else!
7. I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and lcreate mevil: I, the
LORD, do all-of these things. [Don’t be misled by the KJV translation here.
God Almighty does not make “evil.” The correct English word should be
calamity].
8. Drop down, ye heavens from above, and let the skies pour down
righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation; and let
righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it!
9. Woe unto him that strives with his maker! Let the potsherd strive with the
potsherds of the earth. nShall the clay say to him that fashions it, What
makest thou? Or thy work, He has no hands?
10. Woe unto him that says to his father; What begets you? Or to the woman;
What has thou brought forth?
11. Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and His Maker; Ask me of things
to come concerning omy sons, and concerning pthe work of my hands
command ye me.

a g l
13:3; 44:28 29:23 Amos 3:6
b h m
[h]~ strengthened 44:1 [h]~ bad things, or,
c i calamity.
40:4 44:5
n
d
Psalm 107:16
j
See verses 6,14,18,21-22; 29:16; 64:8; Jeremiah 18:6;
e 44:8; 46:9 Romans :20
Jeremiah 50:37; 51:13 o
f
k
Malachi 1:8 Jeremiah 31:9
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 12. I have made the earth and acreated man upon it; I, even my hands, have
stretched out the heavens, and ball their host have I commanded.
13. cI have raised him up in righteousness, and I will ddirect all-of his ways; ehe
shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, fnot for price nor reward,
says the LORD of Hosts.
14. Thus says the LORD; gThe labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia, and
the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be
thine: they shall come after thee: hin chains they shall come over, and they
shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplications unto thee, saying;
i
Surely God is in thee; and jthere is none else, there is no God.
15. Verily thou art a God kthat hides thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.
16. They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all-of them; they shall go to
confusion together that are makers of idols!
17. [P] But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation; you
shall not be ashamed nor confounded, world without end.
18. lFor thus says that LORD that created the heavens: God Himself that formed
the earth and made it: He has established it, He created it not in vain, He
formed it to be inhabited: I AM the LORD, and THERE IS NONE ELSE!
19. mI have not spoken in secret, in the dark place of the earth; I said not unto
the seed of Jacob; Seek ye me in vain: nI the LORD speak righteousness, I
declare othings that are right.
I AM Jehovah ~ there is no other God. I will strengthen you and send you out to
victory even though you don’t know me, and all-of the world from east to west
will know that there is no other God. I AM Jehovah and there is no-one else! I,
alone am God. I formed the light and make the darkness. I send good times and
bad. I, Jehovah, am He who does these things.
Open up of heavens. The skies pour out their righteousness. Let salvation &
righteousness sprout up together from the earth. I, Jehovah, created them.
Woe to the man who fights with His creator! Does a pot argue with its maker?
Does the clay dispute with him who forms it, saying; “Stop, you are doing it
wrong!” Or the pot exclaim; “How clumsy can you be”? Woe to the baby that has
just been born who squalls and wails to his father and mother; “Why have you
produced me? Can’t you do anything right at all”?
Jehovah, The Holy One of Israel, Israel’s creator, says; What right do you have to
question what I do? Who are you to command me concerning the works of my
hands? I have created the earth and put man upon it. With my hands I have
stretched out the heavens and commanded all-of the vast myriad of stars. I have
raised up Cyrus to fulfill my righteous purpose, and I will direct all-of his paths.
He shall restore my city and free my captive people ~ and not for any reward!
Jehovah says; The Egyptians, the Ethiopians, and the Sabeans, shall all be subject
to you. They shall come to you with all of their merchandise and it shall all be
yours. They shall follow you as prisoners in chains, and fall down before you on
their knees and say; “The only God there is, is your God!”
Truly, O God of Israel, Saviour, you work in strange ways, your wonders and
miracles to perform. All who worship idols shall be disappointed and ashamed. But
Israel shall be saved by Jehovah, with eternal salvation: they shall never be

a f k
Genesis 1:26-27 52:3 57:17; Romans 11:33
b g l
Genesis 2:1 Psalm 68:31; 72:10-11 42:5
c h m
41:2 Psalm 149:8 48:16
d i n
[h]~ make straight 1 Corinthians 14:25 Psalm 119:138
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disappointed in their God through all eternity. For Jehovah created the heavens
and the earth and everything in its place, and made the worlds to be lived in, not
to be empty chaos. I AM Jehovah, He says, and there isa no other! I publicly
proclaim bold promises: I do not whisper obscurities in some dark corner, so that
no-one can know what I mean. And I didn’t tell Israel to ask me for what I didn’t
plan to give them! No, for I, Jehovah, speak only truth and righteousness.
[NOTE: If you believe in anything, that does not speak publicly, through its
prophets of things to come, that are seen to come to pass, or who require that
you worship at an idol (like a Hindu temple, or the black rock adjacent to the
Kabbah in Mecca,) then you are not worshipping the one and only true God,
Jehovah, the creator of the Universe. Jehovah is the only God that promises
salvation and eternal life.]
20. Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ayou that are escaped
from the nations: bthey have no knowledge that set up the wood of their
graven image, and cpray unto a god that cannot save.
21. Tell ye, and bring them near, let them take counsel together; who has
declared this from ancient time? Who has told it from that time? Have not I,
the LORD? And dthere is no God else beside Me; a just God and a Saviour;
there is none beside me.
22. Look unto Me, and ebe ye saved, all the ends of the earth; for I AM God, and
there is none else.
23. fI have gsworn by myself [I have taken an oath on my own name], the word
is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, shall not return (void); hThat unto
Me, ievery knee shall bow, and jevery tongue shall swear.
24. kSurely, shall one say, in the LORD have I lrighteousness and strength; even
to Him shall men come; and all that are incensed against Him shall be
ashamed.
25. In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.
Gather together and come, you nations that escape from Cyrus’ hand. What fools
they are that carry around the wooden idols, and pray top god that cannot save
them!
Consult together, argue your case and state your proofs that idol-worship pays!
Who but God Almighty has said that these things concerning Cyrus would happen?
For there is no other God but me ~a just God, and a Saviour ~ no, not one! Let
all-of the world look to me for salvation! For I AM God; there is no other! I have
sworn by my own name, and I will never go back on my own word ~ for it is true
~ that every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall swear allegiance to My
name.
“In Jehovah is all-of my righteousness and strength,” the people shall declare. And
all who are angry with him shall come to him and be ashamed. In Jehovah, all-of
the generations of Israel shall be justified, triumphant!

a e j
66:19 Psalm 22:27; see 52:10 Deuteronomy 6:13
b f k
44:18-19; 48:5,7-8; Romans 14:11 [h]~ Or, Surely, he shall say
Romans 1:22-23 g
Genesis 22:16 of me, in the LORD is all
c righteousness and strength
44:17 h
Romans 14:11 l
d
See verse 5 i [h]~ righteousnesses
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CHAPTER FORTY-SIX: IDOLS ARE NOT TO BE COMPARED
WITH GOD.
1. Bel bowed down, Nebo stoops, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon
a

the cattle: your carriages were heavy laden; they are a burden to the weary
beasts.
2. They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but
b
themselves have gone into captivity.
The idols of Babylon, Bel, and Nebo, are being hauled away on ox carts! But look!
The beasts are stumbling! The cart is turning over! The gods are falling out onto
the ground! Is that the best that they can do? If they cannot even save themselves
from such a fall, how can they save their worshippers from Cyrus?
3. Hearken unto me, O House of Jacob, and call-of the remnant of the House
of Israel, which are borne by me dfrom the belly, which are carried from the
womb:
4. And even till your old age, eI AM he: and even to hoar hairs will I carry you:
I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and deliver you.
“Listen to me, all-of Israel who are left; I have created you and cared for you since
you were born. I will be your God through all-of your lifetime, yes, our hair is
white with age. I made you and I will care for you. I will carry you along and be
your Saviour.”
5. To whom will you liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we
be like?
6. fThey lavish gold out of a bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a
goldsmith; and he makes into a god: gthey fall down, yes, they worship.
7. hThey bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place,
and he stands, from his place he shall not remove; yes, one shall cry unto
him, iyet he cannot answer, nor save him out of trouble.
8. Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ye
transgressors.
9. jRemember the former things of old; kfor I AM God, and there is no-one (else)
like me;
10. lDeclaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things
which are yet not done, saying; mMy counsel shall stand, and I will do all-of
my pleasure:
11. Calling a ravenous bird nfrom the east, the man othat executes my counsel
from a far country; yes; pI have spoken it, I will bring it to pass; I have
purposed it, I will also do it.
“With what in all-of heaven and earth do I compare? Who can you find that equals
me? Will you compare me with an idol made lavishly with silver and with gold?
They hire a goldsmith to take your wealth and make an idol out of it! They carry
it around on their shoulders, and when they set it down it stays there, for it cannot

a g m
21:9; Jeremiah 50:2; 51:44 44:15 Proverbs 19:21
b h n
[h]~ their soul 45:20; Jeremiah 10:5 41:2,25
c i o
6:13 Psalm 115:5 [h]~ of my counsel
d j p
Psalm 22:10; 71:6 Deuteronomy 32:7 Numbers 23:19
e k
[h]~ as in Psalm 102:27; see 45:5
52:6 l
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move! And when someone prays to it there is no answer, for it cannot get him out
of his troubles.”
“Don’t forget this, O guilty ones. And don’t forget the many times I clearly told
you what was going to happen in the future. For I AM God ~ I only, and there is
no-one else like me, who can tell you what is going to happen. All I say will come
to pass, for I do whatever is wish. I will call that swift bird of prey from the east
~ that man Cyrus from far away. And he will come and do my bidding. I have said
that I will do it ~ and I will.
12. Hearken unto me, ye stout-hearted, that are far from righteousness:
13. aI bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation bshall
not tarry; and I will place csalvation in Zion for Israel, my glory.
Listen to me, you stubborn, evil men! For I am offering you my deliverance, not
in the distant future, but right now! I am ready to save you, and I will restore
Jerusalem, and Israel, who is my glory.

HISTORY OF ISRAEL TIMELINE

Summary:
First a few key points about the nation (people) of Israel:

• Israel (the nation) is over 3,000 years old

• Israel was destined to become “a great nation”
• Israel was destined to be a blessing to all nations
• Israel is also a chosen (unique) nation – a special people planned to be God’s witness
• Israel will exist as long as the sun, moon and stars exist
• Israel, or rather a saved remnant, will enter Christ’s Kingdom age on this earth (the
Millennium)

Now a brief timeline of key events:

• God gave Israel her own land (ancient Canaan) through an unconditional covenant
with Abraham
• Through Abraham’s descendants all nations would be blessed through Israel’s
Messiah, Yeshua (Jesus)
• God renamed Abraham’s grandson Jacob and called him “Israel”
• Jacob’s descendants were the twelve tribes of Israel (the Hebrew Israelites)
• Initially the term ‘Jew’ referred to a member of the tribe of Judah, but later all Israelites
were called Jews
• In 1003 BC King David established Jerusalem as the capital of the Kingdom of Israel
• In 922 BC the twelve tribes split into a southern kingdom (the ‘House of Judah’) and a
northern kingdom comprising ten tribes (the ‘House of Israel’)
• Only four Gentile empires were destined to rule over Israel: Babylonian, Persian, Greek
and Roman
• All the tribes eventually rebelled against God and were scattered by the Babylonians
throughout the nations (the diaspora)
• The Babylonians destroyed Israel’s magnificent temple (Solomon’s temple) in
Jerusalem
• Israel’s scattering was complete around 586 BC
• A remnant of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin returned to Jerusalem to rebuild the
temple

a b c
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 • The rebuilt temple (the Second Temple) and Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans
in 70 AD.
• The Romans renamed the land of Israel (principally Judea) as ‘Palestina’ (modern
Palestine.)
• At the start of the 20th century Palestine was still a mix of many peoples, with no
distinctive Jewish nation or Palestinian people.
• At the end of the age of the Gentiles, God gathers His scattered people into their
Promised Land. This is now underway.
• The 1922 British Mandate for Palestine sought a homeland for the Jewish nation, Israel
• The Mandate encouraged Jewish immigration (Aliyah), resulting in a 7400 percent in
about 100 years,
• 14th May, 1948: the Declaration of the State of Israel.
• Jews are returning in unbelief, as prophesied (and will suffer tribulation
under a revived Roman Empire), as recorded in the Book of Revelation.
Israeli tour guides sometimes say: Israel may be three hundred miles long, thirty miles
wide, but it’s three thousand years deep. They are simply referring to the fact that over
three millennia of Bible history is sown in the land of Israel.
Others agree: Israel is the very embodiment of Jewish continuity: “It is the only nation
on earth that inhabits the same land, bears the same name, speaks the same
language, and worships the same God that it did 3,000 years ago.”
[Charles Krauthammer – The Weekly Standard, May 11, 1998]
So much for the history of Israel over the past 3,000 years. But this 3,000-year-old
nation goes on: Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and
flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by
adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it
honours the sword of freedom.” [John F. Kennedy, President of the United States]

THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL STARTED WITH ABRAHAM

Fig.1: Abraham’s journey, Biblical maps

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The history of Israel and the Arab nations starts with Abram (later called
Abraham). Some 4,000 years ago Abram was called by God to go from his home
in Ur of the Chaldeans, and travel to a land that God would give to him and his
descendants, Fig.1. Scholars date this migration from Ur somewhere between
1900 and 1750 BC, and the land in question was Canaan. God said to Abram:
Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land
that I will show you. I will make you a great nation … (Gen 12:1)
That nation was Israel. At this time God set about making a people for Himself to
be a witness of Himself to the nations, and they were given the land of Canaan
for perpetuity (Gen: 17:8). Through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob came the Twelve
Tribes of Israel (Judah, Joseph, Benjamin, Dan …) and they inhabited the land God
gave them – the area currently known as Israel, including the West Bank, Gaza
and the Golan Heights.
Sadly, after the Davidic Kingdom around 1,000 BC the tribes of Israel gradually
fell away from their God and through their disobedience were uprooted from their
land and scattered throughout the nations. Israel’s scattering (the diaspora) was
complete around 586 BC.
Subsequently, in 70 AD, the Romans committed genocide against the Jews,
smashed the Temple in Jerusalem and declared the land of Israel would be no
more. To this end they renamed the land of Israel, principally Judea, as ‘Palestina’
(modern Palestine) which some believe as an attempt to minimize Jewish
identification with the land of Israel. Let’s look at all this in more detail.

The Promise of a Great Nation – the Abrahamic Covenant

God told Abram that his descendants would become a great nation and that
through this nation all the nations of the earth would be blessed (Gen 12:1-7).
FACT: the blessing came through Isaac, Jacob, Judah … to Christ – salvation for
all mankind is of the Jews (Jn 4:2). To confirm this promise God changed Abram’s
name to Abraham, meaning ‘father of many nations’ (Gen 17:5) and He made a
covenant with him: I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your
descendants after you … I will give to you and your descendants … all the land of
Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
(Genesis 17:7,8). This covenant was ratified by God alone, meaning that the
covenant is eternal and unconditional (Genesis chapter 15).

A Chosen Nation – A Special People for Ever

Note that God said: ‘I will be their God.’ Here, God was claiming Israel to be His
own; ‘You are Mine’ (Isa 43:1). So here we have God identifying Himself with a
particular people. Here we have the God of Israel – they are God’s very own
people, forever (2 Samuel 7:24). Why did God do this? God made a people for
Himself for a very real purpose. Besides blessing all nations through Christ, God
made Israel to be His witness to the nations (Isaiah 43:10) and to be His servant
(Isaiah 49:3). Israel is unique since it is the one nation on earth that God uses to
make a name for Himself.
As King David exclaimed: Who is like Your people Israel, the one nation on the
earth whom God went to redeem for Himself as a people, to make a name for
Himself. (2 Samuel 7:23).
The nation Israel can never be destroyed: God chose His servant nation Israel to
be His special witness in the world, and the survival of the Jews throughout the
ages is the very strong evidence of His presence. As Mark Twain remarked: “All
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secret of his immortality?” The answer is that God decreed that the Jewish nation
will exist as long as the fixed order of the sun, moon and stars exists:
Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for light by day and the fixed order of the
moon and the stars for light by night … “If this fixed order departs from before Me
… then the offspring of Israel also will cease from being a nation before Me forever”
(Jeremiah 31:35-36).

Fig.2: Settlement of the tribes of Israel Biblical maps

The Promised Land – Canaan

As stated, the covenant between God and Abraham was unconditional and
everlasting, although God later warned Abraham’s descendants that they may
suffer (temporary) exile if they were disobedient to Him (Deuteronomy 28:15-
37). But, irrespective of how they behaved, it was certain that from Abraham
would eventually come a great nation and a great blessing to the nations, and
Abraham’s descendants would be given the so-called ‘Promised Land’ of Canaan
as an everlasting possession (Genesis 17:8).
What was this land? On the day of the covenant, God defined the boundaries as
from the river (brook) of Egypt to the River Euphrates (Genesis 15:18).
These are the Biblical Boundaries of Israel.
FACT: the kingdoms of David and Solomon c1000 BC, did indeed stretch from the
brook of Egypt on the Sinai Peninsula (not the Nile), across the Syrian Desert to
Tiphsah on the Euphrates. Prior to these kingdoms, God gave Moses the
boundaries of Canaan as the children of Israel entered the land (Num 34.1-12).
The southern border went through the Wilderness of Zin to the brook of Egypt,
the western border was the Mediterranean Sea, and the eastern border ran north
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the north east. Virtually identical boundaries to those given to Moses are given in
Ezekiel 47:13-21.
FACT: these timeless biblical boundaries clearly include both the Gaza strip and
the West Bank. They also include significant parts of present-day Syria i.e., up to
Hamath (modern-day Hama), and most of present-day Lebanon. So according to
the Bible, Israel today is not “occupying Palestinian land.”

The Birth of the Jewish nation, Israel

Abraham’s wife Sarah bore him a son, Isaac, and Isaac’s wife Rebecca bore Jacob
(meaning ‘supplanter’). History shows that God had a special task for Jacob and
his descendants and He changed Jacob’s name to ‘Israel’ after he had struggled
with an angel – and prevailed (Gen. 32:28). The etymology of the name Israel is
not clear, link, although Gen. 32:28 implies that Jacob and his descendants
would struggle but prevail.
The history of Israel confirms this thought; Jacob’s descendants, the twelve tribes
of Israel, the Hebrew Israelites, have suffered but prevailed for 3,000 years.
The descendants of Abraham formed a nation (Israel) around 1300 BC after their
Exodus from Egypt under the leadership of Moses. But before they could enter
Canaan, they had to spend 40 harsh years in the desert wilderness (the Sinai
Peninsular) due to their disobedience and unbelief. They finally settled mainly in
the area currently known as Israel, including the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan
Heights, although the tribes of Benjamin, Gad, Reuben and part of Manasseh
settled east of the Jordan, (see Fig.2.)
In 1003 BC, King David established Jerusalem as the capital of the Kingdom of
Israel, and in 960 BC, his son Solomon built the first Jewish temple. Then, in 922
BC, the twelve tribes split into a southern kingdom (called ‘The House of Judah’,
embracing Judea and Jerusalem) and a northern kingdom comprising ten tribes
and called ‘The House of Israel’, or simply ‘Israel’ (Jeremiah 11:10).
Jews: Historically, the tribe of Judah (Heb ‘Yehuda’) gave rise to the term ‘Jew’
(Heb ‘Yehudi’). So initially, the term ‘Jew’ referred to a member of the tribe of
Judah, but later it came to refer to all the Israelites, regardless of their tribal
ancestry (see Jews). Historically, the Jewish people are generally referred to as
the Children of Israel, signifying their descent from Jacob.

The Scattering or Diaspora

The House of Israel had a succession of godless kings and despite repeated
warnings from the prophets, they rebelled against God. Eventually God’s warnings
gave way to judgement and He uprooted them from the Promised Land and
scattered them throughout the nations, as pre-warned by Moses:
And the Lord will scatter you among the peoples (Deuteronomy 4:27)
From here on, the House of Israel ceased to be a kingdom and the Babylonians
and others settled in the cities of Samaria in their place (2 Kings 17.24). The
scattering was complete around 722 BC. The House of Judah was also rebellious
and eventually suffered the same judgement. History indicates that
Nebuchadnezzar invaded Judah and Jerusalem initially in 604 BC. Jerusalem and
the temple were destroyed around 597 BC, and by 586 BC, all of the southern
kingdom had been deported to Babylon under Nebuchadnezzar.
Apart from a remnant of the tribes of Judah, Benjamin and Levi which returned to
rebuild Jerusalem, the whole of national Israel (all twelve tribes) was now
dispersed amongst the nations and Jerusalem was occupied by Gentile nations.
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the nations (Jeremiah 11:10, Deuteronomy 4:27, James 1:1). The dispersion was
complete in 70 AD. when the Roman general Titus sacked the city.
FACT: at the start of the 20th century the land of Israel was a mix of many
peoples, representing some 50 languages [1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica].
According to historian Richard Hartmann, these communities were “ethnologically
a chaos of all the possible human combinations,” and so did not share a common
Arab identity. Moreover, there was no distinctive ‘Palestinian people,’ and Israel’s
scattering was still evident.

