CHAPTER 24
"As all times, so all places, even the most remote, are present with God & under his view."
"Known unto God are all his works."
"A rebellious house will soon be a ruinous house."
"It is fit that those who sin before all should be rebuked before all"
"Those that follow after lying vanities weary themselves with the pursuit."
"We may the more easily bear an affliction if it find us in the way of our duty; for nothing can hurt us, nothing come amiss to us, while we keep ourselves in the love of God."
"Our dispositions must always submit to God's directions, & his command must be obeyed even in that which is most difficult & displeasing to us."
"The removal of the comforts of others should awaken us to think of parting with ours too, for are we better than they?"
"Those who regard not the threatenings of the word when they are preached will be made to remember them when they are executed."
"Carnal people set their minds upon that on which they can set their eyes; they look at, & dote upon, the things that are seen; & it is their folly to set their minds upon that which they have no assurance of & which may be taken from them in a moment.  Proverbs 23:5."

CHAPTER 25
"Those are miserable that have the preaching & praying of God's prophets against them, against whom their faces are set."
"The people of God have always had a great deal of ill-will borne them by this wicked world"
"It is a very wicked thing to be glad at the calamities of any, especially of God's people, & a sin that God will surely reckon for"
"God is jealous for his people's honour; because his own is so nearly interested in it."
"Better know God & be poor than be rich & ignorant of him."
"Those who glory in any other defence & protection than that of the divine power, providence & promise, will sooner or later see cause to be ashamed of their glorying."
"We are forbidden to revenge or to bear a grudge."
"Those that will not leave it to God to take vengeance for them may expect that he will take vengeance on them; & those that will not believe & fear his vengeance shall be made to know & feel his vengeance"

CHAPTER 26
"Those that have God against them may expect all the creatures against them; for what peace can those have with whom God is at war?"
"Those who know their strength are too apt to cause terror, to pride themselves in frightening those they are an over-match for."
"It is just with God to make those a terror to their neighbours, by the suddenness & strangeness of their punishment, who make themselves a terror to their neighbours by the abuse of their power."
"The fall of others should awaken us out of our security."
"Where living sacrifices are offered to the living God, & where the lively oracles are, there the land of the living is; there David hoped to see the goodness of the Lord.  Psalms 27:13."
"God will himself be the glory of the lands that are the lands of the living."

CHAPTER 27
"We ought to mourn for the miseries of other nations, as well as for our own, out of an affection for mankind in general"
"God takes notice of the vain conceits men have of themselves in their prosperity"
"...God's eye is upon men  ...he takes cognizance of what they do when they are employed in their worldly business, not only when they are at church, praying & hearing, but when they are in their markets & fairs, & upon the exchange, buying & selling, which is a good reason why we should in all our dealings keep a conscience void of offence, & have our eye always upon him whose eye is always upon us."
"It is ill with a people when those that sit at the stern, instead of putting them into the harbour, run them aground."
"Loses & crosses are very grievous, & hard to be borne, to those that have long been wallowing in pleasure & sleeping in carnal security."
Matthew Henry's Commentary:  Isaiah to Malachi, Mac Donald, pgs. 895 - 915.

CHAPTER 20
"A hypocritical attendance on God & his ordinances is so far from being pleasing to him that it is provoking."
"As the foundation of our blessedness is laid in God's choosing us, so the first step towards it is God's making himself known to us."
"They rebelled against God, not only refused to comply with his particular precepts, but shook off their allegiance, & in effect told him that they would be at liberty to worship what God they pleased."
"It is better to be at liberty in a wilderness than bond-slaves in a land of plenty, to enjoy God & ourselves in solitude than to lose both in a crowd"
"...it is the Lord that sanctifies us, makes us holy (that is, truly happy) here, & prepares us to be happy (that is, perfectly holy) hereafter."
"The bias of the mind towards the world & the flesh, the money & the belly (those 2 great objects of spiritual idolatry), is the root of bitterness from which springs all disobedience to the divine law.  The heart that goes after those idols despises God's judgments."
"It is owing purely to the mercy of God that he has not long ago made an end of us."
"...the bad examples of parents must be made use of by their children for admonition, & not for imitation."
"...those who will not live & flourish as they might in their obedience should die & perish in their disobedience."
"Those that will not be bound by the precepts of the law shall be bound by the sentence of it"
"God sometimes makes sin to be its own punishment, & yet is not the author of sin; & there needs no more to make men miserable than to give them up to their own vile appetites & passions."
"Those who will not acknowledge God as the Lord their ruler shall be made to acknowledge him as the Lord their judge when it is too late."
"It is a great aggravation of sin when men will not take warning by the mischievous consequences of sin in those that have gone before them; this is blaspheming God."
"It is only integrity & uprightness that will preserve men, & recommend them to God & man."
"There is no shaking off God's dominion; rule he will, either with the golden sceptre or with the iron rod; & those that will not yield to the power of his grace shall be made to sink under the power of his wrath."
"...there will come a distinguishing day, when God will separate between the precious & the vile"
"Those who think to serve themselves by sin will find in the end that they have but enslaved themselves to sin."
"All the favours we receive from God should lead us into a more intimate acquaintance with him."
"Those that should have been as the garden of the Lord, & his vineyard, had become like a forest, all overgrown with briers & thorns; & those that are so, that bring not forth the fruits of righteousness, God's word prophesies against."
"When God will ruin a nation, who or what can save it?"
"It is a comfort to us, when people speak ill of us unjustly, that we have a God to complain to."

