p Becauſe there are either none, or none but the Enemies ofGod & Iſrael,to drink it. Grief is aſcribed to ſenſeleſs Creatures by 2 F1- gure uſual in ali Authors. q Either becauſe there are no People left to dreſs it, or gathec its Grapes z or becauſe it is broken down
\ 8, 9- Joel 1:10, Fo
ine, Pſal. 104: 15. l 8 The mirth * of cabrets / ceaſeth, the noiſe : ofcthem
Ser:7:34. that rejoyce endeth,tbe joy of the harp ceaſeth. 16:9'X [Which they uſed in their Feaſts and Revellings. * The Word
9-00. roperly fienifies a roaring Noiſe and confuſed Clamour, ſuch as _ "6x1 We _ make, Pſake 78 65. Zech: 9. I5- : Hoſz5, 9 They ſhalnotdrink wine with aſong,ſtrong drink ſhal be bitter to them that drink it «. # Becauſe of the Fears and Miteries wherewith it is mixed. for empri= 10 The city x of || contuſion y is broken down: eve- ner. ry houſe is ſhutup z, that no man may come 1n.
b x Jeruſslem, and other Cities ; for the Singular Word may be here taken col!e&ively. » Or, of vanity, or emptineſs, or defolation; for this Hebrew Word fignifics all theſe things. And the Ciry may be thus called, cither, 1. in regard of the Judgments of God come» ing upon it, as if he had ſaid, a City devored to Deſolaticn or De. ſtruQion, to be emptied of its Goods and People : or, 2. for its Sin a City of confuſion or Diſorder, breaking a1l tne Laws and Orders which God had eſtabliſhed among them er a City that walkerh with or after vanity, as the Scripture ſpeaks, Job 313 5. Jer 2: 5. thar loveth and ſpeaketh vanity, as they did Pſal 4: 2. and 12, 2. And this may ſeem moſt conven'ent, that the Sin of the City ſhould be noted in this Word, as the puniſhment is exprefled in the nexr. z Either for fear of the Enemy who have entred the City; or rather, becaule the Inhabitants are either fled, or dead, or gone into Cape tivity, and ſo there are none to gointoit, or come out of ic, 1: There is a crying for wine a inthe ſtreers, all joy
is darkned, the mirth of the land is gone-
s For the want or loſs of their Wine, and ſpoil of their Vines, whereby they were deprived of the Means both of their Delight and Profit. Whereby he incimates their groſs Senſuality and Sot- tiſhneſs, that inſtead of crying for their Sins, and humbling them- ſelves under Gods Judgments, did only how! for their corn, and wine, and oil, as they did Hoſ- 7. 14. A is
I2 In the city is lefc deſolation, and the gate is{mit-
ten with deſtruction 6. b The Gates of the City are totally ruined, that the Enemy may enter when and where they pleaſe.
123 When thus it ſhal be c in the midſt of the land 4 among the people, * rhere ſbal be as the ſhaking of an ' olivestree, and as the gleaning-grapes when thevintage
15 done e.
c When this Judgment ſhal be executed d In the land: But withal this Phraſe may intimare,that the Judgment ſhould not be {l3ghrand ſuperficial,& 1n the Skirts of the Land;bur that it ſhould reach their very Heart, their moſt inward and beſt defended Parrs. e There ſhal be lefr a Remnant, and that but a very ſmall Remnant; as there are ſome few, and bur a few Olives or Grapes left afrer the Vintage is over. VVhich by comparing this with the following Verſe, ſeems tobe added by way of mitigation, to ſignifie, thar God would in Judgment remember Mercy.
14 They f1hal lift up their voice, they ſhal fing for the majeſty of the LORD g, they (hal cry aloud h from the
ſea 5. | f The Remnant preſerved. g For his glorious Power andGood= neſs manifeſted in their Deliverance, þ In way of Exultation and Thankſgiving to God. #7 From the Iſles of the Sea, as this 1s ex- F plained inthe next. Verſe; from thoſe Parts beyond the Sea into which they were carried Captive, and in which they were miracu-
louſly preſerved, : 15 Wherefore, glorifie ye the LORD & in the || *
fires 1, eves the Name of the LORD God of Iſrael in
the iſles ofthe ſea m-.
k Theſe are the Words either, 1. of the Remnant, who being themſelves delivered, do encourage and exhort their Brethren to glorific God with them : or, 2. of the Prophet, direQting and ex= citing God's People to glorifie God in their AfffiQtions, becauſe of that Deliverance which he had promiſed, and would aſſuredly give to them. When you are in the Furnace of Affliction ; although this Word is never uſed in Scripture in this ſenſe. O- thers therefore render the Word, 7 the wallezs; and others, :n the beles, you that arenow forced to hide your ſelves in the Holes. Poſſibly it may be better rendred, for /;ght or illumination ; which may be underſtood either of the Light of the Truth which God would reveal to them ; or for the Comfort and Felizity which God would confer upon them 3 Light being frequently'/raker: both ways in Scripture, For this Hebrew Word, in all other Places of Scripcure where it is found, ſignifies that Urim which was in the High-Prieſts Breaſt-Plate, and which properly ſignifies illumination, as both Jews and Chriſtians render it, whereof that was both a Sign, and Inſtrument ; of which ſee on Exod. 28. 3o. Add to this, that this part of the Prophecy ſeems to concern the i'ays of the Goſpel, and that Light which the Jews ſhould then receive by theMeſ/ias, of
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'Or,valley PTEzek.39.
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obliged thereby to conſtant&perpetualObedience through allGene- | that the earth or {and which
erns,isno other thanthe Land of J/rael and Judb. hath the curſe » devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are deſolate: therefore the inhabitants of the eatth are burned o,and few men left.
15, Oc. and 29: 20. and imprecated by and upon th-mſelves, 1f | r Obedience to God, Deur. 27; 26+! much
and ſpoiled by the Enemy. r That made their Hearts merry with
L428 = p AArF. - \ | whom the High»Prieſt with his Ephod and Urim was a Tyre. And ſo thisis an Exborration to the converted Jews to ble!s God cho true Urim, even for Chriſt and the Goſpel, And ſome of the = cient Tranſlators hd this ſignification of the Word in their Eye, as the Yulgar Latin, who render it, mm dofirines ; and the Ch algee who | tranſlate it, when light ſhal come to the juſt, Butthis I propoſe with iu>miſſion. »2 In remote Countries,bey ond the Sez,which in Scrin. ture are commently called z/es, as hath been formerly and oft obſer ved. Whereby he ſeems to imply, that he here tpea'ss not fo ch ofa Temporal Felicity which the Jews ſhould receive ang enjoy in their own Country, as of a Spiritual Advantage which | -—— + pos have by the Meſfas in the Places where they were diC.