for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. . . . and the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising." Then the remnant of the once 66 blinded" nation is thus addressed: "Lift up thine eyes round about, and see." "The house of David," and "the inhabitants of Jerusalem," through the outpouring of "the Spirit of grace and supplication," having looked upon Him whom they had pierced, turn their now anointed eyes toward the vista of millennial glory depicted throughout a chapter, which may well be termed, as those of Jeremiah, the title-deeds of Israel's inherit

ance.

In that word, "Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love; therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee," is contained the embryo of all that we have seen developed in the way of salvation toward the seed of Abraham, by "the God of all the families of Israel." Attention has been fully directed to the glorious privilege awarded to the objects and the subjects of that love, of breathing, in the midst of the outpoured judgments of the latter day, the atmosphere of praise in the very presence chamber of the "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of Hosts;" their note of praise never higher, and its melody never sweeter, than when, appearing on His people's behalf, the Lord makes His enemies 8 Chaps. xxx.-xxxiii.

9 Jer. xxxi. 3.

and theirs to feel the terribleness and majesty of His holiness. Then it is that, "terrible out of His holy places," as "the God of Israel, "He giveth strength and power to His people;" then it is that loudly ring His courts with the grateful acknowledgment, "Blessed be God.”1

How complete, how glorious, how worthy of God Himself, must be the salvation which embodies full provision for that grateful ebullition of joy and gladness, which is witnessed in the midst of all the grand paraphernalia of judgment set forth in Isaiah lxiii.-"I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury," we hear from Jehovah's lips; and, as soon as uttered, those of Israel give forth their adoring notes of praise,—“I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the Lord, and the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which He hath bestowed on them according to His mercies, and according to the multitude of His lovingkindnesses."

This is the language of those who are termed in the same chapter, the tribes of His inheritance, the people of His holiness. Their prayer realizes the glory of that holiness, in connection with the outgoing of his tender yearning compassion,"Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation

1 Ps. lxviii.

of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels, and of thy mercies toward me? Are they restrained?... Thou, O Lord, art our Father, our Redeemer." Then, when His enemies are "numbered to the sword," and made to "bow down to the slaughter," shall be fulfilled to the believing remnant a word to which our attention is challenged by a fourfold "Behold!" Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed: behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.""

In the day when the Lord's "judgments" are "in the earth;" when His "hand" is "lifted up," and when "the fire" of his "enemies shall devour them" -“In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; salvation shall God appoint for walls and bulwarks. Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in," &c.; for, just as in the night of Israel's first redemption—"a night to be much observed unto the Lord"—the gracious injunction went forth-"None of you shall go out at the door of his house till the morning;" so, when the remnant of 2 Isa. lxiii. 15-17; lxv. 12–14.

8 Ex. xii. 22.

the same nation is to experience redemption, for the last time, from the pressure of the hosts of Antichrist, the voice of covenant love is heard—“Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. For, behold, the Lord cometh out of His place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain."

In that day, which is represented both as "the day of the great slaughter," and as "the day that the Lord bindeth up the breach of His people, and healeth the stroke of their wound," language seems to exhaust its power to give adequate expression to the majesty and awfulness of that "great and terrible day of the Lord:"-"Behold, the name of the Lord cometh from far, burning with His anger.... His lips are full of indignation, and His tongue as a devouring fire; and His breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity." Through all this tempest of wrath, the still small voice of covenant promise falls on Israel's ear-"Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the Lord, to the Mighty One of Israel."*

Again, in the day when "the Lord will come with fire, and with His chariots like a whirlwind, to render His anger with fury, and His rebuke with flames of fire;" when, "by fire and sword, He will plead with all flesh: and the slain of the Lord shall be many;" when there shall be “a voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the Lord that rendereth recompense to His enemies"-in that day another voice arrests attention; it is the voice of gracious promise “Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream.... As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem; and when ye see this ye shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb." But while to them, as trembling at His word, it is said— "Hear ye the word of the Lord.... He shall appear for your joy," concerning them that hated them that cast them out for His name's sake, it is predicated"They shall be ashamed;" and again the awful contrast is unfolded thus-" The hand of the Lord shall be known toward His servants, and His indignation toward His enemies.”

In Psalm cxlvii. we have Jehovah's might in its double action, both in judgment and in mercy, in connection with the events now under review—“ The Lord doth build up Zion; He gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.... Great is our Lord and of great