10 And * gladnefsis taken away, and joy © "Jer48, the plenciful field,and in the hm thee Gut be - = ſinging, neither {hal there bs ſhouting : the treaders Pp hal tread out no wine in 7heir prefles;T have made their vintage-thouting to ceaſe,
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grearneſs of their approaching Calamirie, which being ſy grievous co him, nuſt needs be incolcravle ro them.
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How this can con/iſt with the Prophecy of Jeremiah, who above or about an hundred years afrerthis rime ſpeaketh of Moab as a People that had been at eaſe from their youth, and had not gone mto captivity, Fer. 48. 11. and prophelieth againſt rhem in the very ſame words which Iſaiah uſeth in this Prophecy ? The Anſwer is, That they | * the ſame Calamity; but [a:ah
do not ſpeak of the ſame time, nor of | Tribulation, and Jeremiah of their latter Devaſtation.
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Ic is true, Jeremrah uſeth the ſame words which Iſaiah doth, andſo do the later Prophers ſometimes uſe the words of rhe former, to c- ther purpoſes than they were firſt delivered, as we {hal ſee h: reafrer and as is moſt evident from the Revelation of $7, John, in which the ſame words are uſd concerning Myſtical Babylon, which » ere ul d by the foregoing Prophets conc-rning the firſt and literal Babylon. And although the foregoing Prophecy of Iſaiah fecms to ſpeak of the ſameDeſtruttion threatoed byJeremiah,and inflifted by Nevuchad'e mexzar 3 yet this Prophecy contained in this Verſe, and uſhered in with another Preface, ſ:ems to beof a differing narure,and to ſpeak of a more{peedy and leſs grievous Aflition that ſhould befa\lrbem which ſhould be as a Pledge to aſſure them of the certiin Accome pliſhment of the other Prophccy, and of their utter DeſtruCtion. And therefore it is obſervable, that the Prophet doth nor here ſay, Within three-years all that I have forerold and threarned ſhal be fulfil= led; but only, the glory of Mah ſhal be contermed, &C- which 1s quite another thing ; and as the Terms here uſed are much milder, fo the Judgment here denounced ſeems much leſs, than inthe forego- zng Prophecy- And therefore this Verſe may very well be under« ſtood of ſome great Blow given to the M94b:zes, either by Sennache- #ib, or by his Son Eſarhadden, from which notwithſtanding they in alictle timerecovered themſelves, and flouriſhed again, aad conti- nued ſo to do,till Nebuche dnezzar compleared their Deſtruction. And this may well enough conſiſt with what is ſaid of Moabs being at eaſe fom hu youth, Jer. 48 11. which is not to be underſtood ſimply as if they had been wholly free from War and other Calamities ; for the coatrary is evident both from Scripture, as 2 Sam, 8. 2. 2 Kings 3. 24, 25- and from other Hiſtories ; but comparatively,that they had not been brought to Deſolation, nor carried away into Cape tivity, as it is explained in the following Words, and as Iſrael had been at that time, ani Judah wasthreatned to be. z#.e. Wirhin three years preciſely accounted ; for Hirelings are very punctual] in obſerving the time for whick they are hired; and their Thoughts and Defires run much upon it, becauſe then they are to receive their Wages : of which ſee Job7. 1, 2. and 14. 6. And this Ex- p35ſition is confirmed by comparing this Place with 1/# 21.16, where the ſame Phraſe is uſed in one year. So groundleſs 1s that Opinie on which the Jewiſh Writers gather from this Place, compared with Deut. 15. 18. That three years wasthe uſual and appointed time forthe generality of hired Servants. # Their. Strength and Wealth, and other things in which they glory. b Shal be made contemprible to thoſe who £ rmerly admired them, c With the great numbers of their People of which they boaſted. « Compara- tively to what they were before. Which might be very true, and yet afcerwards,. in an hundred years ſpace, *they might be ſufficie ently recruited.
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