ſpiritual Phyſicians ? Some underſtand it by way of Sacraſm, q. where are your Medicines, your Arms, your Counſels, your: Con- federacies? And where are your Phyſicians, your Princes and Prieſts that promiſed you Relief? Without God, you ſee, no help in ang means; but the former is more natura), and agrees beft with the be- ginning of the next Chapter. C H A P. IX. . t The Prophets Lamentation continueth over their Adultery, Dectit, Idolatry, which God would certainly puniſh, and they ſhould be laid waſte, when they ſhould ſufficiently lament, x, 22, No truft in Our ſelves, but in God, who will puniſh all Nations, 23,——26. , EP | H + * that my head were q waters, and tmine eyes t Heb.1 | LH a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and */ »i* ||| night for the r ſlain of the daughter of my people. #2": | q Heb. who will give, &c. by way of enquiry; becauſe the Hebrews * Tis 22-4 il do want the Imparative Mooa;the Prophet in thisChapter is principal- Ch = | | ly bewailing his poor Country-mens calamity, whom ke therefore Tr 197 ll calls rhe Daughter of his people, he expreſleth the greatneſs and exceſs —_—_— of his Sorrows, by wiſhing that his Brains were as it were diſſolved | $i! |
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tain; noting the continuance of ir, as not to be drawn dry, expreſ< ſed by Day and Night, apprehiending it a Miſery fo atant. as never ſufficiently to be bewailed. See Luke 19. 41. r Or that are to bs ſlain, viz. by the Babylontans, a prophetical ſtile, as ſure to be ſlain, as if they were ſlainalready.
2 Oh that I had in the wilderneſs a lodging place of / way-faring men: thatT mighr leave my people and _ .. .. _ go from them : for * they be all + adulterers, an aflem- * Chap, | bly of treacherous men. = Sl FRA F He proceeds in his Lamentation, which in the former Verſe he did by way of Compaſſion, in this in a way of Indignation; wiſhing for ſome retiring place or ſorry ſhade, or night cortage : See on1ſs, 24. 20» though it were but ſome mean and ſorry Hutt in the Wil- derneſs, as David, Pſal. 55. 6, 7. ſuch as might but ſhelter him from the Injuries of the Weather : LXX. in ſome remoteſt Station or Corner, where ke might not be an Eye-witneſs of their Miſeries to grieve him ſo ar the heart, Pſal. 119. 136, 158. See 2 Pet. 2. 7,8. and where he might hape to find better Entertainment from the favage Beaſts, than from his own Country-men. *# i. e. For the moſt parr, chap. 5. 8. both properly and Metaphorically, being full of all idg- latrous PraQtices ; or there is no Integrity. found among them, « That deal perfidioully with God and man in all theConcerns the are converſant about, J/s. 1.. 4. And ; fe the Word here for pd
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