CHAPTER 21
​"When we speak to people about their souls we should study plainness, & express ourselves as we may be the best understood."
"Ministers, if they would affect others with the things they speak of, must show that they are themselves in the greatest sincerity affected with them, & must submit to that which may create uneasiness to themselves, so that it will promote the ends of their ministry."
"Those who have God for them when flesh & heart fail have him to be the strength of their heart"
"While good men are quiet, not only from evil, but from the fear of it, wicked men are disturbed not only with the sword, but with the terrors of it, arising from a consciousness of their own guilt."
"Ruin comes gradually, but at last comes effectually, upon a provoking people."
"Should we now make mirth, when the hand of God has gone out against us, when God's judgments are abroad in the land & be by them calls to weeping & mourning?  Isaiah 22:11, 13
"God remembers former iniquities against those only who by the present discoveries of their wickedness show that they do not repent of them."
"Those who will not be taken with the word of God's grace shall at last be taken by the hand of his wrath."
"Though those who are wicked & profane may flourish awhile, yet their day will come to fall."
"Men lose their dignity by their iniquity."
"Those that feed themselves with a self-conceit in the day of their prosperity prepare matter for a self-reproach in the day of their calamity."
"Wicked men make themselves fuel to the fire of God's wrath; they are consumed by it, & it is inflamed by them."

CHAPTER 22
​"Sinners do that which provokes God because they forget him; they forget their descent from him, dependence on him, & obligations to him; they forget how valuable his favour is, which they make themselves unfit for, & how formidable his wrath, which they make themselves obnoxious to."
"There is a day coming when God will deal with sinners, a day of visitation."
"Those that resolve to be their own masters, let them expect no other comfort & happiness than what their own hands can furnish them with, & a miserable portion it will prove."
"Sinners, & especially degenerate professors, are in God's account as dross, vile, & contemptible, & of no account, as the evil figs which could not be eaten, they were so evil.  They are useless & fit for nothing; of no consistency with themselves & no service to man."
"Those who draw men to wickedness, & encourage them in it, are the devourers & murderers of their souls."
"The profanation of the honour of the scriptures...  is a profanation of the honour of God himself, who is interested in them."
"There is a way of standing in the gap, & making up the breach against the judgments of God, by repentance, & prayer, & reformation."
"When God is coming forth against a sinful people to destroy them he expects some to intercede for them, & enquires if there be but one that does; so much is it his desire & delight to show mercy."

CHAPTER 23
​"To convince sinners of the evil of sin, & of their misery & danger by reason of it, there is need of line upon line"
"Those who have been in profession the people of God, but have revolted from him, have a great deal to answer for more than those who never made any such profession."
"The devil will for ever be a tormentor of those impenitent sinners who now hearken to him & comply with him as a tempter."
"Those may justly expect God's judgments upon themselves who do not take warning by his judgments upon others, who see in others what is the end of sin & yet continue to make a light matter of it."
"Those who, instead of reflecting upon their former sins with sorrow & shame, reflect upon them with pleasure & pride...  in effect bid defiance to repentance."
"Sin alienates God's mind from the sinner, & justly, for it is the alienation of the sinner's mind from God; but woe, & a thousand woes, to those from whom God's mind is alienated; for whom he turns from he will turn against."
"If men deal ever so hatefully, ever so furiously, with us, yet, if we have God on our side, we need not fear them; they can do us no real hurt."
"When God is about to ruin a people he makes their judges fools & pours contempt on their princes"
"Forgetfulness of God, & a contempt of him, of his eye upon us & authority over us, are at the bottom of all our treacherous adulterous departures from him."
"Those hearts go a whoring from God that take a complacency in the pomp of the world & put a confidence in its wealth, & in an arm of flesh.  Jeremiah 17:5."
"Smite the scorner & the simple will beware."
"...God is the Lord   a God that judges in the earth, & with whom there is no respect of persons."
Matthew Henry's Commentary:  Isaiah to Malachi, Mac Donald, pgs. 862 - 895.

CHAPTER 16
"Sins are not only provocations which God is angry at, but abominations which he hates, as contrary to his nature, & which we ought to hate."
"God took them to be his people, not because he saw any thing in them inviting or promising, but so it seemed good in his sight."
"Those shall live to whom God commands life."
"By converting grace, he says to the soul, Live."
"Those to whom God gives spiritual life he takes into covenant with himself"
"Those whom God takes into covenant with himself are fed with the bread of life, clothed with the robe of righteousness, adorned with the graces & comforts of the spirit."
"Sanctified souls are truly beautiful; they are so in God's sight, & they themselves may take the comfort of it.  But God must have all the glory, for they were by nature deformed & polluted, &, whatever comeliness they have, it is that which God has put upon them & beautified them with, & he will be well pleased with the work of his own hands."
"Their idolatry was the great provoking sin that they were guilty of"
"Abundance of young people are ruined by pride & particularly pride in their beauty"
"...is whoredom, is spiritual whoredom, a small matter?"
"It will be a great matter."
"Those that in sincerity join themselves to the true God find enough in him for their satisfaction; &, though they will desire more of God, yet they never desire more than God.  But those that forsake this living fountain for broken cisterns will find themselves soon surfeited, but never satisfied."
"Those who will not hear the commanding word of the Lord & obey it shall be made to hear the condemning word of the Lord & shall tremble at it."
"When we begin to be at war with sin God will be at peace with us"
"When sin departs God's jealousy will soon depart"
"Pride was the first sin that turned angels into devils, & the garden of the Lord into a hell upon earth."
"Idleness is an inlet to much sin."
"There is nothing in sin which we have more reason to be ashamed of than this, that  by our sin we have encouraged others in sin, & comforted them in that for which they must be grieved or they are undone."
"Those are but preparing judgments for themselves that will not take notice of God's judgments upon others."
"Those that disgrace themselves by yielding to their lusts will justly be brought into disgrace by being made to yield to their enemies"
"Those that will not cast off their sins by repentance & reformation shall be made to bear their sins to their confusion."
"Those that will not adhere to God as their God have no reason to expect that he should continue to own them as his people."
"Those who do as the worst of sinners do must expect to fare as they fear."
"He that bids us to be ever mindful of the covenant no doubt will himself be ever mindful of it"
"God's good-work in us commences & keeps pace with his good-will towards us."
"Those that rightly remember their sins will be truly ashamed of them"
"God is in Jesus Christ pacified towards us; he is our peace, & it is by his cross that we are reconciled, & in his gospel that God is reconciling the world to himself."
"...the more our shame for sin is increased by the sense of pardoning mercy the more will our comfort in God be increased."

