NtIMitio hereby, that though Me of all degrees ſhould ſet themſelves rs. him, yer God would ſupport h:m againſt them all, . and that he would carry bim through his Work,though his Troubles and Tryals would nct be only great, but long, wiz. paſſing through ſeveral Kings Reigns, therefore poſſibly ſaid Kings here in the plural. | 19 And they thall fight b againſt thee, but they ſhall .
not prevail c againſt thee : for I az with thee 4d, faith the LORD, to deliver thee. nn 7
b Make united Attempts upon thee. See Judges 20. 113 c They ſhal not be able, by all their Devices, to thoiten thy days, chap: 15.
20, and 20.10, 1'» & Here is the reaſon given of his Safery, God will be his guard. See werſe 8. 2 Tim. 4. 17, 18.
CHAP. IL 3p ns God's numerous and continued Merci:s render the Jews in their Holatry inexcuſable, and unparallell'd in any Nation ; and themſelves the Cauſes of their Calamities, 1 19+ Their groſs Idelarry, 20——28, . In- corrigibleneſs, Blooa®ſheding, and Hypocriſie, 29 37. | Oreover, the word of the LORD came unto me, e ſaying, : | | * Now God begins by Feremy to deal with the Jews,and to put him upon his Work, having fitted him for it : This ſeeming to be his firſt Sermon, it notes ſpeed, and quick diſpatch abour his buſineſs, 2 Gof, and cry inthe ears g of Jeruſalem b, ſaying thus faith the LORD 3; I cemember & || thee, the kind-
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neſs of thy youth 2», the love of thine eſpoufals », when thy ſake. * f
thou wenteſt after me in the wilderneſs s, in a land that was not ſown.
f Yiz. From Anathoth to Jeruſalem. g Proclaim it ſo, that they may hear it. h< Declare God's Wiil to the Inhabitants thereof; a M-tonymy of the Subje&. # The Prophet's uſual form of Words in this Book, whereby he frequently intimates, that he came with God's Meſſage, not his own; and therefore direfts his Sermon here, as in God's Name and Perſon, to the whole Rody of the People. k I record, orl mind thee of the Kindreſs that was between us; though this be ſometimes taken in a way of favour, Neh. 13. 31. yer not always fo, as Neh. 13. 29. Pſal: 137: 79. m Either thoſe forward and early AffeCtions of thine to me 1a thy Youth; or rather, the Kindneſs that IT ſhewed thee in thy Youth, 1/a. 46. 3+ for this relates to the time of God's bringing them out of Egypr which is ſometimes called the Birth of this People, 7/s. 44. 2. Hol. 2. 3. and their Youth: Iſa. 54.6. Hoſ: 23 15- The Story ſeems to favour moſt this latter ſenſe. Dent: 9: 6, 24. n Vize WheplT entred intro a Covenant-relation with thee at the giving of the Law, Exod: 24: 7,8. Deuts 4: 20, 23, 34, Ezek: 1628, &c. 0 Either out of thar Love and Affe&ion that thou did(t ſhew to me in following my Condu&; or rather, when thou wertled by me in the Wilderneſs, and I rook ſuch care of thee, both for Prote&tion, and for Proviſion in that howling Wiiderneſs though rhou gidſt 11] deſerve it, where nothing neceſſary to thy Subliſtence could have been expeQted : and therefore ir is expreſſed in the next Words by a Periphraſis, a Land that was not ſown : and more enlarged upon verſe 6. for it plainly appears by the Story that they did not follow him with entire Affc&ion, bur went a whoring from him, Amos 5:25, 26. and which we have a large Account of Pſal: 106: 7, OF,
2 * Ifrael was holineſs p unto the LORD, and the, firſt fruits of his increaſe q: * all that devour » him
- &:-: >; ſhal offend /; evil ſhall come upon them #, faith the . Chap: LORD. +". 234 p Or, Hvly, the AbſtraQt for the Concrete, 7. e. a People dedicated to God : thus the Word 1s uſed Levit: 217 7: and 27: 14+ ſer apart f:om other People for my ſelf by peculiar Laws and Rites. 9 This Supplement and is better left out, it being not in the Text, and rendring the Senſe more obſcure ; therefore better read, either, be- ing the firſt Fruits. by Appoſition : Or, as the firſt Fruits, 7. e, as the firſt Fruits were holy to God, fo was 1/r-axl. r Or rather devoured; for ir refers to the time paſt, not to the future; and ſo the follow- ing Words, all that were injurious to him, /{ or did .offend, were obnoxious, and liable to Puniſhment, as he that devoured that which is holy, Prov: 20125. # Came upon them: ſome Evil was inflicted on them from the Lord, that was alway wont to ſtand up for the Vindication of his People,as upon the Egyptians, Amalekites, Sihon, Og, the Midianites, Canaanites, and others, as the fur laſt Books of Moſes do abundantly teſtifie : And by th:ſe Expreſſions is infinuared, that: now they are like to find it otherwiſe, Chap: 5o: 7. this minding of them whar God had done for them,making way for the cloſer ſerting home the following Reproofs. |
4 Hear ye the word of the LORD «, O houſe of Jacob x, and all the families y of che houſe of Iſrael. _ He beſpeaks their Attention ro what he is about to. ſpeak, as unto the Word of the Lord, telling them, that he delivers God's Meſſ:ge, and vents not his own Paſſions: . the like 7ſa: 1:10. and elſewhere frequently, both in the Old and New Teſtzment,: as; r Cor:11:23... 1 Theſſ: 4:15+ x 5.6. His Poſterity, Jacob and Iſrael here being rhe ſame 3 ASItT 1S Iſa: 43:1. y Yize Tribes, Chap: yu 1. » 5 © Thus faith the LORD, whac iniquity & have your farhers found in me that they are gone far from : 62D 2 inc.
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\d 5. 3. compare Micah 6. 2, 3, 4+ By it ap T ars the more juſtifiable ; he both makes their Con- vition the clearer, and the Reproof the ſharper. 4 Viz. Idols, ſhewing their Folly in going from God to ſuch vain taings a5 a2 are, Dent. 32. 21. 1 Sam: 12, 20, 2i. and fer on Iſa. 41. 29. the Ab- rat for the Concrete, Eccl. 1. 2- 6 Yis. in following Imaginati- ons; Fools, Rom. 1. 21, 22+ as ſenſeleſs 25 the Stocks and Stones that they made their Idols of, Pſal. 115- 8. and herein they are ſaid to go far from God, and chuſe their deluſions, Jon 2. 8.
*Ifa. 63. 6 Neither ſaid « they *, where is the LORD that 9,1 13. brought us up d out of the land of Egypt, that led us 3-4 through the wilderneſs, through a land of defarts e, and of pits f: through a land of drought g, and of the