1The dereliction of the Jews to be imputed to their own sins, and not to God's inability to save. 4Christ's commission to speak comfort to the weary: 5his patient suffering of indignities, 7and confidence in God's help. 10An exhortation to trust in God, and not in human resources.
1THUS saith the LORD, aWhere is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom bI have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have cye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
a ch. 48.8; 49.14. Ho. 2.2. Je. 3.1,14. Eze. 16.8. Je. 31.32. Ro. 11.1,2. De. 24.1. Je. 3.8. b Ex. 21.7; 22.3. Ne. 5.3. Le. 25.39. 2Ki. 4.1. Mat. 18.25. De. 32.30. c ch. 52.3; 59.1-14; 5.4-7. Ps. 44.12. Ho. 2.2. De. 29.20-25; 32.19-25. 1Th. 2.15,16. Mat. 8.12; 21.43; 23.35-39. Ro. 7.14.
2Wherefore, when I dcame, was there eno man? when I called, was there none to answer? fIs my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I gdry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.
d Je. 35.15. Ep. 2.17. Zec. 9.9. Mal. 3.1. e ch. 65.12; 66.4. Pr. 1.24. Ps. 81.11. Ho. 11.2,7. Jn. 1.11; 7.48; 12.42. Mat. 21.38; 23.37. Lu. 19.44. f Nu. 11.23. ch. 59.1. Ge. 18.14. Jn. 11.41. g Ex. 14.21,29. Ps. 106.9; 114.3-7; 66.6; 78.13; 74.13,15. Jos. 3.13,16. ch. 51.10; 42.15; 43.16; 63.13. Ps. 107.33. Mat. 8.27. Hab. 3.8. Je. 51.36. Na. 1.4. Ex. 7.18,21. ch. 19.5.
3I hclothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
h Ex. 10.21,22. Eze. 32.7,8. Re. 6.12.
4The iLord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he jwakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as kthe learned.
i Mat. 13.54. Ex. 4.15. ch. 6.6. Je. 1.9. Pr. 25.11. Col. 2.3. Ps. 45.2. ch. 49.1,2; 61.1,2; 51.16. Mat. 7.29. Lu. 4.22,32. Mar. 6.2. Jn. 7.46. Mat. 5.4,6; 11.27,28. ch. 57.15-19. j Jn. 11.49; 7.16. v.7,9. ch. 28.19. k ch. 8.16.
5¶The Lord GOD lhath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.
l Mat. 26.39. Ps. 40.6-8. Jn. 14.31; 8.29; 4.34; 10.18. Phi. 2.8. Mat. 3.15. He. 10.5-7; 5.8. Ro. 5.19.
6mI gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
m ch. 49.7; 52.14; 53.5. Mat. 26.57,67; 27.26,30. Lu. 18.31; 22.63,64. Jn. 18.12. Mi. 5.1. Nu. 12.14. Job 30.10. 2Sa. 10.4,5. 1Ki. 22.24. La. 3.30. Ne. 13.25.
7¶For the Lord GOD will nhelp me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have oI set my face like a flint, and pI know that I shall not be ashamed.
n ch. 42.1; 49.2. Jn. 16.32. Ac. 10.38. He. 5.7. v.9. o Je. 1.17,18; 15.20. Eze. 3.8,9. Ro. 1.16. 1Pe. 4.16; 3.14. Lu. 9.51. p He. 12.2.
8qHe is near that justifieth me; rwho will contend with me? let us sstand together: twho is 1mine adversary? let him come near to me.
1Heb. the master of my cause.
q Ro. 8.31-34. 1Ti. 3.16. Ac. 10.38. Mat. 27.51. Ro. 1.4. Ac. 2.36. Mat. 26.64. ch. 45.24. Col. 2.15. r Job 13.19. s Ex. 22.9. De. 19.17. 1Co. 4.4. 1Pe. 3.15. t Zec. 3.1. Re. 12.10.
9Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall uwax old as a garment; vthe moth shall eat them up.
u Ps. 102.26. Job 13.28. ch. 51.6,8,12. He. 8.13. v Ps. 39.11. Mat. 6.19,20.
10¶Who is among you that wfeareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his xservant, that ywalketh in darkness, and hath no light? zlet him trust in the name of the LORD, and astay upon his God.
w Mal. 3.16. Ps. 128.1; 111.10. Ec. 12.13. ch. 29.23. Je. 32.40. Jn. 10.14; 14.21. x Am. 3.7. ch. 49.3; 42.1; 52.13; 53.11. y ch. 59.9. Mi. 7.8,9. La. 3.1-18. ch. 8.22. Ps. 23.4. Mat. 14.31; 16.8. 1Th. 5.14. 1Pe. 5.9. Lu. 24.20,21. Jn. 16.20. z Job 13.15. Na. 1.7. Ps. 52.8; 119.81; 27.13; 130.7,8. 1Pe. 5.7. Hab. 2.4. He. 10.35-37. a 2Ch. 13.18.
11Behold, all bye that kindle a fire, that *compass yourselves about with sparks: cwalk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. dThis shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.
*compass-surround.
b Ps. 20.7. Ro. 10.3. c Ec. 11.9. Am. 4.4. Lu. 12.49. De. 32.22. Je. 17.4. Mat. 26.64. d Jn. 9.39. Ps. 16.4; 32.10. Lu. 21.23-26; 19.27,43. Re. 2.22. Mat. 8.12. Mar. 9.44,48. Lu. 16.24.