- 3 He proceeds in increaſing of their terrour, q- d. there will be no appeaſing, or allaying of their fury by any artor method, therefore repreſented by the Cockatrice, called in Latine Regulus, or King of Serp:nts, as putting to flight atl other Serpents, but by oppoſition to Serpents, ſhewing what kind of Serpents they ſhall be, a ſort that cannot be charmed. wit. ſuch an Enemy as by no intreaty can be made exorable : See on 1/a. 11. 8; LXKX, deadly Serpents. z They
ſhall afflit you with ſore puniſhments, not only Stings in their Tails,as Scorpions, but in their Teeth, whereby they ſhal, devour you, ver. I6, LE , : 18 hen T would comfort my ſelf againſt a ſorrow : my heart is fainr f inme. . | | a The language of the people being long ſhut up in their Cities, and finding no Relief, at laſt faint, Lam. 4+ 17. But more probably the Propher now ſeems toſpeak his own Reſentments, how greatly the Calamity of his people did affe& him, the like 1. 22. 4. when he would ſometimes Refreſh himſelf with the comfortable Refreſh- ments of Nature, the thoughts of his peoples Miſery do ſo affli& him, that his Heart is ready to fainty to fivk within him. 19 Behold, the voice of the b cry of the c daughter + Heb. be. Of my people, + becauſe of them thac dwell in a far cauſe of 4d country : 1s not the LORD in e Zien? 57s not her the comm. King in her ? why have they provoked me to f anger _ DA with their graven images, and with g ſtrange vani- are afar tes 5 : ; of. b i. e. The greatneſs of their cry, the bitter Cries and Schreeches and complaints that methinks I bear : the words are abrupt, becauſe the-Propher is to repreſent ſeveral perſons ſpeaking ; himſelf, the people, and God. © See chap. 4. 11, poſſibly becauſe Jeremiah loved them, inſtruted them admoniſhed thein, as a Daughter. d Yiz., Their Enemies the Babylonians, that were to come againſt them from a very far Country, chap. 6- 22. or the voice of them that were Captives under thoſe of a far Country. now they begin to cry, which would not be perſwaded to it before ; the firſt is moſt to be approved of. - e Viz, In Jeruſalem, a Metonymy of the Subje&. f Or as King in - Zen, or have we not a King of the Seed of David; to whom the Kingdom was granted to be perperual ? Either the words of God, 9. d. was not T among you to provide for-you, and prote& you, but on muſt needs repair to Idols ? The like kind of Speechis in | Foues {+ 3. and the cloſe of the Verſe ſeems to favour this, or, as 04 - "thers, an expoſtulatory Lamentation of the people, that the cruel Adverſay ſhould prevail over a people, that had God ſo near them, Pſal. 48.- 2, 3. and 76 1, 2+ hath God how lefr us? and is the pro- miſe of his continuafice here at anend? P/al. 89. 36, 37, 38. g As if God ſhould ſeem to reply here ; Let them not think it ſtrange, ſeing they have turned their backs upon me, and truſted to Idols, which are but vanity, chap. 2+ 11, 13. called vanity, not only becauſe Idols are as nothing, but becauſe all the confidence that is pur in them is vain, and becauſe Idelators are vain in their Minds, and want underſtanding. I bave not forſaken them, bur they me. 20 The harveſt is b paſt, the ſummer is ended, and we are not i ſaved. | _ þ And tke Winter no time fot War, the peoples continued com- plaint, not unlike that v. 15. the yearis gone, and we are ſtill fruſt- rated in our expeCtations, the time that we expeCed help from &- £ypt, Iſa. 30. 2,3, 5+ i Viz. By the Egyptians, or any other Confcde- Cates.
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pentine, which is a kind of more liquid Roſ#r, and either flows, or
teracy and obſtinacy of their hearts, that either. would not come to
flowing down daily upon them ; can Jeruſalem and Judea be withour
one water, ſignifying plenty, and that his eyes might diſtil rears like a fountain ; the ſame word in the Heb. for Eye ſignifies a Founs
for z lyes : but they are not valiant for the « truth
out Arrows, ſo doth the Tongue words, Pſal. 645 3. reproachful, falſe, and noxious words, to the damage of one ano-
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22 Is there no * balm in » Gilead ? Is there no oPhyſi- * Gen-37. fk
cian there ? why then is not the healch of the daugh- 25: <bap* [1 it | * 46.7 I. & |
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ter of my people Þ p recovered.
; » Gilead was eminent for Balm, Gen. 43. 11. taken
| oP: ; r. 8. j for Rofin or Tur- } Heb. "al drops from certain Trees of its own accord, or thetf juice flows from a ſeveral holes peirced into them, as from the Pine, Cedar, Cypreſs, or Terebinth Tree, Heb. Teri. Gr. p1T!v1 from 4 to flow, or run. Lat,
Reſma, Engliſh, Roſin A near affinity of the words in each Language,
the nature whereof is to diſſolve hardneſs, to clear, and cloſe u
wounds. o Or Chirurgeon, probably in a Country where were,ſuc
plenty of Remedies, there could nor want Artiſts, whereby their
cures mighr be facilitated. by means of which the Gilcadites and 4
rabians did excel there. p Heb. zone up; the like ex preſſion 2 Chron,
24+ 13- the work was perfefted, Heb. the healing went upupon the
work, and ſo Neh, 4. 7- the Prophet expreſſeth his grievous com
plaint by way of admiration, by a Metaphor, implying the inve-
the Phyſician, or that they ſhould be thus incurable, where they wan= ted not for Prophets and Teachers,. or for any ſpiricual means;