The Faithful Remnant

After the Southern Kingdom of Judah fell to the Babylonians in 586 BC, the land
of Judah and Jerusalem remained vacant (at rest) for 70 years, until the Lord
brought a remnant of His people back to the Promised Land:
After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good
word toward you, and cause you to return to this place (Jeremiah 29.11).
Why 70 years? Before their dispersion the house of Israel and the house of Judah
refused to observe God’s sabbaticals and Jubilees. So, the prophet Ezekiel was
told to bring this fact to the attention of the exiles in Babylon through a dramatic
act. He lay on his side for a total of 390 + 40 = 430 days (Ezekiel 4:4-6),
symbolizing the 430 years of sabbatical rebellion on a year for a day principle.
This actually corresponds to 70 Sabbath years, link, corresponding to the 70
Sabbath years that the land was kept from its rest.
So, the exiles had to endure 70 years in exile to pay their debt to God. The 70
years span the years from the first deportation (605 BC) to the first return after
536 BC, or from the destruction of Solomon’s Temple in 586 BC to the building of
the Second Temple in 516 BC.
The Return: God was faithful to His promise of their return, and when Cyrus the
Persian captured Babylon in 539 BC the Jewish captives were free to return to
Judah (Isaiah 44:28). The first group of returning exiles arrived in Judea sometime
after 536 BC, under the leadership of Zerubbabel, a second group returned under
Ezra, and Nehemiah led the last group back in 444 BC. In all, a remnant of some
50,000 Jews returned to Judah, but most remained in Babylon.
But who actually returned? The book of Ezra states it was the houses (tribes) of
Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and Levites (Ezra 1:5). The tribe of Judah is
very significant here (in fact, the Bible speaks more about the tribe of Judah than
any other single tribe of Israel). In Jacob’s blessing of his sons he said of Judah,
“the sceptre shall not depart from Judah ... until Shiloh (the Messiah) comes”
(Genesis 49:10). So, in returning, Judah held the royal symbol of kingship in
Jerusalem until Christ came. It is important to note that, despite the diaspora and
subsequent persecution over the centuries, God always preserves a faithful
remnant of His people. Paul refers to an enduring remnant of Israel: Though the
number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea, only the remnant will be
saved … at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace (Romans 9:27,
11:5).
At the very end of this age, it is just a remnant of Israel who come through the
times of tribulation, ‘refined by fire’ and fit to serve the LORD, in the millennial
age (Zechariah 13:9). And it is the tribe of Judah who the LORD uses to defend
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History of Gentile Rule Over Israel

From around 586 BC until modern times, the land of Israel or Holy Land was ruled
by Gentile powers:

• 586-538 BC: Babylonian Empire. Jews exiled to Babylon, destruction of the

first Temple.
• 538-333 BC: Persian Empire. Some exiled Jews return to restore the
Temple (completed 517 BC.)
• 333-63 BC: Greek Empire. Desecration of the Second Temple by Antiochus
IV.
• 63 BC-313: Roman Empire. Destruction of the restored Temple (the Second
Temple) in 70 AD.
• 313–636 AD: Byzantine rule. Israel becomes a predominantly Christian
country.
• 636–1099 AD: Islamic rule. Increasing suffering of Jews (as ‘dhimmi’) under
caliphates.
• 1099–1291AD: Crusader rule. Non-Christians, including Jews, suffer.
• 1291–1517AD: Mamluk rule. Gradual decline of towns, commerce and
Jewish communities.
• 1517–1917AD: Ottoman rule. Further decline of the land, but increasing
Jewish population.
• 1917–1948: British rule. The 1922 British Mandate for Palestine encouraged
immigration (Aliyah).
• 1948: On May 14 1948 the Jews proclaimed an independent State of Israel
and the British withdrew from Palestine.

World Government:
The four historical empires in bold type (Babylonian, Persian, Greek and Roman)
are in fact the four great empires prophesied to rule over Israel before the Second
Coming of Christ (Daniel 2:31-45). The last one, Rome, is very relevant even
today since prophecy strongly suggests that a form of the Roman Empire will be
in existence when Christ returns (Daniel 2:34). For more, see Israel’s
Future and World Government.

End of Gentile Rule:

The declaration of the State of Israel in 1948 effectively ended over 2500 years of
Gentile rule over Israel, although Jerusalem itself was not fully liberated until
1967. Some see the taking of East Jerusalem in 1967 by Israeli forces (see below)
as the fulfillment of Jesus’ prophecy: Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until
the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. (Luke 21:24)

Recent History of Israel: Aliyah and Restoration

The scattering of Israel was fulfillment of Bible prophecy, but recent history has
also seen the fulfillment of Bible prophecy in the “ingathering of Israel.”
FACT: despite the scattering, God did not destroy national Israel – He simply gave
her a ‘writ of divorce’ (Jeremiah 3:8). There are many prophecies of the
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For instance, In the end-time context of the restoration of national Israel, God
sets Israel as a ‘banner (or sign) to the nations’ and gathers Israel and Judah
‘from the four corners of the earth’ (Isaiah 11:12). The prophet Ezekiel saw this
restoration of Israel in his vision of ‘the valley of dry bones’ (Ezekiel chapter 37).
Here, God says: Behold, I will take the sons of Israel from among the nations
where they have gone … and bring them into their own land.

(Ezekiel 37:21).
In the New Testament, Romans 11:24 speaks of this ingathering as a ‘grafting’ of
scattered Israel into their own cultivated olive tree (whose rootage was in the
Patriarchs, particularly Abraham). In other words, Israel returns (largely in
unbelief) to the land and heritage covenanted to Abraham and his descendants.
And it is at this time that wayward Israel is ‘remarried’ to the Lord (Hosea 2:16,
Isaiah 54:5-6). The scattering of Israel caused the nations to dishonour the God-
of Israel, and God is now gathering the remnant of Israel and Judah to restore His
holy name (Isaiah 11:11-12; Ezekiel 36:20-24). Today’s term for this ingathering
or immigration of Jews to Israel is Aliyah (Heb ‘ascent’).

Key Events in Israel’s Recent History

Around 1880 AD, the Turks ruled Israel/Palestine as part of the Ottoman Empire
and there was only a small Jewish presence. There were just 24,000 Jews living
in Israel, amounting to just 8% of the total population, link. The ingathering
commenced in the late nineteenth century and key dates in the historic restoration
of Israel are as follows:

Israel’s National Water Carrier

Image: Niels F, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia

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• 1882: Start of the first wave of emigration (the First Aliyah) to Palestine.
During 1882-1903 some 25,000 Jews emigrated from Russia and Romania
• 1897: Theodor Herzel, convened the First Zionist Congress in Basle,
Switzerland
• 1904: Start of the Second Aliyah, mainly from Russia and Poland. During
the next ten years some 35,000 Jews immigrated to Palestine
• 1909: Israel’s first kibbutz was founded by young Jewish immigrants from
Eastern Europe. Kibbutzim played a key role in Israel’s agricultural
development, defence and political leadership.
• 1917: Balfour Declaration: The British government supported Zionist plans
for a Jewish national home in Palestine, and General Allenby liberated
Jerusalem from the Turks, giving Jews access to the city.
• 1920: The San Remo Peace Conference gave Britain a provisional ‘Mandate
for Palestine’ based upon the Balfour declaration.
• 1922: The League of Nations gave unanimous approval for a Jewish national
homeland in Palestine and formalized the British Mandate.
• 1947: Arab nations reject the UN Partition Plan for an Arab state and a
Jewish state.
• 1947: The Exodus, a refugee ship, was captured by the British off Palestine
and 4,500 Holocaust survivors returned to German prison camps.
• 1948: Establishment of the State of Israel and declared open for Jewish
immigration. David Ben-Gurion became the first Prime Minister. Five Arab
armies (Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq) then immediately invaded
Israel, starting the War of Independence.
• 1948: Start of mass immigration to Israel (despite the war), averaging
nearly 200,000 a year until the early 1950’s.
• 1949: UN Security Council Resolution 62 called for implementation of
armistice agreements leading to peace, and Israel’s borders re-established
along the ‘Green Line’. As a result of war, Egypt held the Gaza Strip, Jordan
held Judea and Samaria (the ‘West Bank’) and the Old City of East
Jerusalem.
• 1950: Law of return passed by Israel’s Parliament – opening Israel to Jews
from over 60 countries
• 1964: National Water Carrier completed, transporting fresh water from Lake
Kinneret (the Sea of Galilee) in the north of Israel to Mitzpe Ramon in the
south (a new National Water Carrier was completed in 2014)
• 1967: Six-Day War (June 5–10). The armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria,
Lebanon (and later Iraq) attacked Israel with the goal ‘to wipe Israel off the
map.’ As a result, all of Jerusalem came under Jewish rule.
• 1973: Yom Kippur War: Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack on Israel
during the Jewish holiday of ‘Yom Kippur.’ [God said that He would always
protect Israel from its enemies during their Holy Festivals.]
• 1980: Jerusalem, complete and united, is declared the capital of Israel
(Knesset Basic Law.)
• 1982: Hebrew becomes an official language of Israel (Hebrew and Arabic
are currently official languages of Israel).
• 1984: Operation Moses – a secret operation bringing approximately 8,000
Ethiopian Jews to Israel from Sudan.
• 1988: Jordan formally renounced any claim to the lands (West Bank and
East Jerusalem) that had been lost in the 1967 war.
• 1991: Operation Solomon – a secret operation bringing approximately
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 • 1994: Israel and Jordan signed a peace treaty and Israel withdrew troops
from Gaza and most cities and towns of the West Bank by 1996. Palestinians
authorities take control.
• 2002: Israel reoccupied all of the West Bank following waves of Palestinian
suicide attacks, and begins construction of the West Bank Fence along the
Green Line, in order to protect Israeli civilians from terrorism.
• 2005: Israel unilaterally withdrew all of its military occupation forces and
settlers from the Gaza Strip (evacuation of 8,500 Israelis from 21 Jewish
settlements), but retained civil and security control of the West Bank.
• 2014: New National Water Carrier completed, based on five desalination
plants on the coast.
• 2014: Some 7,000 people of the Bnei Menashe tribe in India returned to
their claimed Jewish roots in Israel. Overall, 2014 saw the arrival of 26,500
fresh immigrants (a ten-year high.)
• Clearly, there have been dramatic changes in Israel/Palestine in little over
100 years, and not least in Israel’s demographics. During these years the
ingathering from the nations into Israel has been remarkable, as shown by
Jewish population statistics: 1882: 0.025m; 1918: 0.06m; 1948: 0.72m;
1965: 2.3m; 1985: 3.5m; 2005: 5.3m; 2014: 6.1m; link. So, in just 100
years the Jewish population of Israel increased by an amazing 7400%.

Summarizing:
In recent history:
1) Israel’s Jewish population has increased dramatically.
2) the State of Israel has been declared.
3) all of Jerusalem has come under Jewish control.
4) Jerusalem has been declared the capital of Israel by the Knesset.

CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN: GOD’S JUDGEMENT UPON

BABYLON & CHALDEA.

1. aCome down and sit in the dust, O virgin bdaughter of Babylon, sit on the
ground: There is no throne, cO daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shall no
more be called tender and delicate.
2. dTake the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg,
e
uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
3. Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, thy shame shall be seen: fI will take
vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.
4. As for gour Redeemer, the LORD of Hosts is His Name; the Holy One of Israel.
5. Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for
thous shalt no more be called, the lady of kingdoms.
“O Babylon, the unconquered one, come and sit in the dust; for your days of glory,
pomp, and honour, have ended. O Daughter of Chaldea, never again will you be
the lovely princess, tender and delicate.

a d f
Jeremiah 48:18 Exodus 11:5; Judges 16:21 Romans 12:19
b e g
Psalm 137:8 2 Samuel 10:4; chapter 20:4; 43:14; Jeremiah 50:34
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Take heavy millstones and grind the corn; remove your veila, strip off your robe;
expose yourself to public view. You shall be in nakedness and shame. I will take
vengeance upon you and will not repent.”
So speaks our Redeemer, who will save Israel from Babylon’s mighty power; the
LORD of Hosts is His name, the Holy One of Israel. Sit in darkness and silence, O
Babylon; never again will you be called “the Queen of Kingdoms.”
6. bI was wroth with my people, cI have polluted mine inheritance, and given
them into thine hand; thou did show them no mercy; dupon the ancient have
thy very heavily laid thy yoke.
For I was angry with MY people Israel and I began to punish them a little, by
letting them fall into your hands, O Babylon. But you showed them no mercy. You
even made the old folks carry heavy burdens.
7. And thou said: I will be a lady forever; so that thou did not lay these things
to your heart, neither did you remember ethe latter half of it.
8. Therefore; Hear now this; thou that are given to pleasures, that dwells
carelessly, that says in this heart, fI am, and none else beside me; gI shall
not sit as a widow; neither shall I know the loss of children:
9. But these two things shall come to thee in a moment, in one day, the loss of
children, and widowhood: they shall they shall come upon thee in their
perfection, hfor the multitudes of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance
of thine enchantments.
You thought that your reign would never end, Queen Kingdom of the world. You
did not care a whit about my people, or think of the fate and repercussions on
those people do harm them. O pleasure-mad kingdom, living at ease, bragging
that you are the greatest in the world~ therefore, listen t o the sentence of my
court upon your sins. You say; “I alone am God! I’ll never be a widow; I’ll never
lose my children.”
Well, those two things shall come upon you in a moment, a full measure in one
day; widowhood, and the loss of your children, despite all-of your witchcraft and
magic!
10. For you trusted in your wickedness; you have said; none sees me; Thy
wisdom and thy knowledge, it has iperverted thee; and you have said in your
heart, I am, and none beside me.
You felt secure in all-of your wickedness. “No one sees me.” you said. Your
“wisdom” and “knowledge” have caused you to turn away from me and claim that
you (yourself) are Jehovah.
11. Therefore; shall evil come upon thee; you shall not know jfrom where it
arises; and mischief shall fall upon thee; you shall not be able to kput it off;
and desolation shall come upon you suddenly (out of nowhere), which you
shall not know.
12. lStand now with thine enchantments; and with multitudes of thy sorceries,
wherein thou have laboured from thy youth; if so, be thou shall be able to
profit, if so, thou may prevail.

a d i
In ancient Babylonia (and in Deuteronomy 28:50 [h]~ caused thee to turn
many Eastern lands today) e
Deuteronomy 32:29 away
only harlots were allowed to j
f
45:6,18; 46:9; [h]~ the morning thereof
go without veils. k
b g
Revelation 18:7 [h]~ expiate
Zechariah 1:15 l
c h
Nahum 3:4 19:3
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 13. Thou are wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. bLet now the
a
c
astrologers, the stargazers; dthe monthly prognosticators, stand up, and
save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.
14. Behold, they shall be eas stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not
deliver fthemselves from the power of the flame; there shall not be a coal to
warm at, nor fire to sit before it.
15. Thus, shall they be unto thee with who thou hast laboured, even gthy
merchants, from thy youth; they shall wander everyone to his quarter; none
shall save thee.
That is why disaster shall overcome you suddenly ~ so suddenly you won’t have
a clue where it came from. And there will be no atonement then to cleanse away
your sins.
Call out the demon hordes that you’ve worshipped all-of these years. Call on them
to help you strike deep terror into many hearts again. You have advisors by the
ton ~ your astrologers and stargazers, who try to tell you what the future holds.
But they are as useless as dried grass burning in the fire. They cannot even deliver
themselves! You’ll get no help from them at all! Theirs is no fire to sit beside to
keep you warm! All-of your friends of childhood days, shall slip away and
disappear, unable to help you, or save themselves.

CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT: GOD REVEALS HIS PROPHECIES

& EXHORTS OBEDIENCE
1. Hear you this, O House of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and
h
are come forth out of the waters of Judah, iwhich swear by the name of the
LORD, and make mention of jthe God of Israel, but not truth, nor in
righteousness.
2. For they call themselves of the Holy City, and kstay themselves upon the God
of Israel; the LORD of Hosts is His name.
3. lI have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth
out of my mouth, and I showed them; I did them suddenly, and they came
to pass.
4. Because I knew that you are mobstinate, and nthy neck is an iron sinew, and
thy brow brass;
5. I have even from the beginning declared it unto you; before it came to pass,
I showed it to you, olest you should say, mine idol has done them, and my
graven image, and my molten image, has commanded them.
6. You have heard, see all-of this; and will you not declare it? I have showed
you new things from this time, even hidden things, and you did not know
them.
7. They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when
you heard them not; lest thou should say; Behold I knew them.

a f k
57:10 [h]~ their souls 2 Chronicles 32:8; Micah
b g 3:11; Romans 2:17
44:25; Daniel 2:2 Revelation 18:3
l
c
[h]~ viewers of the heavens
h
Psalm 68:26 21:26
m
d
[h]~ that give knowledge
i
Deuteronomy 6:13; see [h]~ hard
n
concerning the months 65:16 Exodus 32:9
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 8. Yes, you heard not; yes, you knew not; yes, from that time your ears were
not opened; For I knew that you would deal very treacherously, and was
called a transgressor afrom the womb.
Hear Me ~ My people: you swear allegiance to the LORD, without meaning a word
of it, when you boast in living in this holy city, and brag about depending upon
the God of Israel.
Time and time again I told you what was going to happen in the future. My words
were scarcely spoken when suddenly I did what I said. I knew how hard and
obstinate you are. Your necks are as unbending as iron; you are as hard-headed
as brass. That is why I told you ahead of time what I was going to do, so that you
could never say, “My idol did it; my carved image commanded it to happen!”
You have heard my predictions, and then seen them fulfilled ~ but still you refuse
to agree that it is so.
Now I will tell you some new things that I have never told your before ~ secrets
you haven’t heard. Then you cannot say; “We knew that all-of the time.” Yes, I’ll
tell you things entirely new, for I know so well what traitors you are, rebels from
earliest childhood, yes, rotten through and through.
9. bFor my name’s sake, cwill I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain
from thee; but I will not cut thee off.
10. Behold, dI have refined thee, but not ewith silver; I have chosen thee fin the
furnace of affliction.
11. For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it; for ghow should my
name be polluted? And hI will not give my glory to another.
Yet for my own sake, and for the honour of my name, I will hold back my anger
and not wipe you out! I refined you in the furnace of affliction, but found no silver
there. You are worthless, with nothing good in you at all. Yet, for My own sake ~
Yes, for my own sake ~ I will save you from my anger and not destroy you lest
the heathens say their gods have conquered me. I will not let them have my glory.
12. Hearken unto Me, O Jacob and Israel, my called: iI AM He; jI AM the first and
also, I AM the last.
13. kMy hand has also laid the foundation of the earth, and lmy right hand has
spanned the heavens. When I call unto them, they stand up together.
14. All ye; Assemble yourselves, and hear; mwhich among them have declared
these things?
15. I, even I, have spoken; Yes, I have called him: I brought him, and he shall
make his way prosperous.
Listen to me ~ my people, my chosen ones! I alone am GOD! I AM the first; I
AM the last.
It was my hand that laid the foundations of the earth; the palm of my right hand
that stretched forth the heavens above; I spoke and they came into being.
Come, all-of you, and listen and understand. Among all-of your idols, which one
has ever told you this: “The LORD loves Cyrus. He will use him to put an end to
the empire of Babylonia. He will utterly destroy and rout the armies of the
Chaldeans?” But I am saying it. I have called Cyrus; I have sent him on this errand
and I will prosper him.

a f k
49:1 Ezekiel 22:18, 20, 22 Psalm 102:25; chapter
b g 51:13, 16
See verse 11; Ezekiel 20:9, Ezekiel 20:9
l
14, 22, 44 h
42:8; Psalm 115:1 [h]~ the palm of my right
c hand has spread out
Psalm 78:38 i
Deuteronomy 32:9 m
d
Psalm 66:10; 1 Peter 1:7 j 41:26
41:4
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 16. Come you near unto me; hear you this; aI have not spoken in secret from
the beginning; from the time that it was, there I AM; and now, bthe LORD
God, and his Spirit, has sent me.
17. [P] Thus says the LORD, cthy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I AM the
LORD thy God, which teaches thee to profit, which leads thee by the way
that thou should go.
18. O that thou had listened to my commandments! Then had dthy peace been
like a river, and thy righteousness, as the waves of the sea:
19. Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the
gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off, nor destroyed before
me.
Come closer and listen very carefully. I have always told you plainly what would
happen (in advance), so that you could clearly understand and recognise it, when
it happens, when it comes to pass. And now the LORD God and His Spirit have
sent me to you with this message:
The LORD God, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, says; I AM the LORD your
God, who punishes you for your own good, and leads you along the paths that you
should follow.
Oh, that you had listened to my laws! Then you would have peace flowing like a
gentle river, and great waves of righteousness passing over you. Then you would
have become as numerous as the sands along the seashores of the world, too
many to count, and there would have been no need for your destruction.
20. eGo you forth of Babylon, flee you from the Chaldeans, with a voice of
singing, declare you, tell this, utter it even to the ends of the earth; say you;
f
The LORD has redeemed his servant, Jacob.
21. And gthey thirsted not when he led them through the deserts; hhe caused the
waters to flow out of the rock for them; he clave the rock also, and the waters
rushed out.
22. There is no peace, says the LORD, unto the wicked.
Yet even now, be free from your captivity! Leave Babylon, singing as you go;
shout to the ends of the earth that the LORD has redeemed his servants, the Jews.
They were not thirsty when he led them through the deserts; he divided the rock,
and water gushed out for them to drink. But there is no peace, says the LORD, for
the wicked.

