q4 The Hebrew word here uſed being found in no place of Holy Writ bur this, hath given Interpreters a liberty to tranſlate it vari- ouſly, /repy,weak, a(toniſbed, fighted, I:ke a Man in ſuch diſorder through ſome great paſſions, that he is able to do nothing- » Like 2 Man who in his own Nature is ſtrong and mighty enough, bur chrongh ſickneſs or Paſſion is ſo weakned, that he cannor pur forth any ſtrength forthe ſuccour and relief of his Friends. 5 Yet ( faith the Prophet) thou art in the midſt of us, that is, we lave thy 7:miple ro which thon haſt promiſed thy ſpecial preſence, or rather it is to be underſtcod of the whole Land, according to what God had declared, Num: «: 3. and, 35: 34. Defile not the Land which ye ſhall irhab:t, wherein I dwell : For F the Lord dwell among the Chilarcn f Iſra- el, t Thar is, we ate called the Lord's people, and that not only by others amongſt whom we have that repute, but by thy ſelf, God often calleth his people in Scripture, his peopls, his purizon. ." Therefore he begs that God would not leave them ; he means as to that ſpecial providence, by which he had formerly warched over them, and cared for them, and been a proteCtion to them ; nor as
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to his Ordinances, and his ſpecial gracious"preſence with them in his Temple. - :
10 Thus faith che LORD unto this people «, Thus have they loved to wander w, they have not refiained their feet x, therefore the LORD doth not accept them
lins z.
# Here beginneth that Divine Revelation ment'oned, Yer. 1. as an anſwer to the Prophets complaint and Prayer in the nine firſt verſes. The ſubſtance of which is, that for their manifold tins, he was reſolved to puniſhthem, and therefore would n«t be any more lolicited on their behalf. w They have gone aſide our of the way of my Precepts, and that out of a principle of love and delight, the have been fond of their Idols. x And they have perſiſted in thoſe
ard 9. 9,
deviations and ſinful courſes, notwithſtanding all Counlels, and Ar- guments ule !./ith them-to the contrary, nothing cc uld keep their teer to the way of my Teſtimonies. y Thereſore though they pray, and cry, and faſt, God will not accept them. z Bur by his punith+ ment of them for their fins, he will let them know, that as he hath cen and taken notice of, ſo he hathnot fo: got what they have done. . 11 Then faid the LORD unto me *. Pray not for + Ex0:32- this people for heir good a. 10. #s Twice before God had given the Prophet this charge, Chap. 5, 26. and 171. 14. how it could conliſt with the Piety of Jeremiah, af- ter thoſe charges to put up the Prayer we have Yer. 7, 8, 9. of this Chapter. See th: Notes on Chap: 11; I 4. | | . 12 * When they faſt, ] will nor hear their cry b, and *Iſa:58; x, when they offer burnt-offerings and an oblation, I] Zcch: 7:7, will not accept them c, but* I will conſume them by *Th, a che 1word and by the famine, and by peſtilence 4. 20. _ 7. 6b The like threatning we have, Prov: 2: 28, 1ſa: 1. 15. Chap: 11, 21, 2+, © ls, Ezech: 8. 18. Micah 3: 4 c Men may lo long deſpiſe God's calls, * Chap: 9 Exhorrations and Counſcls, as their caſe may be deſperat as to the 16. ! prevention of temporal Judgmenrs by ſuch Religious applications ro God asordinarily have their effc&, ro prevent and remove-Judg- ments. Sce chap. 15: 1. Exzek: 14,14, 20. d He threatneth to add to their plague, three ſore Judgments, ordinarily acompanying one another both in God's threarnings, and in the execution of them, chap: 29. 17, 18. and 4 17, &c, Wy 13 Then faid I, Ah LORD GOD ! Behold the pro- phers fay unto them, Ye ſhall not ſee the ſword, nei- _ ther ſhall ye haye famine, but I will give you + aſſured 4 Heb * peace in this place e. Shed TT, P-ace of e W have many complaints of this Prophet againſt falſe Prophets truck. that contradifted his Prophefies, chap: 4: 10. and 23: 9+ and we ſhall hereafter meet with the name- of ſome of them. Corrupt Govern= ments never want Prophets to their humor, though a bolder tranſ- greſſion can hardly be imagined, than for Men to entitle God to their own Imaginations and Fancies, and we ſhall ver: 15: mect with the uſual Wages of ſuch Works. | | 14 Then the Lord ſaid unto me, the prophets prophe- fie lies in my namef, *I ſent them not, neither have I *Chap:23. commanded them, neither ſpake unto them : they pro- 21. & 25. pheſie to you a falſe viſion and divination, and a 15- & 29: thisg of nought, and the deceit of their hearr.. 8, 9+ f They did not only propheſie falſchoods, but lyes, what the knew to be falſe ; for they pretended, that God had reyealed ſack things unto them ; for admit the things they ſpake ( as to Men ) but future Contingences, which might be true'or falſe, yer jt was a lie forthem to pretend that God had rold them any ſuch things.
| The things were certainly falſe in themfelves, being contrary to
God's Revelation ; but ſetting that aſide, for them to pretend God had revealed that to them which he had not revealed, was a formed lie. God denyerh that he ever commanded them to ſpeak any ſuch things, or ſent them upon any ſuch E:irands ; they propheſied whar
came in their own fooliſh beads, and the deceits of their own hearts.
I5 Therefore thus ſaich the LORD, concerning the prophets that propheſie in my name and I ſent them, not, yet they ſay, ſword and famine (ball not be in this land, by ſword and famine ſhall thoſe Prophets be
obabbennt 8; EEE io: ns i | & Itis amoſt dangerous thing for Eccleſiaſtical Minifters to de« liver that to People as the will of God, which is not.ſo:. God here: thfearneth that theſe Prophets in teſtimony of the truth of the Word of God delivered by Jeremiah, ſhould die by theſe very Judgments,. which they falſly propheſicd to this People as from God an immu- nity from, wid: Ch: 6: 1s. and 20: 6. 1 Kings 22. 25. | ; 16 And the people to whom they propheſie, (hall be caſt out in the ſtreets of Jeruſalem, becaute of the fa- mine, and the ſword, and they ſhall have none to bury, them, their wives, nor their ſons, nor their daughters ;