hath done ; he maketh one Barren, and another Fruitful, when, and how itpleaſeth him. In the Hebrew Text it is Lo the Adverb - and ſo the words may be rendred thus, his 4#ions are net, or cannot be direfied orreftified, or correffed by any others; nor can mend hig Work; he doth every ching beſt, and in the beſt ſeaſon, as now he hath done : Or weighed, or numbred, his ways are unſearchable: or thus, are not his works right and firaight ? who canblame his Aftions ® So Lois for halo, as it 1s 2 Sam. Is 20. 2 King. 5« 26 Job 2. 10.
4 The bows pof the mighty men are broken, and they that ſtumbled q are girt with ſtrength #,
p This notes, either, x. The ſtrength of which they boaſted 2 See Pſal « 44: 6; and 46: 9. Or, 2. Their malicious or miſchievous De= ſiens. See Pſal. 7: 123 and 11: 2:and 37: 14. Or, +. Their virulent Tong es, which are compared to bows that fhoor their Arrows, even bitter Words ; as it is ſaid, Pſal. 64: 3. Compare Jer. 9: 3: Or, 4. Their procresting Vertue, which may well be compared to a bow, both becauſe it is called a mans Frength, Gen. 49: 3; and becauſe Chil- dren, which are the EffeQs of it, and are as it were ſhot from that bow, are compared to arrows, Pal. 127: 4, 5. And this ſeems beft ts agree with the following Verſe. q Or, were weak, or feeble, in Body and Spirit, that had no ſtrength to conceive, which was once Sarahbs caſe, Heb 11; 11: Or, to bring forth, which was Iaels condition
under Hezekiah, 2 King. 19: 3. r Are enabled both to conceive and to bring forth, as the Church was, 1a. '66. 9.
9 5 * They that were tull have hired themſelves out for * Phi. = 15+« 19%
bread s: and they that were hungry, ceaſed & : ſo that the barren hath born ſeven «, and * ſhe that hath ma- ny chi!dren x, 1s waxed feeble y.
s Through extreme neceſſity, into which they are fallen from their greareſt plenty. Ir is the ſame thing which is expreſſed borh in div-rs Metaphors in the foregoing, and following Verſes, and properly in the latter branch of this Verſe. + 7. e. Ceaſed to be ſuch, to wit, hungry ; the hungry failed : there was none of them hungry or indigent. #7. & Many ; as feven is oft uſed. Ske ſpeaks in the P-opherick Style, the paſt time, for the future ; for though ſhe had aCttual'y born bur one, yet ſhe had a confident perſwaſten that the ſhou!d have mere, which was grounded either upon ſome parti- cuJar Aſſurance from God ; or rather upon the prayer or Pcediftion of Ei, which, though it be mentioned after rhis Song, v, 20. yet in all prob bility was ſpoken before ir, even upon the Parents preſen- tation of the Child to El, shap. 1. v. 25: it not being likely that ſhe would ſing this Song in E's preſence, or before he had given his Anſwer to her Speech delivered, ch. x wv. 26: 27, 28: there being no= thing more frequzat than ſuch tranſpoſitions in Scripture. And the experience ſhe had of the ſtrange and ſpeedy accompliſhment of his former Prophecy, made her confidently expe& the ſame Iflue from the latter. x ( 5. e, ) Peninnah. y Either becauſe ſhe was now paſt Child bearing, and impotent for Procreation : or, becauſe dis vers of her Children, which were her ftrengrth and her glory, were dead, as the Hebrew Doflors relate.
6 * The LORD killeth, and maketh alive z, he * gee;
bringeth down to Þ the grave, and bringeth up. 2 = Either, r. Divers perſons : he killeth one, and maketh another f
alive: Or, 2. Theſame perſon whom he firſt killeth, cr bringeth very
nigh unto death; he afterwards raiſeth to life. Me, who was almoſt
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Wo _ is uſed, 1 Kings 16+ 2.
ap. II.
1 atd conſumed with Grief, he hath revived. The name |
to great Calamities ; as Iſa. 26+ 19» Exck. 37. 11. Rom. 8. 36+
> The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich ; * he
ingeth low, and lifteth up. — X raiſeth up the poor out of the duſt b, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghil c, to ſer them among Princes, and to make chem inherit d the _ of glory e: for the pillars f of the earth are the LORDS,
hath ſet the world upon- them.
my _ Our of their low and miierable Condition ; as th .- Hos Pſal. 1 13: 7- Compare Job 16: 15: Pſol. a and mean Eſtate. Compare 11; Pſal. 7: 5 Which the poor are ſaid to d Not only ra - ge gry nt Ro
] to their poſterity. as hath ofr happened n the : Or, uſes 24 i.e A locous Throne or Kingdom. f _— TE Foundations of the 7 ror joan goot 3 up n of Few» wherewith he ſuſtains the Earthy and A!l1ts 1 a proue i with pillars ; and therefore it is not ſtrange if he bac ooo => things therein as he pleaſeth. "ih qi
rinces or governours of the Earth, which are called, the oo GY ST Hoace of a Land or people, Judg. 20; 2. 1 Sam. by = +3 3. 6. and are fitly called pillars, becauſe they uphold the ws and keep it from ſinking into confuſion # See P/al. 74+ 2+ yo F, k Revel. 3.12. And theſe are here ſaid te be the Lords, by ago" and Conſtitution, becauſe he @ 1-47 xp by oinrempo _
in it, Prov. $. 15. 16- and puts the ,
| Pp =» grbay World, »pon them, as burdens upon their ſhoul-
_ > oy keep the feet g of his ſaints, and the
wicked (ball be * ſilent þ in darkneſs z ; for by ſtrength