1 Rebellious Judah to be crushed
1 Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, 1 ch. 29:15That take counsel, but not of me; 1 And that cover with a covering, but not of my Spirit, 1 Deut. 29:19That they may add sin to sin:
2 ch. 31:1That walk to go down into Egypt, 2 And Num. 27:21;Josh. 9:14;1 Ki. 22:7;Jer. 21:2;& 42:2,20have not asked at my mouth; 2 To strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, 2 And to trust in the shadow of Egypt.
3 ch. 20:5;Jer. 37:5,7Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, 3 And the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
4 For his princes were at ch. 19:11Zoan, 4 And his ambassadors came to Hanes.
5 Jer. 2:36They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, 5 Nor be a help nor profit, 5 But a shame, and also a reproach.
6 ch. 57:9;Hos. 8:9;& 12:1The burden of the beasts of the south: 6 Into the land of trouble and anguish, 6 From whence come the young and old lion, 6 Deut. 8:15The viper and fiery flying serpent, 6 They will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, 6 And their treasures upon the bunches of camels, 6 To a people that shall not profit them.
7 Jer. 37:7For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: 7 Therefore have I cried [a]concerning this, ver. 15Their strength is to sit still.
8 Now go, Hab. 2:2write it before them in a table, 8 And note it in a book, 8 That it may be for [b]the time to come 8 For ever and ever:
9 That Deut. 32:20;ch. 1:4this is a rebellious people, lying children, 9 Children that will not hear the law of the Lord:
10 Jer. 11:21;Amos 2:12;Mic. 2:6Which say to the seers, See not; 10 And to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, 10 1 Ki. 22:13;Mic. 2:11Speak unto us smooth things, 10 Prophesy deceits:
11 Get ye out of the way, 11 Turn aside out of the path, 11 Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, 12 Because ye despise this word, 12 And trust in [c]oppression and perverseness, 12 And stay thereon:
13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you Ps. 62:3as a breach ready to fall, 13 Swelling out in a high wall, 13 Whose breaking ch. 29:5cometh suddenly at an instant.
14 And Ps. 2:9;Jer. 19:11he shall break it as the breaking of [d]the potters' vessel 14 That is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: 14 So that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sheard 14 To take fire from the hearth, 14 Or to take water withal out of the pit.
15 For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel; 15 ch. 7:4In returning and rest shall ye be saved; 15 In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: 15 Mat. 23:37And ye would not.
16 But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; 16 Therefore shall ye flee: 16 And, We will ride upon the swift; 16 Therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
17 Lev. 26:8;Deut. 28:25;Josh. 23:10One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; 17 At the rebuke of five shall ye flee: 17 Till ye be left as [e]a beacon upon the top of a mountain, 17 And as an ensign on a hill.
18 And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you, 18 And therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: 18 For the Lord is a God of judgment: 18 Ps. 2:12;& 34:8;Prov. 16:20;Jer. 17:7Blessed are all they that wait for him.
19 For the people ch. 65:9shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: 19 Thou shalt weep no more: 19 He will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; 19 When he shall hear it, he will answer thee.
20 And though the Lord give you 1 Ki. 22:27;Ps. 127:2the bread of adversity, and the water of [f]affliction, 20 Yet shall not Ps. 74:9;Amos 8:11thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, 20 But thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, 21 This is the way, walk ye in it, 21 When ye Josh. 1:7turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
22 2 Chr. 31:1;ch. 31:7Ye shall defile also the covering of [g]thy graven images of silver, 22 And the ornament of thy molten images of gold: 22 Thou shalt [h]cast them away as a menstruous cloth; 22 Hos. 14:8Thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
23 Mat. 6:33;1 Tim. 4:8Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, 23 That thou shalt sow the ground withal; 23 And bread of the increase of the earth, 23 And it shall be fat and plenteous: 23 In that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.
24 The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground 24 Shall eat [i][j]clean provender, 24 Which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
25 And there shall be ch. 2:14,15upon every high mountain, 25 And upon every [k]high hill, 25 Rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, 25 When the towers fall.
26 Moreover ch. 60:19,20the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, 26 And the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, 26 As the light of seven days, 26 In the day that the Lord bindeth up the breach of his people, 26 And healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the Lord cometh from far, 27 Burning with his anger, [l]and the burden thereof is [m]heavy: 27 His lips are full of indignation, 27 And his tongue as a devouring fire:
28 And ch. 11:4his breath, as an overflowing stream, 28 ch. 8:8Shall reach to the midst of the neck, 28 To sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: 28 And there shall be ch. 37:29a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.
29 Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; 29 And gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe 29 To come into ch. 2:3the mountain of the Lord, to the Deut. 32:4[n]mighty One of Israel.
30 ch. 29:6And the Lord shall cause [o]his glorious voice to be heard, 30 And shall shew the lighting down of his arm, 30 With the indignation of his anger, 30 And with the flame of a devouring fire, 30 With scattering, and tempest, ch. 28:2and hailstones.
31 For ch. 37:36through the voice of the Lord shall the Assyrian be beaten down, 31 ch. 10:5,24Which smote with a rod.
32 And [p]in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, 32 Which the Lord shall [q]lay upon him, 32 It shall be with tabrets and harps: 32 And in battles of ch. 11:15shaking will he fight [r]with it.
33 Jer. 7:31For Tophet is ordained [s]of old; 33 Yea, for the king it is prepared; 33 He hath made it deep and large: 33 The pile thereof is fire and much wood; 33 The breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
34 The folly of reliance upon Egypt