CHAPTER 17
"Ministers should study to find out acceptable words & try various methods to do good"
"Nations by sin sell their liberty, & princes their dignity, & profane their crowns by casting them to the ground."
"See how gradually the judgments of god came upon this provoking people, how God gave them respite & so gave them space to repent."
"God can bring great things to pass without much ado.  He needs not great power & many people to effect his purposes; a handful will serve if he pleases."
"Perjury is a heinous sin & highly provoking to the God of heaven."
"Men will justly be forced upon that calamity which they endeavour by sin to flee from."
"Sooner or later God's word will prove itself; & those who will not believe shall find by experiences the reality & weight of it."
"...the unbelief of man shall not invalidate the promise of God."
"...who can pluck up what God will plant?"
"All the enemies of Christ shall be abased & made his footstool, & his interests shall be confirmed & advanced:  I The Lord have spoken it...  & I have done it, that is, I will do it in due time, but it is as sure to be done as if it were done already."
"What he has spoken, we may be sure that he will do, nor shall one iota or tittle of his word fall to the ground, for he is not a man, that he should lie, or the son of man, that he should repent either of his threatenings or of his promises."

CHAPTER 18
​"God does not punish the children for the fathers' sins unless they tread in their fathers' steps & fill up the measure of their iniquity"
"Let us subscribe to his interest in us & dominion over us."
"He that makes conscience of conforming in every thing to the will of God, that makes it his business to serve God & his aim to glorify God, shall without fail be happy here & for ever in the love & favour of God"
"He is careful to keep himself clean from the pollutions of sin, & at a distance from all the appearances of evil."
"It is an essential branch of wisdom & justice to keep the appetites of the body always in subjection to reason & virtue."
"Keep the commandments, & thou shalt enter into life.  Matthew 19:27."
"While we are in this world we are in a state of probation; the time of trial lasts as long as the time of life, & according as we are found at last it will be with us to eternity."
"Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?  No doubt he shall; he cannot do otherwise."
"In all our disputes with God, & in all his controversies with us, it will be found that his ways are equal, but ours are unequal, that he is in the right & we are in the wrong."
"We must repent; we must change our mind & change our ways; we must be sorry for what we have done amiss & ashamed of it, & go as far as we can towards the undoing of it again."
"What an absurd thing it is for you to choose death & damnation rather than life & salvation."
"The God of heaven has no delight in our ruin, but desires our welfare."
"Turn yourselves, & live."

​CHAPTER 19

CHAPTER 12
"Faith comes by hearing that word of prophecy which is more sure than vision."
"Those are to be reckoned rebellious that shut their eyes against the divine light & stop their ears to the divine law.  The ignorance of those that are willingly ignorant, that have faculties & means & will not use them, is as far from being their excuse that it adds rebellion to their sin.  None so blind, so deaf, as those that will not see, that will not hear."
"...ministers must be willing to go through the most difficult & inconvenient offices...  If but one soul be awakened to consider, our care & pains will be well bestowed."
"We do all things (that is, we are willing to do any thing), dearly beloved, for your edifying."
"When God has remarkably delivered us from the deaths wherewith we were surrounded we must look upon it that for this, and among others, we were spared, that we might glorify God & edify others by making a penitent acknowledgment of our sins."
"The decay of virtue in a nation brings on a decay of every thing else"
"Those are happy afflictions, how grievous soever to flesh & blood, that help to introduce us into & improve us in an acquaintance with God."
"...God will certainly silence the lying proverbs, & the lying prophecies, with which they buoyed up their vain hopes, & will make them ashamed of both."
"As truth was older than error, so it will survive it; it got the start, & it will get the race."
"...God will certainly, & very shortly, accomplish every word that he has spoken."
"With men saying & doing are 2 things, but they are not so with God"