CHAPTER FORTY-NINE: CHRIST SENT TO THE GENTILES

WITH GRACIOUS PROMISES
1. Listen, iO Isles, unto me; and hearken you people, from afar; jThe LORD has
called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother, has he made
mention of my name.
2. And he has made my mouth klike a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand
has he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver has he hid me;
3. And said unto me, lThou are my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.

a f k
45:19 Exodus 19:4-6; chapter Hebrews 4:12; Revelation
b 44:22-23 1:16
61:1
g l
c
43:14 35:6 41:8
h
d
66:12 43:19
i
e
52:11; Jeremiah 50:8; 51:6, 41:1
j
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 4. Then I said; aI have laboured in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing,
and in vain; yet surely bmy judgement is with the LORD, and cmy work with
my God.
Listen to me, all-of you in faraway lands: The LORD called me before my birth.
From within the womb, he called me by my name. God will make my words of
judgement sharp as swords. He has hidden me in the shadow of his hands: I am
like a sharp arrow in his quiver.
He said to me: “You are my Servant, a Prince of Israel with God, and you shall
bring me glory.”
I replied; “But my work for them seems all in vain; I have spent all-of my strength
for them ~ without any visible response. Yet I leave it all with God for my reward.”
5. And now says the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant;
to bring Jacob again (back) to him; dThough Israel be not gathered, yet shall
I ebe glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength.
6. [F] And he said: fIt is a light thing that you should be my servant, to raise
up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the gpreserved of Israel: hI will also
give for thee for a light to the Gentiles. That thou maybe my salvation unto
the ends of the earth.
7. [F, S] iThus says the LORD; the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him
j
whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers;
Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD
that is faithful, and thew Holy One of Israel, and he will choose thee.
8. Thus says the LORD; kin an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day
of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee; and lgive thee for
a covenant of the people, to mestablish the earth, to cause to inherit the
desolate heritages;
9. That you may say to the prisoners; Go forth to them to them that are in
darkness; Show yourselves! They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures
shall be in all the high places.
10. nThey shall not hunger nor thirst; oneither shall the heat nor sun smite them;
for He that has mercy on them shall lead them; even by pthe springs of water
shall he guide them.
11. And qI will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.
12. Behold, rthese shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north, and from
the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
“And now,” said the LORD ~ the LORD who formed mew from my mother’s womb,
to serve him, who commissioned me to restore to him his people Israel, who has
given me the strength to perform this task, and honoured me fordoing it! “You
shall do more than restore Israel to me. I will make you a ‘Light to the Nations’
of the world, to bring my salvation to them too.”
The LORD, the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel, says to the one who is despised,
rejected by mankind, and kept beneath the heel of earthly rulers: “Kings shall

a g n
65:23 [h]~ desolations Revelation 7:16
b h o
40:27 42:6; John 11:52; Acts Psalm 121:6
c 13:47; 26:17-18 p
[h]~ my reward 35:7
i
d
[h]~ OR, that Israel maybe 48:17 q
40:4
j
gathered to Him, and I may [h]~ that is despised in soul r
43:5-6
… k
2 Corinthians 6:2
e
9:1 (Heb.) l
42:6; Ephesians 2:14-15
f
[h]~ or, Art thou lighter than m
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stand at attention when you pass by; princes shall bow low, because the LORD
has chosen you; he, the faithful LORD, the Holy One of Israel, chooses you.”
The LORD says; “Your request has come at a favourable time. I will keep you from
‘premature’ harm, and give you as a token and pledge to Israel, which is proof
that I will re-establish the land of Israel, and re-assign it to its own people again.
Through you I am saying to the prisoners in darkness; “Come out! I am giving
you your freedom!” They will be my sheep, grazing in green pastures, and on
grassy hills. They shall neither hunger or thirst; the searing sun and scorching
desert winds will not reach them anymore. For the LORD in his mercy will lead
them beside still waters. “And I will make my mountains into level paths for them;
the highways shall be raised above the valleys. See, my people shall return from
far away, from the north, the west and the south.” Note: There is no promise that
God will bring back His people from the East!

In the KJV in verse 12, it mentions the “Land of Sinim”. This is an old Hebrew
name “for the Land in the South”. The table below gives other names for this same
“Land in the South.”

Year Civilisations Country was known as

Phoenicians Ophir – Land of Iron

Chinese Chui Hiao
Aztecs Culhuacan
Sumerians, Maoris & Peruvians Uru
Malays Giava
Old Hebrew Sinim
2000 BC – Egyptians of the Middle Kingdom (12 th Dynasty) Punt and also Kenti-Amenti
1788 BC
970 BC - King Solomon (King of Israel) sent out Hiram (King Ophir – [land of iron]
931 BC of Tyre - a Phoenician city) with a fleet, to find the
legendary “Ophir” and get its riches.
800 - 700 BC Hebrews:
H5515,
The Prophet Isaiah refers to the land of Sinim in
Isaiah 49:12 Plural of an otherwise unknown name;
Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these Sinim, a distant Oriental region:
from the north and from the west; and these from Sinim. 2
the land of Sinim.

600 BC Anaximander in Myletus drew a map describing a

southern continent
300 BC Theopompus of Chios (drew a similar map and
wrote that far beyond India there was a great island
where Australia is now situated.)
239 BC Eratosthenes, the Greek Scholar drew a world map Greek; “Ausio”
as a sphere, on which he described the great It is clear from this and other evidence
southern continent as “Ausio.” that the Greek maritime and
It is interesting to note that in 239 BC people knew geographical knowledge was far more
that the world was round – NOT FLAT, as was told advanced than many scholars of later
by the people in the reformation times in Europe years have given them credit.
and in Britain.
~140BC Roman Empire Terra Australis [Latin] for the
unknown land in the South
1544 AD Dutch Explorers New Hollandia
1824 AD British Empire The origin of the name Australia goes
back thousands of years and was
used to describe a hypothetical land
referred to as “Terra Australis” that
was believed to exist in the southern
oceans. Over time many different
names were used to describe this
land until it finally received its official
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 For more information about this topic, please refer to The Coastal Pioneers;
https://www.scribd.com/document/583603656/The-Coastal-Pioneers-Revised-Edition-2018.

13. aSing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O
mountains; for the LORD has comforted his people, and will have mercy upon
his afflicted.
14. bBut Zion said: The LORD has forsaken me, and my LORD has forgotten me.
15. Can a woman forget her suckling child, cthat she should not have compassion
on the son of her womb? Yes, they may forget, dyet will I not forget thee.
16. Behold eI have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are
continually before me.
17. Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste
shall go forth of thee.
Sing for joy, O heavens; shout, O earth. Break forth with song, O mountains, for
the LORD has comforted his people, and will have compassion upon them in their
sorrow. Yet they say; “My LORD has deserted us; He has forgotten us.”
“Never! Can a mother forget her little child and not have love for her own son?
Yet, even if that should be, I will not forget you. See, I have tattooed your name
upon my palm, and ever before me is a picture of Jerusalem’s walls in ruins. Soon
your rebuilders will come and chase away all-of those who are destroying you.”
18. fLift up your eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves
together, and come to thee. gAs I live, says the LORD, you shall surely clothe
thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride
does.
19. For your waste and your desert places, and the land of your destruction, shall
even now be too narrow by reason of inhabitants and they that swallowed
you up shall be far away.
20. hThe children which you shall have, after you had lost the other, shall say
again in thine ears; The place is too straight for m; igive place for me that I
may dwell.
21. Then shall you say in your heart; jWho has begotten me these, seeing that I
have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro?
And who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where have
they been?
22. [P] Thus says the LORD God; I will lift up my hand to the Gentiles, and kset
up my standard to the people: and they shall bring your sons in their arms,
and your daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
23. [P] And kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens your nursing
mothers; they shall bow to thee with their faces towards the earth, and lick
the dust off your feet; and (THEN) you shall know that I AM the LORD; for
they shall not be ashamed to wait for me.
“Look and see, for the LORD has vowed that all-of your enemies shall come and
be your slaves. They shall be as jewels to display, as bridal ornaments.”
“Even the most desolate parts of your land shall soon be crowded with your people,
and your enemies that enslaved you shall be far away. The generations born in
exile shall return and say; ‘We need more room! It’s too crowded here!’ Then you

a e h
44:23 Exodus 13:9; Cantares 8:6-7 Hosea 1:10: Romans 11:11-
b [Song of Solomon 8:6] 26
40:27
f i
c
[h]~ from having compassion 60:4 Zechariah 10:10
g j
d
Psalm 77:9 Numbers 14:21; Jeremiah Matthew 3:9
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will think to yourself; ‘Who has given me all these? For most of my children were
killed and the rest were carried away into exile, leaving me here all alone. Who
bore these? Who raised them for me?’”
The LORD God says; “See, I will give a signal to the Gentiles and they shall carry
your little sons back to you in their arms, and your daughters on their shoulders.
Kings and queens shall serve you; they shall care for all-of your needs. They shall
bow to the earth before you, and lick the dust from off your feet; THEN you shall
know that I AM the LORD. Those who wait for me shall never be ashamed.
24. Shall the pray be taken from the mighty, or the alawful captive delivered?
25. But thus says the LORD; Even the bcaptives of the mighty shall be taken
away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered; for I will contend with
c
him and contends with you, and will, save your children.
26. And dI will feed them that oppress you with their own flesh; and ethey shall
be drunk with their own blood, as with fsweet wine; and all flesh gshall know
that I AM the LORD thy Saviour, and hthy Redeemer, ithe mighty One of
Jacob.
Who can snatch the prey from a mighty man? Who can demand that a tyrant let
his captives go? But the LORD says; “Even the captives of the most-mighty and
the most-terrible shall all be freed: for I (The LORD) will fight those who fight
against you, and I will save your children.
[History has shown that not one nation who went to battle against the LORD has
ever won. Maybe the Muslim nations should remember this the next time they plot
to annihilate Israel.]
I will feed your enemies with their own flesh and they shall be drunk with rivers
of their own blood. All-of the world will know that I, the LORD, am your Saviour
and Redeemer, the mighty One of Israel.

CHAPTER FIFTY: RESTORATION OF THE CHURCH

1. Thus says the Lord God; Where is jthe bill of your mother’s divorcement,
whom I have away? Or which of my creditors is it whom kI have sold you
to? Behold, for your iniquities,lhave you sold yourself, and for your
transgression is your mother put away.
2. Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? mWhen I called, was there
none answer? nIs my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? Or have
I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I odry up the sea, I make the
rivers a wilderness: pTheir fish stinks, because there is no water, and they
die of thirst.
3. qI clothe the heavens with darkness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
4. The LORD God has given me the tongue of rthe learned, so that I should
know how to speak a word in season to him that’s weary: he wakes me
s
morning by morning, he wakes mine ear to hear as the learned.

a h m
[h]~ captivity of the just See verse 7 65:12
b i n
[h]~ captivity Psalm 132:2 59:1
c j o
Psalm 35:1 Deuteronomy 24:1; Jeremiah Exodus 14:21; see 51:10
d 3:8; Hosea 2;2 p
9:20: Zechariah 11:9 Exodus 7:18, 21
k
e
63:6; Revelation 16:6 Deuteronomy 32:30 q
Exodus 10:21
l
f
[h]~ new wine 52:3; Romans 7:14; r
8:16
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The LORD asks: Did I sell you to my creditors? Is that why you are not here? Is
your mother gone because I divorced her and sent her away? NO! you sold
yourselves for your sins. And your mother was taken in payment for your debts.
Was I too weak to save you? Is that why the house is silent and empty when I
come home? Have I no longer power to deliver? NO! That is not the reason! For I
can rebuke the seas and make it dry. I can turn the rivers in to deserts, covered
with dying fish. I am the one who sends the darkness across the skies.
5. The LORD God has opened my ear, and aI was not rebellious, neither turned
away back.
6. I bgave my back to the smiters, and cmy cheeks to them that plucked off my
hair: I hid not my face from shame and dspitting.
The LORD God has spoken to me and I have listened; I do not rebel nor turn away.
I give my back to the whip, and my cheeks to those who pull out my beard. I do
not hide from shame ~ they spit in my face.
7. For the LORD God will help me; therefore, shall I not be confounded;
Therefore, have eI set my face like a flint, and fI know that I shall not be
ashamed.
8. gHe is near that justifies me; hWho will contend with me; Let us stand
together? Who is imine adversary? Let him to near to me.
9. Behold, the LORD God will help me, who is he that he should condemn me?
Lo, jthey shall all wax old as a garment; kthe moth shall eat them up.
Because the Lord helps me, I will not be dismayed; therefore, I will set my face
like flint to do his will, and I know that I will triumph. He who gives me justice is
near. Who will dare to fight against me now? Where are my enemies? Let them
appear! See, the LORD God is for me! Who shall declare me guilty? All-of my
enemies shall be destroyed like old clothes eaten up by moths.
10. Who is among you that fears the LORD? That obeys the voice of His servant,
l
that walks in darkness, and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the
LORD, and mstay upon His God.
11. Behold all-of you that kindle a fire; that compass yourself about with sparks
that you be kindled. This you shall have of mine hand: you shall lie down in
sorrow.
Who among you fears the LORD and obeys his servant? If such men walk in
darkness, without one ray of light, let them trust in the LORD, let them rely upon
their God. But see here, you who live in your own light, and warm yourselves from
your own fires and not from God’s: you will live among sorrows.

CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE: CHRIST’S PATIENT SUFFERING

1. nHearken unto me, oye that follow after righteousness, you that seek the
LORD; look unto the rock whence you are hewn, and to the hole of the pit
whence you are digged.

a f l
Matthew 26:39; John 4:34; Hebrew 12:2 Psalm 23:4
Philippians 2:8; Hebrews g
Romans 8:32-34
m
2 Chronicles 13:18
5:8; 10:5-7 h n
b Job 13:19 See verse 7
Matthew 27:26 i o
c [h]~ the master of my cause Romans 9:30-31
Matthew 26:67 j
d Psalm 102:26
Matthew 26:67 k
e Psalm 39:11; Matthew 6:19-
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 2. Look unto aAbraham your father, and unto bSarah that bare you: cfor I called
him alone, and dblessed him, and increased him.
3. For the Lord eshall comfort Zion: he will comfort all-of fher waste places; and
he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her deserts glike the gardens of
the LORD: joy and gladness shall be found therein; thanksgiving, and the
voice of melody.

Wasteland desert being transformed into harvest gardens;

Prophecy being fulfilled in Israel in 1995
4. Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation; for ha law
shall proceed out from me; and I will make my judgements to rest ifor a light
of the people.
5. jMy righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and kmine arms shall
judge the people; lthe isles shall wait upon me, and mine arm shall they
trust.
6. [F] Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for
the heavens shall vanish away life smoke, and the earth shall wax old, like a
garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my
salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
Listen to me, all who hope for deliverance; who seek the LORD! Consider the
quarry from which you have mined, the rock from which you were cut. Yes, think
about your ancestors Abraham and Sarah, from where you came. You worry at
being so small and few, but Abraham was only one, when I called him. But when
I blessed him, he became a great nation. And the LORD will bless Israel again,
and make her deserts bloom. Her barren wilderness will become as beautiful as
the Garden of Eden. Joy and gladness with be found there, thanksgiving and lovely
songs.
Listen to me, my people; listen, O Israel, for I will see that justice prevails. My
mercy and justice are coming soon; your salvation is on the way. I will rule the
nations: they shall wait for me and long for me to come. Look up into the skies
and watch the earth beneath, for the skies shall disappear like smoke, and the
earth shall wear out like an old used garment, the people of the earth shall die
like flies. But my salvation lasts forever: my righteous rule will never die nor end.
7. Hearken unto me, you that know righteousness, the people in whose heart
is my law; mfear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their
reviling’s.
8. For nthe moth shall eat them up like a garment; and the worm shall eat them
like wool; but my righteousness shall be forever, and my salvation from
generation to generation.

a f k
Romans 4:1 44:26 Psalm 67:4
b g l
Hebrews 11:11-12 Genesis 13:10 60:9; Psalm 72:10
c h m
Genesis 12:1-2 2:3 Matthew 10:28
d i n
Genesis 24:1, 35 42:6 50:9
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He who gives me justice is near. Who will dare to fight against me now? Where
are my enemies? Let them appear!
9. aAwake, Awake, put-on strength, bO arm of the LORD; awake, as cin the
ancient days, in the generations of old. Art that not it which cut dRahab, and
wounded ethe dragon?
10. Art thou not which has fdried the sea, the waters of the great deep: that has
made the depth of the seas a way for gthe ransomed to pass over?
11. [S, M] hTherefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with
singing unto Zion, and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall
obtain gladness and joy: and sorrow, and mourning shall flee away.
12. I, even I AM iHe, that comforts you: who art thou, that thou jshould be afraid
of a man that shall die; and of the Son of man which shall be made kas grass.
13. And forgets the LORD thy maker, lthat has stretched forth the heavens, and
laid the foundations of the earth: and has feared continually every day
because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he mwere ready to destroy? And
where is the fury of the oppressor?
14. The captive exile hastened nthat he should not die in the pit, nor that his
bread should fail.
15. But I AM the LORD thy GOD, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: oThe
LORD of Hosts is His name.
16. And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the
shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations
of the earth, and say unto Zion: Thou art my people.
Awake, O Lord! Rise up and robe yourself with strength. Rouse yourself as in the
days of old when you slew Egypt, the dragon of the Nile. [Literal “Rahab, the
dragon”]. Are you not the same today, the might God who dried up the sea,
making a path right through it for your ransomed ones? The time will come when
God’s redeemed will all come home again. They shall come with singing into
Jerusalem, filled with joy and everlasting gladness; sorrow and mourning will
disappear forever. I, even I, am He that comforts you and gives you all-of this
joy. So, what right have you to fear mortal men, who wither like the grass and
disappear.
And yet you have no fear of God, your Maker ~ you have forgotten him, the one
who spread the stars throughout the heavens and made the earth. Will you be in
constant fear of men’s oppression, and fear their anger all day long? Soon, very
soon, all-of you slaves shall be released; dungeon, starvation, and death, are not
your fate. For I AM the LORD, your God, the LORD of Hosts, who dried a path for
you right through the sea, between the roaring waves. And I have put my words
in your mouth and hidden you safe within my hand. I planted the stars in the
place, and moulded the earth. I AM the one who says to Israel: “YOU ARE MINE!”
17. pAwake, awake, stand-up O Jerusalem, which has drunk at the hand of the
LORD, qthe cup of his fury; rthou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of
trembling, and wrung them out.

a g n
52:1 35:9 Zechariah 9:11
b h o
53:1 35:10 Jeremiah 31:35
c i p
Psalm 44:1; see 23:7 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 verse 9
d j q
Compare 30:6 (Heb) Psalm 118:6 Verse 22; Matthew 20:22
e k r
Psalm 74:13; see 27:1; 40:6 Psalm 73:10; Ezekiel 23:34
Ezekiel 29:3 l
Job 9:8
f
Exodus 14:21 m
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 18. Here is none to guide her from all-of the sons that she has brought forth;
neither is there any that takes her by the hand of all-of the sons that she has
brought up.
19. These two things aare come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee?
Desolation and bdestruction, and the famine, and the sword; cby whom shall
I comfort thee?
20. dThy sons have fainted; they lie at the head of all-of the streets, as a wild
bull in a net; they are full of the fury of the LORD; the rebuke of thy God.
Wake up! Wake up, Jerusalem! You have drunk enough of the cup of the fury of
the LORD. You have drunk to the dregs, the cup of terror, and squeezed out the
last drops. Not one of her sons is left alive to help her, or tell her what to do.
These two things have been your lot; desolation & destruction. Yes, famine and
the sword.
And now, who is left to sympathise Who is left to comfort you? For your sons have
fainted and lie in the streets, helpless as wild goats caught in a net. The LORD has
poured out his fury and His rebuke upon them.
21. Therefore, hear now this; thou afflicted and edrunken, but not with new wine.
22. Thus says thy LORD, the LORD, and thy God that fpleads the cause of his
people; Behold, I have taken out of thy hand the trembling, even the dregs
of the cup of my fury, thou shall no more drink it again.
23. But gI will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee: which have said to
thy soul; Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as
the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.
But listen now to this message ~ you afflicted ones ~ full of trouble and in a stupor
[but not from being drunk on new wine]. This is what the LORD says: the LORD
your God, who cares for His people; “See, I take from your hand the terrible cup
of affliction ~ you shall drink of the cup of my fury no more ~ it has gone at last.
But I will put that terrible cup int the hands of those who tormented you and
trampled your souls to the dust and walked upon your back.”

CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO: CHRIST’S FREE REDEMPTION

1. [M] hAwake, awake; put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful
garments, O Jerusalem, ithe holy city; for henceforth there shall be no longer
come into thee the uncircumcised and jthe unclean.
2. kShake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem; lloose thyself
from the hands of the neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
3. For thus says the LORD; mYou have sold yourselves nfor nought; and oyou
shall be redeemed without money.
4. For thus says the LORD; pmy people went down a foretime into Egypt, to
sojourn there; and the Assyrians oppressed them without cause.
5. Now therefore, what have I here, says the LORD, that my people is taken
away for nought? They that rule over them make them to howl, says the
LORD: and qmy name continually every day is blasphemed.

a g l
[h]~ happened Jeremiah 25:17: Zechariah Zechariah 2:7
b 12:2 m
[h]~ breaking 50:1
h
c
Amos 7:2 51:9 n
Psalm 44:12
i
d
Lamentations 2:11:12 Nehemiah 11:1 o
45:13
j
e
Lamentations 3:15 35:8; Revelation 21:7 p
Genesis 46:6
k
f
Jeremiah 50:34 51:23 q
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 6. Therefore, my people shall know my name: therefore, they shall know ain
that day that bI AM He, that does speak; behold it is I.
Wake up, wake up Jerusalem, and clothe yourself with strength [from God]. Put
on your beautiful clothes, O Zion, the Holy City, for sinners, that is those who turn
from God, will no longer enter into your gates.
Rise up from the dust, Jerusalem; take off the slave bands from your neck, O
captive daughter of Zion. For the LORD says; When I sold you into exile, I asked
no fee from your oppressors; now I can take you back again and owe them not
even one cent! My people were tyrannised without cause by Egypt and Assyria,
and I delivered them.
And now, what is this? Asks the LORD. Why are my people enslaved once again,
and oppressed without excuse? Those who rule them shout with exultation, and
my name is constantly being blasphemed ~ day by day. Therefore, I will reveal
my name to my people, and they shall know the power in that name. Then, at
last, they will recognize that it is I, yes, I, who speaks to them.
7. cHow beautiful upon the mountain are dthe feet of him, who brings good
tidings, that published peace; ethat brings good tidings of good that published
salvation: that says unto Zion, fThy God reigns!
8. Thy watchmen shall lift up thy voice: with a voice together shall they sing;
for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion.
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news of
peace and salvation; the news that the God of Israel reigns. The watchmen shout
and sing with joy, for right before their eyes they see the LOD God bring His people
home again.
9. Break forth into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem: gfor the
LORD has comforted His people, hHe has redeemed Jerusalem.
10. The Lord has made bare iHis Holy arm in the eyes of all-of the nations; jand
all-of the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
Let the ruins of Jerusalem break forth in joyous song, for the LORD has comforted
His people; He has redeemed Jerusalem. The Lord has bared His Holy arm before
the eyes of all-of the nations; the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our
God.
11. kDepart you, depart you, go you out from thence, touch no unclean thing;
go ye out from the midst of her’ be ye clean; lthat bear the vessels of the
LORD.
12. For myou shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go
before you: and nthe God of Israel will obe your reward.
Go now, leave your bonds and your slavery. Put Babylon and all it represents
behind you ~ it is unclean to you. You are the holy people of the LORD; purify
yourselves, all-of you who carry the vessels of the LORD.
You shall not leave in haste, running for your lives; for the LORD will go ahead of
you, and he, the God of Israel, will protect you from behind.
13. Behold, pmy servant shall qdeal prudently, rhe shall exalted and extolled, and
be very high.

a g m
2:11 51:3 Exodus 12:33,39
b h n
Hebrew as in Psalm 102:27 48:20 Exodus 14:19
c i o
Nahum 1:15; Romans 10:15 Psalm 98:1; see 51:9 [h]~ gather you up
d j p
Ephesians 6:15 Psalm 98:3; Matthew 28:19 42:1
e k q
40:9 2 Timothy 2:21 [h]~ prosper
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 14. [F] As many were astonied at thee; ahis visage was so marred more than
any man, and his form more than the sons of men.
15. So bshall he sprinkle many nations; cthe kings shall shut their mouths at him:
for dthat which has not been told (to) them they shall see: and that which
they had not heard they shall consider.
See my servante, shall prosper; He shall be highly exalted. Yet many shall be
amazed when they see Him ~ yes, even far off foreign nations and their kings;
they shall stand dumbfounded, speechless, in His presence. For they shall see and
understand what they have not been told before. They shall see my Servant
beaten and bloodied, so disfigured one would scarcely know it was a person
standing there. So shall He cleanse the nations.

CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE: THE HUMILIATION & SUFFERINGS

OF CHRIST
This whole chapter is prophetic relating to the First Coming of the Messiah.
However, the Jews have a very different interpretation of this passage of scripture.
See Appendix: Jewish Messianic Interpretations of Isaiah 53.

1. [F] fWho has believed our greport? And to whom is hthe arm of the LORD
revealed?
2. [F] For he shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, and as ia root out of
dry ground: he has no form nor comeliness: and when we shall see him,
there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3. [F] jHe is despised and rejected of men; ka man of sorrows, and acquainted
with grief; and lwe hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised and
m
we esteemed him not.
But oh; How few believe it! Who will listen? To whom will God reveal His salvation
power? In God’s eyes, He was like a tender green shoot, sprouting from a root in
dry and sterile ground. But in our eyes, there was no attractiveness at all, nothing
to make us want him. We despised and rejected him ~ a man of sorrows, who
was acquainted with grief. We turned our backs on him, and looked the other way
when He went by. He was despised and we didn’t care.
4. [F] Surely, nhe has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did
esteem him stricken, smitten on God and afflicted.
5. [F] But oHe was pwounded for our transgressions; He was bruised for our
iniquities: the chastisement of qour peace was upon him: and rwith his
s
stripes we are healed.
6. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own
t

way; and uthe LORD has vlaid on him the iniquity of us all.

a g o
Psalm 22:6; see 53:2-3 [h]~ doctrine Romans 4:25
b h p
Ezekiel 36:25; Hebrew 9:13- 51:9 [h]~ tormented
14 i q
52:14 57:29
c
49:7,23 j
Mark 9:12
r
1 Peter 2:24
d
Romans 15:21 k
Hebrews 4:15
s
[h]~ Bruise
e
“the Servant of the LORD”, l
[h]~ he hid as it were, his
t
Matthew 9:36
the term used here, in the face from us u
Messiah, our LORD Jesus. 2 Corinthians 5:21
m
f John 1:10-11 v
[h]~ made the iniquity of us
John 12:38: Romans 10:16 n
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 7.[F] He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet ahe opened not his mouth:
b
He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers
is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.
8. [F] He was taken cfrom prison and from judgement: and dwho shall declare
his generation? For he was cut off out of the land of the living; for the
transgression of my people ewas he stricken.
9. And he made his grave with the wicked, and fwith the rich in his gdeath:
because hhe had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Yet it was our grief He bore, our sorrow that weighed him down. And we thought
that his troubles were a punishment from God, for His own sins! But He was
wounded and bruised for OUR sins! He was chastised, so that we might have
eternal peace: He was lashed, and we were healed! WE are the guilty ones, that
strayed away like sheep! We, who left God’s righteous path, to follow our own
path towards destruction. Yet God laid on Him the guilt and sins of every one of
us!
10. [F] Yet, it please the LORD to bruise him: He has put him to grief; when iyou
shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, jhe shall prolong
his days; and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
11. [F] He shall see the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: kby his
knowledge shall lmy righteous mservant njustify many; for he shall bear (all-
of) their iniquities.
12. [F] oTherefore, will I divide him a portion with the great; and pHe shall, divide
the spoil with the strong: because he has poured out his soul unto death:
and He was numbered with the transgressors: and he bare the sins of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors.
Yet it was the Lord’s good plan to bruise Him and fill Him with grief. But when His
soul had been made as an offering for sin, then he shall have a multitude of
children, many heirs. He shall live again! [Note: The “Servant of the LORD,” as
the term used here, is the Messiah, our Lord Jesus. This was the interpretation of
this passage by Jesus Christ Himself, as it is revealed to Isaiah, and the New
Testament writers and orthodox Christianity ever since.]. And God’s program shall
prosper in His hands. And when He sees all that is accomplished by the anguish
of His soul, He shall be satisfied; and because of what He has experienced, my
righteous Servant shall make many to be counted righteous before God; because
He shall bear all-of their sins. Therefore, I will give Him the honours of one who is
mighty and great, because He has poured out His soul unto death. He was counted
among sinners, and He bore the sins of many, and He pleaded with God for
sinners.

CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR: THE CHURCH IS COMFORTED

1. qSing, O barren one, you that did not bear; break forth into singing, and cry
aloud, you that did not travail with child; for more are the children of
desolation, than the children of rthe married wife, says the LORD.

a g m
Matthew 26:63 [h]~ deaths 42:1
b h n
Acts 8:32 1 Peter 2:22 Romans 5:18-19
c i o
[h]~ away by distress & [h]~ His souls shall make an Psalm 2:8
judgement, but offering p
Colossians 2:15
d j
John 7:27 Romans 6:9 q
Galatians 4:27
e k
[h]~ was the stoke upon him. Philippians 3:8 r
62:4
f l
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 2. aEnlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine
habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
3. For thou shall break forth on the right hand and on the left; and bthy seed
shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
4. Fear not: for you shall not be ashamed; neither be thou confounded; for thou
shall not be out to shame: for thou shall forget the shame of thy youth, and
shall not remember the reproach of thy widowhood anymore.
5. For thy Maker is cthine husband; dthe LORD of Hosts is His name; and ethy
Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall He be
called! [Allah is not who is referred to here, ~ But God Almighty ~ the Maker
of Heaven & the Earth]
6. For the LORD has called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in Spirit, and
f
a wife of youth, when thou wast refused says thy God.
7. For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I
g

gather thee.
8. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but hwith everlasting
kindness will I have mercy upon thee, says the LORD, thy Redeemer.
9. For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for ias I have sworn that the
waters of Noah shall no longer go over the earth; so, I have sworn that I will
not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
10. For the mountains shall depart, and the hills shall jbe removed; but my
kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall kthe covenant of my peace
be removed, says the LORD that has mercy on thee.
Sing, O barren woman! Break out into loud and joyful song, O Jerusalem (literal~
before him), for she who was abandoned, has more blessing now, than those
whose husbands stayed!
Enlarge your house, build on extra rooms, spread out your home! For you will
soon be bursting at the seams! And your descendants will possess the cities left
behind during the exile. And rule the nations that stole your land from you. [God
has promised to restore the “biblical boundaries of Israel.”]

a e Genesis 8:21; 9:11

49:19-20 43:14
j
b
55:5; 61:9
f
Malachi 2:14-15 Psalm 46:2; see 51:6
k
c
Jeremiah 3:14; Revelation
g
Psalm 30:5; see 26:20 Ezekiel 34:25; 37:26;
19:7 h Malachi 2:5
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[If you look at the map closely you will see which land God has promised to return
to Israel, and whether the Muslim nations like it or not, God always honours His
word and His promises.]
Fear not: you will no longer live in shame. The shame of your youth and the sorrow
of widowhood will be remembered no more, for your Creator will be your
“husband.” The LORD of Hosts is His name; He is your Redeemer, the Holy One
of Israel, the GOD of all-of the earth! [Notice Allah is NOT the Creator, nor is he
the god of all-of the earth. He is an imposter ~ a counterfeit!]
For the Lord has called you back from your grief, a young wife abandoned by her
husband. For a brief moment I abandoned you. But with great compassion I will
gated you (from the ends of the earth). In a moment of anger, I turned my face
away for a little while; but with everlasting love I will have pity on you, says the
LORD, your Redeemer.
[P] Just as in the time of Noah, I swore that I never again would permit the waters
of a flood to cover all-of the earth and destroy its life; so now I swear that I will
never again pour out mine anger on you as I have done during this exile. For the
mountains may depart and the hills disappear, but my kindness shall not leave
you. My promise of peace for you will never be broken, says the LORD who has
mercy on you.
11. O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay
they stones with fair colours, and alay thy foundations with sapphires.
12. And I will take thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all-
of thy borders of pleasant stones.
13. [M] bAnd all-of thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be
the peace of thy children.

a b
Revelation 21:19 Jeremiah 31:34; John 6:45;
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 14. In righteousness shall thou be established: thou shall be far from
oppression; for thou shall not fear; and from terror; for it shall not come
near thee.
15. [P] Behold, they shall surely gather together, abut not be me; whosoever
shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.
16. Behold, I have created the smith that blows the coals in the fire, and that
brings forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to
destroy.
O my afflicted people, tempest-tossed and greatly troubled, I will rebuild you on
a foundation of sapphires, ad make the walls of your houses from precious jewels.
I will make your towers of sparkling agate, and your gates and walls of shining
gems. And all-of your citizens shall be taught by me, and their prosperity shall be
great. You will live under a government that is just and fair. Your enemies will
stay far away; you will live in peace. Terror shall not come near you. If any nation
comes to fight you, it will not be sent by me to punish you. Therefore, it will be
routed, for I am on your side. I have created a smith who blows the coals beneath
the forge and who makes the weapons of destruction. And I have created the
armies that destroy.
17. No weapon formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall
rise against thee in judgement thou shall condemn. This is the heritage of
the servants of the LORD and their righteousness is of me, says the LORD.
[P] But in that coming day, no weapon turned against thee shall succeed, and you
will have justice against every courtroom lie. This is the heritage of the servants
of the LORD. This is the blessing I have given you, says the LORD.

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CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE: A CALL OF FAITH
1. HO, aevery one that thirsts, come ye to the waters, and he that has no
money; come ye, buy and eat; yes, come, buy wine and milk, bwithout
money and without price.
2. cWherefore do you dspend money for that which is not bread? And your
labour for that which satisfies not? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye
that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
3. Incline your ear, and ecome unto me: and your soul shall live; and fI will
make an everlasting covenant with you, even gthe sure mercies of David.
4. Behold, I have given Him for ha witness to the people, a leader and
commander to the people.
5. Behold, ithou shall call a nation that you know not, and nations that knew
not thee, shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy
One of Israel; jfor He has glorified thee.
Attention Everyone! Is anyone thirsty? Come and drink ~ even if you have no
money! Come and take your choice of wine and milk ~ it’s all free! Why spend
your money on foodstuffs that don’t give you any strength? Why pay for groceries
that don’t do you any good? Listen, and I will tell you where to get good food that
fattens up your soul.
6. kSeek the LORD while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near:
7. Let the wicked forsake his ways; and lthe unrighteous man his thoughts; and
let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our
God, for he will mabundantly pardon.
Seek the LORD while you can still find him. Call upon Him while He is still nearby.
Let men cast off their wicked deeds; let them banish from their minds the very
thought of doing wrong! Let them turn to the LORD so that He may have mercy
upon them, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon!
8. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says
the LORD.
9. For nas the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than
your ways, and my thoughts (higher) that your thoughts.
10. For oas then rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and returns not
thither, but waters the earth, and makes it being forth and bud, pthat it may
give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater.
11. [M] qSo shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth; it shall not return
unto me void; but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper
in the thing whereto I sent it.
12. [M] rFor you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: and the
mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all sthe
trees of the field shall clap their hands.

a Psalm 89:1,28,49 m
John 7:37 [h]~ multiply to pardon
h
b
Matthew 10:8 John 18:37; Revelation 1:5 n
Psalm 103:11
i
c
John 6:27 52:15; Ephesians 2:11-12 o
Deuteronomy 32:2
j
d
[h]~ weigh out 60:9 p
2 Corinthians 9:10
k
e
Matthew 11:28 Matthew 5:25; Luke 13:25; q
54:9
f John 7:34; 2 Corinthians r
61:8 6:2; Hebrews 3:13 35:10
g l s
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 13. [M] aInstead of the thorn shall come fir tree, instead of the brier shall come
myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD, bfor a name, for an everlasting sign
that shall not be cut off.
This plan of mine is not what you should work out, neither are my thoughts the
same as yours. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways
higher than yours, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
As the rain and snow comes down from heaven and stays on the ground to water
the earth, and causes the grain to grow and to produce seed for the farmer and
bread for the hungry, so my also is my Word. I send it out and it always produces
fruit. It shall accomplish all I want it to do, and prosper everywhere I sent it.
You will live in joy and peace. The mountains and the hills, the trees of the field ~
all-of the world around you will rejoice. Where once there were thorns, fir trees
will grow, where briars grew, myrtle trees will sprout up. This miracle will make
the LORD’S name very great, and an everlasting sign of God’s power and His love.

CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX: SANCTIFICATION

1. Thus says the LORD; Keep ye cjudgements, and do justice: for dmy salvation
is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.
2. Blessed is the man that does this; and the son of man that lays hold on it;
e
that keeps the Sabbath from polluting it, and keeps his hand from doing any
evil.
Be just and fair to all, the LORD God says! Do what is right and good, for I AM
coming soon to rescue you. Blessed is the man who refuses to work during my
Sabbath day of rest, but honours them; and blessed is the man who checks himself
from doing wrong.
3. Neither let fthe son of the stranger, that has joined himself to the LORD,
speak, saying; The LORD has utterly separated me from His people; neither
let the eunuch say; Behold, I am a dry tree.
4. For thus says the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my Sabbaths, and choose
the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant. [God is available
to everyone, even those who have been physically abused; reject no one;
He came so that ALL sinners can be saved. But it is up to us, to make a
decision to accept His gift of salvation. He never tries to ram it down our
throats].
5. Even unto them will I give in gmine house and within my walls a place, and
h
a name better that the sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting
name that shall not be cut off.
6. Also, the sons of the stranger that joins themselves to the LORD, to be his
servants, every one that keeps the Sabbath from polluting it, and takes hold
of my covenant;
7. iEven them, will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my
house of prayer; jtheir burn offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted
upon mine altar; for kmine house shall be called a house of prayer for all
people. [When Jesus went into the Temple and started whipping the people

a e h
41:19 See verses 4,6 John 1:12; Romans 8:15
b f i
Jeremiah 13:11 Deuteronomy 23:3; Ch 2:2
c 60:10; Acts 10:1-2 j
[h]~ equity Hebrews 13:15
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 and saying “MY Father’s House shall be a House of Prayer for all nations;” He
was reminding the Jews of this scripture in Isaiah.]
8. The LORD God, which gathers athe outcasts of Israel says this; Yet bwill I
gather others to him, cbeside those that are gathered unto him.
And my blessings are for the Gentiles too; when they accept the LORD; don’t let
them think that I will make them second-class citizens. And this is for the eunuchs
also! They can be as much mine as anyone, who decides to follow me. For I say
this to the eunuchs that keeps his Sabbaths holy and choose the things that please
him; and come to grips with his laws.
I will give them ~ in my house, within my walls, a name far greater than the
honour they would receive from having sons and daughters. For the name that I
will give them is an everlasting name; it will never disappear.
As for the Gentiles, the outsiders, who join the people of the LORD and serve him,
and love his name; and are His servants and do not desecrate the Sabbaths, and
have accepted His covenant and promises, I will bring them also to my holy
mountain of Jerusalem, and make them full of joy within my House of Prayer.
I will accept their sacrifices and their offerings, for my Temple shall be called “A
House of Prayer for ALL People”! For the LORD God who brings back the outcast
of Israel says; I will bring others too, besides my people Israel.
A Charge is laid against the Priests of the Synagogue
9. All you beasts of the field, come to devour, yes, all you beasts of the field.
10. His dwatchman are blind: They are all ignorant, they are all dumb edogs, they
cannot bark; fsleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
11. Yes, they are ggreedy dogs which hcan never have enough, and they are
i
shepherds than cannot understand: they will all look their own way, jevery
one for his gain, from his quarter.
12. Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong
drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.
Come wild animals of the field; come, tear apart the sheep; come, wild animals of
the forest, devour my people. For the Leaders of my people ~ the LORD’S
watchmen, his shepherds, are all blind to every danger. They are “featherbrained”
and give no warning when danger comes. They love to lie there, love to sleep, to
dream. And they are as greedy as dogs, never satisfied; they are stupid
shepherds, who only look after their own interests, each trying to get as much as
he can for himself, from every possible source.
“Come,” they say; “We’ll get some wine and have a party; let’s all get drunk. This
is really living; let it go on and on, and tomorrow will even be better yet!”

CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN: JEWISH IDOLATRY

1. The righteous perish, and no man lays it to heart: and kmerciful men are
taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from lthe evil
to come.
2. He shall menter into peace; they shall rest in their nbeds. Each one walking
o
in his uprightness.

a f k
11:12 [h]~ dreaming & talking in [h]~ Men of kindness &
b their sleep godliness
John 10:16; Ephesians 1:10
g l
c
[h]~ to his gathered. [h]~ strong of appetite [h]~ that which is evil
h m
d
62:6 [h]~ know not to be satisfied [h]~ go in peace
i n
e
Philippians 3:2 Ezekiel 34:2-3 2 Chronicles 16:14
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The good men perish; the godly die before their time, and no one seems to care
or wonder why. No-one seems to realise that God is taking them away from the
evil days ahead. For the godly who die shall rest in peace.
3. But draw near hither; ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and
the whore.
4. Against whom do you sport yourselves? Against whom make you a wife
mouth, and draw out the tongue? Are you not children of transgression, aa
seed of falsehood;
5. Enflaming yourselves bwith idols cunder every green tree, dslaying the
children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
6. Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy
lot; even to them that have poured a drink offering. Should I receive comfort
in these?
7. eUpon a lofty and high mountain have you set your bed; even you went up
there to offer sacrifice.
8. Behind the doors also and the posts have you set up thy remembrance: for
f
you have discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast
enlarged thy bed, and gmade thee a covenant with them; hthou lovest their
bed where thous saw it.
9. And ithou went to the king with ointment, and did increase thy perfumes,
and didst send thy messengers far off, and did debate thyself even unto hell.
10. Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet jsaid thou not; There is no
hope; thou hast found the klife of thine hand; therefore, you were not
grieved.
11. And lof whom have thou been afraid or feared, that mthou hast lied, and hast
not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? nHave not I held my peace,
even of old, that thou fearest me not?
12. I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works: for they shall not profit thee.
But you ~ come here, you witches’ sons, you offspring of adulterers and harlots!
Who is it that you mock, making faces and sticking out your tongues? [Just like
they do today in their Mardi Gras marches]. You children of sinners and liars!
You worship your idols with great zeal beneath the shade of every tree, and slay
your children (and unborn children) as human sacrifices, down in the valleys,
under overhanging rocks. Your gods are the smooth stones in the valleys. You
worship them and they, not I, are your inheritance.
Does all this make me happy? You have committed adultery on the tops of the
mountains, for you worship idols there, deserting me.
Behind closed doors you set your idols up and worship someone other than me.
This is adultery, for you are giving these idols your love, instead of loving me. You
have taken pleasant incense and perfumes to Molech, as your gift. You have
travelled far, even to hell itself, to find new gods to love.
You grew weary in your search, but you never gave up. You strengthened yourself
and went on. Why were you more afraid of them than of me? Why is it that you
did not even give a second thought to me ~ your Creator? Is it because I have
been too gentle, that you have no fear of me?

a f j
1:4 Ezekiel 16:15 Jeremiah 2:25; 18:12
b g k
[h]~ among the oaks [h]~ hewed it for thyself [h]~ Living
c larger than theirs. l
1 Kings 14:23; 2 Kings 16:4 51:12-13
h
d
Leviticus 18:21 Ezekiel 16:26,28 m
Psalm 78:36
i
e
Ezekiel 16:16,25 [h]~ you provided room n
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And then there is your “righteousness,” and your “good works” ~ none of these
will save you. [Without REPENTANCE, no-one shall see God!]
13. When you cry out let thy companies deliver thee: but the wind shall carry
them all away; vanity shall overtake them; but ahe that puts his trust in me
b
shall possess the land, and shall inherit cmy holy mountain.
14. And shall say; dCast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the
stumbling block out of the way of my people.
15. For thus says the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, ewhose name is
Holy; I dwell in the high and fholy place, gwith him also that is of a contrite
and humble spirit, hto revive the heart of the contrite ones.
16. iFor I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit
should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
17. For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me,
and was wroth, and he went on jfrowardly in the way of his heart.
18. I have seen his ways, and I kwill heal him; I will lead him also, and restore
comforts unto him and to lhis mourners.
19. I create mthe fruit of the lips: nPeace, peace to him that is ofar off, and to
him that is near, says the LORD; and I will heal him.
20. But, pthe wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters
cast up mire and dirt.
21. qThere is no peace, says my God, to the wicked.
Let us see if the whole collection of your idols can help you, when you cry out to
them to save you! They are so weak that the wind can carry them off! A small
breath can puff them away. But he who trusts in me shall possess the land then
inherit my Holy Mountain. I will say; Rebuild the road! Clear away the rocks and
the stones. Prepare a glorious highway for my people’s return from captivity.
The high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, the Holy One says this; I live in that
high and holy place where those with contrite, humble spirits dwell; and I refresh
the humble and give new courage to those with repentance hearts.
For I will not fight against you forever, nor always show my wrath; if I did, all-of
mankind would perish ~ the very souls that I have made. I was angry and smote
these greedy men. But they went right on sinning, doing everything their evil
hearts desired. I have seen what they do, but I will heal them anyway! I will lead
them and comfort them, helping them to mourn and to confess their sins. Peace,
peace to them, both near and far, for I will heal them all. But those who still reject
me (the wicked ones), are like the restless sea, which is never still, but always
churns up mire and dirt. There is no peace for the wicked, says my God ~ for
them!

a g m
14:32 Psalm 34:18; 138:6 Hebrews 13:15
b h n
Psalm 37:9 61:1 Ephesians 2:17
c i o
11:9; 65:11,25 Psalm 103:9 Acts 2:39
d j p
62:10 [h]~ turning away Jude 13
e k q
Luke 1:49 Jeremiah 3:22 48:22
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CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT: THE “ACCEPTABLE” FAST
1. aCry baloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people
their transgressions, and the house of Jacob their sins.
2. Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did
righteousness, and forsook not the ordinances of their God: they ask of me
the ordinance of justice: cthey take delight in approaching to God.
Shout with the voice of a trumpet blast: tell the people of their sins! Yet they act
so piously! They come to the Temple every day and are so delighted to hear the
readings of my laws ~ just as though they would obey them ~ just a as though
they don’t despise the commandments of their God! How anxious are they to
worship correctly; oh, how they love the Temple services!
3. dWherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? Wherefore have
we eafflicted our souls, and thou take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of
your fast, you find pleasure, and fexact all-of your glabours.
4. Behold, you fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of
wickedness: hyou shall not fast as you do this day, ito make your voice to be
heard on high.
5. Is it such a fast that I have chosen? jA day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it
to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under
him? Will thou call this a fast? And an acceptable day of the LORD?
6. Is this not the fast that I have chosen? To lose the bands of wickedness, kto
undo lthe heavy burdens, and mto let the noppressed go free, and that you
break every yoke?
7. Is it not oto deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that
are pcast out to thy house? When thou see the naked, that thou cover him;
and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? [GOD’S FAST!]
No! The kind of fast that I want is that you stop oppressing those who work for
you, and threat them fairly, and pay them their correct wages. I want you to share
your food with the hungry, and bring the helpless right into your home, the poor
and the destitute. Clothe those that are cold, and don’t hide from relatives that
need your help.
8. Then shall your light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall
spring forth speedily; and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory
of the LORD shall qbe thy reward.
9. Then thou shall call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shall cry, and He shall
say; Here I AM. If you take away from the midst of thee the yoke, rthe putting
forth of the finger, and sspeaking vanity;
10. And if thy draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then
shall thy light in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday (sun).

a h o
40:3 [h]~ you fast not as this day Luke 3:11
b i p
[h]~ with the throat Matthew 6:7 [h]~ afflicted
c j q
Matthew 13:20 [h]~ to afflict his soul for a [h]~ gather thee up
d day r
Malachi 3:14 Proverbs 6:13
k
e
Leviticus 16:29 Nehemiah 5:10-12 s
Psalm 12:2
l
f
60:17 [h]~ the bundles of the yoke
m
g
[h]~ wherewith you grieve Luke 4:18
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 11. And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in adrought,
and make fat thy bones; and thou shall be blike a watered garden, and like
a spring of water, whose waters cfail not.
12. And they that shall be of thee, dshall build the old waste places: and thou
shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shall be called
the “repairer of the breach,” The restorer of paths to dwell in.
[P] IF you do these things, God will shed His own glorious light upon you. He will
heal you; your godliness will lead you forward, and goodness will be a shield before
you, and the glory of the LORD will protect you from behind. THEN when you call,
the LORD will answer. “Yes, I AM here.” He will quickly reply. All you need to do
is stop oppressing the weak, and stop making false accusations and spreading
vicious rumours. Feed the hungry! Help those in trouble! Then your light will shine
out from the darkness, and the darkness around you shall bed as bright as day.
And the LORD will guide you continually, and satisfy you with all good things, and
keep you healthy too; and you will be like a well-watered garden, like an ever-
flowing spring. Your sons will rebuild the long-deserted ruins of your cities, and
you will be known as “The People Who Rebuild their Walls and Cities.”
13. If ethou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my
holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable;
and shall honour him, not doing thine own ways; nor finding thine own
pleasures, nor speaking thine own words:
14. THEN fshall thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will gcause thee to ride
upon the high places of the earth; and feed the with the heritage of Jacob,
they father; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it!
[P] IF you keep the Sabbath holy, not having your own fund and business on that
day, but enjoying the Sabbath and speaking of it with delight as the LORD’S holy
day, and honouring the LORD in what you do, not following your own desires and
pleasures, nor talking idly ~ THEN the LORD will be your delight, and I will see to
it that you ride high, and get your full share of blessings I promised to Jacob, your
father. The LORD has spoken.

CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE: THE SINS OF THE JEWS

1. Behold, hthe LORD’S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his
ear heavy, that it cannot hear;
2. [M] But iyour iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your
sins jhave hid his face from you, that He will not hear.
3. For kyour hands are defiled with (innocent) blood, and your fingers with
iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness.
4. None call for justice; nor any lplead for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak
lies; mthey conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
5. They hatch ncockatrice’s eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eats their
eggs dies, and that which is ocrushed breaks out into a viper.

a f k
[h]~ droughts 57:4 (Hebrew) 1:15
b g l
Jeremiah 31:12 Deuteronomy 32:13 66:16; Jeremiah 2:35; 25:31
c h m
[h]~ lie, or deceive 50:2; Numbers 11:23 Psalm 7:14
d i n
Nehemiah 4:6,17-21 50:1; 64:7 [h]~ death adder
e j o
Nehemiah 10:31; 13:15-22; [h]~ have made him hide [h]~ sprinkled as if they
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 6. Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves
with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is
in their hands.
7. aTheir feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their
thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and bdestruction is in their paths.
8. The way of peace they know not; and there is no cjudgement in their goings:
d
they have made their crooked paths: whosoever goes therein shall not know
peace.
Listen up! The LORD is not too weak to save you. And He is not going deaf! He
can hear you when you call. But the problem is that your sins have separated you;
cut you off from God. Because of YOUR SINS, he has deliberately turned his face
away from you, and will not listen to you anymore.
For your hands are those of murderers, and your fingers are filthy with sins. You
lie and grumble and oppose those that are good. No-one cares about being fair
and true. Your lawsuits are based upon lies; you spend your time plotting evil
deeds and doing them. [Exactly what is happening in the USA right now!]
You spend your time and energy in spinning evil plans which end up in deadly
actions. You cheat and short-change everyone. Everything you do is filled with
sin: violence is your trademark. Your feet continually run to do evil and you rush
to murder, your thoughts are only of sinning; and wherever you go you leave
behind you a trial of misery, death and destruction. You have no clue about what
true peace is, nor what it means to be just, and good. You continually do wrong
and those who follow you, won’t experience any peace either.
9. Therefore, is judgement far from us, neither does justice overtake us; ewe
wait for light; but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk I darkness.
10. fWe grope for the wall like the blind; and we grope as if we have no eyes;
we stumble at noon, as if it is in the night; we are in desolate places as dead
men.
11. We all roar like bears, and gmourn sore like doves; we look for judgement,
but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
12. For our transgressions are multiplied before thee; and our sins testify against
us; for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities we know
them:
13. In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our
GOD, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering hfrom the
heart words of falsehood.
14. And judgement is turned away backward, and justice stands afar off; for
truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
15. Yes, truth fails: and he that departs from evil imakes himself a prey: and
the LORD saw it; and jit displeased him that there was not judgement.
It is because of all-of this evil that you are not finding Gods’ blessings; that’s why
he does not punish those that injure you. No wonder that you are in darkness
when you expected light. No wonder you are walking in the gloom. No wonder
you grope like blind men and stumble around in broad daylight; yes, even at
brightest noontime, as though it was the darkest night! No wonder that you are
like corpses when compared with vigorous young men! You roar like hungry
bears; you moan with mournful cries like doves.

a e i
Romans 3:15 Jeremiah 8:15 [h]~ and is accounted mad
b f j
[h]~ breaking Deuteronomy 28:29 [h]~ it was evil in His eyes
c g
[h]~ right 38:14
d h
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You look for God to keep you ~ but he does not! He has turned away from you.
For your sins keep piling up before a righteous God, and they testify against you.
Yes, we know what sinners we are. We know of our disobedience; we have denied
the LORD our God. We know what rebels we are, and how unfair we are, for we
carefully plan our lies. Our justice system opposes the righteous man; fairness in
the courts is unknown. Truth falls dead in the streets, and justice is outlawed.
Yes, truth is gone, and anyone who tries to live a better life is soon attacked. The
LORD saw all-of the evil and was displeased to find that no steps were taken
against the sins.
16. And aHe saw that there was no man, and wondered why there was no
intercessor: btherefore, his arm brought salvation unto him; and his
righteous sustained him.
17. For cHe put on righteousness as a breastplate; and a helmet of salvation
upon His head; and He put on the garment of dvengeance for clothing, and
was clad with zeal as a cloak.
18. eAccording to their fdeeds, accordingly He will repay, fury to his adversaries,
recompense to his enemies; to gthe islands he will repay recompense.
19. hSo shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and His glory from
the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in ilike a flood, the Spirit
of the LORD shall jlift up a standard against him.
He saw that no-one was coming to help you, and wondered why no-one
intervened. Therefore, God (Himself) stepped in to save you through His mighty
power and justice. He on righteousness as armour, and a helmet of salvation upon
his head. He clothed himself with the robes of vengeance and of godly fury. He
will repay his enemies for their evil deeds ~ fury for his foes in distant lands. Then
at last, they will reverence and glorify the name of the Lord God from west to east.
For he will come like a flood-tide, driven by Jehovah’s breath.
20. And kthe Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from
transgressions in Jacob, says the LORD.
21. As for me, this is MY Covenant with them, says the LORD; My Spirit that is
upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart
out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of
thy seed’s seed (for 3 generations); says the LORD, from henceforth and
forever.
[P] He shall come as a Redeemer to those in Zion, who have turned away from
sin. “As for me, this is my promise to them,” says the Lord. “My Holy Spirit shall
not leave them, and they shall want the good and hate the wrong ~ they and their
children and their children’s’ children (for 3 generations) forever!

a e i
63:5: Ezekiel 22:30 63:7 Revelation 12:15
b f j
63:5 [h]~ recompenses [h]~ shall put him to flight
c g k
61:10; Ephesians 6:14 41:1 Romans 11:26-27
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CHAPTER SIXTY: ACCESS OF CHRIST TO GENTILES
The FIRST 9 verses are prophetic (as are others in this chapter)
1. [M] Arise ashine, for the light is come, and bthe glory of the LORD is risen
upon thee.
2. [M] For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the
people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and His glory shall be seen upon
thee.
3. [M] And cthe Gentiles shall come to thy light, and dkings to the brightness of
thy rising
4. [M] Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves
together, ethey come to thee; thy sons shall come for afar, and thy daughters
shall be nursed at thy side.
5. [M] Then thou shall see; and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and
be enlarged; because fthe gabundance of the sea shall be converted unto
thee, the hforces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.
6. [M] The multitude of camels shall cover thee and the dromedaries of Midian
and iEphah; all they from Sheba shall: they shall bring jgold and incense;
and they shall show forth the praises of the LORD.
7. [M] All-of the flocks of kKedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams
of lNebaioth shall minister unto thee; mthey shall come up with acceptance
on mine altar; and I will glorify the house of my glory.
8. [M] Who are these that fly as a cloud, and ands the doves to their windows.?
9. [M] Surely, nthe isles shall wait for me; and the ships of Tarshish first, oto
bring thy sons from afar, ptheir silver and their gold with them, qunto the
name of the LORD, thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because He has
glorified thee.
10. And rthe sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and stheir kings shall
minister unto thee: for tin my wrath, I smote thee, but uin my favour have I
had mercy on thee.
11. [P] Therefore, vthy gates shall be open continually: they shall not be shut
day or night; that men may bring unto thee the wforces of the Gentiles, and
that their kings maybe brought.
12. [P] For xthe nation and kingdom that will not serve thee ~ shall perish: Yes,
those nations shall be utterly wasted!
13. [P] yThe glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, zthe fir tree, the pine tree,
and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make
aa
the place of my feet glorious.
14. [P] The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee;
and all they that despised thee shall bbbow themselves down at the soles of

a j t
[h]~ be enlightened for the 61:6; Matthew 2:11 57:17
light comes k u
Genesis 25:13; Psalm 120:5 54:7-8
b
Malachi 4:2 l
Genesis 25:13
v
Revelation 21:25
c
42:5; see verses 5,11, m
66:20
w
[h]~ wealth
d
49:23, see verses 10-11,16 n
Psalm 72:10
x
Zechariah 14:17-19
e
49:20-22 o
14:2
y
35:2
f
55:5; Romans 11:25 p
Psalm 68:30; Zechariah
z
41:19
g
[h]~ the noise of the sea 14:14 aa
1 Chronicles 28:2
shall be turned towards thee. q
54:7-8 bb
h 49:23
[h]~ wealth r
56:3,6
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 thy feet; and they shall call thee, aThe city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy
One of Israel.
15. Whereas thou have been bforsaken and hated, so that no man went through
thee, I will make thee and eternal cexcellence, a joy of many generations.
16. dThou shall also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and eshall suck the breast of
kings: and you shall know that fI, the LORD am, the Saviour and the
Redeemer, gthe mighty One of Jacob.
17. For brass I bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass,
and for stones, iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors
righteousness.
18. hViolence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction
withing thy borders: but thou shall call ithy walls salvation, and thy gates
j
Praise.
19. [M] kThe sun shall no more be thy light by day; neither for brightness shall
the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee lan everlasting
light, and thy God thy glory.
20. [M] mThy sun shall no longer go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw
itself; for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and nthe days of thy
mourning shall be ended.
21. oThy people also shall be all righteous; they shall inherit the land forever,
p
the branch of my planting, qthe work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
22. rA little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation; I,
the LORD will hasten it in his time.
ARISE, My people! Lert your light shine for all-of the nations to see! For the glory
of the Lord is streaming from you. Darkness, as black as night, shall cover all the
peoples of the earth, but the glory of the LORD will shine from you.
Lift up your eyes and see! For your sons and daughter are coming home to you
fro distant lands. [Since the nation of Israel was created in one day (as was
prophesied) Jews have been coming back to Israel from all of the nations of the
earth ~ and it will continue until the LORD’S promise is completed.]
Your eyes will shine with joy, your hearts will thrill, for merchants from all over
the world will flow to you, bringing you the wealth of many lands.
Vast droves of camels will converge upon you, dromedaries from Midian and Sheba
and Ephah, too, bringing gold and incense, to add to the praise of God. The flocks
of Kedar shall be given you, the rams of Nebaioth for my altars, and I will glorify
my glorious Temple in that day. [Refer Ezekiel chapters 40-48 for the Tribulation
~ Millennium Temple].
And those that fly like a cloud to Israel, like doves to their nests? I have reserved
the ships of many lands, the very best, [literally, the ships of Tarshish], to bring
the sons of Israel home again from far away, bringing their wealth with them. For
the Holy One of Israel, known around the world, has glorified you in the eyes of
all nations.
Foreigners shall come and build your cities. Presidents and kings will send you aid.
For although I destroyed you in my anger, I will have mercy on you through my

