Chap. 9.9. ; i, e. Puniſh, Pſal. 89. 32. Should I connive at ſuch things, the wicked would fay, I did not fee them,or rake notice of them P/ 50, 21. much to the ſame purpoſe with Yerſe 7. beginn, and Puniſh. 6 E 3 9721s
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dures, that he firſt ſees and contiders the caſe, before he inflicts Pu- niſhment ; as in the caſe of $140m, Gen. 18. 27. ſpoke after the man- nerof Man. & For I, it ſpeaks the Greatneſs of God's Diſpiealure, Shall not my very Soul be in this work of Vengeance ? Pſal. 11. 5.
xo \ Go ye | upon her walis, and m deſtroy ; bur make not a full » end : takeaway hers battlements; for
they are not the p LORDS.
I Ye Babylonians, go now execute my Vengeance on them. I give them into your hanis; behold, I give you a Commiſſion. 2 1 permit and order you not only ro rake the City, bur make havock of her Inhabitants, 1/z. 10 6. » Though God give them a large Commiſion to deſtroy, yet he purs in a Limitation, that he will reſerve a Remnant from Deftru&ion ; he ſers bounds to the moſt raging Adverfary, beyond which he muſt not paſs See on Chap. 4. 27. 0 Lay her and all her Portifications level with the ground , take away her Counterſcarp, or high Towers, or wharſoever may tend to the Defence ofa Cary ; to let Feruſalem know, that ſhe did but in vain truſt to her high Walls and ſtrong Towers ; and Barrle- ments may as well be taken for the foundarion of her Walls, which ſpread wider than the Wall it ſelf: The Word the Prophet uſeth, ſignifies that ſpread: and thus 1t agrees with the Scope, that is de- ſcribing the utter Overthrow and eradicating of it : ſo LXX, take away her Supports. p T underrake their Defence no longer; Idifown them ; take my ProteC&ion from them, and give themup into your hands, O ye Chaldeans, though they make their boaſt that they are ſheltered under my Wing and ProteQion, becauſe there was the Temple and Altar ; but they will find themſelves deceived ; for I diſown them.
Ch3.20, 11 For * the Houſe of Iſrael and the houſe of q Ju- dah have dealt very rtreacherouſly againſt me, faith the
LORD. ws Whether 1[rael be put here for the Ten Tribes, and Judah for 'T
two, as often they are Chap. 2. 4 and ſundry other places ; or ther, whether Juda# here be only explicative,and the Word meant of the two Tribes only, read thus, the Houſe of Iſrael, even the Houſe of Judah, is not much material. r Have apoſtatized and dealt per- 'idiouſly beyond meaſure, not only as to the Grofineſs, bur as to the Univerſality of it. ; | 12 They have / belyedthe LORD, and ſaid, * 7: 5s *IC28.15. 4 , # Ge 3 © not he, neither ſhall evil come upon us ; neither ſhall
we ſee : {word nor famine.
JS This may fignifie either a denying, viz. a renouncing making ' lirtle or norhing of him, as ſome ; or a denying, #. e. not beliving, | that theſe Words of the Prophet were God's Words, or God did not ſay ſo ; he gavenor the Prophet, nor any other, any ſuch Com- miſſion, and poſſibly their Atheiſm might grow to 10 high adegree as to deny his Proviience, Power, and Juſtice, Oc. 10 it agrees with the following Words, it is nar he, or God did not ſpeak as he meant : but he would only fright us, it ſhall nor be thus. & This Siege or Famine, or any other ſuch dreadtul Judgments,as Jeremiah ſpeaks of, ſhall not befall us. Seeing 1s uſed here tor Feeling, as it is
in Job 7. 7. ; 123 And the prophets fhall become « wind, and the word 3s not in x them,. thus ſhall it be done y unto
. them. « A proverbial Speech, very frequent, not in common Language only, but Scripru:e alſo Jeb. 6. 26. Eccleſ. 5. 16+ and elſe-wherse; z, e. all the Propher's Threats thall come to nothing : and thus they icot- fed at them, Tuſh, what do they ſignific ? they are but bruta ful- mina : ſee 2 Chr. 36. 15, 16. x This poſſibly, they give as the Reaſon that they apprehend rhe Propher'sWords to be burasWind, bec2ule they are not from God,they ſpeak bur Dreams of their own fanſying. » IF thall fall upon their own heads that have thus threat- ned us,not upon us; or, we will killthem with the Sword,for thus | wvainly threatning us; we will uſe them like Falſe Prophets,as they are; and weſhall ſee inthe Sequel of this Prophecy how they uſed Jeremiah ; or it may be an Imprecation, q. d. may it fall upon their own Heads : thus the Heb. So be it untothem. | 14 Wherefore z thus ſaith the Lord G OD of a * Ch. 1.9. hoſts, Becauſeye ſpeak this 6 word, * behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire,and this people wood, and it ſha] devour c them.
z Theſe vile Wretches-having now done ſpeaking, God begins to ſpeak ; and becauſe they had thus flighted the Prophet, and God ſpeaking by him, ( as in'the next Words, Becauſe ye ſpeak this Word ) here tells them what he will do ; or rather, turns himſelf abrupt- ly to the Prophet, as Menuſually doin a paſſion. s He makes his Majeity and Power known, to cloath his Words with the greater Terror. b Y;z. At the rate rhey diſcourſed in the former Verſe. c 7. e. Tt ſhall rake place ſuddenly, and irreſiſtibly, and fiercely, as fire is wont to take in dry Wood to their utter Ruin and Over- throw, Pſal.83. 14, 5. Iſa. 9. 18, 19. They ſhall be but Fuel to my Wrath which ſhali be executed by the Chaldzmm Army, that ſhall conſume, and eat them up like fire;they ſhall find my Words to be more than Wind. .
OT. Lo, I will bring a * nation upon you from dfar,
ch. 3. 15, © houſe ofe lfrael, faith the LORD : it 5s a mighty f
and 6. 22, Bation, it is anancient nation, a nation whoſe language
| ox knowelſt not, neicher underſtandeſt what they g ay. |
d Viz, From Chaliza, e By theſe are meant Judah ; for Iſrael
properly ſo called, viz. the Ten Tribes, were in Captivity before :
fee on Chap. 4. 1. called the Houſe of 7Jrael; not only becauſe they
deſcended fromJarcob, but becauſe they were the chief of that Stock.
4 fF It is both potent, or, as the Word 15, rough and harſh, and of great
Antiquity, everſince the Jaying the firſt Foundation of Babylen by
Nimrod, about 170 Years after the Flood ; and hence it is called the
Land of Nimred,Mic. 5. 6. And this doth much add ro theirCrue!ty,
that they have had Dominion and Rule in their hands ſo long,and
whereby they have not only grown more proud and haughty, but
having been brought up fo long in ways of Blcod and S'iaughrer,
m:1t may be termed 7i7ring, 25 implying the Equity of Gad's Proce- |
1 £B:.- : Chap. V, ; Char