O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us [a]walk in the Law of the Lord.

Surely thou [b]hast forsaken thy people, the house of Jacob, because they are [c]full of the East manners, and are sorcerers as the Philistines, [d]and abound with strange children.

Their land also was full of [e]silver and gold, and there was none end of their treasures: and their land was full of horses, and their chariots were infinite.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 2:5 Seeing the Gentiles will be so ready, make you haste, and show them the way to worship God.
  2. Isaiah 2:6 The Prophet seeing the small hope that the Jews would convert, complaineth to God, as though he had utterly forsaken them for their sins.
  3. Isaiah 2:6 Full of the corruptions that reigned chiefly in the East parts.
  4. Isaiah 2:6 They altogether gave themselves to the fashions of other nations.
  5. Isaiah 2:7 The Prophet first condemned their superstition and idolatry: next their covetousness, and thirdly their vain trust in worldly means.

Come, descendants of Jacob,(A)
    let us walk in the light(B) of the Lord.

The Day of the Lord

You, Lord, have abandoned(C) your people,
    the descendants of Jacob.(D)
They are full of superstitions from the East;
    they practice divination(E) like the Philistines(F)
    and embrace(G) pagan customs.(H)
Their land is full of silver and gold;(I)
    there is no end to their treasures.(J)
Their land is full of horses;(K)
    there is no end to their chariots.(L)

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