1 Isaiah complaineth of Judah's rebellion: 5 their universal corruption and desolation: 10 their whole religious service unacceptable because of their sins. 16 An exhortation to repentance enforced by promises and threatenings. 21 The prophet bewailing their wickedness denounceth God's judgments, mixed with promises of mercy, 28 and threateneth destruction to the wicked.
1 Isaiah prophesieth the coming of Christ's kingdom. 6 Wickedness is why God hath forsaken his people. 10 The prophet forewarneth them of the terrible day of the Lord.
1 The calamities coming upon Judah because of sin. 10 The different reward of the righteous and the wicked. 12 The oppression of the rulers. 16 The punishment of the women for their pride. 25 The general desolation.
1 The distress of the times. 2 The succeeding blessings and security of Christ's kingdom.
1 Under the parable of a vineyard God justifieth the severity of his dealings with his people: 8 his judgments upon their covetousness; 11 riot, and disregard of him; 18 profaneness; 20 perverseness, selfconceit, excess, and injustice. 26 The executioners of God's judgments.
1 Isaiah's vision of the Lord in his glory: 5 he is terrified; an angel removeth the ground of his apprehensions: 8 he offereth himself, and is sent to shew the obstinacy of the people unto their destruction. 13 A remnant shall be saved.
1 Ahaz being troubled with fear of Rezin and Pekah is comforted by Isaiah. 10 Ahaz having liberty to choose a sign, and refusing it, Christ is promised for a sign. 17 God's judgments prophesied to come upon Judah by the hand of the Assyrians.
1 Isaiah prophesieth under a type the spoiling of Syria and Israel by the king of Assyria; 5 and that Judah also shall be overrun by him. 9 God's purposes irresistible. 11 Comfort shall be to them that fear God, and trust in him; but mischief to idolaters.
1 The joy of the church in the birth and kingdom of Christ. 8 God's judgments upon Israel for their pride, 13 impenitency, 18 and wickedness.
1 God's judgments for injustice and oppression. 5 The Assyrian, the instrument of God's vengeance, for his pride shall be broken. 20 The remnant of Israel shall return after the determined desolation. 24 Judah is comforted with a promise of deliverance from Assyria. 28 The approach of the Assyrian to Jerusalem, and his destruction.
1 The peaceable kingdom of the Branch out of the root of Jesse. 10 The calling of the Gentiles, and restoration of Israel.
A joyful thanksgiving of the faithful for the mercies of God.
1 God mustereth the armies of his wrath; 6 he threateneth to destroy Babylon by the Medes; 19 her utter desolation.
1 God's merciful restoration of Israel. 3 Their triumph in the fall of the king of Babylon. 24 God's purpose against Assyria. 29 Palestina is threatened.
The lamentable state of Moab.
1 The Moabite is exhorted to yield obedience to the throne of David. 6 He is threatened for his pride with lamentable judgments, and that within three years.
1 Syria and Israel are threatened. 6 A remnant of Israel shall forsake idolatry. 9 The desolation of the rest. 12 The rebuke of the enemies of Israel.
1 God threateneth to destroy the Ethiopians. 7 An access will from thence be made to the church.
1 The confusion of Egypt. 11 The foolishness of her princes. 18 The calling of Egypt into the church; 23 and God's blessing upon her in union with Israel and Assyria.
A type prefiguring the shameful captivity of Egypt and Ethiopia.
1 The prophet seeth in a vision the fall of Babylon by the Medes and Persians. 11 He giveth warning to Edom. 13 The set time of Arabia's calamity.
1 The prophet lamenteth the invasion of Jewry; 8 he reproveth their trust in human means, and not in God; and their desperate rioting, when the times called for humiliation. 15 He prophesieth the downfall of Shebna, 20 and Eliakim's advancement in his room.
1 The miserable overthrow of Tyre. 15 Her restoration after seventy years, and her whoredoms.
1 The deplorable judgments of God upon the land. 13 A remnant shall joyfully praise him. 16 Amidst the general calamities of the earth God's kingdom shall be set up with glory.
1 The prophet praiseth God for his past judgments, 6 and for his future salvation of his people, and overthrow of their enemies.
