.+. 32 Behold, 1 am am againſt them that propheſie falſe dreams 4, ſaith the LORD, and do tell them, and cauſe my people to err by their lyes, and by their * lightneſs e, yet I ſent them not, nor commanded -them : therefore they ſhall not profit this people art all, faith-cthe LORD f: "H þ | - 4 Taatis, Falſe things under the notion of things which I have "revealed tinto them in their ſl:ep. e By Lightneſs here ſome awnd-rftand Volubilicy, and Smoothneſs of tongue and Speech : Others, Laciviouſneſs : Others, Levity and Inconſtancy : The laft '-ſecrheth moſt probably the Sence» f I ſent them not ( ſaith God ) therefore they ſhall nct profi- : None can expe& God's bleſſing upon their Miniſtry, that are nct called and ſent of God into the Miniſtry. 33 T And, when rnis peopie, or the prophet, or a prieſt ſhall ask thee, ſaying, What 3s the burden of the LORDy ? thou ſhalt then ſay unto them, What burden? ' I will even forſake you, ſaith the LORD 6. £ The true Prophets, to let the People know how little pleaſing it was to them to be the Meſſ:ngers of Gods T hreatnings, to des nounce his Judgments, uſually thus began their Propheciesof thar nature, calling them Tie burden of the Lord, as may be ſeen Iſa.13. 1. and r5., tr, and 22. 1. Hab, 1, 1, Zcch. 9g. 1+ Mal. 1. r. The profane People, and falſe Prophets, and corrupt Prieſts, not loving co hear their doom, would ordainarily mock at the true Prophets; and in deriſion a*k them, what was the burden of the Lora? what 1]]l News they had forthem next? bh God bids the Prophet tell them, Thar God would forſake them, either as to the Spirit of Propheſie, they ſhould have no more Prophets, or ( which is more probable ) as fo his ſpecial Providence, by which he had watched over, pros rected, and hitherto defended them ; a Burdin heavy enough, Heſ. 9 12. | | ; 34 Andas for the prophet, and the prieſt, and the people that ſhall fay, The burden of the LORD 3, I
will even f puniſh that man and his houſe &. £ That is, Than fhall in derifion ſay thus, mocking at my Threatnings and Jadgments. & 1 will not only puniſh him, bur his whole Family. ; : 35 "Thus ſhall ye ys every one to his neighbour, and every one to his brother, What hath the LORD
anſwered ?. and, What hath the LORD ſpoken /.
Z I will have you ſpeak more reverently of me ard my Word to my Prophets. ' | |
35 And the burden of che LORD ſhall ye mention no more m: for every mans word hall be his burdens: for ye have perverted the words of the living God o, of the LORD of hoſts our God p.
" ## Not in Scorn and Deriſion, as not believing there were any ſuch Judgments as they threaten, nor hardly as if I ſen you no | other Meſſages but Burdens. » Theſe falſe and trreverent Speeches | which are in every man's mouth, ſhall be burdenſome to them, bes ing ſuch, as ſhall bring down divine Vengeance apon them, »o Be- cauſe you have derided, or miſinterpreted the words of God, the TivingGod.p The ſim of which is the more aggravated againſt you, be=
cauſe he is the living,mighty God, arid becauſe he harh been ourGod, © 37 Thus ſhalc chou fay to the prophet 9, What hath
the LORD anſwered thee ? and what hath the LORD ſpoken, 7 | - 9 Tomy true Prophet. You ſhall ſpeak to them reverent!y, and , as becomech you.
28 Bur ſich ye ſay,the burden of the LORD ; there-'
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21 Behold, I am againſt the prophets, ſaith the LORD, ,
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the burden of the LORD ». and T have ſent unto you, ſaying, ye ſhall not ſay, The burden of th? LORD <..
7 Becauſe you go on in your ſcoffing, and deriding my Werd and my Prophets. / And that when I havecxprefly forbidden you thoſe profane Speeches, or that deriding ſorm of Speech z adding further contempt to your former profaneneſs.
39 Therefore behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you?, and I will forſake you «, and the city that Tgave you and your fathers w, and caſt you out of my pre-
ſence. x. |
£ | will forget you as.to my AffeQticn, and that is more than if all your friends forgat you. There is a great Emphaſis in the dou- bling of the Pronun, 1, even I, « I will forſake you as. to the pre ſence of my ſpecial gracious Providence. w And do not flatter your ſelves that I will not do it, becauſe of your Fathers, or becauſe I gave this City unto your Fathers for that very City I will withdraw my ſpecial Providence from, and that Lard, which heretofore was cailed, Toe Land which the Lord thy God c urcrh for, upon which the eyes of the Lord are always from rhe beginning of the year, even to the end of the year, Deut. 11-12. x And I will caſt both City and People out of my gracious preſence. So as I will no longer do them gocd as I have done.
40 And I will bring an everlaſting reproach upon you y, and a perpetual thame which ſhall not be forgot-
ten Z,
3 And you ſhall be a reproack, and that not for a few days but for ever. z And a penal ſhame, which neither you, nor theic thay fee or hear of it ſhall forget. See ſuch Expreſſiuns, Chap. 20. ir.
CH AP. XXIV.
Und-r the Type ef good and bad Figs, 1, 3. He: foreeſheweth the Red turn of ſome from Captivity, qq—7. and the Ru:ne of Zedekiah, and the reſt, 8, 10.
HE ſum of what God by his Prophet revealeth in this Chaps
rer 15, that he would deal more graciouſly with thoſe care ,ried into Captivity, with Jecoziah the ſon of Jehoiakim ; of which read, 2 Kings 24+ 12+. 2 Ehron. 36. 20. than with thoſe that ſhould afterward be carried into Caprivitry with Zcdekish, This the Pro« phet hath revealed to him ina Viſion of two Baskets of Figs, as fol loweth. '
1 The LORD (hewed me, and behold, two baskets of figs were ſet before the Temple of the LORD «, afrer that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had car- ried away Captive Jeconiah the ſon of Jehoiakim the king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and ſmiths from Jeruſalem, and had brought ,them to Babylon 6.