h Some expound it, neither ſhall this puniſhment ſ:Kce, nor my tury ſtop here, IT will not thus have done with them : and fo look to what they were further to endure i: their long coptivity, See Lev. 26. 36, 39. But it ſeems rather to be a word of Comfort, that they ſhall nor be utterly extin&, he will preſerve a Remnant, Chap. 5. 10. 1j4. 1.9. and 24. 13. 9. d. ThoughlT am greatly mo- ved with anger, .,yet I will not be inexorable, I will remember my Covenant, Chap. 30. 11. in the midſt of Judgement he will remem- ber Mercy, after 7< years Captivity he brought them back again.
28 For this ſhall the earth mourn, and * the Hea- vens above be black ;: becauſe TI k have ſpoken zr, I have purpoſed z:, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from ir.
# Expreſſions to ſet forth the dreadfulneſs of the judgement, he makes the Elements to perſonate Mourners, a fad face of things above and below, a Metaphor, and therein to ſhame the ſtupidiry of his People. k q.4, You would not believe, either thar my Prophet ſpake, or what they ſaid, now I te!l you I ſpezk my {elf, and what I have reſolved upon, I will nct revoke. See Ezek. 24. 13, '4. and Chap. 15. 6 for I have purpoſtd it, I have not ſpoken in my heat or fury, butupon mature deliberation, an Anthro= popathy, or what the Prophets have denounced I will ratihe.
29 The whole city ſhall flee, for the noiſe / of the horſemen and bowmen, they ihall go into thickets ms, and climb up upon the rocks: every City » ſhall be for- ſaken, and not a man o dwell therein.
{ TheInhabitants of all Ranks and Qualities ſhall ſeek to eſcape the fury of this Chaidean Army, Chap. 39 4. wm Either upon the Report of their coming, hereby as it were deriding their confidence, or rather at the approach of their vaſt Armies, for they were clo beſieged before they fled, as appears 2 Kings 25.4 » Such a con« ſternation there ſhall be upon them, that they ſhall run in every hole to hide themſelves; thus Manaſſeh was taken among the thorns, 2 Ciron, 33.11, the Heb, 1s abim the clouds, poſhbly alluding to dark places on the tops of hills, reaching as it were to the clouds, or among the cloudy ſhades of Trees and Groves that uſually grew there, the L.XX render it Caves, and ſo the Rocks fer Shelter, or the Clefrs, Caves, and hiding Places in the Rocks. See 1ſaiah 2. 2r. 0 There ſhall be an urterdetolation, their Cities quite forſaken, not any to inhabit them, verſe 25, 26.
3o And when thou art ſpoiled p, what wilt thou 9: Though thou clotheit thy ſelf with crimſon r, though thou deckeſt thee with ornaments { of gold, though thou renteſt + z: thy face « with painting, in vain x (halt thou make thy ſelf fair, by lovers wiil de-
ſpiſe y thee, they will ſeek thy life.
face or appearance of it. y The Land was ſo ſqualled, and ſo rui- |
p Which will certainly come upon thee, or when this deſtru&i-. on ſhall come upon thee, which is very near thee. 9 Towit, When thou, O Daughter of Zion, as verſe 31, art beſieged by the Babyloniazs, what courſe wilt thou take? Ir is not to be avoided : A kind ofan inſulting way of ſpeech, as it were upbraiding them with their pride and confidence, q. d. your condition is defperate. r Or Scarlet, 2 Sam. 1. 24. See on I1/a.ah 1. 18. { Thouth thou doeſt ſuperinduce thoſe Ornaments, or Jewels of Go'd, that may render thy Attire the moſt rich and ſptendid, 2 Sam. 1.24. & Itis obſerved, that they that paint much make their Skins withered. uw Heb. Eyes, the Wantonnels thereof being poſſibly ſer out more by Painting. See Jjaiah 3, 16. or rather, Face and Eyes being ſome- times put one for the other. See 1 Szmuel 16. 12. and Iſaiah 25« 8. Compare with Revelar. 21. 4. x All thy tricking up thy ſelf, thinking thereby to ingratiare thy ſelf with the Chaldeans, will be to no purpoſe; for they. will work thy Ruin, as in the cloſe of the verſe, and Chapter 19 7, y They will ſlight thee more than ever they that have doted on thee, thy unchaſte Paramours, their Luſt being ſatisfied. ſhall abhor thee; See 2 Samuel 13. 15 and the Pronoun, being not in the Origina!, it may fignihe that no Loe vers at all will look after thee ; thou ſh:1t be caſt off by all. See thus of Tyr-, Iſaiah 23. 15,16. Thole that were in Confederacy with thee, and thy profeſſed Friends, Hoſea 2. 5. ſhall not only foreſake- thee, bur joyn with thinz Enemies to deſtroy thee, Lament, 1. 2. And thus is Babylon to be deait withal, Revelat 17. '6, '7. TheSenſeis, That notwithſtanding all thy Alluri::gs and Enticements, either to obtain the help of thy Friends and Alies, the Egyptians, whom thou takeſt to be thy Lovers, and didſt fore- ſake me to cleave to them, or to ſtop the fury of thine Enemies, the Chaldeans; ( poſſibly alluding to ſezabe!'s praftice in painting her ſelf to ſtop the fury of Jehu, 2 Kings g. 30.) yet lhall it advan- tage thee notlvng ; Thou ſhalt be no more regarded than a forſaken Strumpet, Ezek. 16. 36, 37. and 23s tor.
31 Forl have heard a voice as of a woman in z tra- vail, and the anguiſh as of her that bringeth forth her firſt @ child, the voice of the daughter of þ Zion: that bewaileth her ſelf, :hat ſpreadeth her hands c, /aying, Wo 7s me d now, for my ſoul is wearied becauſe of e murderers.
z When the Scripture would expreſs any exquiſite Sorrow, ex
| ceeding all other pains, it doth it by a Woman in travail, 1a. 13.
| 8, 9. Chap. 6. 24. and 30.6, 7.
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a Which of all ſeems ro te rhe moſt painfu], both from natural Cauſes, and becauſe they have leſs Patience to bear, having not had former Experience of the like. b Viz. Jeruſalem, Iſa. 1. 8. c Inher great Diſtreſs, ſhe either reach- eth them out to God for ſome help, 1/a. r. 15. or rather, accor- ding to the Ule of Perſons in great Anguiſh, clapping or wringing their hands together, as both the former Expreſſions of b-wailing her ſelf, ferching of deep Sighs and Lamentations, and the follow- ing Wo is me, intimates. See Chap. 2, 37. d Or the time of my Woe isat band ; it draws near. e There is no more Spirit lefe with- in me, I am ready to ſink under my Diſtreſs, conſidering not only that my deſtruQtion is ſo near, bur that thoſe of whom I have been ſo fond, and whoſe Iaols IT have fo zealouſly ſerved, ſhould become my Murderers, verſe 3o. and that I ſhould fall into the hands of ſuch, as will have no Compaſſion. 2 Chror. 36, 17. : CHAP.
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