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1 The Church assureth herself of the love of Christ. 3 The praises of the Church. 8 She is but one and undefiled. My well-beloved is gone down into his garden to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
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1 The beauty of the Church in all her members. 10 She is assured of Christ’s love towards her. How beautiful are thy goings with shoes, O prince’s daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels: the work of the hand of a cunning workman.
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2 The Church will be taught by Christ. 3 She is upheld by him. 6 The vehement love wherewith Christ loveth her. 11 She is the vine that bringeth forth fruit to the spiritual Solomon, which is Jesus Christ. Oh that thou werest as my brother that sucked the breasts of my mother: I would find thee without, I would kiss thee, then they should not despise thee.
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2 The Church shall be restored by Christ, and the Gentiles called. 6 The punishment of the rebellious and obstinate. The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw upon Judah and Jerusalem,
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1 Of the enemies of the Church. 7 And of the vocation of the Gentiles. Oh, the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,
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A song of the faithful, wherein is declared, in what consisteth the salvation of the Church, and wherein they ought to trust. In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah, We have a strong city: salvation shall God set for walls and bulwarks.
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A prophecy against the kingdom of Satan. 2 And of the joy of the Church for their deliverance. In that day the Lord with his sore and great and mighty sword shall visit Leviathan, that piercing serpent, even Leviathan, that crooked serpent, and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
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1 The destruction of them by whom God hath punished his Church. Woe to thee that spoilest, and wast not spoiled: and doest wickedly, and they did not wickedly against thee: when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled: when thou shalt make an end of doing wickedly, they shall do wickedly against thee.
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1 He showeth that God punisheth the wicked for the love that he beareth toward his Church. Come near, ye nations and hear, and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear and all that is therein, the world and all that proceedeth thereof.
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1 The Lord promiseth comfort, and that he will assemble his Church of divers nations. 9 The vanity of Idols. 17 The beastliness of idolaters. Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant, and Israel whom I have chosen.
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1 The wicked perish through their own iniquities. 12 The confession of sins. 16 God alone will preserve his Church though all men fail. Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save: neither is his ear heavy, that it cannot hear.
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3 The Gentiles shall come to the knowledge of the Gospel. 8 They shall come to the Church in abundance. 16 They shall have abundance though they suffer for a time. Arise, O Jerusalem; be bright, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.
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1 God shall destroy his enemies for his Church’s sake. 7 God’s benefits toward his Church. Who is this that cometh from Edom, with red garments from Bozrah? he is glorious in his apparel, and walketh in his great strength. I speak in righteousness, and am mighty to save.
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God calleth his people unto repentance. 14 He promiseth the restitution of his Church. 20 He reproveth Judah and Israel, comparing them to a woman disobedient to her husband. They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, shall he return again unto her? shall not this land be polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers: yet turn again to me, saith the Lord.
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1 The return of the people from Babylon. 16 He menaceth the enemies, 18 and comforteth the Church. The word, that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
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1 He rehearseth God’s benefits after their return from Babylon. 13 And the spiritual joy of the faithful in the Church. At the same time, saith the Lord, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
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1 The Prophet is monished of the Lord to pray for the deliverance of the people which the Lord promised. 8 God forgiveth sins for his own glory. 15 Of the birth of Christ. 20 The kingdom of Christ in the Church shall never be ended. Moreover the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah the second time (while he was yet shut up in the court of prison) saying,
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The enemy hath stretched out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen the heathen enter into her Sanctuary, whom thou didst command, that they should not enter into thy Church.
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4 The Lord sendeth false Prophets for the ingratitude of the people. 22 He reserveth a small portion for his Church. Then came certain of the Elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me.
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A prophecy of the kingdoms, which should be enemies to the Church of God, as of Persia, 3 Of Greece, 5 of Egypt, 28 of Syria, 36 and of the Romans. Also I, in the first year of Darius of the Medes, even I stood to encourage and to strengthen him.
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1 Of the deliverance of the Church by Christ. And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince, which standeth for the children of thy people, and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there began to be a nation unto that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, everyone that shall be found written in the book.
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Threatenings against the Temple, 2 And against Israel. 11 The restoring of the Church. I saw the Lord standing upon the Altar, and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in pieces, even the heads of them all, and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them, shall not flee away: and he that escapeth of them, shall not be delivered.
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1 Of the kingdom of Christ, and felicity of his Church. But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the House of the Lord shall be prepared in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills, and people shall flow unto it.
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1 A complaint for the small number of the righteous. 4 The wickedness of those times. 14 The prosperity of the Church. Woe is me, for I am as the Summer gatherings, and as the grapes of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the first ripe fruits.
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8 Of the doctrine that shall proceed out of the Church, and of the restoration thereof. Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