CHAPTER 13
​"These false prophets...  1. They pretend to have a commission from God, whereas he never sent them."
"They are prophets out of their own hearts"
"They say, The Lord saith; they pretend to be his messengers, but the Lord has not sent them, has not given them any orders."
"Foolish prophets are not of God's sending, for whom he sends he either finds fit or makes fit.  Where he gives warrant he gives wisdom.  2. They pretend to have instructions from God, whereas he never made himself & his mind known to them:  They followed their own spirit"
"3. They took no care to prevent the judgments of God that were breaking in upon the kingdom."
"They should have made it their business by preaching & advice to bring people to repentance & reformation, & so have made up the hedge, & put a stop to the judgments of God; but this was none of their care; they contrived how to please people, not how to profit them."
"Those are in a woeful condition that have God against them.  Woe, & a thousand woes, to those that have made him their enemy."
"Doctrines that are groundless, though ever so grateful, that are not built upon a scripture foundation nor fastened with a scripture cement, though ever so plausible, will stand men in any stead; & those hopes of peace & happiness which are not warranted by the word of God will but cheat men, like a wall that is well daubed indeed, but ill built."
"An angry God has winds & storms at command wherewith to alarm secure sinners"
"Whatever men think to shelter themselves with against the judgments of God, while they continue unreformed, will prove but a refuge of lies & will not profit them in the day of wrath."
"...no doom will be more fearful than that of unfaithful ministers, that flattered sinners in their sins."
"Those greatly pollute God's holy name that make use of it to give countenance to falsehood & wickedness."
"Those have a great deal to answer for who grieve the spirits, & weaken the hands, of good people, & who gratify the lusts of sinners, & animate them in their opposition of God"

CHAPTER 14
​"Many who have no idols to their sanctuary have idols in their hearts, which is no less a usurpation of God's throne & a profanation of his name."
"Humble worshippers God answers according to the multitude of his mercies, but bold intruders he answers according to the multitude of their idols"
"The judgment of God will dwell with men according to what they are really (that is, according to what their hearts are), not according to what they are in show & profession."
"Those that join themselves to idols separate themselves from God"
"The punishments of some are designed for the prevention of sin, that others may hear, & fear, & take warning.  When we see what becomes of those that go astray from God we should thereby be engaged to keep close to him."
"Those whom God takes into covenant with himself must first be cleansed from the pollutions of sin; & those who are cleansed shall not only be saved from ruin, but be entitled to all the privileges of God's people."
​"Grievous sins bring grievous plagues."
"...God often spares very wicked places for the sake of a few godly people in them."
"Abused patience will turn at last into inexorable wrath"
"It is a very comfortable sight to see people, when they are under the rod, repenting & humbling themselves, justifying God & accepting the punishment of their iniquity."
"When afflictions have done their work, & have accomplished that for which they were sent, then will appear the wisdom & goodness of God in sending them, & God will be not only justified, but glorified in them."

CHAPTER 15
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CHAPTER 8

"God keeps a particular account of the messages he sends to us, because he will shortly call us to account about them."
"The more we retreat from the world, & retire into our own hearts, the better frame we are in for communion with God; those that sit down to consider what they have learned shall be taught more."
"A minister's house should be a church for all his neighbours."
"God's servants, wherever they are & whithersoever they go, ought to carry about with them a believing regard to the glory of God & to set that always before them; & those that have seen God's power & glory in the sanctuary should desire to see them again"
"The more glorious we see God to be the more odious we shall see sin to be, especially idolatry, which turns his truth into a lie, his glory into shame"
"God is jealous, & the Lord revenges, Nahum 1:2."
"He that doeth evil hates the light."
"The sins of leaders are leading sins."
"If we have forgotten the name of our God, & stretched forth our hand to a strange god, will not God search this out?"
"Those are ripe indeed for ruin who have arrived at such a pitch of impudence as to lay the blame of their sins upon God himself."
"An abominable thing indeed, that any should choose rather to serve an idol in tears than to serve the true God with joyfulness & gladness of heart!"
"When men turn their backs upon God's institutions, & despise them, it is no marvel if they wander endlessly after their own inventions."
"God will now be as deaf to their prayers as their own idols were, on whom they cried aloud, but in vain."
"It is not the loud voice, but the upright heart, that God will regard."

​CHAPTER 9
"Those that regard not the counsels God gives them in a still small voice shall be made to hear the threatenings, to hear & tremble."
"It is a matter of great comfort to all good Christians that, in the midst of the destroyers & the destructions that are abroad, there is a Mediator, a great high priest, who has an interest in heaven, & whom saints on earth have an interest in."
"A work of grace in the soul is to God a mark upon the forehead, which he will acknowledge as his mark, & by which he knows those that are his."
"Those who keep themselves pure in times of common iniquity God will keep safe in times of common calamity."
"When God has gathered his wheat into his garner nothing remains but to burn up the chaff, Matthew 3:12."
"...the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God, & hates sin most in those that are nearest to him."
"Wherever sin has gone before judgment will follow after"
"Sinners sink & perish under the weight of their own sins; it is their own way, which they deliberately chose rather than the way of God, & which they obstinately persisted in, in contempt of the word of God, that is recompensed on them."

​CHAPTER 10
"The people would not hear the oracles which God delivered to them from his holy temple, & therefore they shall thence be made to hear their doom."
"Ezekiel sees the glory of God shining in the sanctuary"
"The Spirit of God directs all the creatures, both upper & lower, so as to make them serve the divine purpose.  Events are not determined by the wheel of fortune, which is blind, but by the wheels of Providence, which are full of eyes."
"God removes by degrees from a provoking people; &, when he is ready to depart in displeasure, would return to them in mercy if they were but a repenting praying people."

