c Beſtir, and prepare your ſelves to hear, as it follows ; and ſhake off ſloth and careleſneſs, d That indulge your ſelves in Idleneſs and Luxury. e Heb: confident or ſecure, who are inſenfible of your fin and danger. f The ſame before called women : whom he here reproveth, and threatneth for their Sins, as he did the Men be- fore, for ſeeking to Egyps for help, and divers other Sins, where-
of the Men were molt guilry.
—— 10 + Many days and years f ſhall ye be troubled, ye "cg careleſs women : for the vintage ſhall fail g, the gathe-
ring 4 ſhall not come. f Heb: Days above a year, ir e. a year and ſome days : Which
notes, either, t. the time from this Prophey to the beginning of this Judgment : Or rather, 2. the time of the continuance of it ; that it ſhould laſt for above one year ; as indeed this did, and no longer : For Hezekiah reigned in all but twenty nime Years, 2 Kings 18. 2. and Sexnacherib came in his fourteenth. Year ; and after his de- feat and departure, God promiſed, and added to him fifteen Years
.. g During the time of the 4/714 Invaſion.
more, 2 Kings 20.6 : And this Commination is here addedto qualifie the foregoing pro- miſe, and-to warn them, that although God would give them ſo
good a King, and there ſhould be ſome Reformation of their for-
mer abuſes under the Government _— yu as LE ws ma» fi hem, not yet repented of, ſo they {hould be ſevere. 1 chaftifed for the h to wit, of the other Fruits of the Earth;
haſtiſed for them. ; ly chaſtiic gin=ryes was obſerved afrer the gathering of all the
Fruits, was called #ht feaft of inzgathering, Exod 23: 16. ix Tremble ye women chat are at eaſe, be troubled,
ye careleſs ones: ſtrip ye and make ye bare z, and
gird [ackcioth upon your loins. | ' Put off your Ornaments, as God commanded upon a like oc-
caſion, Exod: 33. 5. that you _ put on Sackcloth in ſtcad of them, as Mourners and Penitents uſed to do.
{Nc 12 They (ball lament for-the teats &, for F the plea- hk; of de= Cant fields, for the fruitful vine. :
hr þ Either, 1. properly, becauſe, through Famine, your Teats are deſtitute of Milk for the nouriſhment of your poor Children, Or rather 2. Metaphorically, aF the following words explain ir, for the pleaſant and fruitful Fields, which like Teats yielded you plen- 1 tiful and excellent nouriſhment, for which the Land was ſaid zo Chap.345 flow with milk, Ezek. 20. 6. And the Earth being compared to the s Womb that bare us,Feb 1: 21. itis not ſtrange, it its fruitful Fields To 9+ 6. be compared to the Breaſts which nouriſh us.
Or, buy= 12 * Upon the land of my people shall come up
* 9%, thorns and briers 1,|| yea upon all the houſes of joy
in the joyous City ;
as that Feaſt,
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I Tf any of you think there is not great cauſe forſuch trembling * and Lamentation,which ſhall laſt but for a year and ſome days; know that this calamity, by the Aſſyrians, is but an earneſt of further and forer Judgments: Forthe time is coming, when this land ſhall be laid deſolate; and in ſtead of Vines and other Fruits, it ſhall yield nothing bur Briers and-Thorns : of which, ſce on Iſa: 7: 23: 24. 1m Upon that Ground, where now your Houſes ſtand, in which you delight, and take your fill of mirth and pleaſure. |
14 Becauſe the palaces » shall be forſaken, the mul-
titude of the city shall be left s, the [| forts and towers || Or, |: fit ana wat\ Wt
towers, |\\ WIR
Shall be for dens for ever, a. joy of wild afle | | SP, A Pa- {ture of flocks. 4s RR .# Heb: the palace, the King's Houſe, and other magnificent Buil- dings in the Ciry. o Or rather ſhall be forſaken, to wit, of God, and given up into their Enemies hands. And the verb in the foregoing Clauſe, may be rendred, ſhall be left. p Deſolate places, ici which wud Affes delight to be, 7ob: 39. 5. Jer: 2. 24. | I5 Until che ſpirit be poured upon us from on high q, and * the wildernefs be a fruicful field, and the fruit-
ful field be counted for a forreſt 7. 9 And this Calamity and Deſolation ſhall, in a manner continue
until. the time come, in which God will pour, or, as the Hebrew Ml if
word properly ſignifies, reveal, 3. e. evidently and plenrifully pour out his Spirit from Heaven upon his people. which was done in ſome ſort upon the return of the People from Babylon, when God by nis Spirit ſtirred up the Spirit, both of Cyr» to give them liberty of returning to Feruſal:m, and of the people to return and build the City and Temple : But was far more clearly and fully accompliſhed in the days of the Meſſiah. And indeed the promiſes contained in theſe and the following words and verſes, were not fulfilled upon their coming out of Babylon, after which time they had bur # litle re- viving in their bondage, as is ſaid, Ezra 9; 8. and continued in ſervi< tude and diſtreſs under the Perſian Emperors, Nehem: 9: 36, 57. and afterward ſuffered many and grievous Calamiries, from the Kings of Syria and Egypr, and from the Remans : which ſuits very ill with that glorious promiſe here following, ver. 18+ And therefore theſe p10- muſes concern the times of the Goſpe),when Goa'sSpiritwas in a moſt evident and glorious manner prured forth upon the Apoſtles, and other believing Jews, to the Aſtoniſhment of their very Adverſarics; and when the following promiſes were in a good Meaſure fulfilled,
and are more fully to be accompliſhed in God's due time. r Which 1s allegorically underſtood, The meaning may be this ; Gods peo«- ple, who were deſolate and deſtroyed, thall be revived and Flou-« riſh, and their flouriſhing enemies ſhall be brought to deſolation and Deſtruſtion. It may alſo ſignify, the converſion of the barren and deſpiſed Gentiles, and the Reje&ion of the Jews, in the time of the Meſſiah,
16 Then judgment 5s hall dwell in the wilderneſs,
and righteouſneſs remain in the fruitful field 5.
5 Juſt Judgmeet, as the next Clauſe explains it. £ Juſtice ſhalt be executed in all the parts of the Land, both in the barren ang fruitful places, and ſhall be praQtiſed by all my people : whichagrees with that promiſe, 1/3 60: 21. Thy people ſhall be all righteous, &c.
17 And the work of righteouſneſs hall be peace s, and che effe& of righteouſneſs, quietneſs x and aſſurance
7 for ever.