a g m
Psalm 46:4 Psalm 132:2 Amos 8:9
b h n
54:6; 62:4 11:9 Revelation 21:4
c i o
Psalm 47:4 26:1 52:1
d j p
49:23; 61:6; 66:11-12 61:11 61:3; Matthew 15:13; John
e k 15:2
49:2; 61:6; 66:11-12 Revelation 21:23; 22:5
q
f
43:3
l
Psalm 27:1 64:8; Ephesians 2:10
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grace. Your gates shall stay wide open, 24/7, to receive the wealth of many lands.
The kings of the world will cater to you. For the nations refusing to be your allies
(that will not serve you) shall perish: They shall be destroyed! The glory of
Lebanon will be yours ~ the forests of firs and pines, and box trees ~ to beautify
my sanctuary. My Temple will be glorious!
The sons of anti-Semites will come and bow before you! They will kiss your feet!
They will call Jerusalem “The City of the LORD” and “The Glorious Mountain of the
Holy One of Israel”.
Though once defiled, despised, hated, and rebuffed by all, you will be beautiful
forever, a joy for all the generations of the world, for I will make you so.
Powerful kings and mighty nations shall provide you with the choicest of their
goods, to satisfy your every need, and you will know ~ at last, and really
understand that I, the LORD, am your Saviour, and Redeemer, the Mighty One of
Israel.
I will exchange your brass for gold, your iron for silver, your wood for brass, your
stones for iron. Peace and righteousness shall be your taskmasters! Violence shall
disappear out of your land ~ all wars will end! Your walls shall be “Salvation” and
your gates “Praise”.
No longer will you need the sun or the moon to give you light, for the LORD your
God will be your everlasting light; and He will be your glory. Your sun shall never
set; the moon shall not go down for the LORD will be your everlasting light; your
days of mourning all will end. All your people will be good They will possess their
land forever, for I will plant them there with my own hands; this will bring me
glory. The smallest family will multiply into a clan; the tiny group shall be a mighty
nation. I, the LORD, will bring it all to pass when it is time.

CHAPTER SIXTY-ONE: THE OFFICE OF CHRIST

Jesus commenced his Ministry by proclaiming this section of scripture!
1. [F] aThe Spirit of the LORD God is upon me; because the LORD bhas anointed
me cto preach good tidings unto dthe meek; he has sent me eto bind up the
broken hearted, fto proclaim liberty to the captives; and the opening of the
prisons to them that are bound;
2. [F] gTo proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and hthe day of vengeance
of our God; ito comfort all who mourn;
3. [F] To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, jto give unto them beauty for
ashes, kthe oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of
heaviness: that they might be called ltrees of righteousness, mthe planting of
the LORD, that He might be glorified.
The Spirit of the LORD God is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me, to
bring good news to the suffering and the afflicted. He has sent me to comfort the
broken-hearted, to announce liberty to the captives, and to open the eyes of the
blind. He has sent me to tell all-of those who mourn that the time of God’s to them
has come, and the day of his wrath to their enemies. To all who mourn in Israel,
He will give: Beauty for ashes; Joy instead of mourning; Praise instead of

a f k
Luke 4:18-19 Leviticus 25:10 Psalm 45:7
b g l
Psalm 45:7 Leviticus 25:9 57:5
c h m
Mark 1:38 34:8; 66:14 60:21
d i
29:9 57:18
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heaviness. For God has planted them like strong and graceful oaks for His own
glory.
4. [S, M] And athey shall build the old wastes, they shall rise up the former
desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many
generations.
5. [S, M] And bstrangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the
alien shall be your ploughmen and your vinedressers.
6. [S, M] But cyou shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you
the Ministers of our God; dyou shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their
glory shall you boast yourselves.
And they shall rebuild the ancient ruins, repairing cities long ago destroyed,
reviving them though they have laid waste for many generations. Foreigners shall
be your servants; they shall feed your flocks, and plough your fields, and tend
your vineyards.
You shall be called priests of the LORD, ministers of our God. You shall be fed with
the treasures of the nations, and shall glory in their riches.
7. [S, M] For your shame eyou shall have double; and for confusion they shall
rejoice in their portion: therefore, in their land they possess the double;
everlasting joy shall be unto them.
8. [S, M] For, I the LORD, love judgement, fI hate robbery for burnt offering;
and I will direct their worth in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant
with them.
9. [S, M] And gtheir seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring
among the people; all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are
the seed which the LORD has blessed.
10. I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for hhe
has clothed me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom idecks
himself with ornaments, and jas a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
11. For as the earth brings forth her buds, and as the garden causes the things
that are sown in it to spring forth; so thew LORD God will cause righteousness
and praise to spring forth before all-of the nations.
Instead of shame and dishonour, you shall have a double portion of prosperity,
and everlasting joy. For, I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and wrong! I
will faithfully reward my people for their suffering and make an everlasting
covenant with them. [Jeremiah 31:31]. Their descendants shall be known and
honoured among the nations; all shall realise that they are people God has
blessed.
Let me tell you how happy God has made me! For he has clothed me with
garments of salvation and draped about me “the robe of righteousness.” I am like
a bridegroom in his wedding suit, or a bride with her jewels. The LORD will show
the nations of the world his justice; all will praise Him. His righteousness shall be
like a budding tree, or like a garden in early spring; full of young plants springing
up everywhere.

a e i
49:8; Ezekiel 36:10, 33-36 40:2; Zechariah 9:12 [h]~ decks himself as a priest
b f j
Ephesians 2:12 1:11,13; Malachi 1:13 49:18; Revelation 21:2
c g
Exodus 19:6; see 66:21 54:3
d h
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CHAPTER SIXTY-TWO: THE OFFICE OF MINISTERS
This whole chapter is prophetic, relating to the Second Coming to earth & the
Millennium reign.

1. [S, M] For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace; and for Jerusalem’s sake I
will not rest; until athe righteousness thereof, go forth as brightness, and the
salvation thereof as a lamp that burns.
2. [S, M] And bthe Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and call-of the kings thy
glory; and thou shall be called by da new name, which the mouth of the Lord
shall name.
3. [S, M] Thou shall also be ea crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a
royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
4. [S, M] fThou shall no more be termed as gforsaken; neither shall thy land any
more be termed hdesolate; but thou shall be called iHephzibah, and thy land
j
Beulah: for the LORD delights in thee, and thy land shall be married.
Because I live Zion, because my heart yearns for Jerusalem, I will not cease to
pray for her or to cry out to God on her behalf, until she shines forth in his
righteousness, and is glorious in his salvation. The nations shall see your
righteousness. Kings shall be blinded by your glory. And God will confer on you a
new name.
He will hold you aloft in his hands for all to see ~ a splendid crown for the King of
kings. Never again shall you be called “The GOD-forsaken Land” or the “that Land
that God forgot.” Your new name will be “The Land of God’s Delight” and “The
Bride,” for the LORD delights in you and will claim you as his own.
5. [S. M] For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee;
and kas the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so lshall thy God rejoice over
thee.
6. [S. M] I have set mwatchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never
hold their peace, day, or night. Ye that nmake mention of the LORD, keep
not silent;
7. [S. M] And give him no orest, till he establish, and till he makes Jerusalem pa
praise in the earth.
8. [S. M] The LORD has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength;
q
Surely, rI will no longer give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the
sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou has laboured.
9. [S. M] But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and
they that have brought it together shall drink it sin the courts of my holiness.
Your children will care for you, O Jerusalem, with joy like that of a young man who
married a virgin; and God will rejoice over you as a bridegroom with his bride.
O Jerusalem, I have set intercessors (watchmen) on your walls, who shall cry out
to God 24/7 for the fulfilment of His promises. Take no rest, all you who pray, and
give God no rest until He establishes Jerusalem and makes her respected and

a i o
Proverbs 4:18 [h]~ my light is in her [h]~ silence
b j p
Psalm 98:2 [h]~ married 61:11; Zephaniah 3:20
c k q
60:3 [h]~ with the joy of the [h]~ if I give …
d bridegroom r
65:15; Revelation 2:17; 3:12 Deuteronomy 28:30-33;
l
e
Zechariah 9:16 65:19 Jeremiah 5:17
m s
f
Hosea 1:10; 1 Peter 2:10 Ezekiel 3:17 Deuteronomy 12:11-12;
n 14:23,26
g
49:14; 54:6-7; 60:15 [h]~ are the Lord’s
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admired throughout the earth. Then LORD has sworn to Jerusalem with all-of his
integrity: “I will never again give you to your enemies; Never again shall foreign
soldiers come and take away your grain and wine. You raised it; you shall keep it,
praising God. Within the Temple Courts you yourselves shall drink the wine that
you have pressed.
10. [S. M] Go through; Go through the gates: aprepare ye the way of my people:
b
cast up, cast up the highway: gather out the stones; clift up a standard for
the people.
11. [S. M] Behold, the LORD has proclaimed unto the end of the world; dSay ye
to the daughter of Zion; Behold ethy salvation comes; fbehold his reward is
with him, and his gwork before him.
12. [S. M] And they shall call them; The holy people; The redeemed of the LORD:
and thou shall be called; sought out, A city not forsaken.
Go out! Go out! Prepare the roadway for the return of my people! Build the roads,
pull out the boulders, raise the flag of Israel. See the LORD has sent his
messengers to every land and said; “Tell my people; I, the LORD your GOD am
coming to save you, and will bring you many gifts.” And they shall be called “The
Holy People” and “The LORD’S Redeemed,” and Jerusalem shall be called “The
Land of Desire” and “The City that God has blessed.”

CHAPTER SIXTY-THREE: CHRIST’S POWER TO SAVE

The first 6 verses of this chapter are prophetic relating to the Tribulation period.

1. [T] Who is this that comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Boz rah?
This that is hglorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his
strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
2. [T] Wherefore, iart thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that
treads in wine fat?
3. [T] I have jtrodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none
there with me; for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my
fury; And their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain
all or my raiment.
4. [T] For kthe day of vengeance is in my heart, and the year of my redeemed
is come.
5. [T] And I looked, and lthere was none to help; and I wondered that there
was none to uphold: mtherefore, mine own arm brought salvation unto me;
and my fury, it upheld me.
6. [T] And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in
my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
Who is this that comes from Edom, from the city of Boz rah, with his magnificent
garments of crimson? Who is this in kingly robes ~ marching in the greatness of
his strength? “It is I, the LORD, announcing your salvation: I, the LORD, the one
who is mighty to save!” “Why are your clothes so red, as from treading out the
grapes?”

a f j
40:3 40:10 Lamentations 1:15;
b g Revelation 14:20; 19:15
57:14 [h]~ recompense
k
c
49:22
h
[h]~ decked 34:8
l
d
Zechariah 9:9
i
Revelation 19:13 Psalm 22:1; John 16:32
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“I have trodden the winepress alone. There was no one there to help me. In my
fury I have trodden my enemies like grapes. In my fury I trampled my foes. It is
their blood that you see upon my clothes. For the time has come for me to avenge
my people, to redeem them from the hands of their oppressors. I looked but no
one came to help them; I was amazed and appalled. So, I executed vengeance
alone, unaided, I meted out judgement. I crushed the heathen nations in my anger
and made them stagger and fall to the ground.”
7. I will mention the loving kindness of the LORD, and the praises of the LORD,
according to all that the LORD has bestowed upon us, and the great goodness
towards the house of Israel, which he has bestowed upon them according to
his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
8. For he said; Surely, they are my people; children that will not lie; so, he was
their Saviour.
9. aIn all-of their afflictions he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved
them; in his love and in his pity, he redeemed them; and he bare them, and
carried them all-of the days of old. [God shares our afflictions]
I will tell of the lovingkindness of God. I will praise him for all He has done; I will
rejoice in his great goodness to Israel; which he has granted in accordance with
his mercy and his love. He said; “They are my very own; surely they will not be
false again.” And He became their Saviour. In all-of their afflictions he was
afflicted, and he personally saved them. In his love and pity, he redeemed them
and lifted them up and carried them through all-of the years.
10. BUT, bthey rebelled, and cvexed his Holy Spirit; therefore, he has turned to
be their enemy; and he fought against them. [Prophecy against rebellion].
11. Then dhe remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying; Where
is ehe that brought them up out of the sea with the fshepherd of his flock?
Where is he, that put the Holy Spirit within him?
12. That led them but thew right hand of Moses, with His glorious arm, gdividing
the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
13. That led them through the deep, as a horse in the wilderness, that they
should not stumble?
14. As a beast goes down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD cause him to
rest; so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.
But they rebelled against Him and grieved the Holy Spirit! That is why He became
their enemy, and personally fought against them! [WARNING: We are told in the
New Testament NOT to Grieve the Holy Spirit ~ but that is just a reminder of what
happened to Israel, when they grieved the Holy Spirit, in the Old Testament].
Then they remembered those days of old when Moses, God’s servant, led the
people out of Egypt and they cried out; “Where is the One who brought Israel
through the sea, with Moses as their shepherd? Where is the God who sent His
Holy Spirit to be among His people? Where is He whose mighty power divided the
sea before them when Moses lifted up his hand, and established his reputation
forever?” Who led them through the bottom of the sea? Like fine stallions racing
through the desert, they never stumbled. Like cattle grazing in the valleys, so the
Spirit of the LORD gave them rest. Thus, He gave Himself a magnificent
reputation.

a d g
Judges 10:16; Zechariah 2:8 Psalm 78:34 Exodus 14:21
b e
Exodus 15:24 Exodus 14:30: 32:11-12
c f
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 15. Look down from heaven, and behold afrom the habitation of thy holiness and
of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, bthe sounding of thy bowels
and thy mercies toward me? Are they restrained?
16. cDoubtless thou art our Father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel
acknowledge us not: thou O LORD, art our Father, dour Redeemer; Thy name
is from everlasting.
Oh LORD, look down from heaven and see us from your holy, glorious home:
where is then love for us that you used to show ~ your power, your mercy, and
your compassion? Where are they now? [Why have you removed them from us?]
Surely you are still Our Father! Even if Abraham and Jacob would disown us, still
you would be Our Father, Our Redeemer from ages past.
17. O LORD, why hast thou emade to err from your ways, and fhardened our
hearts from thy fear? gReturn for thy servant’s sake ~ the tribes of thine
inheritance.
18. hThe people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while; our
adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
19. We are thine: thou never barest rule over them: they were not called by thy
name.
O Lord, why have you hardened our hearts and made us sin and turn against you?
[NOTE: God never makes us sin! That is the work of the evil one ~ Satan!]
Return and help us, for we who belong to you need you so. How briefly we
possessed Jerusalem! And now our enemies have destroyed her. O God, why do
you treat us as though we weren’t your people, as though we were a heathen
nation that never called your “LORD”?

CHAPTER SIXTY-FOUR: THE CHURCH’S FAITH IN GOD’S

POWER & MERCY
1. Oh, that thou would irend the heavens, that thou would come down, that the
mountains might flow down at thy presence.
2. As when jthe melting fire burns, the fire causes the water to boil, to make
thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy
presence.
3. When kthou did terrible things which we looked not for, thou came down,
the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
4. For since the beginning of the world, lmen have not heard, nor perceived
with their ear, neither has their eye mseen, O God, beside thee, what He has
prepared for him that waits for Him.
5. Thou nmeets him that rejoices and works righteousness, those that
remember thee in thy ways; Behold thou art wrath; for we have sinned; in
those is continuance, and we shall be saved.

a e j
Psalm 33:14 Psalm 119:10 [h]~ the fire of thy melting’s
b f k
[h]~ the multitude 6:10; John 12:40 Exodus 34:10; Judges 5:4
c g l
Deuteronomy 32:6; 1 Numbers 10:36; Psalm 90:13 1 Corinthians 2:9
Chronicles 29:10; see 64:8 h m
Deuteronomy 7:6; see 62:12 [h]~ seen a God beside thee,
d
[h]~ OR; our Redeemer i
Psalm 18:9 which does so for him
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 6. But we are all as aan unclean thing, and ball our righteousness is as filthy
rags; and cwe all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have
taken us away.
7. And there is none that calls upon thy name, that stirs up himself to take hold
of thee; for dthou has hidden thy face from us; and has econsumed us,
f
because of our iniquities.
8. But now; O LORD, gthou art Our Father; we are the clay, and hthou, our
potter; and iwe all are the work of thy hand.
OH, that you would burst forth from the skies and come down! How the mountains
would quake in your presence! Then consuming fire of your glory would burn down
the forests and boil the seas dry. The nations would tremble before you; then your
enemies would learn the reason for your fame! So, it was before when you came
down, for you did awesome things beyond our highest expectations, and how the
mountains quaked! For since the world began no one has ever seen or heard of
such a God ~ as our God, who works for those who wait for him! You welcome
those who cheerfully do good, who follow godly ways.
But we are not godly; we are constant sinners and we have been all-of our lives.
Therefore, your wrath is heavy upon us. How can such as we be saved? We are
all infected and impure with sin. When we put on our prized robes of
righteousness, we find that they are but filthy rags. Like autumn leaves we fade,
wither and fall. And our sins, like the wind, sweep us away. And yet, O LORD, you
are Our Father. We are the clay and you are the Potter. We are all formed by your
hand.
9. Be not wroth very sore, O LORD; neither remember iniquity for ever; behold,
see, we beseech thee; j we are all thy people.
10. Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
11. Our holy & our beautiful house, where our fathers praise thee; kis burned up
with fire: and all-of our pleasant things are laid waste.
12. Will thou lrefrain yourself for these things, O LORD? Will thou hold the peace,
and afflict us very sore?
Oh LORD, be not so angry with us, nor forever remember our sins. Oh, look and
see that we are all your people.
Your holy cities are destroyed; Jerusalem is a desert wilderness. Our holy,
beautiful Temple where our fathers praised you is burnt down, and all-of the things
of beauty are destroyed. After all-of this has happened to us, must you still refuse
to help us, LORD? Will you stand silent and still punish us?

