CHAPTER I. |
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I will put enmity between thee and the Woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. (Gen. iii. 15.) | 1 |
CHAPTER II. |
And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice. (Gen. xxii. 18.) | 4 |
CHAPTER III. |
The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. (Gen. xlix. 10.) | 6 |
CHAPTER IV. |
And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots. And in that day, there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious. (Is. xi. 1. 10.) | 8 |
CHAPTER V. |
Thus saith the Lord God,—remove the diadem, and take off the crown, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him. (Ezekiel xxi. 26, 27.) For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim. Afterwards shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days. (Hosea iii. 4, 5.) | 10 |
CHAPTER VI. |
The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken. (Deut. xviii. 15-19.) | 12 |
CHAPTER VII. |
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. (Isaiah xl. 3.) | 18 |
CHAPTER VIII. |
Therefore, the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. (Isaiah vii. 14.) | 22 |
CHAPTER IX. |
But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. (Micah v. 2.) | 27 |
CHAPTER X. |
Thus saith the Lord; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children, refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not. (Jeremiah xxxi. 15.) | 31 |
CHAPTER XI. |
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. (Isaiah ix. 6, 7.) | 33 |
CHAPTER XII. |
And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. (Daniel ii. 44.) | 45 |
CHAPTER XIII. |
When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. (Hosea xi. 1.) | 49 |
CHAPTER XIV. |
Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire: their visage is blacker than a coal: they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick. (Lamentations iv. 7, 8.) | 51 |
CHAPTER XV. |
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek: he hath sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn. (Isaiah lxi. 1, 2, 3.) | 53 |
CHAPTER XVI. |
For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. (Psalm xci. 11, 12.) | 57 |
CHAPTER XVII. |
And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts. The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the Lord of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of hosts. (Haggai ii. 7. 9.) | 58 |
CHAPTER XVIII. |
And the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts. (Mal. iii. 1.) | 64 |
CHAPTER XIX. |
Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun, and the land of Naphtali, and afterwards did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations. The people that walked in darkness, have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. (Isaiah ix. 1, 2.) | 66 |
CHAPTER XX. |
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass. (Zech. ix. 9.) | 67 |
CHAPTER XXI. |
Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the Lord. (Jeremiah vii. 11.) | 69 |
CHAPTER XXII. |
Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies; that thou mightest still the enemy and avenger. (Psalm viii. 2.) | 72 |
CHAPTER XXIII. |
I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, thou knowest. (Psalm xl. 9.) | 74 |
CHAPTER XXIV. |
I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old. (Psalm lxxviii. 2.) | 76 |
CHAPTER XXV. |
He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young. (Isaiah xl. 11.) | 78 |
CHAPTER XXVI. |
And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears. (Isaiah xi. 3.) | 80 |
CHAPTER XXVII. |
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. (Isaiah xxxv. 5.) | 82 |
CHAPTER XXVIII. |
Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. (Is. xxxv. 6.) | 88 |
CHAPTER XXIX. |
Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. (Psalm xl. 7, 8.) | 92 |
CHAPTER XXX. |
I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children. (Psalm lxix. 8.) | 99 |
CHAPTER XXXI. |
They also that seek after my life lay snares for me; and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long. (Psalm xxxviii.) | 102 |
CHAPTER XXXII. |
For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life. (Psalm xxxi. 13.) | 104 |
CHAPTER XXXIII. |
Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger. (Lamentation i. 12.) | 107 |
CHAPTER XXXIV. |
Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me. (Psalm xli. 9.) |
And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price, thirty pieces of silver. And the Lord said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prized at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord. (Zechariah xi. 12, 13.) | 111 |
CHAPTER XXXV. |
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. (Psalm xxvii. 2.) | 115 |
CHAPTER XXXVI. |
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed. (Psalm ii. 1, 2.) | 117 |
CHAPTER XXXVII. |
False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not. (Psalm xxxv. 11.) | 121 |
CHAPTER XXXVIII. |
But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth. Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs. (Psalm xxxviii. 13, 14.) | 125 |
CHAPTER XXXIX. |
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off. (Psalm xxxviii. 11.) | 127 |
CHAPTER XL. |
I 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. (Isaiah l. 6.) | 129 |
CHAPTER XLI. |
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. (Isaiah liii. 3.) |
Thus saith the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the Lord that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee. (Isaiah xlix. 7.) | 131 |
CHAPTER XLII. |
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. (Psalm xxii. 6.) | 134 |
CHAPTER XLIII. |
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. (Isaiah liii. 7.) | 137 |
CHAPTER XLIV. |
He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. (Isaiah liii. 8.) | 139 |
CHAPTER XLV. |
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they have pierced my hands and my feet. (Psalm xxii. 16.) | 141 |
CHAPTER XLVI. |
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why are thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? (Psalm xxii. 1.) | 145 |
CHAPTER XLVII. |
Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of hosts, smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered; and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones. (Zechariah xiii. 7.) | 149 |
CHAPTER XLVIII. |
They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. (Psalm xxii. 18.) | 153 |
CHAPTER XLIX. |
They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. (Psalm lxix. 21.) | 155 |
CHAPTER L. |
With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth. (Psalm xxxv. 16.) |
All they that see me, laugh me to scorn; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver Him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. (Psalm xxii. 7, 8.) | 157 |
CHAPTER LI. |
Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death; and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. (Isaiah liii. 12.) | 159 |
CHAPTER LII. |
He keepeth all his bones, not one of them is broken. (Psalm xxxiv. 20.) | 162 |
CHAPTER LIII. |
And they shall look upon me whom they have pierced. (Zechariah xii. 10.) | 163 |
CHAPTER LIV. |
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering. (Isaiah 1. 3.) | 165 |
CHAPTER LV. |
And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he hath done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. (Isaiah liii. 9.) | 168 |
CHAPTER LVI. |
The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. (Psalm lxxxix. 45.) | 171 |
CHAPTER LVII. |
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows, yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed. All we, like sheep, have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way, and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. (Isaiah liii. 4, 5, 6.) | 174 |
CHAPTER LVIII. |
For thou wilt not leave my soul in Hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. (Psalm xvi. 9, 10.) | 182 |
CHAPTER LIX. |
Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell amongst them. (Psalm lxviii. 18.) | 190 |
CHAPTER LX. |
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: and also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. (Joel ii. 28, 29.) | 195 |
CHAPTER LXI. |
And I will pour upon the House of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his first born. (Zech. xii. 10.) | 201 |
CHAPTER LXII. |
The Lord hath sworn and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever, after the order of Melchizedek. (Psalm cx. 4.) | 210 |
CHAPTER LXIII. |
Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. Know, therefore, and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem, unto the Messiah, the Prince, shall be seven weeks, and three score and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. (Daniel ix. 24, 25.) | 214 |
CHAPTER LXIV. |
And after three score and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. (Daniel ix. 26.) | 224 |
CHAPTER LXV. |
And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. (Daniel ix. 27.) | 229 |
CHAPTER LXVI. |
For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. (Zechariah xiv. 2.) | 235 |
CHAPTER LXVII. |
The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; a nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favour to the young. (Deut. xxviii. 49, 50.) |
And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, and shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation. (Luke xix. 41-44.) | 240 |
CHAPTER LXVIII. |
Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest. (Micah iii. 12.) | 243 |
CHAPTER LXIX. |
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, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. (Isaiah viii. 14.) | 246 |
CHAPTER LXX. |
And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth. (Isaiah xlix. 6.) | 256 |
CHAPTER LXXI. |
The LORD said unto my Lord, sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. (Psalm cx. 1.) | 260 |