1 A song inciting to confidence in God, 5 for his judgments upon the adversary, 12 and favour to his people. 20 An exhortation to wait God's coming to judgment.
1 God's judgment upon leviathan; 2 his care over his vineyard; 7 his chastisements are in measure, and with a view to reformation. 10 Desolation threatened for want of knowledge. 12 The restoration of the dispersed.
1 Ephraim threatened for pride and drunkenness. 5 God will be the glory and strength of the residue. 7 They are reproved for their excess, 14 and carnal security. 16 Christ, the sure foundation, promised. 17 The security of the scorners shall end in destruction. 23 The wisdom of God's providence is seen in the discreet labours of the husbandman.
1 The distress of Jerusalem by a siege, and the sudden destruction of the invaders by the hand of God. 9 The Jews reproved for their insensibility, 13 and hypocrisy, which is threatened with judgment. 17 A promise of better things in succeeding times.
1 The people threatened for their confidence in Egypt, 8 and contempt of God's word. 18 God's mercies toward his church. 27 God's wrath, and the people's joy, in the destruction of Assyria.
1 The folly and danger of trusting in Egypt, instead of seeking to God. 6 An exhortation to turn to God. 8 The fall of Assyria.
1 The blessings of Christ's kingdom. 9 Desolation is foreshewn. 15 Restoration is promised to succeed.
1 God's judgments against the enemies of Zion. 13 The consternation of sinners, and privileges of the godly.
1 The indignation wherewith God avengeth his church of her enemies to their utter desolation. 16 The certainty of the prophecy.
1 The joyful and flourishing state of Christ's kingdom. 3 The weak are encouraged with a view of the blessings of the gospel.
1 Sennacherib invadeth Judah. 2 He sendeth Rabshakeh, who insulteth Hezekiah, 13 and in a blasphemous speech soliciteth the people to revolt.
1 Hezekiah in deep affliction sendeth to desire Isaiah's prayers. 6 Isaiah returneth an answer of comfort. 8 Sennacherib, being called away to oppose the king of Ethiopia, sendeth a blasphemous letter to Hezekiah. 14 Hezekiah's prayer upon the receipt of it. 21 Isaiah's prophecy concerning the pride and overthrow of Sennacherib, and the prosperity of Zion. 36 An angel destroyeth the Assyrian army: 37 Sennacherib is slain at Nineveh by his own sons.
1 Hezekiah, warned by Isaiah to prepare for death, 4 upon his prayer is promised an addition of fifteen years to his life, and the return of the sun's shadow ten degrees backward for a sign. 9 His psalm of thanksgiving.
1 Merodach-baladan sendeth ambassadors to Hezekiah upon his recovery, who ostentatiously sheweth them his treasures. 3 Isaiah hearing thereof foretelleth the Babylonish captivity.
1 God sendeth comfort to his people in the remission of sins. 3 The preaching of John the Baptist. 9 The glad tidings of the gospel. 12 God's infinite power and wisdom; 18 the vanity of likening him to any other being. 26 An exhortation to trust in God's power and providence without desponding.
1 God displayeth his merciful providence in regard of his church: 10 which he exhorteth to trust in him without fear; 21 and challenging the idols to produce like proofs of power and knowledge, he sheweth their vanity.
1 The mission of Christ to the Gentiles: his meekness and constancy. 5 God's promise to him. 10 An exhortation to praise God for his gospel. 13 God will no longer forbear to manifest himself, and check idolatry. 18 Israel reproved and punished for their incredulity.
1 God comforteth the church with gracious promises: 8 he calleth the people to witness his omnipotency: 14 he foretelleth the destruction of Babylon, 18 and his wonderful deliverance of his people: 22 he reproveth their neglect of his service.
1 God again comforteth his church with gracious promises. 9 The folly of the makers of idols. 21 God exhorteth Israel to trust in his mercy, and promiseth restoration by Cyrus.
1 God calleth Cyrus for his church's sake: 5 he asserteth his own omnipotency, and promiseth salvation thereby to Israel. 20 The ignorance of those who worship idols. 22 God's salvation will extend unto all nations.