CHAPTER SIXTY-FIVE: REJECTION OF THE JEWS ~ A

REMNANT TO BE SAVED
1. m
I AM sought of them that asked not of me; I am found of them that sought
me not; I said; Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that nwas not called by
my name.
2. o
I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which
walks in a way which is not good, after their own thoughts;

a f k
Leviticus 5:2 [h]~ by the hand 2 Kings 25:9; see 63:18
b g l
Philippians 3:9 63:16 42:14
c h m
40:6-8 45:9 Romans 10:20
d i n
54:8 Psalm 138:8; see 60:21 63:19
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 3.A people that provoke me to anger, continually ato my face; that sacrifice bin
gardens, and burn incense cupon daltars of brick;
4. eWhich remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, fwhich eat
swine flesh, and gbroth of abominable things is in their vessels; [Please
NOTE: The KJV gives a reference here to 2 Maccabees 6:18, which was
REMOVED FROM THE PROTEST-ANT BIBLE By some not so learned
scholars!].
5. hWhich say, stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou.
These are as smoke in my inose, a fire that burns all day.
6. Behold, jit is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense,
even recompense kinto their bosom.
7. Your iniquities, and lthe iniquities of your fathers together; says the LORD;
which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon
the hills; Therefore, I will measure their former work into their bosom.
THE LORD SAYS: People who never inquired about me are now seeking me out.
Nations who never before searched for me are finding me. But my own people,
though I have been spreading out my arms all day long to welcome them ~ have
rebelled against me; they have followed their own evil wants and thoughts. All
day long they insult me to my face by worshipping idols in many gardens and
burning incense on the rooftops of their homes. At night they go out among the
graves and caves to worship evil spirits, and they eat pork and other forbidden
foods. Yet they say to one another; “Don’t come too close, you’ll defile me! For I
am holier than you!” They stifle me. Day in and day out they infuriate me!
See, here is my decree all written out before me: “I will not stand silent; I will
repay. Yes, I will repay them – Not only for their own sins but for those of their
fathers too, says the LORD, for they also burned incense on the mountains and
insulted me upon the hills. I will repay them all back in full!”
8. Thus says the LORD; AS thew new wine is found in the cluster, and one says
Destroy it not; for ma blessing is in it; so, will I do for my servant’s sake, that
I may not destroy them all.
9. And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of
my mountains; and mine nelect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell
therein.
10. And oSharon shall be a fold of flocks, and pthe valley of Achor a place for the
herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.
But I will not destroy them all, says the LORD; for just as good grapes are found
among a cluster of back ones (and someone will say, “Don’t throw them all away
~ there are some good grapes there!”), so I will not destroy all-of Israel, for I
have some true servants there. I will preserve a remnant of my people to possess
the land of Israel; those I select will inherit it and serve me there. As for my people
who have sought me, the plains of Sharon shall again be filled with flocks, and the
valley of Achor shall be a place to pasture herds.

a f l
Job 1:11 56:17; 2 Maccabees 6:18 Exodus 20:5; Matthew 23:35
b g m
Leviticus 17:5; see 1:29; [h]~ pieces Joel 2:14
66:17 h n
Matthew 9:11; Luke 18:11 Matthew 24:22; Romans
c
[h]~ upon bricks i
[h]~ anger 11:5,7
d o
Exodus 20:24-25 j
Malachi 3:16 33:9; 35:2
e p
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 11. But you are they that forsake the LORD, that forget amy holy mountain, that
prepare ba table for that ctroop, and that furnish dthe drink offering unto that
e
number.
12. Therefore, will I number you to the sword, and you shall all bow down to the
slaughter; fbecause when I called, you did not answer; when I spake; you
did not hear; but did evil before my eyes, and did choose that wherein I
delighted not.
13. Therefore, thus says the LORD; Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall
be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; behold
my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be ashamed:
14. Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall cry for sorrow
of heart, and gshall howl for vexation of Spirit.
15. And you shall leave your name hfor a curse unto my chosen; for the LORD
shall slay thee; and call His servants by another name.
16. That he that blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the GOD of
Truth; and he that swears in the earth shall swear by the God of Truth;
because the former are forgotten (are passed away), and because they are
hid from my eyes.
But because the rest of you have forsaken the LORD and His Temple and worship
gods of “fate” and “destiny”, therefore, I will “destine” you to the sword, and your
“fate” shall be a dark one: for when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke,
you would not listen. You deliberately sinned before my very eyes, choosing to do
what you know I despise. Therefore, the LORD God says; You shall starve, but my
servants shall eat; you shall be thirsty, while they drink; you shall be sad and
ashamed, but they shall rejoice. You shall cry in sorry and vexation of Spirit, while
they sing for joy. Your name shall be a CURSE word among my people, for the
LORD God shall slay you and call his servants by another name. [Christians]
And yet, the days will come, when all who invoke a blessing, or take an oath shall
swear by the God of Truth; for I will put aside my anger and forget the evil that
you did.
17. [M] For, behold, iI create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall
not be remembered, nor jcome into mind. [NOTE: God will create new
heavens (Plural) and a new earth (Singular)].
18. [M] But you be glad and rejoice for ever in that in which I create; for, behold,
k
I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
19. [M] And lI will rejoice in Jerusalem; and joy in my people; and mthe voice of
weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.
20. [M] There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that
has not filled his days; for nthe child shall die at a hundred years old; but the
sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.
21. [M] And they shall build houses, and inhabit them, and they shall plant
vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.

a e j
57:13 [h]~ meni [h]~ come upon the heart
b f k
Ezekiel 23:41 66:4 Jeremiah 31:7
c g l
[h]~ Gad (the tribe that Matthew 8:12 62:5
worships idols and is h m
Deuteronomy 28:37; 35:10
prevented by God to enter Jeremiah 29:22; Zechariah n
the eternal kingdom) Jeremiah 31:7
8:13
d
Jeremiah 7:18 i
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 22. [M] They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and
another eat; for aas the days of a tree are that days of my people, and mine
elect bshall long enjoy the work of their hands.
23. [M] They shall not labour in vain, nor cbring forth trouble; for they are the
seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.
24. [M] And it shall come to pass, that dbefore they call, I will answer; and yet
e
while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
25. [M] The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw
like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent’s meat. They shall not hurt nor
destroy in all my holy mountain, says the LORD.
For see, I am creating new heavens and a new earth: ~ so wonderful that no one
will even think about the old ones anymore. Be glad; rejoice forever in my new
creation. Look! I will recreate Jerusalem, as a place of happiness, and her people
shall be a joy! And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and in my people; and the voice of
weeping and crying shall not be herd there anymore.
No longer will babies die when only a few days old; no longer will men be
considered old at 100! Only sinners will die that young! In those days, when a
man builds a house, he will keep on living in it ~ it will not be destroyed by
invading armies, as in the past. My people will plant vineyards and eat the fruit
themselves ~ their enemies will not confiscate it. For my people will live as long
as trees, and will long enjoy their hard-won gains. Their harvests will not be eaten
by their enemies; their children will not be born to become cannon fodder. For
they are the children of those that the LORD has blessed; and their children, too,
shall be blessed. I will answer them before they even call on me. While they are
still talking to me about their needs, I will go ahead and answer their prayers.
The wolf and the lamb shall feed together; the lion shall eat straw as the ox does,
and poisonous snakes shall strike no more! In those days nothing and no one shall
be hurt, or destroyed in all my Holy Mountain, says the LORD!

CHAPTER SIXTY-SIX: ALL THE NATIONS UNITED IN ONE

CHURCH
1. [M] Thus says the LORD; fThe heaven is my throne, and the earth is my
footstool: where is the house that you build unto me? And where is the place
of my rest?
2. For all-of these things have my hands made, and all those have been, says
the LORD; but gto this man will I look, even to him that is poor and hof a
contrite spirit; and trembles at my words.
3. iHe that kills an ox is as if he killed a man; he that sacrifices a jlamb, as if he
cut off as dog’s neck; he that offers an oblation, is kas if he offered swine’s
blood; he that lburns incense as if he blessed an idol. Yes, they have chosen
their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations.

a d h
Psalm 92: 12-13 Psalm 32:5 Psalm 34:18
b e i
[h]~ shall make them long, Daniel 9:21 1:11; 61:8
OR, shall wear out f
2 Chronicles 6:18; Acts 7:49-
j
[h]~ kid
c
Deuteronomy 28:41; Hosea 50 k
1 Maccabees 1:47
9:12 g
57:15; 61:1 l
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 4. I also will choose their adelusions, and will bring their fears upon them;
b
because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did not hear;
but they did evil before my eyes, and chose that is which I delighted not.
Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; What TEMPLE can you build
for me as good as that? My hand has made both the earth and the skies, and they
are mine! Yet I will look with pity on the man that has a humble and contrite
heart, who trembles at my word. But those who choose their own ways, delighting
in their sins, as cursed. God will not accept their offerings. When such men
sacrifice an ox on the altar of God, it is no more acceptable to him than a human
sacrifice. If the sacrifice a lamb, or bring an offering of grain, it is as loathsome to
God as putting a dog or the blood of a swine on his altar! When they burn incense
to him, he counts it the same as if though they blessed an idol. I will send great
troubles upon them ~ all the things that they feared, for when I called them, they
refused to answer, and when I spoke to them, they refused to hear. Instead, they
did wrong before my eyes, and deliberately chose what they knew I despised.
5. Hear the Word of the LORD: ye that tremble at His word: Your brethren that
hated you, that ccast you out for my name’s sake, said: dLet the LORD be
glorified: but he shall appear eto you as joy, and they shall be ashamed.
6. A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the Temple, a voice of the LORD,
that renders recompense to His enemies.
7. Before she travailed, shew brought forth; before her pain came; she was
delivered of a man child.
8. Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall the earth be
made to bring forth in one day? Or shall a nation be born at once? For as
soon as a Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
9. Shall I bring to the birth, and not fcause to bring forth? Says the LORD. Shall
I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? Says thy God.
10. gRejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her; rejoice
for joy with her; all ye that mourn for her:
11. That hye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that
you may milk out, and be delighted with the iabundance of her glory.
12. For thus says the LORD; Behold, I will extend jpeace to her like a river, and
k
the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream; then shall you suck, lyou shall
be borne upon her sides, and be dangled upon her knees.
13. As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you: and you shall be
comforted in Jerusalem.
14. And when you see this, your heart shall rejoice, and myour bones shall
flourish like an herb; and the hand of the LORD shall be known towards his
servants, and his indignation towards his enemies.
15. For behold, nthe LORD will come with fire, and with ohis chariots, like a
whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16. For by fire and pby his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and qthe slain
of the LORD shall be many.

a g m
[h]~ devices 65:19 Ezekiel 37:1-10
b h n
65:12 60:16 9:5; 33:14
c i o
Luke 6:22 [h]~ brightness Psalm 68:17; Habukkuk 3:8
d j p
John 16:2 48:18; 60:5 27:1
e k q
2 Thessalonians 1:9-10 Revelation 21:24 Jeremiah 25:33
f l
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 17. They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves ain the gardens bbehind
one tree in the midst, ceating swine’s flesh, and the abomination, and dthe
mouse, shall be consumed together, says the LORD.
18. For I know their works and their thoughts: It shall come, that I will gather
all nations and tongues: and ethey shall come, and see my glory.
19. And I will set fa sign among them; and I will send those that escape of them
unto the nations; to Tarshish, Put, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and
Javan, to the isles far off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen
my glory; and gthey shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.
20. And they shall bring all-of your brethren hfor an offering unto the Lord out of
all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in ilitters, and upon mules, and
upon swift beasts, to my Holy Mountain Jerusalem, says the LORD, as the
children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the House of the
LORD.
21. And I will also take of them jpriests and for Levites, says the LORD.
22. For as kthe new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain
before me; says the LORD, so lshall your seed and your name remain.
23. [M] And it shall come to pass, that mfrom one new moon to another, and
from one Sabbath to another; nshall all flesh come to worship before me,
says the LORD.
24. And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcasses of the men that have
transgressed against me; for otheir worm shall not die, neither shall their fire
be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.
Hear the Word of God, all you who fear him, ad who tremble at his words; Your
brethren hate you and cast you out for being loyal to my name; “Glory to God”
they scoff. “Be happy in the LORD!” But they shall be put to shame. What is all-of
this commotion in the city? What is that terrible noise coming from the Temple?
Is it the voice of the LORD taking vengeance upon his enemies? Who has heard
or seen anything as strange as this?
For in one day, suddenly, a nation, Israel, shall be born, [this occurred on 14th
May, 1948] even before the birth pains come. In a moment, just as Israel’s
anguish starts, the baby is born; the nation begins. Shall I bring to the point of
birth and then not deliver? Asks the LORD your God. NO! Never!
Rejoice with Jerusalem; be glad wither, all you who love her, you who mourned
for her. Delight in Jerusalem; drink deep of her glory even as an infant at her
mother’s generous breasts. Prosperity shall overflow Jerusalem like a river, says
the LORD, for I will send it; the riches of the Gentiles shall flow to her. Her children
shall be nursed at her breasts, carried on her hips, and dangled on her knees. I
will comfort you there as a little one is comforted by his mother. When you see
Jerusalem, your heart will rejoice; vigorous health will be yours. All, the world will
see the good hand of God upon His people, and his wrath upon his enemies.
For see, the LORD will come with fire and with swift chariots of doom to pour out
the fury of his anger and his hot rebuked with flames of fire. For the LORD will
punish the world by fire, ad with His sword, and the slain of the LORD shall be
many!

a g m
65:3 Malachi 1:11 [h]~ From new moon to his
b h new moon, and from
[h]~ one after another Romans 15:16
c i Sabbath to His Sabbath.
65:4 [h]~ Coaches n
d j Psalm 65:2
Leviticus 11:29 61:6 o
e k Mark 9: 44,46,48
Psalm 86:9 65:17
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Those that worship idols that are hidden behind a tree in the garden, feasting
there on pork, and mouse, and all forbidden meat ~ they will come to an evil end,
says Jehovah. I see full well what they are doing; I know what they are thinking
(even before they open their mouth to speak), so I will gather together all nations
and people against Jerusalem, where they will see my glory. I will perform a
mighty miracle against them, and I will send those that escape, as missionaries
to the nations ~ to Tarshish, Put & Lud, Meshech, Rosh, Tubal, Javan, and to the
lands beyond the seas that have never heard of my fame, nor seen my glory.
There thewy shall declare my glory to the Gentiles. And they shall bring back all-
of your brethren from every nation as a gift to the LORD, transporting them gently
on horses, and in chariots, ad in litters (coaches), and on mules and camels to my
holy mountains, Jerusalem, says the LORD. It will be like offerings flowing into the
Temple of the LORD at harvest time, carried in vessels consecrated unto the LORD.
And I will appoint some of those returning to be my priests and Levites, says the
LORD. As surely as my new heavens and earth shall remain, so surely shall you
always be my people, with a name that shall never disappear. All mankind shall
come to worship me from week to week and month to month. And they shall go
out and look at the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me, for their worm
shall never die; their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be a disgusting
sight to all-of mankind.

APPENDICES

VERSES PUT TO MUSIC

Isaiah 9:6
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, And the government shall be
upon his shoulders; and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty
God; The everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace is he.
Isaiah 9~6.m4a

Isaiah 35:10 [Also Isaiah 51:11]

Therefore, the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto
Zion, an everlasting joy shall be upon their heads.
They shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
Isaiah 35~10.m4a

Isaiah 41:10
Fear not! For I am with thee, fear not!
Fear not! For I am with thee, fear not! Isaiah 41~10.m4a
I have redeemed you I have called you by name,
Now you are mine.
When you walk through the fire, I will be there, for you are mine;
You will not ~ no way, be burned!
You will not ~ no way, be burned,
For I am with you - oooooh.
Fear NOT!

Isaiah 43:19
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Behold, I will do, something new, among you,
Now is shall spring forth, will you not be aware of it? Isaiah 43-19.m4a
I will even make, a roadway in the wilderness,
Rivers in the desert, I will do something new.

Isaiah 55:12
For you shall go with joy and be led forth with peace, the mountains and the hills
shall break forth before you, there’ll be shouts of joy, and all the tress of the field,
will clap, with clap their hands. And, all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
The trees of the field shall clap their hands. The trees of the field shall clap their
hands ~ as we go out with joy.
Isaiah 55~12.m4a

Isaiah 60:1
Arise shine ~ for your light come; Arise shine ~ for your light come,
For the glory of the LORD is risen, and the glory of the LORD has come,
And the glory of the LORD has risen upon thee.

Isaiah 61:1-2
The Spirit of the LORD is upon me, because He has anointed me,
To preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim, release to the
captives, and recovery of sight, to the blind; To set at liberty those are Isaiah 61 ~1-2.m4a
oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD.

JEWISH MESSIANIC INTERPRETATIONS OF ISAIAH 53

by Jews for Jesus |January 01 2005
It's commonly maintained that Isaiah 53 was never considered messianic by
rabbis and Jewish sages. Sometimes the statement is phrased as, "Judaism
teaches" that Isaiah 53 refers to the nation of Israel.
The fact is that Isaiah 53 (more precisely, 52:13 to 53:12) has been
interpreted in messianic terms by a wide variety of Jewish commentators over
a long period of time. Other interpretations have certainly been offered,
including the view first popularized by Rashi in medieval times that the
prophet speaks of the nation of Israel. Nevertheless the messianic
interpretation has a long history in Jewish Bible exegesis, as shown by the
quotations below.

The Targum
Behold, My Servant the Messiah shall prosper. 1
In the early cycle of synagogue readings:
We know that messianic homilies based on Joseph's career (his saving role
preceded by suffering), and using Isaiah 53 as the prophetic portion, were
preached in certain old synagogues which used the triennial cycle...2
The addition of 53.4-5 [to the cycle of synagogue readings] was evidently of
a Messianic purport by reason of the theory of a suffering Messiah. The earlier
part of [the Haftarah] (52.7ff.) dealt with the redemption of Israel, and in
this connection the tribulations of the Messiah were briefly alluded to by the
recital of the above 2 verses.3

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Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 98b
The Rabbis said: His name is "the leper scholar," as it is written, Surely, he
hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him a
leper, smitten of God, and afflicted. [Isaiah 53:4]. 4

Ruth Rabbah 5:6

The fifth interpretation [of Ruth 2:14] makes it refer to the Messiah. Come
hither: approach to royal state. And eat of the BREAD refers to the bread of
royalty; AND DIP THY MORSEL IN THE VINEGAR refers to his sufferings, as it
is said, But he was wounded because of our transgressions. (Is a. LIII, 5).5
The Karaite Yefeth ben Ali (10th c.)
As to myself, I am inclined, with Benjamin of Nehawend, to regard it as
alluding to the Messiah, and as opening with a description of his condition in
exile, from the time of his birth to his accession to the throne: for the prophet
begins by speaking of his being seated in a position of great honour, and then
goes back to relate all that will happen to him during the captivity. He thus
gives us to understand two things: In the first instance, that the Messiah will
only reach his highest degree of honour after long and severe trials; and
secondly, that these trials will be sent upon him as a kind of sig n, so that, if
he finds himself under the yoke of misfortunes whilst remaining pure in his
actions, he may know that he is the desired one.... 6

Another statement from Yefeth ben Ali:

By the words "surely he hath carried our sicknesses," they mean that the
pains and sickness which he fell into were merited by them, but that he bore
them instead. . . . And here I think it necessary to pause for a few mo ments,
in order to explain why God caused these sicknesses to attach themselves to
the Messiah for the sake of Israel. . . . The nation deserved from God greater
punishment than that which actually came upon them, but not being strong
enough to bear it. . . God appoints his servant to carry their sins, and by
doing so lighten their punishment in order that Israel might not be completely
exterminated.7
Another statement from Yefeth ben Ali:
"And the Lord laid on him the iniquity of us all." The prophet does not by avon
mean iniquity, but punishment for iniquity, as in the passage, "Be sure your
sin will find you out" (Num. xxxii. 23).8

Mysteries of R. Shim'on ben Yohai (midrash, date uncertain)

And Armilaus will join battle with Messiah, the son of Ephraim, in the East
gate . . .; and Messiah, the son of Ephraim, will die there, and Israel will
mourn for him. And afterwards the Holy One will reveal to them Messiah, the
son of David, whom Israel will desire to stone, saying, Thou speakest falsely;
already is the Messiah slain, and there is non other M essiah to stand up (after
him): and so they will despise him, as it is written, "Despised and forlorn of
men;" but he will turn and hide himself from them, according to the words,
"Like one hiding his face from us."9

Lekach Tov (11th c. midrash)

"And let his [Israel's] kingdom be exalted," in the days of the Messiah, of
whom it is said, "Behold my servant shall prosper; he will be high and exalted,
and lofty exceedingly."10

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Maimonides, Letter to Yemen (12th c.)
What is to be the manner of Messiah's advent, and where will be the place of
his appearance? . . . And Isaiah speaks similarly of the time when he will
appear, without his father or mother of family being known, He came up as
a sucker before him, and as a root out of the dry earth, etc. But the unique
phenomenon attending his manifestation is, that all the kings of the earth will
be thrown into terror at the fame of him -- their kingdoms will be in
consternation, and they themselves will be devising whether to oppose him
with arms, or to adopt some different course, confessing, in fact, the ir
inability to contend with him or ignore his presence, and so confounded at
the wonders which they will see him work, that they will lay their hands upon
their mouth; in the words of Isaiah, when describing the manner in which the
kings will hearken to him, At him kings will shut their mouth; for that which
had not been told them have they seen, and that which they had not heard
they have perceived.11

Zohar II, 212a (medieval)

There is in the Garden of Eden a palace named the Palace of the Sons of
Sickness. This palace the Messiah enters, and He summons every pain and
every chastisement of Israel. All of these come and rest upon Him. And had
He not thus lightened them upon Himself, there had been no man able to
bear Israel's chastisements for the transgressions of the law; as it is written,
"Surely our sicknesses he has carried."12

Nachmanides (R. Moshe ben Nachman)(13th c.)

