Chap. XXXI and I heal : neither 7s there any that can deliver you out of my hand.
5 Learn now by your own fad experience what vain and impo- tent things Idols are, and what a filly thing it was in you to pur your truſt in them, as they did wer, 37. t (7. e.) The only true and omniporent and irreſiſtabie God, as it here follows.
40 For lift up my handto heaven «, and fay, I live forever x.
u ( 1,e.) I ſolemnly ſwear, thatI will do what here follows, that as I willdeliver my people, fo I will fully avenge my ſelf upon all mine enemies, whom I have uſed as rods to ſcourge my people.
(i.e.) As ſure as I live. Compare Jer. 4. 2. Heb. 6. 13. Rev. 10. 5,6. |
41 If * I whet myglittering ſword y, and mine hand *16: 214 take hold on judgment z, I will render vengeance to & 34:5:}f mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me. $66: 16: N
z If once begin to prepare for war and for the execution of my Ezck: 2 | ſentence. = (z. e.) Of the inſtruments cf judgment, of the weapens 1+ 2%: of war. A metaphor from warriours, that take their weapons into | their hand, when they intend to fight,
42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood C and my {word ſhal devour fleſh) and that with the blood of the lain, and of the captives, from rhe beginning of * revenges upon the enemy 6.
a Whom my ſword hath ſorely wounded, though not uttterly kil- led. 6 ( 7: e: ) When once I begin to revenge my ſelf and my peo- ple upon mine and their enemies,I will go on and make a full end: Or, with the head, or with the blood of the head, i.e. of the chief or chiefs, of the revenges of the enemy, i.e. of the revengeful or malici- ous enemy of God and of his people. The noun Subſtantive is oft put for the AdjeQtive, as Ger. 17. 5. a multitude of nations, is put for many nations, Rom. 4.17. and Gen. 45. 22. changes of raiment, i. e. changeable raiment ; and Pſal.gg.4. the kings ſirength, 7. e. the {:rong and mighty king. And fo here, he revenges of the enemy, 3. e. the _ revengeful enemy. And by the bead may be here underſtood eitter the Devil, or the heads and rulers ofthoſe Empires w hich were ene- mies to.Gods people.: Or, of the head ſhall be the revenges upon the enemies, 1. e. 1 will take vengeance upon all mine enemies, yeaupon the head or heads of them. | |
43 [| * Rejoyce, O ye nations, with . his people c, || Or.pral for he will avenge the blood of his ſervants, and will his Perp! rendervengeanceto his adverſaries, and will be merciful 14 21} unto his land, and to his people. of gl fl
c This tranſlation is juſtified by St. Paul, Rom: 15:10: the particle Be _ | with, being oft underſtood, as Lev:26:42.He calls upon the nations * to rejoyce and bleſs God for his favours, and eſpecially for the laſt wonderful deliverance which ſhall be ye to the Jews, when they ſhall be converted unto the Goſpel in the laſt days, which they have all reaſon to do not only from that duty of ſympathy which they owe to all people, and eſpecially to Gods ancient people, whereby they are to rejoyce with them that rejoyce, but becauſe of that ſingular advantage and happineſs which all nations will have at that time and upon that occaſion, Or, rejoyce, © ye Gentiles, his peaple, 7. e.
O you Gentiles, who once were not Gods people, but now are his people, do yourejoyce for Gods mercies to.the Jews his ancient peo-« ple, bleſs God for their converſion and ſalvation.
44 And Moſes cameand ſpake all the words of this ſong in the ears of the people, he, and || Hoſbea 4d the | Or, 7s ſon of Nun. | | ſua.
d Or Joſhua: who is here joyned with Moſes in this ation, becauſe though Moſes only ſpake the words, yet Joſbua conſented to them, and, it may be, afterwards repeated them ; this being not a ſong to be ſung once for all, but a ſtanding monument which was written and kept for future uſe, Deut: 31: 22, &c and to be repeated again and again upon ſolemn occaſions, which Joſhua and other ſucceed- ing Magiſtrates were to take care of.
45 And Moſes made an end of ſpeaking all theſe words to all Iſrael, |
46 Ard he ſaid untothem, * Set your hearts unto all *chap'6 the words which I teſtifie among you this day, which & 53: 1 ye ſhal command your children to obſerve to doe,all the words of this law. |
47 For it is not a vain thing for you e, becauſe it is your life, and through this thing you (hal prolong your days, in the land whither ye go over Jordan to poileſsit.
eIt is not an unprofitable or contemprible work I adviſe you to, but well worthy of your moſt ſerious Care, oftto remember and di- ligently to conſider it.
48 * Andthe LORD ſpake unto Moſes that ſelf-ſame *Nam.s day, ſaying, | | 123 | 49 Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo f which is in the land of Moab,thar is over againſt Jericho, and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Iſrael for a poſſeffion :
} Nebo wasa ridge or top of the mountains of 4barim, See on Numb. 27, 12. Deus. 3. 27.
5o Anddie in the mount whither thou goeſt up, and | be gathered unto thy people, as * Aaron thy brother «x,,,. died in wount Hor, and was gathered unto his people.
F1 Becauſe * ye treſpaſſed againſt me among the children of Iſrael, at the waters of || Meribah- kadeſh in the wilderneſs of Zin : becauſe ye fancified me not in ,.? a . 7: 14. the midſt of the children of Iſrael. || Or, ſtri
52 Yet thou ſhalt fee the land before hee, but thou at Kadeſb ſhalt not go thither unto the land which I give. the chil- dren of Itrael. | |
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