return accoraing tot x. 6. Exzet. 37. 21,22. returning to their own L v' Lf Ten Tribes who joined themſelves witi tho were returned from Ba#z/0n, Or remarnerh yet in part to be fulfil- Jed. The former is maoit probable, andthar there ſhaſl be no ſuch time when tke Jews ſhall return again to Jeruſalem, and poſleſs | theirown Land, for it is hard now to give an account where the Poſtericy of the Ten Tribes be, by whoſe return, the Promiſe ſhould be juſtified. Beſides that rhe Phraje 1n the beginning of this Verſe. Fir lo, the days come, icem to 1mport a more ſpeedy fulfilling of the Promiſe, than after tome thouſznds of Years, rho It is cercain the J-w5 feed rhemfelves with ſome ſuch expettarions.
4 E And theſe are the words, tharthe LORD ſpake
concerning [rae], and concerning Judah. | 5 Forthus faith the LORD, We have heard a voice
f trembling, || of fear, and not of peace e.
e Gol here {peaketh, but whether perſonating other Nations, or TE theJewiſb Nation,is not agreed,nor yer whetkec this Text refers to : the Times of the Heſirh, when the Nations {tould tremble, or the time when Darius invaded Babylon, or the times ef Gog and Magog ( of which read Ezek, 38. } Orche time when the Chaldeans in- vaded Judah ; this laſt ſeemeth moſt probable, and that God by this inzended caly to rowſe the Jews out of their ſecurity, and
put them' off from expeQting peace according tothe flatreries of the fzlſe Prophers,afſuring them that the Times ther were coming next were not times of Peace, but ſuch as {huu!ld make them rremble.
6 Ask ye now, and ſee whether | a man doth travail
4 Male; With child ? wherefore do fſce every man with his * Chap., hands on his loins, *as a woman 1n travail f, and all 4. 31.and faces are turned into palencisy ?
G. 24, The Vvice which I hcar, 1s not che Voice of Women, but of Mzn, and thoſe rhe ſtroageſt and ſtoute!t M-n, yer it is a Voice lik2 the Voice of Women 1n Travail, roaring out t:rough their pains, and the poſture I ſce rhe generality of Men are in, is like the poſture of Women in Trava!], v ho hold their hands upon their Loins.hoping thereby to abar? thew pin. Was it ever heard that Males had the pains that ul2 ro att: nd Child-bearing Women? s And all Mens Faces look 325 if th:y had the Y'Cope Jaundice ; or
' 2reofthe colour of blated Corn as the word fignifteth. Der, 28,2 2,
| * Alas, for that day is great, fo that none 3s like ic
Amos 5, "& : af > "Jr f .
8 h* Tt js even the time of Jacob's trouble z, but he fhall
be ſaved out of it &.
--b It is no wonderthat there is ſucha trembling vpon all hearts ſuch a-conſternition and great complaining 3 for it will be aTiwe of no ordinary calamiry, bur of great evil and miſery, in the ſame ſence 2s it is called a great day, Joel 2. 1, great and terrible; and Zeph1gi9e.; there never wasfuch aDay before. & Ir willbe aday of trouble to thoſe thar arc the Poſterity of Jacob, both good and bad, they ſhall not be delivercd from it, but they ſhall be delive.-
red out of it. ; : - 8 For it ſhall come to paſs in that day /, faith the
LORDof hoſts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck w, and will burſt thy bonds », and ſtrangers ſhall
no.more ſerve themſelvesof him o.
4 Not in that great day before mentioned, but in the day when God ſhould deliver the Seed of Jacob ont of trouble, m God threat- ens to break the Yoke of the King of Babylon, that is to break. that power of his which for 70 Ycars he ſhould exerciſe in keeping the
| Jewr under. n And be would break the bonds in which they ſhon1d be kepr, o And forziga Nations ſhou!d no mores ſerve themſelves upon the Jews.
9 But they ſball ſerve the LORD their God, and Da- vid cheirking p, whomT will ratte up unto them p.
pþ Who is here meant by Devid is not well agreed. Some think this Promiſe was fulfilled in the Rule of Zorovabet; and . thoſe after the Captivity of Babylon, of the Family of David, who ruled over the Jews, though nor under the ft:1e of Kings ; others think that Chriſt 15 HH aS in the other Parallel Prophecies, Ezek- 34.23. and 37. 22. H.". 3. 5. andtharthe deliverance here promiſed was ſpiritual ; and indeed unleſs we fo underſtood it,it will be hard to afſigna time when the Promiſe of the former and this Verſe was made good, for vpn the return from the Captivity ro the coming of Chriſt, and from his time t5 this day,other Nat'ons have ſerved themſelves
- upon the Jews, and they have been in perpetual Servitude, firſt to
{| Or. there 3s fear ,ond [8] not peace.
: f Heb.
and ſo God might command them to be writren, that they might |
Iirael never tee |
which were God's Pcople did return; we read Luke 2. 36. of one A4unz who was of the Tribe cf £ſbr, and many more doubtleſs did ;
En 4n ved themſelves ofthe Jews, Either therefore this Prophecy muſt be Unucrined ina fpiritval ſence of the Kingdoin of Chrilt, undcr which the Jews thatreceived him were move ſpiritually free : Or cle there IS a Tine yt 70 come, when this anticnt peeple of Tod !hil] be reſtored to a further Civil Liberty, han tkey have enjcyed ever lince the Captiviry of Baylor, and be wires fully converted to Chit, than rhey yer are; towards which {nce many Texts of SCripture, beſides this, look ; particularly Rim, 10-253, 26,
10 4 Therefore * fear thou nor, Omy ſerv? bs 7:
) ear thou nct, Omyicivant Jacch » x,
r, faith theL OJ neit] > diſmaved O irae} Ao » Jalth the LORD, neither bedi{mayed, O ifrael; for:.&z3.5. lo, I will fave thee from a far, and ty feed from the & 44- 2, land of their captivity /; and Jacob tbal 7ctura, and ſhal ©**P+ 46, be. In reſt and quiet, and none fſhal make bim a- ** fraid cr,
r You that are mv Servants, and the Poſterity of 7acob,tho your Captivity be Threeicore and Ten Years, yet ke not afraid that T _aye qui'E forgotten you, or my prot; ite made to your Fathers. iS For I W1ll zfture you that though I have for your fins ſent YOU as far off, yet you are not beyond the reach cf my faving Ari. 7 You ſhall returg out of the Captivity of Babzion, and be ar relt, as they were for 150 Years during the time of the Pcrſian Mer2rchy, Abhort Hiſtory of whict we have in, the Books of Ezra and Nelbrnah.
11 For ] «zz with thee ſaith the LORD :; to ſave, thee 4: * though I make a full end of all nations whi- : ther I have ſcaitered thee, yet will I zoc make a full *p,,3 FA end of thee w : but 1 will corre thee * in meaſure x, Chip. 16 and will nor leave thee altogether unpuniſt:ed y. 24. & 46,