The right view respecting this Parashah is to suppose that by the phrase "my
servant" the whole of Israel is meant. . . .As a different opinion, however, is
adopted by the Midrash, which refers it to the Messiah, it is necessary for us
to explain it in conformity with the view there maintained. The prophet says,
The Messiah, the son of David of whom the text speaks, will never be
conquered or perish by the hands of his enemi es. And, in fact the text teaches
this clearly. . . .
And by his stripes we were healed -- because the stripes by which he is vexed
and distressed will heal us; God will pardon us for his righteousness, and we
shall be healed both from our own transgressions and from the iniquities of
our fathers.13

Yalkut ii: 571 (13th c.)

Who art thou, O great mountain (Zech. iv. 7.) This refers to the King Messiah .
And why does he call him "the great mountain?" Because he is greater than
the patriarchs, as it is said, "My servant shall be high, and lifted up, and lofty
exceedingly" -- he will be higher than Abraham, . . . lifted up above Moses, .
. . loftier than the ministering angels.14

Yalkut ii. 620 (13th c.), in regard to Psalm 2:6

I.e., I have drawn him out of the chastisements. . . .The chastisements are
divided into three parts: one for David and the fathers, one for our own
generation, and one for the King Messiah; and this is that which is written,
"He was wounded for our transgressions," etc.15

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R. Mosheh Kohen ibn Crispin (14th c.)
This Parashah the commentators agree in explaining of the Captivity of Israel,
although the singular number is used in it throughout. . . .As there i s no
cause constraining us to do so, why should we here interpret the word
collectively, and thereby distort the passage from its natural sense?. . . As
then it seemed to me that the doors of the literal interpretation of the
Parashah were shut in their face, and that "they wearied themselves to find
the entrance," having forsaken the knowledge of our Teachers, and inclined
after the "stubbornness of their own hearts," and of their own opinion, I am
pleased to interpret it, in accordance with the teaching of our Rabbis, of the
King Messiah, and will be careful, so far as I am able, to adhere to the literal
sense.16

Another comment from R. Mosheh Kohen ibn Crispin

If his soul makes itself into a trespass-offering, implying that his soul will
treat itself as guilty, and so receive punishment for our trespasses and
transgressions.17
R. Sh'lomoh Astruc (14th c.)
My servant shall prosper, or be truly intelligent, because by intelligence man
is really man -- it is intelligence which makes a man what he is. And the
prophet calls the King Messiah my servant, speaking as one who sent him.
Or he may call the whole people my servant, as he says above my people (lii.
6): when he speaks of the people, the King Messiah is included in it; and
when he speaks of the King Messiah, the people is comprehended with him .
What he says then is, that my servant the King Messiah will prosper. 18

R. Elijah de Vidas (16th c.)

Since the Messiah bears our iniquities which produce the effect of His being
bruised, it follows that whoso will not admit that the Messiah thus suffers for
our iniquities, must endure and suffer for them himself. 19

Rabbi Moshe Alshekh (El-Sheikh) of Sefad (16th c.)

I may remark, then, that our Rabbis with one voice accept and affirm the
opinion that the prophet is speaking of the King Messiah, and we ourselves
also adhere to the same view.20

Herz Homberg (18th-19th c.)

The fact is, that it refers to the King Messiah, who will come in the latter
days, when it will be the Lord's good pleasure to redeem Israel from among
the different nations of the earth.....Whatever he underwent was in
consequence of their own transgression, the Lord having chosen him to be a
trespass-offering, like the scape-goat which bore all the iniquities of the
house of Israel.21

The musaf (additional) service for the Day of Atonement, Philips machzor (20th
c.)
Our righteous anointed is departed from us: horror hath seized us, and we
have non to justify us. He hath borne the yoke of our iniquities, and our
transgression, and is wounded because of our transgression. He beareth our
sins on his shoulder, that he may find pardon for our iniquities. We shall be
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as a new creature. O bring him up from the circle of the earth. Raise him up
from Seir, to assemble us the second time on Mount Lebanon, by the hand of
Yinnon.22

Endnotes
1. Targum ("Targum Jonathan") to Isaiah 52:13, various editions (such as
Samson H. Levey, The Messiah: An Aramaic Interpretation; the Messianic
Exegesis of the Targum." Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1974, p. 63).
2. Rav Asher Soloff, "The Fifty Third Chapter of Isaiah According to the Jewi sh
Commentators, to the Sixteenth Century" (Ph.D. Thesis, Drew
University,1967), p. 146.
3. Jacob Mann, The Bible as Read and Preached in the Old Synagogue (NY:
Ktav, 1971, © 1940), p. 298.
4. Soncino Talmud edition.
5. Soncino Midrash Rabbah (vol. 8, p. 64).
6. S. R. Driver and A. Neubauer, editors, The Fifty-third Chapter of Isaiah
According to the Jewish Interpreters (2 volumes; New York: Ktav, 1969), pp.
19-20. The English translations used here are taken from volume 2. The
original texts are in volume 1. Cf. Soloff, pp. 107 -09.
7. Driver and Neubauer, pp. 23 ff.; Soloff pp. 108-109.
8. Driver and Neubauer, p. 26; Soloff p. 109.
9. Driver and Neubauer, p. 32, citing the edition of Jellinek, Beth ha -Midrash
(1855), part iii. p. 80.
10. Driver and Neubauer, p. 36.
11. Driver and Neubauer vol 1: p. 322. Edition is Abraham S. Halkin, ed.,
Igeret Teman (NY: American Academy for Jewish Research, 1952). See Soloff
pp. 127-128.
12. Cited in Driver and Neubauer, pp. 14-15 from section "va-yiqqahel".
Translation from Frydland, Rachmiel, What the Rabbis Know About the
Messiah (Cincinnati: Messianic Literature Outreach, 1991), p. 56, n. 27. Note
that this section is not found in the Soncino edition which says that it was an
interpolation.
13. Driver and Neubauer, pp. 78 ff.
14. Driver and Neubauer, p. 9. The same passage is found in Midrash
Tanhuma to Genesis (perhaps 9th c.), ed. John T. Townsend (Hoboken, NJ:
Ktav, 1989), p. 166.
15. Driver and Neubauer, p. 10.
16. Driver and Neubauer, pp. 99-100.
17. Driver and Neubauer, p. 112.
18. Driver and Neubauer, p. 129.
19. Driver and Neubauer, p. 331.
20. Driver and Neubauer, p. 258.
21. Driver and Neubauer, p. 400-401.
22. A. Th. Philips, Machzor Leyom Kippur/Prayer Book for the Day of
Atonement with English Translation; Revised and Enlarged Edition (New York:
Hebrew Publishing Company, 1931), p. 239. The passage can also be found
in, e.g., the 1937 edition. Also, Driver and Neubauer, p. 399.

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Isaiah 9:6
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, And the government shall be
upon his shoulders; and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty
God; The everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace is he.
Isaiah 9~6.m4a

Isaiah 35:10 [Also Isaiah 51:11]

Therefore, the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto
Zion, an everlasting joy shall be upon their heads.
They shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
Isaiah 35~10.m4a

Isaiah 41:10
Fear not! For I am with thee, fear not!
Fear not! For I am with thee, fear not! Isaiah 41~10.m4a
I have redeemed you I have called you by name,
Now you are mine.
When you walk through the fire, I will be there, for you are mine;
You will not ~ no way, be burned!
You will not ~ no way, be burned,
For I am with you - oooooh.
Fear NOT!
Isaiah 43:19
© Copyright Jeffry David Camm 1980
Behold, I will do, something new, among you,
Now is shall spring forth, will you not be aware of it?
I will even make, a roadway in the wilderness, Isaiah 43-19.m4a
Rivers in the desert, I will do something new.

Isaiah 55:12
For you shall go with joy and be led forth with peace, the mountains and the hills
shall break forth before you, there’ll be shouts of joy, and all the tress of the field,
will clap, with clap their hands. And, all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
The trees of the field shall clap their hands. The trees of the field shall clap their
hands ~ as we go out with joy.
Isaiah 55~12.m4a

Isaiah 60:1
Arise shine ~ for your light come; Arise shine ~ for your light come,
For the glory of the LORD is risen, and the glory of the LORD has come,
And the glory of the LORD has risen upon thee.

Isaiah 61:1-2

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The Spirit of the LORD is upon me, because He has anointed me,
To preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim, release to the
captives, and recovery of sight, to the blind; To set at liberty those are Isaiah 61 ~1-2.m4a
oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD.

JEWISH MESSIANIC INTERPRETATIONS OF ISAIAH 53

by Jews for Jesus |January 01 2005
It's commonly maintained that Isaiah 53 was never considered messianic by
rabbis and Jewish sages. Sometimes the statement is phrased as, "Judaism
teaches" that Isaiah 53 refers to the nation of Israel.
The fact is that Isaiah 53 (more precisely, 52:13 to 53:12) has been
interpreted in messianic terms by a wide variety of Jewish commentators over
a long period of time. Other interpretations have certainly been offered,
including the view first popularized by Rashi in medieval times that the
prophet speaks of the nation of Israel. Nevertheless the messianic
interpretation has a long history in Jewish Bible exegesis, as shown by the
quotations below.

The Targum
Behold, My Servant the Messiah shall prosper. 1
In the early cycle of synagogue readings:
We know that messianic homilies based on Joseph's career (his saving role
preceded by suffering), and using Isaiah 53 as the prophetic portion, were
preached in certain old synagogues which used the triennial cycle... 2
The addition of 53.4-5 [to the cycle of synagogue readings] was evidently of
a Messianic purport by reason of the theory of a suffering Messiah. The earlier
part of [the Haftarah] (52.7ff.) dealt with the redemption of Israel, and in
this connection the tribulations of the Messiah were briefly alluded to by the
recital of the above 2 verses.3

Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 98b

The Rabbis said: His name is "the leper scholar," as it is written, Surely, he
hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him a
leper, smitten of God, and afflicted. [Isaiah 53:4]. 4

Ruth Rabbah 5:6

The fifth interpretation [of Ruth 2:14] makes it refer to the Messiah. Come
hither: approach to royal state. And eat of the BREAD refers to the bread of
royalty; AND DIP THY MORSEL IN THE VINEGAR refers to his sufferings, as it
is said, But, he was wounded because of our transgressions. (Isa. LIII, 5). 5
The Karaite Yefeth ben Ali (10th c.)
As to myself, I am inclined, with Benjamin of Nehawend, to regard it as
alluding to the Messiah, and as opening with a description of his condition in
exile, from the time of his birth to his accession to the throne: for the prophet
begins by speaking of his being seated in a position of great honour, and then
goes back to relate all that will happen to him during the captivity. He thus
gives us to understand two things: In the first instance, that the Messiah will
only reach his highest degree of honour after long and severe trials; and
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he finds himself under the yoke of misfortunes whilst remaining pure in his
actions, he may know that he is the desired one.... 6

Another statement from Yefeth ben Ali:

By the words "surely he hath carried our sicknesses," they mean that the
pains and sickness which he fell into were merited by them, but that he bore
them instead. . . . And here I think it necessary to pause for a few moments,
in order to explain why God caused these sicknesses to attach themselves to
the Messiah for the sake of Israel. . . . The nation deserved from God greater
punishment than that which actually came upon them, but not being strong
enough to bear it. . . God appoints his servant to carry their sins, and by
doing so lighten their punishment in order that Israel might not be completely
exterminated.7
Another statement from Yefeth ben Ali:
"And the Lord laid on him the iniquity of us all." The prophet does not by avon
mean iniquity, but punishment for iniquity, as in the passage, "Be sure your
sin will find you out" (Num. xxxii. 23).8

Mysteries of R. Shim'on ben Yohai (midrash, date uncertain)

And Armilaus will join battle with Messiah, the son of Ephraim, in the East
gate . . .; and Messiah, the son of Ephraim, will die there, and Israel will
mourn for him. And afterwards the Holy One will reveal to them Messiah, the
son of David, whom Israel will desire to stone, saying, Thou speakest falsely;
already is the Messiah slain, and there is non other Messiah to stand up (after
him): and so they will despise him, as it is written, "Despised and forlorn of
men;" but he will turn and hide himself from them, according to the words,
"Like one hiding his face from us."9

Lekach Tov (11th c. midrash)

"And let his [Israel's] kingdom be exalted," in the days of the Messiah, of
whom it is said, "Behold my servant shall prosper; he will be high and exalted,
and lofty exceedingly."10

Maimonides, Letter to Yemen (12th c.)

What is to be the manner of Messiah's advent, and where will be the place of
his appearance? . . . And Isaiah speaks similarly of the time when he will
appear, without his father or mother of family being known, He came up as
a sucker before him, and as a root out of the dry earth, etc. But the unique
phenomenon attending his manifestation is, tha t all the kings of the earth will
be thrown into terror at the fame of him -- their kingdoms will be in
consternation, and they themselves will be devising whether to oppose him
with arms, or to adopt some different course, confessing, in fact, their
inability to contend with him or ignore his presence, and so confounded at
the wonders which they will see him work, that they will lay their hands upon
their mouth; in the words of Isaiah, when describing the manner in which the
kings will hearken to him, At him kings will shut their mouth; for that which
had not been told them have they seen, and that which they had not heard
they have perceived.11

Zohar II, 212a (medieval)

There is in the Garden of Eden a palace named the Palace of the Sons of
Sickness. This palace the Messiah enters, and He summons every pain and

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every chastisement of Israel. All of these come and rest upon Him. And had
He not thus lightened them upon Himself, there had been no man able to
bear Israel's chastisements for the transgressions of the law; as it is written,
"Surely our sicknesses he has carried."12

Nachmanides (R. Moshe ben Nachman)(13th c.)

The right view respecting this Parashah is to suppose that by the phrase "my
servant" the whole of Israel is meant. . . .As a different opinion, however, is
adopted by the Midrash, which refers it to the Messiah, it is necessary for us
to explain it in conformity with the view there maintained. The prophet says,
The Messiah, the son of David of whom the text speaks, will never be
conquered or perish by the hands of his enemies. And, in fact the text teaches
this clearly. . . .
And by his stripes we were healed -- because the stripes by which he is vexed
and distressed will heal us; God will pardon us for his righteousness, and we
shall be healed both from our own transgressions and from the iniquities of
our fathers.13

Yalkut ii: 571 (13th c.)

Who art thou, O great mountain (Zech. iv. 7.) This refers to the King Messiah.
And why does he call him "the great mountain?" Because he is greater than
the patriarchs, as it is said, "My servant shall be high, and lifted up, and lofty
exceedingly" -- he will be higher than Abraham, . . . lifted up above Moses, .
. . loftier than the ministering angels.14

Yalkut ii. 620 (13th c.), in regard to Psalm 2:6

I.e., I have drawn him out of the chastisements. . . .The chastisements are
divided into three parts: one for David and the fathers, one for our own
generation, and one for the King Messiah; and this is that which is written,
"He was wounded for our transgressions," etc.15

R. Mosheh Kohen ibn Crispin (14th c.)

This Parashah the commentators agree in explaining of the Captivity of Israel,
although the singular number is used in it throughout. . . .As there is no
cause constraining us to do so, why should we here interpret the word
collectively, and thereby distort the passage from its natural sense?. . . As
then it seemed to me that the doors of the literal interpretation of the
Parashah were shut in their face, and that "they wearied themselves to find
the entrance," having forsaken the knowledge of our Teachers, and inclined
after the "stubbornness of their own hearts," and of their own opinion, I am
pleased to interpret it, in accordance with the teaching of our Rabbis, of the
King Messiah, and will be careful, so far as I am able, to adhere to the literal
sense.16

Another comment from R. Mosheh Kohen ibn Crispin

If his soul makes itself into a trespass-offering, implying that his soul will
treat itself as guilty, and so receive punishment for our trespasses and
transgressions.17
R. Sh'lomoh Astruc (14th c.)
My servant shall prosper, or be truly intelligent, because by intelligence man
is really man -- it is intelligence which makes a man what he is. And the
prophet calls the King Messiah my servant, speaking as one who sent him.

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Or he may call the whole people my servant, as he says above my people (lii.
6): when he speaks of the people, the King Messiah is included in it; and
when he speaks of the King Messiah, the people is comprehended with him.
What he says then is, that my servant the King Messiah will prosper. 18

R. Elijah de Vidas (16th c.)

Since the Messiah bears our iniquities which produce the effect of His being
bruised, it follows that whoso will not admit that the Messiah thus suffers for
our iniquities, must endure and suffer for them himself. 19

Rabbi Moshe Alshekh (El-Sheikh) of Sefad (16th c.)

I may remark, then, that our Rabbis with one voice accept and affirm the
opinion that the prophet is speaking of the King Messiah, and we ourselves
also adhere to the same view.20

Herz Homberg (18th-19th c.)

The fact is, that it refers to the King Messiah, who will come in the latter
days, when it will be the Lord's good pleasure to redeem Israel from among
the different nations of the earth.....Whatever he underwent
was in consequence of their own transgression, the Lord having chosen him
to be a trespass-offering, like the scape-goat which bore all the iniquities of
the house of Israel.21
The service for the Day of Atonement, Philips machzor (20th c.)
Our righteous anointed is departed from us: horror hath seized us, and we
have non to justify us. He hath borne the yoke of our iniquities, and our
transgression, and is wounded because of our transgression. He beareth our
sins on his shoulder, that he may find pardon for our iniquities. We shall be
healed by his wound, at the time that the Eternal will create him (the Messiah)
as a new creature. O bring him up from the circle of the earth. Raise him up
from Seir, to assemble us the second time on Mount Lebanon, by the hand of
Yinnon.22

Endnotes
1. Targum ("Targum Jonathan") to Isaiah 52:13, various editions (such as
Samson H. Levey, The Messiah: An Aramaic Interpretation; the Messianic
Exegesis of the Targum." Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1974, p. 63).
2. Rav Asher Soloff, "The Fifty Third Chapter of Isaiah According to the Jewish
Commentators, to the Sixteenth Century" (Ph.D. Thesis, Drew
University,1967), p. 146.
3. Jacob Mann, The Bible as Read and Preached in the Old Synagogue (NY:
Ktav, 1971, © 1940), p. 298.
4. Soncino Talmud edition.
5. Soncino Midrash Rabbah (vol. 8, p. 64).
6. S. R. Driver and A. Neubauer, editors, The Fifty-third Chapter of Isaiah
According to the Jewish Interpreters (2 volumes; New York: Ktav, 1969), pp.
19-20. The English translations used here are taken from volume 2. The
original texts are in volume 1. Cf. Soloff, pp. 107-09.
7. Driver and Neubauer, pp. 23 ff.; Soloff pp. 108-109.
8. Driver and Neubauer, p. 26; Soloff p. 109.
9. Driver and Neubauer, p. 32, citing the edition of Jellinek, Beth ha-Midrash
(1855), part iii. p. 80.
10. Driver and Neubauer, p. 36.

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11. Driver and Neubauer vol 1: p. 322. Edition is Abraham S. Halkin, ed.,
Igeret Teman (NY: American Academy for Jewish Research, 1952). See Soloff
pp. 127-128.
12. Cited in Driver and Neubauer, pp. 14-15 from section "va-yiqqahel".
Translation from Frydland, Rachmiel, What the Rabbis Know About the
Messiah (Cincinnati: Messianic Literature Outrea ch, 1991), p. 56, n. 27. Note
that this section is not found in the Soncino edition which says that it was an
interpolation.
13. Driver and Neubauer, pp. 78 ff.
14. Driver and Neubauer, p. 9. The same passage is found in Midrash
Tanhuma to Genesis (perhaps 9th c.), ed. John T. Townsend (Ho boken, NJ:
Ktav, 1989), p. 166.
15. Driver and Neubauer, p. 10.
16. Driver and Neubauer, pp. 99-100.
17. Driver and Neubauer, p. 112.
18. Driver and Neubauer, p. 129.
19. Driver and Neubauer, p. 331.
20. Driver and Neubauer, p. 258.
21. Driver and Neubauer, p. 400-401.
22. A. Th. Philips, Machzor Leyom Kippur/Prayer Book for the Day of
Atonement with English Translation; Revised and Enlarged Edition (New York:
Hebrew Publishing Company, 1931), p. 239. The passage can also be found
in, e.g., the 1937 edition. Also, Driver and Neubauer, p. 399.

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