1 The idols of Babylon could not save themselves from captivity. 3 God saveth his people to the end. 5 Idols are not to be compared with God, who declareth beforehand the purposes which he executeth. 12 His salvation is near at hand.
1 God's judgments upon Babylon, for her unmercifulness and pride shall be irresistible. 12 All her sorceries will not avail her.
1 God revealed himself by prophecy, that his works might not be ascribed to idols: 9 he saveth his people for his own sake: 12 he exhorteth them to obedience because of his power and providence: 16 he lamenteth their disobedience: 20 he sendeth his people out of Babylon.
1 Christ complaineth of the unsuccessfulness of his mission to the Jews: 5 he is sent to the Gentiles with gracious promises. 13 God's love to his church is perpetual. 18 Its restoration and enlargement. 24 The certainty of its deliverance out of captivity.
1 The dereliction of the Jews to be imputed to their own sins, and not to God's inability to save. 4 Christ's commission to speak comfort to the weary: 5 his patient suffering of indignities, 7 and confidence in God's help. 10 An exhortation to trust in God, and not in human resources.
1 The righteous are exhorted by the example of Abraham to trust in God, who will comfort his church. 4 The certainty of his salvation. 7 The reproach of men should not be feared by the righteous. 9 A call upon God's arm to exert itself as of old in redeeming his church. 12 The vanity of fearing man, and distrusting his Maker's power. 17 The prophet bewaileth the afflictions of Jerusalem, 21 and promiseth deliverance.
1 The church is roused with God's promise of free redemption. 7 The welcome news of Christ's kingdom: 9 the church is exhorted to rejoice therein; 11 and to flee from bondage and its defilements. 13 A prophecy of the glory of Christ after his sufferings.
1 The prophet complaining of want of faith describeth the humiliation of Christ; 4 his sufferings; 10 and the good success thereof.
1 The church is comforted with gracious promises of enlargement, 4 deliverance out of affliction, 11 edification, 15 and sure preservation.
1 The prophet with the free offers of grace through Christ exhorteth to faith, 6 and to repentance. 8 The happy state of believers.
1 An exhortation to holiness of life: 3 God promiseth that it shall be accepted without respect of persons. 9 The calamities of the church imputed to blind watchmen.
1 The blessedness of the righteous in death, who are taken out of the way of evil. 3 God reproveth the Jews for their idolatry: 13 he comforteth the penitent with promises of mercy.
1 The prophet, being sent to reprove hypocrisy, sheweth the difference between a counterfeit fast and a true: 8 he declareth what blessings shall attend a godly performance of the duties of the latter, 13 and the observance of the sabbath.
1 The calamities of the Jews not owing to want of saving power in God, but to their own enormous sins. 16 Salvation cometh of God only. 20 The covenant of the Redeemer.
1 The glorious access of the Gentiles into the church. 15 The blessings of the church after affliction.
1 The office of Christ. 4 The restoration and blessedness of the church.
1 The prophet's zeal in interceding for the accomplishment of God's glorious promises to his church. 6 The ministers of God are incited to use the like importunity. 8 God's gracious promises confirmed by oath. 10 The preparation of the gospel salvation.
1 Christ sheweth his power to save, and his vengeance upon his enemies. 7 A thankful commemoration of God's old lovingkindnesses to his people. 15 A prayer for the return of his mercy to them.
1 The church prayeth God to shew himself with power. 4 She acknowledgeth God's mercy to them that seek him, and confesseth her own unworthiness. 9 She pleadeth for compassion toward her desolate state.
1 The calling of the Gentiles, and the rejection of the Jews for their unbelief, idolatry, and hypocrisy. 8 A remnant shall be saved. 11 Judgments shall be for the wicked, but blessings for the godly. 17 The blessed state of the new Jerusalem.
1 God declareth that he will accept no other service but that of an humble and contrite spirit. 5 The faithful are foretold the confusion of their enemies. 7 The marvellous growth of the church, 10 and the blessings that belong to it. 15 God's severe judgments against the wicked. 18 The gathering of the believing Jews and Gentiles into one church, where they shall together worship God, and see the destruction of the wicked.