​CHAPTER 11
"Where Satan cannot persuade men to look upon the judgment to come as a thing doubtful & uncertain, yet he gains his point by persuading them to look upon it as a thing at a distance, so that it loses its force"
"The greatest kindness ministers can do to secure sinners is to preach against them, & to show them their misery & danger, though they are ever so unwilling to see them."
"When sinners are flattering themselves into their own ruin, it is time to speak, & to tell them that they shall have no peace if they go on."
"...there is no peace to those that have left their God.  If they have by their sins driven God from his house, he will soon by his judgments drive them from theirs"
"Those shall be made to know by the sword of the Lord who would not be taught by his word what a hatred he has to sin, & what a fearful thing it is for impenitent sinners to fall into his hands."
"If we do not give honour to God by executing his judgments as he has commanded, he will get him honour upon us by executing his judgments as he has threatened; & thus we shall know that he is the Lord, the sovereign Lord of all, that will not be mocked."
"God takes notice of, & is much displeased with, the contempt which those that are in prosperity put upon their brethren that are in affliction."
"God prepares all for heaven whom he has prepared heaven for"
"Their hearts shall no longer be, as they have been, dead & dry, & hard & heavy, as a stone, no longer incapable of bearing good fruit, so that the good seed is lost upon it as it was on the stony ground."
"It is better to be in Babylon under the favour of God than in Jerusalem under his wrath & curse."
Matthew Henry's Commentary:  Isaiah to Malachi, Mac Donald, pgs. 791 - 812.

CHAPTER 4
"The 390 days, according to the prophetic dialect, signified 390 years"
"When God is about to do some great work, he is said to make bare his arm.  Isaiah 52:10."
"God's servants must learn to endure hardness, & to deny themselves the use of lawful delights, when they may thereby serve the glory of God, evidence the sincerity of their faith, & express their sympathy with their brethren in affliction."
"It will be comfortable to us, when we are reduced to hardships, if out hearts are witness for us that we have always been careful to abstain from sin, even from little sins, & the appearance of evil."
"It is a righteous thing with God to deprive us of those enjoyments which we have made the food & fuel of our lusts."
"Because they served not God with cheerfulness in the abundance of all things, God will make them serve their enemies in the want of all things."

CHAPTER 5
"Those will be ruined that will not be reformed."
"God has variety of judgments wherewith to accomplish the destruction of a sinful people & to make and when he begins."
"Jerusalem was a city upon a hill, conspicuous & illustrious, & which all the neighbouring nations had an eye upon, some for good-will, some for ill-will.  Jerusalem was designed to have a good influence upon the nations & countries round about, was set in the midst of them as a candle upon a candlestick, to spread the light of divine revelation, which she was blessed with, to all the dark corners of the neighbouring nations, that from them it might diffuse itself further, even to the ends of the earth."
"When places & persons are made great, it is with design that they may do good & that those about them may be the better for them, that their light may shine before men."
"A contempt of the word & law of God, opens a door to all manner of iniquity.  God's statutes are the terms on which he deals with men; those that refuse his terms cannot expect his favours."
"Israel's God is one, & his name one, his altar one; but they, not content with this one God, multiplied their gods to such a degree that according to the number of their cities so were their gods"
"Who is able to stand in God's sight when once he is angry?"
"Those who will not observe the judgments of God's mouth shall not escape the judgments of his hand"
"Divine compassion defers the punishment, or mitigates it, or supports under it, or shortens it; but here is judgment without mercy, wrath without any mixture or allay of pity."
"Those who live & die impenitent will perish for ever unpitied; there is a day coming when the Lord will not spare."
"If judgment begin at the house of God, where will it end?"
"The destruction of some is designed for the instruction of others.  Malefactors are publicly punished in terrorem - that others may take warning."
"Life is frail, is weak, is burdened, so that, if it have not daily bread for its staff to lean upon, it cannot but sink, & is soon gone if that staff be broken."
"Evil pursues sinners; & the curse shall come upon them & overtake them."
"Sooner or later, God's word will prove itself."

CHAPTER 6
​"The mountains of Israel had been holy mountains, but now that they had polluted them with their high places God set his face against them"
"It is just with God to make that a desolation which we make an idol of; for he is a jealous God & will not bear a rival.  If men do not, as they ought, destroy idolatry, God will, first or last, find out a way to do it."
"If any man defile the temple of God, him will God destroy.  I Corinthians 3:17."
"To those whom God designs for life he will give repentance unto life."
"God's patience both leaves room for repentance & is an encouragement to sinners to repent.  Where God designs grace to repent he allows space to repent"
"...true repentance shall be accepted of God, though we are brought to it by our troubles"
"They had departed from God to idols, & given that honour to pretended deities, the creatures of men's fancies & the work of men's hands, which they should have given to the God of Israel.  They departed from God, from his word, which they should have made their rule, from his work, which they should have made their business."
"Idolatry is...  the breach of a marriage-covenant with God"
"Those that truly loathe sin cannot but loathe themselves because of sin; self-loathing is evermore the companion of true repentance."
"One way or other God will make sinners to know & own that he is the Lord, either by their repentance or by their ruin."
"It is our duty to be affected not only with our own sins & sufferings, but with the sins & sufferings of others; & to look with compassion upon the miseries that wicked people bring upon themselves; as Christ beheld Jerusalem & wept over it."
"Sin is a desolating thing; therefore stand in awe & sin not."

