baskets. | c Though Gleaning be a Term proper for all kind of Harveſt, yet the Word uſed here is appropriated to theVintage,and implies the through Riddance that the Chaldeans ſhall make, contrary to the Law for gathering the Vintage, though it may ſeem to allude to it, Lev. 19. 10, Judah ſhall be- gleaned over and over, till there be a full End,:none left ; as the 1ſraelites gleaned the Benjamiter, Judg. 20. 45. for thus they picked them np atſeveral.times both before, 2 Kings 24, 2. and alſoat the time of ZedekiasReign, 2 Kings 25. 6, 7, r1, 18, 19. and this ſeems to be intimated in the nzxt words. See Heb. 1. g. d As muchas to ſay, they ſhould nor be content with one ſpoiling, but they ſhould go back a ſecond and a third tims, again and again, to carry away both Perſonsand Spoil, leaving nothing behind chem worth carrying away, chad. 52. 28, 29, 30. the firſt carrying away being as the Vintage, the ſecond the Gleaning, carrying away firſt the principal, and afterwards the more infcriour forc. es As the Grape-gatierers do, filling one Basket after another, Whether theſe be the Words of the Babylonians, calling upon and ſtirring up one another to do it, as fome ; or th; Words of Gigd ta the Babylon
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nians, as moſt ; it comes much to the ſame thing : for what they did was by God's Commyſlion-
10 To whom ſhall I ſpeak and give f warning, that they may hear? Behold, their * ear is g uncircumct
ſed; and they & cannot hearken : behold, the word of
the LORD is unto them a 5 reproach ; they have no delight in 1t. SE a OE”
f Heb. Make Proteſtation; noting with what Earneſtaeſs the Pro- phet would beſpeak them in his warning of them : See Chap. 11. 7. The Prophet raking notice of their Obſtinacy, ſpeaks as one aſto- niſhedy and highly makes complaint, being greatly grieved, that he can find none that will take warning ; the like Chap. 7. 23» 24: he labours te perſwade, bur all is in vain; they turn a deaf Ear to him, as the next Expreſſion intimates. g A figurative kind of Speech frequent with the Prophets ; an uncircumciſed Ear ſignifying the reje&ing of InſtruQtion ; an uncircumciſed Heart, an obſtinate and rebellious Will : Hence Circumciſion was for a Teſtimony of Obe- dience ; and therefore the Prophet doth tacitly infinuate their Falſe- neſs to GOD, to whom they had promiſed to be obedient, 2 Kngs x1. 17. and 23. 3. And the Scripturecalls thoſe that are void of the fear of God, and carried out to all manner of Luſts, uncircumciſed, Exek. 44. 7, 9. for Uncircumciſion was abominable among the Jews: ſo thar it notes both their Sin and their Shame, their Ear being ſtop- ped, unfit for hearing, as if it were with a Foreskia or Film over it, A#s 7.51, þ The Propher doth not here leſſen their Crimes by their Inability and want of Power, bur rather aggravates it, inaf- much as they had brought themſelves under that Incapacity by therr Obſtinacy and Wilfulneſs: as a drunken Man that hath de- prived himſeit of his Reaſon by Exceſs, renders the Waot of his Underſtanding the more ine xcuſable. z Either they reproach it in the Meſſengers Mouth, Luke 11. 45. or rather they laugh at it, and ſcorn ir, they cannor bear Counſel, they look' upon reproving them to be reproaching them ; they rake no Delight in hearing ſuch things; A farther Reaſon of their Impotency and Obſtinacy, all their Admonitions and Inſtru&ions, ſeemed inſipjd, and therefore were they ſo ſtupid, according to the next Words, Prov. 15. 12. See Chap. 5. 31. 2 Tim. 4. 3»
11 Cherefore & I am full of the fury of the LORD;
1 am weary with # holding in ; 1 will » pour it upon
the children o abroad, and upon the p aſſembly of young men togecher : for even the husband with the
9g wifc ſhall be taken, the aged with him that is r full of days.
Z Heb. And: which ſeems to be a better Connexion ; for that which putteth him upon this Work,ſeems rather to be that Spirit of Prophecy that is in him, than any Conſideration drawn from them. I Tam, as it were, filled with the Fire of GOD'S Wrath, and Cur- ſes againſt this People, which I am forced to diſcharge my {elf of ; a Metonymy of the Subje#. See Exek. 3. 3. Chap. 4. 19. He doth not only complain of their Stupidity, as in the former Verſe, but irs up his Indignation againſt them. » But he can contain him- ſelf no longer, which implies his great Unwilliagneſs to denounce theſe Curſes, q. d. the Wrath of GOD, by the Impulſe of his Spi- rit, acting ſo violently with mine, that it will break out : 1ee the like, Job 32+ 18, 19 Whereby it appears, the Propher is not
carried on by !:is own private Spirit,but by the Spirit of GOD : he
hath no Delight in 1:. bur is forced to be the Meſſenger himſelf of his Wrath; therefore if he be ſharp againſt them,they muſt not im-
Pute it toh:m, but to the Spirir of God, that conſtrazas him thus to ſpeak. n Y:iz. In propheſyingy noring the great plenty of it; a
Mctapher from violent Rains, that we ſay do pour down upon the Ea:th, Chap. 7. 20. Rev. 16. 1. o The Streets being the places
- where uſually litt'e Children are wont to ſport themſelves, Zech. 8.
5. The ſame Word uſed, Pſal. 8. 2. p Their ſecrer Meetings, whether in Harlots Houſes, Chap. 5.7. or for Mirth and Joſliry, or ro joyn either their Strength or Counſel together, which Chil- dren are not capable of ; for the Hebrews do not only call them
"Youths, that are paſt their Childhood, poſſibly at Fifreen or Six- 'feen Years of Age, bur M:n of Twenty or Thirty, grown to their
full Strength and Maturity. in the flower of their Years ;
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et it ſhal'advantage them nothing. q Heb. Man with Woman ; the
ife ſhal be taken as. well as the Husband, one Sex as well as the other, ſhal-be a Prey to the Enemy. r Not only Men that may be termed old, as they may be from 5o to 80, which are
- then ſaid ro be waxing old, but ſuch as had vpon the Pont filled - up the Number of their Days, at the edge of their Grave, Iſaiah - G5, 20. Called very aged, as Barzillai, 2 Sam. 19+ 32, 34, 35. The Sence is, that. all ſorts, from the Children to the decrepid :