I follow the same order as our Bibles, in including these verses, as they are there done, in parentheses; for it seems to me to be so designed, as if to call upon the Reader to observe how the Lord, in the midst of Israel's judgment, remembers mercy; and in times of desolation, so remote from the coming of Christ, still throws in this sweet scripture, to remind the Church of the gospel days yet to come. Reader! determine for yourself (for I will not determine for you) and may God the Holy Ghost guide and instruct you in the determination; but is it not with reference to Jesus, that the Prophet was here commissioned to tell the Church, that at that day a man should look to his Maker, and his eyes have respect to the Holy One of Israel? What day could the Prophet mean, but the gospel day? And what direction should the eye of faith have, but to the Lord Jesus Christ? Isaiah 45:22; Isaiah 45:22.
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Isaiah 17:6-8
6 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel.
7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.a