a —_ | 7s 1. | doth not ſeem ro be ſpoken in favour tothem ; therefore rather ſome | "2 8 Their tongue zs 4s.an RY row ſhot out ; wt ſpeak- poiſonous Planr, which may agree to any other deſtructive Herb, * Pal. 12- eth p * deceit : one ſpeaketh peaceably to his neigh- as well as Wormwo:d, and this the Heb, word doth intimate, to '2. and bour with his mouth, but | in q heart he layeth || his which purpoſe the water of Gall is mentioned in the next Words, 125 » | h _ joyn2d together, Det, 29. 18. poſſibly the _—— at % $5 RA EEE ir Drink, the other at their Bread, both Metapherically to be uns "3y£ "No Vi »1t WasS COM ared fo a Bow, l1- ©. ready prepared TRE P . , 5 . _ —_ A Bars conttiving their Wickednels, Pal. 17. derſtood, of which ſee on Chap. 8. 14. (; # Heb. in (200 OT an Arrow ſhot out, aftually executing what they have 16 I will ; ſcatter them allo among the heathen, * Toy? L = oned: Some tranſlate it, a murthering drrow. p Never ſpeaking | whom neither they nor their fathers have & known: 5; 336 4c _ "whar they mean, that thereby they may the eafier deceive the Cre-| and ] willſend a ſword after / them, till I have conſu- Devur. ET 29 enlous; zdouble Tongue, ſpeaking fair when they mean to de- |, pu ; 2b. 64 _ troy, Pal. oh ST, as the 9749 Agr Ps "Tix A Enos ; Either you ſhall wander up and down among Strangers, like The greaceſt Miſchief when they ſpeak Tatrett. | 7 ; Cain's Curſe; or rather, you ſhall have no Friend abroad, but be
him, i. c. Tn his very inwards, with bis whole Heart he conrrives ſold as ſo many Slaves from perſon to perſon. k Part of the Curſe
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chief.” *- - = 4, ' threatned, Deut. 28. 64. Z Neither ſhall this ſerve their turn, buc hs * Ehall T not viſit them for theſe Ong, faith . the | will tow chew wa the boot, till they be | robab. | | Eu | Þ | Fe ed on luch a i= | 1y meant of thoſe that might eſcape our of Jeruſalem, and fly into | = LORD ; hall rote d oul be aveng "_ Egypt, the Chaldeans ſhould purſue them thither, and either take or | Eat: .'-.- Gras this : = 7 lay them there, i» e. ſuch of them as were appointed for DeſtruQi« | .»*,* See Chap. 5« 9, 29: on ; forotherwiſe, they were'not all conſumed, a full End was not |
on *11 | - de, as 1s promiſed chap» 5. 10. |
For the mountains will I take up a weeping, and | *o Þe made, as is p pe 5 | |
* Chap. Eedog. and ® for the || habitations / of the w "Ider-| 27 Thus faith the LORD of hoſts ; »z conſider ye, | 12.4-2nd 12mentation, becauſe they are || burnt up, ſo that and cal] for the mourning » women, that -they may
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MOT, + The Prophet having, ver. 1. taken up a Eamentation for the fe.
- | wd a IT | and therefore he puts them upon mourning and bewailing their | "+ Heb, - Slaughter-of the people, 'he now reaſſumes it for the Deſolation of | Con jtion, intimated by the following Expreflion. = A ſort of \
” the 'whole Land, every part of it being to be laid waſte : See Chap. | Perſons, and principally Women, as more apt for paſſions in this ow + , 26, Anditetther ſers forth the greatneſs of _ an "1 that kind, whichthey had among them, 2 Chrex. 35. 25. whoſe work 1 reach to the very mountains,” asthe-words may be read, or ra= | jt was, either to compoſe Funeral Elegics, or Panegyricks inpraiſe
1 __ ther, the Cauſe of his Mourning, becauſe he preſently adds, for | ,Fthe Dead, and to at them in ſome maurnful manner, as tearing the Hebiracrons of the Wilderneſs. ſ Plain, or Yalley, as it often ſignifies; | their Hair, and beating their Breaſts, with other mcurning poſtures, ſo'the Word 15s uſed Ja. 63. 13, 14. or pleaſant Plains, The Coun- or to ſing them in ſome doleful Tone, thereby artificially to: pro*+ * rey of -Jadahb beingMountainous,theſe Plains and Valleys were their | yoke and excite both Paſſions and Expreflions ot Grief in the Friends chief places for Paſtorage, which doth greatly qpgravate the Deva- | cf the Deceaſed, rather- wringing out' Tears than ſhedding them, fNarion.; theſe ſhall be'durnt up, the Herbage ſo burat, that it ſhall in which probably they made greater ſeeming Eamentations, than be left utterly barren, like a parched Heath, v. 12. The Mountains | thoſe that did really mourn, as being moſt concerned, -not thac ſhall not be able ro ſecure them, nor the Yalleyi to feed them. ? Ei- | Gedcalls upon them todo this asapproving the Formality, ( though ther x Hror being no Path ; the XX. render it, 0 the Paths of the | this fooliſh Cuſtom had obtained in-moſt Agesand:Countries) any IWildejnaſs,. or none to paſs to and fro, and ſo leave it deſolate ; or ſo more, than other Cuſtoms that were made ule.of by way-of Illuſtra« ' parched;-and waſte, that none Can paſs through ir, ſo far are they | ton ; as the Olympick Gamez, and poſſibly that PraQtice mentioned; from being inhabited, chap. 2+ 6: u There, where once all ſort of | , Cor. nx. 29. but makes uſe of it, as being cuſtomary, either to Cartel and: Fowls in' great plenty were wone to feed and gaze, there ? excite th:m to,and put them upon true Repentance,or to Gs
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X. ; E kt E them herebv, that they were net able themſelves ſufficienty to be- wail ſo great Calamities 3s were coming upon them, intimating hereby, that he would give them occaſion for the moſt unfeigned weeping and Lamentatione 9 Such as are moſt skilful inir, 4770s 5- 16. W:{dom being taken ter Skill in any Arts» as Exod. 31. 3. and elſewhere. | ;
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