e Angels ſay ſome, but rather the viſible heave ieS: a Da; therical Expreiſion in a Poetical Proſopepeia, as ny i ont NS intimating that it is ſuch a thing,that che very inanithate aka _ could they be ſenſible of it, would be aſtoniſhed. 4 The Heb ng ports as much as Ler your hair be lifted up, ſuch a fright as we ally fay, makes our Hair ſtand on end ; ſuch a Trembling, as ſome dre rd ful Tempeſt doth ſometimes cauſe in a Man. e Loſe your Brj he. neſs, Luſture, and Shining as the Sun, that heavenly Body ks 4 ro do whien Chriſt ſuffered, Marth. 27. 45+ or melting, the hei = neſs of ſuch a thing, as it were, dilolving them. wag
13 For my people have committed two evils f: t have forſaken me the * fountain of ==": ht f - = *Pfal. a6 hewed them out ciſterns þ, broken ciſterns. a Es hold no water. 4
f Viz. Remarkable ones, as with a witneſs. g A Mer
from Springs, called vixg here, as Gen. 26. 19. nd TT _ cauſe they never ceale, or intermit; ſuch had God's Care and Kindneſs been over, and tothem. See on ſa. 58. 11, his Spirit cone tinually proceeding frem the Father and the Son to refreſh their Conſciencies. Compare John 4. 10, and 7. 38, 39+ h Ir isdouble to ſhew the multitude of their Shifts, and brokex js added, to fhew the helpleſnels of them, as being able to hold no Water, he cannot keep it, but it dries away ; or, it it abide, proves unwholſome : b
which underſtand cither their 1dols, which are empty vain thin 4 that never anſwer ExpeRation, or the 4ſhrians and Egyptians, ay __ 18. which proved but broken Reeds, and as all other Supports or Props, Friends, Traditions, Merits, &c. are, that are truſted to beſides God; they are but Ciſterns at the beſt whoſe Warer will patrifie, or broken, riven Veſlels, through which they will ſoak and leave nothing but Mud and Dirt behind them. x
14 © 1 Ifrael a ſervant? 3s he a home-born ſlave 5? © why is he + ſpoiled k? + Heb. # Did Iever account him ſo, or did I not rat
him m firſt-born ? ſo ſome, as verſe 31. But pr efaape rechen Bil, 2 ro hisſad Condition, and Abuſes from others, as Chap. 49. 1 —_— : God or the Prophet doth here enquire info; and Slave is ws rightly added to home-born, ( though nor in the Texr ) to expreſ; ” baſeneſs of his Service, becauſe the Maſter had Power to _ - le Slaves who were born cf Slaves in his houſe : which argues his C mg dition very low, whether he were thus born, or had been forc Js ſell himſelf to be a Slave. k He ſpeaks, either of the thin tha jo
to be, as if it were already done, becauſe of the Certainty fie ”
of that Devaſtation made by the 4ſjrians and Chaldeans who 2M;& 4
the Remnant of the Jews, or of that Havock that was made of h » formerly by Sennacherib, the Aſhrians, and Egyptians; Why is "hy h__ Tyranized over Iſa. 42.24. asif Strangers had the ſame Ri hr — him as Owners over their Slaves ? | He removes here the fIGC _—
_ Iſrael's =p __ he may my more aggravare and ſet bots the rue, as verſe 17, 19. He was my Son : if 1 __——— y ;3.1f he now become a Slave, he
15 The young lions 7 roared upon him, and + yelled + Heb m, and they made his land waſte : his cities are burnt geve ” grr ore wor yer Nl heir wiiet,
Underſtand the 4fjrians, Babylonians, and Erypri FN |
| Lions from their Fierceneſs, and young "—_ their ones bag on wm Chaps 4+ 7. and 50.17. m Noting the terrible Voice thar the Li « puts forth cither in the ſeizing the Prey, ſome ſay in ſpore. "agg 7. or the devouring it, 1ſs. 5. 29. A Metaphor, noting the Crueley of the _— - - e- So conſumed and waſted. thar they are uninhabita EO
—_ itable, or ſhortly fhal ſo conſume and waſte them, Sce
16 Alfo the children of Noph and Tahapanes s | have broken the crown p of thy head. 0 Two of the King of Ezyp:r's principal Seats. ſometimes called Memphis, now Cairo, - Us. Tahapanesy, tee Ezek. 30, rom Tahpenes Queen of Egypr, 1 Kings 11. 19. cal i” 02 nes : Sce on Iſa. 30. 4. And the Inhabitants nd Nations —_— Ila. 8. 8 Cities are called here their Children, Iſs, 37. 12+ þp They th : take the Heb, Word in the notion of Breaking, rfhend his - deſtroying whatever is Chief or Principal among them, either of Perſons or Things 3 Wounds in the Head being moſt dangerous Or, defiling the chief of the Land, either by their corporal Adulre= ries, and fo take the Word under the notion of Knowing, as Gen 19. 5. or ſpiritual, ramely Idolatries, Chap. 44. 17. or ale Ciuet Tyranical Oppreſſions, trampling upoa all their Glory, exprefſed
z 9.4. No,they are unmoveable and fixed to their Idols, they are falſe gods: what they receive from their Fathers
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£zyptiars in exp=EAarion of help from rhem | Bet) 17 Haſt thou not procured chis unto thy ſelf q, in that thou haſt forſaken r the LORD thy God, when he | led thee by the way /?
q Here Gol by his prophet ſhews, that they may thank them- ſelves for all that is haſtening upon them. See Numbers 32+ 23: r Here he ſh-ws wherein, vis. in forſaking God ; not that he left them, but tl ey him, and that without any Temptation or Provyo- cation ; and therefore were the more inexcuſable. j Viz. By the ConJu& of his Providence in the Wilderneſs, keeping thee in fſafe- ty frem all dangers, Exod. 13. 2, 22. Iſa. 63. 12, 13- or in the way of his Counſels, which the ways of their own carnal Wiſdom were ſo oppoliteunto.