and in the morning ſhalt thou make chy ſeed to flouriſh
1Qr, 1950+ #3 but the harveſt sball be || a heap in the day of grict, 2: in 192 and of deſperate ſorrow 6.
day of Ini2. 2 Eo eK : FM ES ncc.and 4 Thou ſhalr from day to day, beginning early in the Morning here ſhall uſe all Care and Diligence that what thou haſt planted and fown
may thrive ; and thou ſhall ſee ſome EffeQs of thy Libours, and ſome hopes of Succeſs. 5 This ſenſe of the Word thus rendred 1s this; Bur in the time of your grief, &c. or when tais grievous Calamity ſhall come, all your Harveſt ſhall be bur one heap,which in it ſelf is very incon\iderable,and is eaſily carried away by your Enemies. But the Place is and may be otherwiſe rendred, and that very agreeably both to the Words and Order of the Hebrew Text ; But cheh-ap ( or, heaps, the Singular number being moſt commonly put for the Plural ) of the harveſt (i:e; in ſteadof thoſe Heaps of Corn which thou didſt expe&, and which men uſually reap in Harveſt) in the day or fime (C to wit, of the Harveſt ; or i» the day of C Jamiry, of which I have ſpoken, v: 4: 9: or, in 4 aay, 7: e; fpeedily or ſaddealy ) ſhall be ( or, thou ſhalt have) grief and deſperate ſorrow. They ſhal be all thy Harveſt, and the Evear of thy Labours.
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| 12 Woc to the || multitude of many people d, which or, No&'e.
make a noiſe like the noiſe of rhe ſeae ; and to the ruſbing of nations, that make a ruſhing like the ruſbing (0r,»any. Of || mighty waters. |
« This is a new Prophecy, added for the prefent ſupport and comfort of Gods People. d Combined rogether againſt Judah. It matters not whether you underſtand this of the Syr:ans and Jj- raclizes who were naired again! Judah, or of rhe Aſrlans, whoſe Arny conſiſted of vaſt numbers, and of men of ſev:ral Nations. The following Words agree to eitherof them. e Which invade my Land and Pzople with great foice and fury, as the Sea doth, either ia its own Channel, or whea it enters into the Land by a
Breach.
13 The Nations ſball ruth like the ruſhing of many waters : but God ſhall rebuke them f, ad they jhall flee far off, and mal be chaſed as the chaff of the mountains
10r,;h;81s before the wind, and like|] a rolling thing g before the
; . Erh:0pians are diſtinguiſhed by Herodotus, and divers other bork anci- apn, whirlwind. h ent and latter Writers, into the Eaſtern, which ſeems to be. the ' f Not in Words, but deeds; ſhall diſcomfit and overthrow t _ Arabians, and the Weſtern, which ſeem to be the Erhiopians undes g Which is eaſily moved by every {light touch, and much more YT] £25pt. And itis probably thoughr, that rheſe Cuyjbires were firſt A violent Wind. Or, like @ wiſp, to wit, of ſtraw, which 1s lome- planted in Arabiay and, upan their increaſe, part of them paſſed times rolled together. over into Africa by croſſing the Red-Ses, which way a very ſhort F and an caſte Paſſage, and ſer!ed there. And according to this [n- I 4. And behold at evening-tide trouble, and _ oy nr _ the _ the Diſcription of the Land given: in the ; on; 1 th: this 5s the portion OT | lalt Claule of this verſe agrees either to F:h:opis, or to Fgyps, as ig fore the mo1 ning he zs pa he los of want that rob evident from what hath been already ſaid for the clearing of this them that ſpoil us, and t dark and difficult verſe, us 7. - o b At Even there is a great Terrour and Conſternation among TS: God's People, for fear of their Enemies; and e're GY ye 2 That ſendeth ambaſſadours f by the Sea #, merh, their Enemies are cut off by the band of God. 4. | even in Veſſels of bulruſhes þ upon the waters F RES. terally and eminently fuifilled in- the Deſtruftion of Sennacherib's ſaving * 0 Guife Me ; . *2 || Or, ozr= Army before Jeruſalem. Although the Words may be more general- afing » o ye Iwurt Mcelenger £ to a nation foread and ly underſtood of any great and ſudden Change, and unexpeCtted [ {cattered k and peeled L, toa people terrible from poliſhed ; Deliverance, granted to Gods People, when their enemies were | thejr beginning hitherto 2; || + a nation metted out » Or, #22 | ready todevour them, And this Place may be compared wit that | q £9442, down vo, whole land the rivers have fpoil- 7:97; 2447 in Pſal; 30' « weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the 4 9 | needeth out | morning. iThis is a triumphant Conclulion, utrered by the Prophet | ©0 P+ to in the name of God's People. | REP | | eth down; | | A That at this time are ſending Ambaſſadours after their tmaniner, T = os | to ſtrengthen themſelves with Leagues and Alliances,whereby they 247707 CHAP. XVIII rain prone thoſe Judgments and Cilamities, which, notwich-{ine, __ TR" © Church and puniſhing hw Enemies, will afir.y the | ftanding all their endeavours, . I will bring upon them. The firſt #7477? _—_ wo = on _— be to the Church. "4 - part of this Verſe ſeems to contain a further Deſcription of the #"g under Eds aa : People ofthe Land, mentioned in the foregoing Verſe. g either by fo#. : : - the Midland-Ses, or by the Rer-Sea, or by great Lakes which were. Or, whoſe O to the Land «s ſhadowing wich wings b, _ in and nee Land of Egypt ; it being uſual among the He- ns" : - -. * d c the rivers 4 of F#thi- | #5 co give the Title of Seas to Lakes, or any great ColleQions vers ac/pi}s- *Ch2o!g: : which 15 bey —_- : of Waters, as hath bcen oft obſerved before. þ For both the Xgyp- Ezek:30:9 Opi1a e 3 | trans and Ethiopians, as Diodorus Siculus, and Strabo, and Pliny relate, rg s Either, x, of Arabia; or, 2. of Erhiopis beyond Ezypt ; or, 3. | 4id commonly ule Boats of Ruſhes or Reeds, which were more 3; 10s :