CHAPTER 7
​"Oh, that we could all see that end of time & days very near, & the end of our own time & days much nearer, that we may secure a happy lot at the end of the days!"
"...to all God's purposes there is a time, a proper time, & that prefixed, in which the purpose shall have its accomplishment"
"Those shall have judgment without mercy who made light of mercy when it was offered them."
"In the heaviest judgments God inflicts upon sinners he does but recompense their own ways upon them; they are beaten with their own rod."
"Two sins are particularly specified as provoking God to bring these judgments upon them - pride & oppression.  God will humble them by his judgments, for they have magnified themselves."
"None ever hardened his heart against God & prospered.  Those that strengthen themselves in their wickedness will be found not only to weaken, but to ruin, themselves.  Psalms 52:7."
"If God be against us, none can be for us to do us any service."
"Those who would not know it was the Lord that did them good, shall be made to know it is the Lord that smiteth them; for, one way or other, he will be owned."
"Sooner or later sin will have sorrow of one kind or other; & those that will not repent of their iniquity may justly be left to pine away in it; those that will not mourn for it as it is an offence to God shall be made to mourn for it as it is a shame & ruin to themselves, to mourn at the last, when the flesh & the body are consumed, & to say, How have I hated instruction!  Proverbs 5:11, 12."
"It is folly for the strong man to glory in his strength, for God can soon weaken it."
"There are many whose wealth is their snare & ruin.  The gaining of the world is the losing of their souls; it makes them proud, secure, covetous, oppressive, voluptuous, & that which, if well used, might have been the servant of their piety, being abused, becomes the stumbling-block of their iniquity."
"There is a day of wrath coming, when it will appear that men's wealth is utterly unable to deliver them or do them any service."
"If God give us daily bread, we have reason to be thankful, & no reason to complain, though silver & gold we have none."
"The wealth of this world has not that in it which will answer the desires of the soul, or be any satisfaction to it in a day of distress."
"Those are unworthy to be honoured with the form of godliness who will not be governed by the power of godliness."
"Bloody crimes will be punished with bloody judgments."
"What can men contrive or do for themselves when God has departed from them & appears against them?  All must needs be in tears, all in trouble, when God comes to judge them according to their deserts, & so make them know, to their cost, that he is the Lord, the God to whom vengeance belongs."
Matthew Henry's Commentary:  Isaiah to Malachi, Mac Donald, pgs. 775 - 791.

CHAPTER 1
"It is a great mercy to have the word of God brought to us, & a great duty to attend to it diligently, when we are in affliction."
"It concerns those to be well acquainted with God themselves, & much affected with what they know of him, whose business it is to bring others to the knowledge & love of him."
"He (Ezekiel) felt the power of God opening his eyes to see the visions, opening his ear to hear the voice, & opening his heart to receive both:  The hand of the Lord was there upon him."
"When the heavens are opened it concerns us to have our eyes open."
"God can by a whirlwind clear the sky & air, & produce that serenity of mind which is necessary to our communion with Heaven."
"God has messengers to send every way; for his kingdom is universal, & reaches to all parts of the world."
"Angels are active beings; it is not their happiness to sit still & do nothing, but to be always well employed; & we must reckon ourselves then best when we are doing good, doing it as the angels do it"
"Those that walk after the Spirit do the will of God as the angels do it."
"If the ministry of the angels is as a consuming fire to God's enemies, it is as a rejoicing light to his own children."
"God is in the soul of the world, & animates the whole, both that above & that beneath, so that they move in perfect harmony"
"O the height & depth of God's councils!  The consideration of them should strike an awe upon us."
"Noises on earth should awaken our attention to the voice from the firmament; for how shall we escape if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven!"
"Angels are his servants; men are his tools."
"Nothing is more dreadful to the most daring sinners than the wrath of him that sits upon the throne, & of the Lord.  Revelation 6:16."
"The more God is pleased to make known of himself to us the more we should be before him.  He fell upon his face to adore the majesty of God, to implore his mercy & to deprecate the wrath he saw ready to break out against the children of his people."
"When he fell on his face, ready to receive the word, then he heard the voice of one that spoke; for God delights to teach the humble."

CHAPTER 2
​"Our adorings of God must not hinder, but rather quicken & excite, our actings for God."
"Stand, & I will speak to thee.  We may expect that God will speak to us when we stand ready to do what he commands us."
"We must stir up ourselves, & then God will put strength into us"
"The Spirit sets us upon our feet by inclining our will to our duty, & thereby disposes the understanding to receive the knowledge of it."
"God is perfectly acquainted with every man's true character, whatever his pretensions & professions."
"When men's hearts are made to burn under the word, & their wills to bow to it, then they know & hear the witness in themselves that it is not the word of men, but of God."
"Those that will do any thing to purpose in the service of God must not be afraid of the face of man"
"As is the honour of prophets, that they are entrusted to speak God's words, so it is their duty to cleave closely to them & to speak nothing but what is agreeable to the words of God."
"God has a great deal to say to his people when they have degenerated & become rebellious."
"Those that speak from God to others must be sure to hear from God themselves & be obedient to his voice."
"If people will not do their duty in reforming, yet let ministers do theirs in reproving."

