# The effect of this prevailing praftice of Righteouſneſs ſhall be Proſperity and outward Feliciry. x Tranquillity, both of Mind and outward Eſtate. y Or, confidence, The obſervation of God's Precepts will beget in them a confidence and affuratice of God's Mercy, and the fulfilling of his promifes. |
18 And my people z shall dwell in a peaceable habi-
tation,and in ſure dwellings,and in quiet reſting places: z Either the Gentiles, who then ſhall be my people : Or, the Jews to whom this promiſe ſhall be made good upon their Converſion to Chriſt in the latter times of the Goſpel. : I9 Whenit shall hail, comingdown on the forreſt a, || Or, as j| and the city bshail be low in a low place c, rhe city fo a Heb: And it ſhall hail, &. As my Bleſſings ſhall be poured a down upon my people, who, from a Wilderneſs, are turned into a aboſed. fruitful Field, as it is ſaid, wer. 15. So my wrath and Judgments ( which are ſignified by hail, Iſa: 58. 2, 17. and elſewhere ) ſhalf fall upon them, who were a fruitful Field, but are turned into a Forreſt, as was ſaid, ver. 15. z- e, upon the unblieving andrebelli- ous Jews, who ſeem there to be deſigned under that Notion. b Eij= ther, 1. Babylon, the great Enemy and Oppreſlor of God's Peoples Or, 2. Jeruſalem, which, though now it was theſeat of God's Wor ſhip and People ; yet he foreſaw, by the Spirit of Prophecy, thar it would be the great Enemy ofthe Meſriah, and of God's people. « Heb. ſba4 be humbled with humiliation : Which, by an ordinary He= braiſm ſignifies, ſbaZ be greatly humbled, or brought very low,
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d As the barren Forreſt ſhall be deſtroyed with hail, wer. r9. ſo: the fruitful Field ſhall be improved, and bring forth much Fruit ; which is ſignified by a Declaration of the blefſedneſs of them thar' ſowinit. e Inallmoiſt and fat Grounds, which are like to yield - good Fruit. But this Paſſage; as well as others in the foregoing verſes, is to be underſtood myſtically, and ſeems to reſpett the times of the. Goſpel. The Propher refle&ing upon his own un« ſucceſsful Labours, of which he complains, 1/s- 49- 4. andelſewhere; and foreſeeing by the Spirit the great and happy ſucceſs of his Suc« cefſors, the Miniſters of the Goſpel ; tacitly bewails his own un- happineſs, who ſowed his Seed upon dry and barren Ground, by congratulating the happineſs of the Apoſtles, who ſowed their Seed more generally upon all fit Grounds, without any diſtinction be-. tween Jews and Gentiles; and who found the Ground, to wir, the hearts ofthe people, more moiſtned and ſottned;/ and berter prepared to receive the Good Seed of God's Word. f Which Creatures they. employed in plowing and ſowing the Ground, Dev#. 22. 10 Pſa!
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The deftru#ion of the enemies of the Church : who are derided, 1———13 which terrifi:th the ſinners in Zion, 14 the ſafety and privileages of the Godly, 23 ——- *4-
O to thee that * ſpoileſt «, and thou ſf# not ſpoiled b, and dealeſt treacherouſly c, and they
dealt not treacherouſly with thee 4; when thou shalr ceaſe to ſpoil, thou shalt be ſpoiled e ; and waen thou
Shale make an end to deal treacherouſly, they $hall deal
treacherouſly with thee. :
a To Semnacherib, who waſted the Land of Judeh. 6 Thou didſt not meet with any con{iderable oppoſition, dut waſt victorious 0- ver all thine Enemies ; of which the 4ſjriatt boaſteth, 1/a: 10: 8, g. & 36. 18, 19. c As Semnacherib did with Hezekiah, 2 Kings 18. 14, $7 & None of thine Enemies could prevail againſt thee, either by force, of which heſpeaketh in the former clauſe, or by treachery, as here. Or, when they deait nos, &c, when Hezekiah did not deal treacherouſly with thee If it be ſaid, that Hezekiah dealr treache- rouſly with him, in breaking his Faith, and rebelling againſt him; it may be anſwered, That Hezekiah neither promiſed nor owed him any Service or Subjeftion. What was done in that kind,” was done
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work, and payed him well for it, 2 Kings 16. 7, 8. and the King
” of 4ſjria did not keep his conditions with him; for, he diſtreſſed him,
but ftrengthned him nor, 2 Chron: 28. 20. .e When thou haſt perfor-
med the work of chaſtiſing my people, for which I ſent thee, thou alſo ſhalt be ſpoiled by thine Enemies. ,
2 O LORD, be giacious unto us d, we have waited
for thee, be thou their * arm e every moraing f, our
ſalvation alſo in the time of crouble.
d The Prophet contemplating the judgement which was now coming upon God's People, direfeth his prayer to God for them. e OurArm or ſtrength. The change of perſons is moſt frequent in prophetical writings. f When we offer the morning Sacrifice, and call upon thee : Which yet is not meant excluſively, as if he
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Morning being put ſynecdochically fer the whole day. The ſenſe is, help us ſpeedily and continually.
At the noiſe of the tumult g the people b fled; at
the lifting up of thy ſelf the nations ; were ſcattered. g Which the Angel ſhall make in deſtroying the Army. þ Thoſe of the Army, who eſcaped that ſtroke. # The people cf divers Nations, which made up his Army. | 4 And your ſpoil & shall be gathered /like the gathe- ring of the caterpillar »: : as the running to and fro of
locuſts » shall he run upon them.
vers people. 1 By the Jews at Jeruſalem, when: you ſhal! be forced to flec away with all poſſible ipecd, leaving yoar ipoils b-hind you, mM Either 1+ paſſively, with as mucheaſe, and in as great numbers as Caterpilla:s are gathered and deſtr ' as appears from the next Clauſe ; as C the word ſignifies either ) gather and devour all the Fruits 0 Earth ; which was a common Plague in thoſe Countries.
«from God, come with great force, and run hither and thither, devouring all the Fruits of theEarth, whereſoever they find them.
5 The LORD is exaltzdo ; for he dwelleth on high 2, he hach filled Zion 9 wich judgment and righteout-