they muſt needs by this time become skilful to deſtroy. 5 Which makes thy caſe much more deiperate. Ir is a great diſadvantage * Pl when Pe: fons underſtand not one another ; they will neither un- 104: derſtand thy intreaties, nor thou their offers, being both unin- telligible, and inexorable, which will render thy condition much | p more ſad and perplexed ; ſpeech being that by which the :MeQion is readily communicated, and is the bond of humane Scciety ; Hence this was patt of the Judgment threarned, Drur. 28. 36 = 50. the Jews not well underſtanding the Syrian Tongue a. the Chald eans ſpake, having had no converſe with them before the Captivity. Ir was this puta ſtop to all converſe at the buildino f Babel, oo
116 Their & quiver zs an open 3 ſepulchre, they are all mighty & men. |
h CollcFively expreſſed for Quivers ; a Synccaeche for the whole Mie. litary preparations, and a Meronymy of the containing for the contained vix. the Arrows, that will be thot our of them, called the ſons of the Quiver, Lam. 3. 13. Bow and Arrow being the chief Weapons for Warin thoſe Countries, and in thoſe days. i; A Fd, rear ſpeech, P/al. 5. 9g. relating to the dreadful havock, and defiruQion that will be made devouring the living,asthe Grave doth the dead. or making work for the greedy devouring Grave, that never ſaith it hath enough, Prov. 5. 12. Or, they ſhall deſtroy many with one Quiver, as one Grave will ſwallow many dead, which may note _ _ and the A ſhall have,few of their Artows ſhall
ail of doing execution. k Thele Chaldears are all Ns Tong iCall-men of valour fit
17 And they (hall eat up thine * harveſt, and thy I , | bread, hich thy fons and thy daughters ſhould »s car "9p
they ihall eat upthy flocks, and thine herds, they ball M
eat up thy vines and thy » figtrees, they ſhall impoye. _ thy fenced cities wherein thou cruſteſt, with the # word.
I They ſhall make clean riddance, leavethee no fi i | bur bring an utter Famine upon thee, it is thus "2: 96 el an |. 30, 48, 51. m Or, they ſhall eat up thy Sons and thy Daughters, | but this 1s only a Metonymy of the effef 3 but properly this aggravates the dreadfulnefs of the Judgment; Parcnts, out of the tenderneſs of their affe&ion, chuſing rather to diethcmſelves, than to live to ſe their Children ſtarved before their eyes, and they no ways able = relieve them, Lam. 2. 10, n. » A part cular enumeration of the De ſolation, that would be made, all tending to the greatneſs of the for= mer. 04. e. Beſide the waſt that the Famine would make a Perſons; their Cities alſo ſhould be depopulared by the ſword of - , Enemy ; or rather,poſlibly the Siege ſhould be ſo ſtreight, and firi& _ as may be implied in the word impoveriſh,that they ſhould be forced - a. to eat one another, tillthey were quite waſted, they ſhould be re duced to ſuch poverty and exigencies ; or tlie ſword may relate to the mentioned miſchiefs,as the cauſe of them all, the ſwordMall do all this. Inall which he doth not ſo much tell them, that the Chal= deans thall conquer them, for that is taken as it were for granted,as what Cruelties they ſhall uſe when they have conquered. ps
18 Nevertheleſs in thoſe days, faith the LORD, x will not _—_ a full || end with you. n k | See this Yerſe explained, Chap. 4. 27. ſave on! h ink, here it is taken in the firſt ſenſe there mentioned ; Ke i M = ng only, or in that Verſe, I will not make a full end, or a full endo you, but a full end with you ; 9. 4. I have not done with you yet See Lev. 25. 1g. ad 40. 7 19 © Andit ſball come to paſs when ye ſhall ſay * p BH Wherefore doth the LORD our God all theſe things unto -Ch43.25 us 2? then ſbalt thou anſwer them, Like as ye have for- nh ſaken me, and ſerved q ſtrange gods in your land, ſo ſhall ye ſerve ſtrangers in a land, that is not r yours.
2 This ſpeaks, either their unparallelVd inſolency, in a manner challengingGod,as ifthey had nor deſerved ſuch dealing athis hands they might have expeRted better uſage from him; the Jews were good attheſe kinds of challenging of God, 17/a. 58. 3. Or groſs ſtupidiry,as being ſuch Sots asnot to be ſenſible of what they had done to a voke him ;-like to that Chap. 16. 10. q Heb. Gods of the ftranger ; he doth not ſay firange Gods, but Gods of the ſtranger, which aggravated their crime,that while they lived in their own Jand,and the traeGod among them, they would precariouſly go fetch in Gods from the Heathens. r Here the Prophet 1. oppoſeth #range Lords to rule over them, to thoſe ſtrange Gods, that they had ſerved,which God calls a forſaking of him, 2.He oppoſes a land net theirs, to their ownland; ſo that by this the Prophet ſhews what reſentments God had of their | ſin; for itimplys that their ſin was much greater,that they ſerved | ſtrange Gods in their own land,than if they had done it in another under the Tyrannical impoſition of a ſtranger, and therefore he would accordingly ſuit their qr——aggee> that they ſhould ſerve in a ſtrange land, which ſhould be worſe, than to be ſervants in their own. This is a dreadful but a juſt Retaliation.
20 Declare this inthe houſe of Jacob, and publiſh ic in /Judah, ſaying,
Jl See of this Chap. 4+ 5. By Judah and Jaceb we are to undere ſtand the two Tribes only, as Yer. 11. which ſee.
21 Hear now this, * O fooliſh people, and without l Or, + t underſtanding; which have eyes and ſee.not;which * If 6.9 { 11«/ewle have ears, and « hear not : | —tepE © wag 5 Heb. Heart, They have no heart to return, or to any thing rs " _
of InſtruQtion, or Reformation, bur are ſtupid and- ſottiſh *
leſs ofall Counſel, Wiſdom, and common ane. xe by ie Ads, & is ſaid to be the Symbol, and according to Galen, the ſeat of Wil- 26. ” dom : ſo the Poet placeth it, Cor ſapit, &+ pulmo lquitur, fel Row 7 commovuet iram, &C. u See Chap. 6. lo. They are wilful] blind heart ; and obſtinatly deaf, will neither ſee, nor hear the Word, Will os Works of God, of which he giveth two inſtances intwo following
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ſons of the Near, It may be he alludes herein to their Idols,to which they were ſo much addiQted.
22 Fear ye not x me ? faith the LORD; will ye not
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