pray unto me, and Twill hearken unto you . . m I willnot only giveyou a temporal ſalvation and Deliverance, and bring you into your own Land, but you ſhall go thither with new Hearts, you ſhall worſhip Idols no more, bur you ſhall wore ſhip me. and be ſerious and diligent in your Addreſſes and Appli- cations to me, andI will liſten to you inthoſe Applications.
13 And * ye ſhall ſeek me, and find we, when ye ſhall ſearch for me with all your heart ». # Thar 1s, ſincerely; as Pſal: 119. 2.
14 And * I will be found of you, faich the LORD, pe and I will turn away your captivity, and * I will gather 047 ge you from all the nations, and from all the places, whi- Ifa: 55: 6; ther I have driven you, ſaith the LORD, and I will *Chapi2z/ bring you again into the place, whence I cauſed you to 3:
be carried away captive w.,
w This verſe containeth no more than was #ſaid before, only is 15 repeated in a litle different phraſe, for the further confirmation of their Faith, and the promile is a little inlarged. God faith, he will be foundof them; that is, he will anſwer them. Ir is expreſſed in this notion to correſpond with the term ſeeking, by which Prayer is expreſſed, and to let us know, that thole that will have God's favour mult fnd it ; which implyeth a ſeeking and : inquiry after its The promite which before mentioned only their return from Baby= lon, is enlarged,and made here to extend to all places whither they were driven, for though the body of the people were cartied ta Babylon, yet it is more than probable,that many of them ſhifted for themſelves into other Countries, and were in Exile, but not in Captivity, - Cyr his Proclamation, $g Chron: 36: 22, 23. extended to his whole Empire.
15 \ Becauſe ye have ſaid, The LORD hath rai- ſed us up prophets in Babylon x.
» The Prophet here turneth his ſpeech to ſome wicked Jews, that were in Babylon, or in Judea, and more believed ſome falſe Prophets, whotold them of a much quicker return, than Jeremy telling them the truth from the Mouth of God. -
16 Know, that thus ſaiththe LORD, of the king that fitteth upon the throne of David y, and of all the peoe ple that dwell in this city,and of your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity. 9 The word know is, as ſome think, needleſly ſupplyed, for "the following Particle might be as well tranſlated, for, or becauſe, or therefore. By the King he meaneth Zedekiah, whom he chuſeth to expreſs under the notion of him that ſitteth upon the Throne of David, to take away the vain hopes which the Jews conceived from the promiſes which God had made to David and to his Seed. 17 Thus faith the LORD of hoſts, behold I wilſend upon them the * ſword, the famine and the peſtilence, * Chap. and will make them like * vile figs that cannot be eaten, euhap: 14 they are ſo evil. | a 18 And I will perſecute them with che ſword,8 with the famine, and with the peſtilence, and * will deliver *Deu: 28 them to be r «moved to a)lthe'kingdoms of the earth, 25 Chils:
t * to be a curſe, and an aſtoniſhment, aad an hifling, CRIST.
anda reproach among all the Nations whither I have dris ,,,c. ven them z, *Chap:42, zTheſe verſes contain no more than the threatning which we have 18; had more than once before. He had compared them to vile Figs,
chap. 24: 8. and Yer;9, and 10, there threatned them with being made a Reproach, a Proverb, a Taunt, and a Curſe; and conſuming them with the Sword, Famine and Peſtilence ; the ſame thing before delivered by word of Mouth to thoſe in Jude, is here repeated in
in a Letter to that part of the Jews in Babylon, to take them off from giving credit to their falſe Prophets whether in Jud or in Babylon,
who deluded them with the promiſes ofa ſpeedy return. Believe
it ( faith the Prophet ) you ſhall be ſo far from returning whatever
your idle Prophets tell you, that your Brethren that are here ſhall
be brought to you, ordeſtroyed with the Sword, the Famin, and the Peſtilence, or ſcattered into other Kingdoms, where they ſhall
be made, a curſe and an aſtoniſhment,and an hiſſing and a reproach.
g0 and *Dan:g;3, &c.
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be accomplithed at Babylon, I will viſit you, and per- form my good word towards you, in cauſing you to re- eurn to this place &..
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' wives þ, and have ſpoken Iiying words in my name,
lem; but we cannot imagine that the Names of all the Towns in Judah are to be found in Scripture, he is the.c2 in this chapter cal-
ſervancs the prophets, riſing up early, and ſending them b, but ye would not hear faith the LORD c.
a Acontempt of the word of the Lord was the cauſe of this peo» Ples ruine, and will be the cauſe of ruine to any People. See Chap: 7: 26. and 11. 7,8. and 17. 23, b Left they thou'd ſay that they only diſobeyed the Prophets, God mindeth rhem, that in not hearkning to them, they did not kearken to him. The ſame Thing Chriſt ſaith of the Goſpel Miniſters, Luke 10: 16. The nor believing, or not obeying, what Miniſters teach not in a due dif-
Charge of their Office of revealing the will of God, is no contempt
of God, but of them who for that cauſe deſerve ro be contemned; but ſuppoſing thar what Miniſters deliver bethe mind and will of God revealed in holy Writ, and but a true explication and applica- tion of that, not to hearken to God, and not ro hearken to rhem 15 the ſame thing- c Ye wilfully r:fuſed to be'ieve them, ſpeaking the Truth to you in my Name, and to obey thoſe monitions they gave you by my direC&tion, All this was a not hearing God.
20 C4 Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the captivity whom T have ſent from Jeruſalem to Babylon d.
d Thoſe Phraſes I have ſent, and I have driven, &c. are diligent-
to all the people that are ar Jeruſaiem, and to Zepha-
niah the ſon of Maaſeiahthe prieſt, and toall the prieſts,
the houſe of the LORD, * for every man that is. mad, o and maketh himſelf a prophet, that thou ſhouldft * put him in priſon, and in the ſtocks p. © ee