THE PROPHECIE
and [1] shal remaine in Jerusalem, shal be called holie, everie one that is written in life in Jerusalem. 4 If our Lord shal cleanse the filth of the daughters of Sion, and shal wash the bloud of Jerusalem out of the middes thereof in the spirit of judgement, and spirit of heate. 5 And our Lord shal create upon everie place of mount Sion, and where he is invocated, a clowde by day, and smoke, and the brightnes of flaming fyre in the night: for upon al glorie protection. 6 And there shal be a tabernacle for a place of shadow in the day from the heate, and for securitie, and covert from the whyrlewind, and from rayne.
CHAP. V.
Under the figure of a barren vineyard, is prophecied the rejection of the Jewes., 7. for their sinnes of avarice, 11, intemperance, & other wickednes, 18. one iniquitie drawing an other, 20. judging good to be evil, and evil good. 25. for which the Gentiles of divers nations shal afflict them.
I wil sing to my beloved [2] the canticle of my cosin concerning his vineyard. A vineyard was made to my beloved in horne the sonne of oile. 2 And he hedged it, and chose stones out of it, and planted it elect, and built a towre in the middes thereof, and set up a press therein: and looked that it should yeld grapes, and it yelded wilde grapes. 3 Now therefore ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Juda, judge betwen me and my vineyard. 4 What is there that I ought to doe more to my vineyard, and have not done it? Whether that I looked, it should yeld grapes, and it hath yelded wilde grapes? 5 And now I wil shew you what I wil doe to my vineyard. [3] I wil take away the hedge therof, and it shal be into spoile: I wil throw downe the wal therof, and it shal be to be troden upon. 6 And I wil lay it waist: it shal not be pruned, and it shal not be digged: and bryers and thornes shal overgrowe it: and I wil command the cloudes that they rayne no shower upon it. 7 For the vineyarde of the Lord of hostes, is the house of Israel: and the man of Juda, his delectable bud: & I looked that it should doe judgement, and behold iniquitie, and justice, and behold clamour. 8 Woe to you that joyne house to house, and lay filde to filde, even to the end of the place: why shal you alone dwel in the middes of the earth? 9 These thinges are in my eares, sayth the Lord
- ↑ Not al the Jewes that escaped temporal death in the destruction of Jerusalem, but those only shal be eternally saved, that beleving shal be baptized and live wel.
- ↑ Isaie of the tribe of Juda here profecieth the doleful songue which Christ uttered weeping over Jerusalem, fore seeing & fore-telling their destruction Luc 19.v.41
- ↑ Al this sheweth that God only subtracting his protection, no man nor people is able to stand, of whole ruine God is not the auctor, but only permitteth that they fal into sinnes, and so into other miseries.
