wer, | ; | 14 And my hand hath foundas a Neſt ? the riches of the people : and as one gachereth eggs that are lefe «
have I gathered all che earth. x, and there was none that moved the wing,or opencd the mouth or peeped y. + As one finderh young Birds XI 6 the N./# being put _
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Or, thar bur an Inſtrumeat in Gods hand, and canſt do nothing withour hiciis his leaveand help, to blaſpheme thy Lord and Maſter, who hath as
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the Birds in it, as Dent, 32; 11. No leſs eafily do IT both find & take u Which the Dam hath leftin her Neſt. This 15 more ea- fie than the former ; for the young Birds might poſſibly make ſome
them.
faint reſiftance, or flutter away ; but the Eggs conld do neither x All the Riches of the Earrn or World,
and by mourntul Cries. ; 15. Shal the ax boaſt it ſelf againſt him that heweth
_ therewith 2? or ſhal the ſaw magnifieit ſelf againſt him
2 How abſurd and unreaſonable a thing is it, for thee, who art
great a power over thee, to manage thee as he pleaſeth,as a Man hath over the Ax wherewith he heweth ? a Or, as it is rendred in .the Margin, and by © her [aterpreters, as zf # rod ſbould ſhake (* ::e. ſhal prerend to ſhake, or, ſhou!d boaſt thatit would or couldihake; which may eaſily be underſtood our of the foregoing words ) them that lift it upþ As if aScaff ih »ld-forget that it was Wood,& ſhould Pretend” or. arrempr 7@ I:fr up it ſelf either without or againſt the man that moveth it. Which is abſurd in the very ſuppoſition of it, 8& were. mach more waircaſonsble inthe prat.ce. Nor are thy Boaſts Jeſs ridiculous:
15 Therefore ſhal the Lord,the Lord of hoſts c, ſend ameng his t fat 0n25 leanneſs d,and under his glory he
ſhal kindle a burning like the burning of a fire e. . c The Soveraign Lord and General of thine and all other Ar. mies, d Strip hin, 2nd all his great Princes and Commanders, of all their Wealth, and M*ghr, and Glory. e He will deſtry his nus mecous and victorious Army. and thatſuddenly and irrecoverably as the Fire doth thoſe combuſtible things which are caſt into it.
Which was fulfilled 2 Kngs 19:. 25. t7 And the light of Iſrael f ſhal be fora ficeg, and
' his Holy One for a flame : anditſhal burn and devour
his chorns and briars h in one daye Tat God who is and will be a comfortable Light to his Peo-
ia H-11. þ His vaſt Army, which 3s no more able to reſiſt God, thin dry Thorns and Briars are to oppoſe the Fire that is kindled
among them.
- x8 And ſhal conſume the glory of his forreſt ;, and of his fruicful field &, + both ſoul and body / : and they
; Of his great Army, which may not unfitly be compared to a Forreſt, either, for rhe multirude of their Spears,which, when lift- ed up rogert:1er, | reſemble che Trees of a Wood or Forreſt ; or for the numvers of Men, which ſtood as thick as Trees doin a Forreft. & Os his Soldiers, which ſtood asthick as Ears of Corn do in a fruit- fa! F eld, Heb. of his Carmel. Wherein it is not :mprobably cone jecturei by our :at= oft Learned Mr. Gataker, tharthere is an Al. Juiioa to that Brag of rhe -ſjria9n, who threatens that he would go wp 79 the ſides of ( Iſrael's ) Lebanon, and to the Forreſt of his Carmel, and thei= cut down the Tall Cedars there'f, Which though it was nor utp:1c4 by the Aſhrion £1] ſome yezrs after this Time, yet was ex- att'y for:known to God, who underſtandeth mens Thoughts and much more their Words, afar off, Pſalm 139: 2, 3, 4.and therefore might dirc& r4e Prophet to uſcrhetame Words, and to turn them a- gainſt Limfclf. W here:s thov threarneſt to deſtroy Iſraels Carmel, 1 will deſtroy thy Carmel 13. 2, Torally, both inwardly arid out- wardly, both Strengrh and Life, Heb. Fom the Soul ro the Fl(ſh. Which my poſlibly fignifie the manner of their Death, which ſhovid be by a ſudden Srrcke of the deſtroying Angel upon their mward and vital Parts. which was ſpzedily followed by the Con. ſumprion of their Fleſh. Sze Iſa. 37: 35, 36 m The State of that Kin:. and of his great and valiant Army, fſhal be. » Like that of an Army when th-ir Srandard-bearer either 1s ſlain, or rather flees away, which ſcrikesa Panick Terrour intothe whole Army, and
puts them ro flight,
19 And the reſt of the treesof his forreſt o, ſhal be
f few, thata child may write them p.
o Tae Remainders of that mighty hoſt. p That they may be eaſily numbred by the meaneſt Accomptant. A Child may betheir Muſreremaſter,
20 And it ſhal come to pals in that day,that the rem- nant of Iſrael, and ſuch as are eſcaped cf the houſe of Jacobq, ſhal no more again ſtay upon him that ſmote them 73 but (hal ſtay upon the LORD, the holy One
of 1frael in truth s.
9g Such Jews as ſhal be preſerved from that ſweeping 4ſjrian Scour ge, by which great numbers both of Iſrael and Judah were de- ſrroyed and from their ſucceeding Calamites. For that this Place looks beyond the Deliverance from rhe 4ſhrisn Army, and unto the Times of the New Teſtament, ſeems probable, 1- From the follow- ing Verſes, which belong to that Time, as we ſhal fee: 2.From the Srate of the Jewiſh Nation, which, after that Deliverance,continued to be very {ad and corrupt,and averſe from thatReformetion which Hezekiah and Joſiah proſecuted with all their might ; and therefore the Body of that People had nor yer learned this Leſſon of ſincere Truſting in God alone, 3- From St. Pauls Explication and Appli- cation of theſe Words, Rom: 9. 27..of which more may be {aid when I come thither. And for the Words in chat Day, which may ſeem ro reſtrain thisto the rime of the 4ſhrian Invaſion, they are
An Hyperbole not unu'- ual in the Mouths of ſuch perſons, upon ſuch occaſions. y As Birds do, which when they ſee and cannot hinder the robbing of thei: Neſts, expreſs their Grief and Anger, by hovering about them,
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Jacob, unto the mighty God «.
« Unto the Meſſiah, expreſly calied themighty God, Ha: 9. 6. 22 * For though thy people Ifracl x be as of the Sea, yet a remnant y + of them (hal return:*The Conſumption decreed (hal overflow & || with Righte- Ouſnefs a. % Or, O Iſrael : Speech. Threatning in reſpett of ſome,