The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

ESAY XXII.

THIS Chapter containeth a sad Prophesie against Judea, which he calleth, The valley of vision, because of Gods revealing himself there to his Prophets: He foretelleth in it the heavy times that were coming upon that people of Judea, by the Assyrian Army, before it was miraculously destroyed. That the slain thereof should not only be slain with the sword, nor dead only by battel, but dead with famine, vers. 2. for the invasion of that Army should cause husbandry to be neglected, so that Briars and Thorns should come upon the land through this neglect, and there should be this trouble for many days and years together, and lamenting for the pleasant Fields and the fruitful Vine, as Chap. 32. 10. 12, 13. Elam and Kir, Persia and Assyria should be combined in this invasion, and should fill the Country with Charets and Horsmen: that by this misery the Lord should discover the covering, or uncloak the hypocrisie and pre∣tences

of Judah, for now they would shew their carnal confidence, ver. 9. 10, 11. and their carnal security, vers. 12. 13. He prophesieth of the displacing of Shebna from being over the houshold, and placing of Eliakim in his room: which was accom∣plished, and was come to pass when Rabshakeh lay before Jerusalem, Esay 36. 22.