CHAPTER 3
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"Is any afflicted? let him pray; & let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God, & make known before him his trouble.  The people of God do so here"
"As it is a great comfort to us, so it ought to be a sufficient one, in our troubles, that God sees, & considers, & remembers, all that has come upon us"
"The sins which God looks back upon in punishing we must look back upon in repenting."
"Let us take occasion hence to bless God for the plenty that we enjoy, that we get our bread so easily"
"...for the peace we enjoy, that we can go out, & enjoy not only the necessary productions, but the pleasures of the country, without any fear of the sword of the wilderness."
"Earthly crowns are fading, failing things; but, blessed be God, there is a crown of glory that fades not away, that never fails, a kingdom that cannot be moved."
"What shakes the world gives no disturbance to him who made it"
"God's throne continues still; he still rules the world, & rules it for the good of the church.  The Lord reigns, reigns for ever"
"Lord, do not reject us for ever, but turn thou us unto thee; renew our days."
"God never leaves any till they first leave him, nor stands afar off from any longer than while they stand afar off from him"
"Those that repent, & do their first works, shall rejoice, & recover their first comforts.  God's mercies to his people have been ever of old (Ps. 25:6); & therefore they may hope, even then when he seems to have forsaken & forgotten them, that the mercy which was from everlasting will be to everlasting."
Matthew Henry's Commentary:  Isaiah to Malachi, Mac Donald, pgs. 742 - 746.

CHAPTER 1
"Those that are ever so much increased God can soon diminish."
"Sin brings a people not only into solitude, but into slavery.  A city that used to be full of mirth has now become melancholy & upon all accounts full of grief."
"There is nothing more commonly seen under the sun than the tears of the oppressed, with whom the clouds return after the rain.  Ecclesiastes 4:1."
"Sin is the reproach of any people."
"Nothing is more grievous to those who have a true concern for the glory of God, nor is more lamented, than the violation of God's laws, & the contempt they see put upon sacred things."
"It is a very great trouble to all that love God to hear his ordinances mocked at"
"God often makes us know the worth of mercies by the want of them"
"Grievous sins bring wondrous ruin"
"The only way to make ourselves easy under our burdens is to cast them upon God first, & leave it to him to do with us as seemeth him good."
"The sinner is holden with the cords of his own sins.  Proverbs 5:22.  The yoke of Christ's commands is an easy yoke (Matt. 11:30), but that of our own transgressions is a heavy one."
"God is the comforter"  "...he only can administer effectual comforts"
"His are strong consolations, able to relieve the soul, to bring it back when it is gone, & we cannot of ourselves fetch it again"
"Happy are those that have made God their friend & keep themselves in his love, for he will not deceive them!"
"Sorrow for sin must be great sorrow & must affect the soul."
"It is matter of comfort to us that the troubles which oppress our spirits are open before God's eye."
"Our prayers may & must agree with God's Word"

CHAPTER 2
​"To those who know how to value God's favour nothing appears more dreadful than his anger"
"Gates & bars will stand us in no stead when God has withdrawn his protection."
"It is just with God to debase those by his judgments who have by sin debased themselves."
"Those that have seen the days of the Son of man, & slighted them, may desire to see one of those days & not be permitted.  Luke 17:22."
"The judgments of God upon the land & nation are to be lamented by us, though we, for our parts, may escape pretty well."
"Prophets should tell people of their faults, should show them their sins, that they may bring them to repentance, & so prevent their ruin"
"Prophets should warn people of the judgments of God coming upon them"
"...the gates of hell shall not prevail against the church."
"In all the providences of God concerning his church it is good to take notice of the fulfilling of his Word"
"Prayer is a salve for every sore, even the sorest, a remedy for every malady, even the most grievous.  And our business in prayer is...  to refer our case to him, & then to leave it with him.  Lord, behold & consider, & thy will be done."

CHAPTER 3
​"God is sometimes angry with his own people...  a chastening which, though grievous for the present, will in the issue be advantageous."
"It is just with God to make those who walk in the crooked paths of sin, crossing God's laws, walk in the crooked paths of affliction, crossing their designs & breaking their measures."
"...with God there is everlasting strength, & he is his people's never-failing hope, whatever they may think."
"It is sin that makes the cup of affliction a bitter cup."
"We all owe it to the sparing mercy of God that we are not consumed."
"...God's compassions fail not"
"...every morning we have fresh instances of God's compassion towards us; he visits us with them every morning"
"When our comforts fail, yet God's compassions do not."
"Whatever hard things we suffer, we must never entertain any hard thoughts of God, but must still be ready to own that he is both kind & faithful."
"It is our duty to make God the portion of our souls, & then to make use of him as our portion & to take the comfort of it in the midst of our lamentations."
"While we wait for him by faith, we must seek him by prayer; our souls must seek him, else we do not seek so as to find."
"And to those who thus wait & seek God will be gracious; he will show them his marvellous lovingkindness."
"Those who are truly humbled for sin will be glad to obtain a good hope, through grace, upon any terms."
"...God will graciously return to his people with seasonable comforts according to the time that he has afflicted them"
"The perverting of justice, & the subverting of the just, are a great affront to God"
"Men are but tools which the great God makes use of, & manages as he pleases, in the government of this lower world"
"All the events of divine Providence are the products of a divine counsel; whatever is done God has the directing of it, & the works of his hands agree with the words of his mouth; he speaks, & it is done, so easily, so effectually are all his purposes fulfilled."
"Though we may pour out our complaints before God, we must never exhibit any complaints against God."
"We must set ourselves to answer God's intention in afflicting us, which is to bring sin to our remembrance, & to bring us home to himself."
"When we are in affliction, it is seasonable to consider our ways (Hag. 1:5), that what is amiss may be repented of & amended for the future."
"We must offer up ourselves to God, & our best affections & services, in the flames of devotion."
"Our hearts must go along with our prayers.  We must lift up our hearts with our hands, as we must pour out our souls with our words."
"Those that are cast down are commonly tempted to think themselves cast off.  Psalms 31:22."
"Prayer is the breath of the new man, sucking in the air of mercy in petitions & returning it in praises; it is both the evidence & the maintenance of the spiritual life."
"When we draw nigh to God in a way of duty we may by faith see him drawing nigh to us in a way of mercy."
"God will one day call sinners to an account for all the hard speeches which they have spoken against him & his people."

