Old-man, had ſo corrupted their ways, ſee Yerſe 13. that their
- Condition was deſperate, and GOD would bring an Enemy
upon them, ſhould ſpare or pity none, of what Scx or Age ſo- , char, though the Prophers had direQted them in the right way, and
"12 And their houſes ſhall be turned unto / others,
ith their fields and & wives together: for I will « ſtretch , Favours offered, Ifa.8. 11, 1213. Chap. 18. 11, 12.
out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, faith the
. LORD. | f i.e. Their Houſes and their Lands ſhal be devolved, or turned : - over to Strangers, Chap. 8. 10, even that Land which they thought |
had been entailed upon them, and they ſo firmly fixed in for ever, ' Pſal. 133+ 13, 14. t Their moſt defirable things, howbeir it need
not be reſtcained preciſely to Wives, the Heb ſignifying Women large« ly, Chap. 7. 18. compriſing Maidr, Wives, or Concubines, and this ac-
| cording to the Threatning, Deut. 28. 30. and Chop. 8. 10. u Viz.
to ſmire, to give you a forer Blow, Iſaiah 5. 25+ a Synecdoche of the kind, ſpoken after the manner of Men. Here the Prophet gives
them the Reafon of this their unexpeQed Calamiryy that they might ; 19,21. þ More of their Obſltinacy ſuitabic to their Carriage, Yeſe
not think it -an Impcſlibility ; namelys becauſe God was become their Enemy. ;
x3 For froth the « leaſt of them even unto the great- eft of taem, every one 3s given to y covetouſneſs *, and from che prophet even, unto the prieſt, every one dea]- eth z falſly.-
« x-Not reſpefting ſo much their Age, as Degree and Quality, |
; to ſtand by you, and be a Sanftuary to you, Deur. 33. 12, 29. See \ Matth. 11. 29. Yow will find things mend with you; it will be well ; with you, as it hath been with others; you will be ſatisfied and quiet; you will not doubt any longer which way to follow : See x Kings 18. 21. m It notes their great Wilfulneſs and Obſtinacy ;
0 Either the Voice of bis Prophets, which is compared to a Trums
- minent Danger: for Men do not uſe ro ſound the Trumper till
{to the ſound of the » erumpet. But they faid, We will
WAN as the reaſon of God's Severity againſt them, as Y:rſe 6. obſerving alſo, thatic was even among the greateſt, who ought to have given better Examples, no ſoundneſs from Head ro Foot; y In which poſſibly, all their Wickednels, as Cruelty, Oppreflion; Injuſtice, &c. may becomprized, it being-the Roor of aY-Evil; 1 Tim. 6. 10. and -may allo ſpeak the Juſtice of God, in the Chaldeans taking them and all their Subſtance away, that had by Violence and Fraud wreſt= ed it from others, Mic 2.2, 2 Heb. Doing Falſehiod, a$ if that were their whole Work, the proper and peculiar Sin pf the Prieſts and Prophets, to deceive the People, and to flatter them by falſe Viſi- ons, as in the next Yerſe; not that they were :net alſd guilty of the other Sins, 1/4. 56. 11. and the Princes and People of this, Mc. 3. 9. Chap. 5. 31. for they were all involved in the-Game Wickedneſs ;
but the Prophet mentions thoſe Sins that were moſt peculiar to each Party. See the ſame, Chap. 8. 10.
14 They have healed alfo the huict of :he daughter of my people 4 lightly, ſaying, 6 Peace, peace, when there is no peace. | |
# This refers peculiarly to the Prophets ; either {lighting or ma- king light of theſe Threatnings rending to the Reproach, 1. Either of rhe Prophets of God bringing their Meſſage into Contempt; or 2+ The People deceiving of them, and rendring their hopes vain, Chap. $. 1. Or, here the Propher ſhews wherein their Falſe-deal- ing conſiſts, viz, in dawbing over their Miſery and Danger that was coming on them, by perſwading them, thar ir ſhould nor come, or if it did, it would be eaſily cured, as ſome Phyſicians do with their Parienrs, that make light of a Wound, and ſo negle& the true Me- thod bf Cure ; bur either by Lenitives give ſome Eaſe for the pres ſept, by a ſuperficial skinning over a Sore while the Corruption is init; or StupefaQtives, making them Senſeleſs, nor feeling their Pain, Chap. 23. 14+ Ez-k. 13. 1o, 16, 22. and ſo the Prophet makes this the Cauſe of their Jaſt Deſtrution. b The Chaldeans ſhall not come, all things ſhal be proſperous with you, all kind of Proſperi- ty being included in the Word Peace : They promiſe you Peace,but you ſhal come ſhort of ity as in the nexc Words.
rs Were c they + Jaſhamed when they had commit- , 1x.,; ted e abomination? nay, they werenot at all aſhamed, jy uſe, of neither could they bluſh z therefore they ſhall f fall a- breach. mong them that fall 2 ar the time that I g viſic them, they ſhall be caſt down, faith the LORD. _ 6 Viz, Thefalſe Prophets. d Some read it Aivzly, as ſometimes it is taken, Did they put the People to Shame ? bur thar is not ſo proper here : 1t rather notes how bold and confident, or rather im pudenrs they were in their Flatreries, and deceiving the People; a great Aggravation of their Sin. The Form of the Interrogation chargeth them home with the Guilty as do alſo the next Words, neither could they bluſh, 9. 4. they had not the leaſt ſhew of ſhame, uſually diſcovered by Bluſhing. e Or, the thing to be abominated ( a Meconymy of the- Efe# ) both by encouraging the People, and joyning with them in their Idolatries. Sce Chap 3. 3- Therefore they ſhal-periſh with thoſe whom they have deceived, as in the fol- lowing Expreſſions. To fall ſignifies to be ſain, Pſal. 63. 10. Liks
2'. 24. £ Vize Puniſh them, inflift Puniſhment on rhem : See Verſe 6. |
16 Thus faith the LORD, ftand ye in the h ways and ſee, and ask for the 5 * old paths, where is the good , Maas: way,and walk & therein, and ye ſhall find [reſt for your 511, 54 ſouls. [But they faid, we m2 will not walk therein. 29.