bound like the hart; and the tongue of the dumb is to sing; for in the wilderness shall burst forth waters, and torrents in the desert; and the glowing sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty soil, bubbling springs. No lion shall be there; nor shall the tyrant of beasts come up there; but the redeemed of the Lord shall walk there; and the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads, and all sorrow and sighing shall flee away. The voice of weeping is no more to be heard in her, nor the voice of a distressful cry-There is no more to be in her an infant short lived; nor an old man that has not filled his days; for he that dieth an hundred years old, shall die a boy; for as the days of a tree, so shall be the days of his people. The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like an ox; but as for the serpent, dust shall be his food. For God will pour out his spirit on the seed of Israel, and his blessing on their offspring; and they shall spring up as grass among the waters, and the willows beside the aqueducts.

One shall say, I belong to Jehovah; another shall be called by the name of Jacob; and this shall inscribe his hand to Jehovah, and shall be surnamed by the name of Israel. All the remote people of the earth shall look unto him, and be saved.

Jehovah will call from the east the Eagle; and from a far distant land, the man of his counsel, to

If you suppose the north-west parts of America, are nea the north-east parts of Asia, near Kamschatka, as the lat

bring to pass the design he has formed, and he shall execute it; for the Messiah shall raise up the cions of Jacob and restore the breaches of Israel. He shall be a light to the nations, and salvation to the ends of the earth-Kings shall see him and rise up, princes shall worship him.

Jehovah will lift up his hands to the nations, and to the people will he exalt his signal; and they shall bring his sons in their bosoms, and his daughters shall be borne on their shoulders-Kings shall be their foster fathers, and queens their nursing mothers.

They from the west shall revere the name of Jehovah; and they from the rising sun, his glory; when he shall come like a river, streigthened in its course, which a strong wind driveth along; and the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and turn away iniquity from Jacob.

In that day (when the Jews shall be about to be restored to their former prosperity) Jehovah shall summon on high the host that is on high (or the ecclesiastical polity of the nations, perhaps both the Popish and the Mahometan) and on earth the kings of the earth; (or the civil polity or constitutions of the Roman earth or discoveries seem to give reason to believe; and if the lost tribes of Israel passed over this strait to America and are to be found there, as Messrs Elliot, Penn, and others have supposed; then it is possible the Eagle and the man of his counsel aay come from that far distant land, and by passing over the same strait to the north-east part of Asia, may be said to come from the east.

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monarchy) and they shall be gathered together as in a bundle (or body) for the pit, and shall be closely imprisoned in the prison (alluding to the practice of crowned heads, casting their prisoners into dungeons, and leaving them in a miserable condition, without examining speedily into their respective deserts) but after many days, account shall be taken of them; (that is, God shall remember them and restore them to a state of comfort)--and the moon shall be confounded and the sun shall be ashamed for, (or because) Jehovah God of hosts shall reign on mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and before his ancients shall be glorified."

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So glorious is this event to be, that the prophet breaks out, as in an ecstacy of joy, “O Jehovah, thou art my God: I will exalt thee: I will praise thy name, for thou hast effected wonderful things. Counsels of old times! promises immutably true!-For thou hast made the city an heap (perhaps the city of Rome, or some other large city of Europe) the strong fortified citadel, a ruin-the palaces of the proud ones, that it should be no more a city-that it never should be built up again-Therefore shall the fierce people glorify thee-The city of the formidable nations shall fear thee: for thou hast been a defence to the poor, a defence to the needy in his distress: a refuge from the storm, and a shadow from the heat! And Jehovah God of hosts shall make for all the people in this mountain a feast of delicacies, exquisitely rich, and of old wines perfectly refined;

and on this mountain shall he destroy the covering, that covered the face of all the people, and the veil that was spread over all the nations."*

The seed of Jacob are (then) to be brought from the east, and to be gathered from the west-The north is to give up, and the south not to keep back. His sons are to be brought from afar, and his daughters from the ends of the earth.

Having sworn by himself, the word went forth out of his mouth in righteousness, that unto him every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall swear.

And when the enemy shall come in as a flood, the spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him, and the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and to them, who turn from transgression in Jacob. The nations are to walk in his light, and kings in the brightness of his sun-rising-The riches of the sea are to be poured in upon him, and the wealth of the nations is to come unto him-The nations are to wait, and the ships of Tarshisht among the first, to bring the sons of Israel from afar, their silver and their gold with them, because of the name of Jehovah their

From this it is pretty evident that there is a veil at present on all nations with regard to the 2d coming of Christ, which the restoration of the Jews will have a tendency to remove. This is typified by the veil that, even to this day, it is said, that the readers in the Jewish worship have, hanging over their faces while they read the law of Moses to the congregation,

+ If the Spaniards in South America should ever prosper as a commercial people, they may be meant,

God, and of the holy one of Israel, for he hath glorified them.-And the sons of strangers are to build the walls, and their kings shall minister unto them their gates are to be opened continually not to be shut day nor night, that men may bring in the wealth of the nations; and that their kings may come pompously attended; for that nation and that kingdom which will not serve them, shall perish.

The glory of Lebanon is to come unto her: the fir tree, the pine and the box together, to beautify the place of his sanctuary, and to glorify the place whereon he shall rest his feet.

The sons of their oppressors shall come bending before them; and all that scornfully rejected them, shall do obeisance at the soles of their feet.-Jerusalem is to be made an everlasting boast; a subject of joy, for perpetual generations-She is to suck the milk of the nations, and at the breast of kings to be fostered; and to know that Jehovah is her saviour and redeemer, the mighty one of Jacob.-For brass, she is to have gold, and for iron, silver-for wood, brass, and for stones, iron.-Her inspectors are to be peace, and her exactors, righteousness.

Violence will no more be heard in her land, nor wasting or destruction in her borders. Her walls are to be called salvation and her gates praise-The sun will no more be her light by day, nor the brightness of the moon by night; but Jehovah is to be to her an everlasting light, and God her glory-Her