CHAPTER 4
"Nothing ripens a people more for ruin, nor fills the measure faster, than the sins of their priests & prophets."
"...God will have the honour of being himself alone our life & the length of our days."
"The troubles of God's people shall be continued no longer than till they have done their work for which they were sent."
"...sooner or later, sin will be visited & discovered, & all the hidden works of darkness brought to light."
Matthew Henry's Commentary:  Isaiah to Malachi​, Mac Donald, pgs. 711 - 742.

CHAPTER 49
"Though among men might often prevails against right, yet that might shall be controlled by the Almighty, who sits in the throne, judging right"
"God has many ways to terrify those who have been a terror to his people."
"Those who backslide & turn away from God have little reason either to take complacency or to put confidence in any worldly enjoyments whatsoever.  Hosea 9:1."
"Though the enemies of God's Israel may make a prey of them for a while, the tables will shortly be turned."
"...when God has work to do he will find out the fittest instruments to be employed in doing it."
"When God has work to do of any kind he will find those that are able to engage in it, & all the world cannot find those that are able to engage against it."
"God can bring to pass the greatest works by instruments least likely."
"Those deceive themselves who place their happiness in carnal joys"
"Those are truly rich who have enough to supply their necessities & know when they have enough."
​"Those that live innocently & honestly may live very securely, though they have neither gates nor bars."
"God can make his judgments follow those that think by flight to escape them & to get out of the reach of them.  Evil pursues sinners."
"If the Son make you free, then you shall be free indeed."

CHAPTER 50
​"It is a good sign that God is coming towards a people in ways of mercy when they begin to be tenderly affected under his hand."
"Those that seek the Lord, must seek him sorrowing"
"And those that sorrow must seek the Lord, & then their sorrow shall soon be turned into joy, for he will be found of those that so seek him."
"Come, & let us join ourselves to the Lord in a perpetual covenant."
"...when backsliders return, they must do their first works, must renew the covenant they first made; & it must be a perpetual covenant, that must never be broken; &, in order to that, must never be forgotten"
"It is bad with a people when their leaders cause them to err, when those that should direct & reform them seduce & debauch them, & when those that should secure & advance their interests are the betrayers of them."
"It is a graceful thing to be forward in a good work & to set others a good example."
"...what God appoints to be done shall be done"
"When God gives commission he will give success."
"It is sin that makes men a mark for the arrows of God's judgments"
"Those that return to God & their duty shall find true satisfaction of soul in so doing; & those that seek first the kingdom of God & the righteousness thereof, that aim to make their habitation in Zion, the holy hill, shall have other things added to them"
"Those whose sins God pardons he reserves for something very great; for whom he justifies them he glorifies."
"Great men are but instruments which the great God makes use of to serve his own purposes."
"Those that strive against the Lord will soon find themselves out-matched."
"Whatever wrong is done to God's church (his temple in the world) it will certainly be reckoned for"
"...it is the glory of God to look upon those that are proud & to abase them"
"The pride of men's hearts sets God against them & ripens them space for ruin; for God resists the proud & will bring them down.  The most proud shall stumble & fall; they shall fall not so much by others' thrusting them down as by their own stumbling"
"Who can help those up whom God will throw down?"
​"It is the unspeakable comfort of the people of God that, though they have hosts against them, they have the Lord of hosts for them"
"...those who have dealt cruelly, & have shown no mercy, may expect to be cruelly dealt with, & to find no mercy."
"Providence may appear unequal for a time its retributions will be equal at last"

CHAPTER 51
​"Ruin is not far off from those that lie under the guilt of wrong doing to God's people."
"God will convince those by his judgments who would not be convinced by his word that he is God over all."
"He is the God that made the world (v. 15), & therefore nothing is too hard for him to do; it is in his name that our help stands, & on him our hope is built."
"God's counsel shall stand, & according to it all hearts shall move."
"If men will not set a measure to their covetousness by wisdom & grace, God will set a measure to it by his judgments."
"When God's judgments abound it is good to get as far as we can from those against whom they are levelled"
"Wherever we are, in the greatest depths, at the greatest distances, we may & must remember the Lord our God; & in the time of the greatest fears & hopes it is seasonable to remember the Lord."
"When we see what this world is, how glittering its shows are & how flattering its proposals, let us read in the book of the Lord that its fashion passes away, & it shall shortly be cut off & be desolate for ever"

CHAPTER 52
​"...none are cast out from God's gracious presence but those that by sin have first thrown themselves out of it."
"No walls can protect those, nor pillars sustain those, from whom God withdraws."
"While there is life, there is hope."
"Though now we suffer, we shall not always suffer."
"Those therefore that are under oppression will find that it is not in vain to hope & quietly to wait for the salvation of the Lord."
"...no word of God shall fall to the ground"
"...& the unbelief of man shall not make God's threatenings, any more than his promises, of no effect."
Matthew Henry's Commentary:  Isaiah to Malachi​, Mac Donald, pgs. 682 - 711.