J m1, or made @ By vertue of thy gracious Word or Promiſe, and powerful meſcrer,$Sc. Work ; by thy Promiſes, and thy pzrformances of them, mentioned. in the forg;oing Verſe. This place may be explained by comparing it with Deut, 8. 11. Man dcth not live by bread, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord, The Sence is, Not I only, bur all Men do receive and recover, and hold their Lives by thy Favour, and the Word of thy Power: And therefore it is not ſtrange, Thar one Word of God hath brought me back from the very jaws of Death. e Andas it is with other Men, ſo harh it been with me in a ſpecial manner ; for in theſ: above all other things #s the life of my ſpirit or Soul, i, e. either the comfort ( which is ſometimes called Life ) of my Sprit : or rather, That Life, which is in my Body, from my Spirit or Soul united to it. f Or, and or for thou haſt reco- wvered me, &c. to wit, by theſe things.
17 Behold, || for peace I had great bitterneſs g, but ah pa 7 thou haſt in love ro my foul þ delivered jt from the wa Pi of corruption; for thou haſt caſt all my ſins behind t Heb.rhoy MY back 7. baft loved & My Health and Proſperity was quickly changed into birter myſoul from Sicknets and Affliftion. Or, as others render ir, My great bitterneſs Ie pity was wnto peace, was turned into Proſperity, or became the occafion of my ſatery and further advantages: For that drove me to my Prayers, and Prayers prevailed with God for a gracious Anſwer, ardthe prolonging of my Life. þ In kindaeſs to me, the Soul be. ing oft put for the Man. This is an emphatical Circumſtance : For ſometimes God prolongs mens days in anger, and in order to their greater miſ-ry. 7 Thou haſt forgiven thoſe ſins which brought this evil upon me, acd upon that account haſt removed the puiſy- ment of them; which ſh-weth that thou didſt rhis in love to me. The phraje is borrowed from the cuſtom of men, who when they would accurate;y fee and obſerve any thing, ſer it before their Faces and when they deiire, and reſolve not to look upoa any thing, turn cheir backs upon ir, or caſt it behind them. i
18 For & the 7 * grave cannot praiſe thee 7, death
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k In this andthe following verſe. he declares Gods defign in dc- Iivering him, that he might praiſe him in his Church ; which if he had died he cou!d not have done. . ! , Thedead are not capable of glorifying thy Name among men upon Earth - which, I deiire and determine to do. , See the like expreſſions, Pſal.; 6..5. and 30, g and 88. 10. &c., The Grave is put for the perſons lodged in ir by a Me- ronymy. m They cannot expett nor receivethe accompliſhment of chy promiſed goodneſs in the Land of the Living. ..:. .., , _
19 The Living, the living, he hall praiſe thee », as Ldothis day,the tather to the children (hall make known thy truth 0. FE: ANTE LIES TELLS © 17;
n They are eſpecially obliged to it, and they only have this prj- viledge. 0 They ſhal nor only praiſe thee whileſt they live, bur take care to propagate and perpetuate thy Praiſe and Glory to all ſucceeding Generations. , | EI CH, i
20 The LORD was rendy to ſave me p, therefore we q will ſing my ſongs to the ſtringed inſtruments 7, all the days of our life, in the: houſe of the LORD,
p Was a preſent help ro me, ready to hear,. and ſuccour me ups on my prayer in my great extremity.. q Both I and my -People, who are concerned in me, and for me will ſing forth thoſe ſongs of Praiſe which ate due eſpecially for me, for Goa's great mercy to me. r according to the cuſtom of thoſe times.
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21 For ' figs, and lay is for a plaiſter upon the boil, and he jhall 2% 7-' + | recover s. CZ > OPT RS :
5 This was rather a ſign appointed by Ged, than a natural means of the cure: For if it had a natural faculty to ripen a ſore, yer it
could never cure ſuch a dangerous and peſtilenrial Diſeaſe ar Jeaſt in ſo little time.
22 Hezekiah alſo had ſaid 7, Whar is the ſign, that] ſhall go up « to the houſe of the LORD x ..
£ Or, For H-zekiah had ſaid, had asked a ſign, which is here ad- ded as the reaſon, why Iſaiah ſaid what is related in the foregoing verſa : to wit, in anſwer to Hezekiah's queſtion. « Within three days, as is more fall related, 2 Kings 20. 5,8. . x For thither ke de- ſigned in the firſt place to go, partly that he might pay his vow and thankſpgivings to God, and partly that he might ingage the people to praiſe Gcd with him, and for him.
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The King of Babel ſendeth Ambaſſadors with Letters, and « Preſent to Hezekie h ah: who ſhexeth them all his Treaſures, 1, 2. Iſaiah foretelleth him of ( the Babyloniſh Captivityy 4 7. His Reſignation, 8. {
T * chat tine Merodach- baladan the ſon of Bala- « dan king of Babylon, ſent letters and a preſent ,
to Hezekiah : for he had heard that he had been ſick
and was recovered.
2 AndHezekiah was glad of them, and ſhewed them. . = the houſe of his || precious things, the filver, and the [| Or, $pi« | gold, and the ſpices, and the precious ointment, and © it the houſe of his || + armour, and all that was found in 0M » Jens- his treaſures: chere was nothing in his houſe, nor in + Heb-veſ. 1 all his dominion, that Hezekiah ſhewed them not. ſlr, or, in-
3 Then came Ifaiah the prophet unto king Hezeki- f7##i:. ah, and ſaid unto him, What ſaid theſe men ? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah ſaid, They are come from a far countrey unto me, ever from
Babylon,
4 Then faid he, What have they ſeen in thy houſe ? and Hezekiah anſwered, All that is in my houſe have
they ſeen: there is nothing among my treaſures that T have not (hewed them. |
5 Then ſaid Ifaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD of hoſts.
6 Behold, the days. come that all that # in thine houſe. and that which thy fathers have laid up in ſtore until
this day, ſhall be carried to Babylon, nothing ſhall be left, ſaith the LORD. |
7 And of thy ſons that ſhall iſſue from thee, which chou (balc beger, ſhall they take away ; and they ſhall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. |
$ Then faid Hezekiah co Iſaiah, Good 3s the word of the LORD which thou haſt ſpoken : he ſaid more-