24 The daughter of Egypt (ball be confounded, be (ball be delivered into the hand of the people of the north mz. |
m That is, into the hand or power of the Chaldeans, it is the ſame thing which the Propher had before ſaid again and again, and repeats 1t {o oiten only for the turther confirmation of the truth of the Prediftion, notwithſtanding the appearing improbability of any ſuch thing.
25 The LORD of hoſts, the God of Iſrael ſaith », *, HET Behold, I will puniſh thee [| multicude of No ec, and »;jper. Pharaoh, and Egypt, * with their gods, and their kings, t Heb. even Pharaoh, and all them that truſt in him p: _—
7 Thefe Names are often in conjunCtion given unto God, the Chap. . firſt ſignifying his Power, or Ability ro do what ke either promi- #3 722 73» ſeth ,or threatncth,the other ſpeaking his Kindneis and near Relati- "——— on to the Jews. o There are gicat critical Diſputes about this Phraſe, !3* whether the word tranſlated Mulrirude, ſignihes ſo (as it doth, Chap. 52. 15) andif ſo whether it ſhould nct be the Mulrirude from No, Or whether it ſignifies the Nouriſher, (as ſome would have it) be cauſe No (which moſt think is the ſame City with thatat this time called Alexandria, being a great place of Merchandiſe) nouriſhed all the adjacent Parts ; but it is no cafie thing to reſolve the Queſtion nor is the reſolution of it of much moment to us. - p By thoſe that truſted in Pharaoh the Jews are moſt probably meant, who all along In their Proſperity put too much confidence in Egypt, and after that Hieryſalem was taken, ſome of them (as we heard before) fled into Egypr for SanQtuary,
26 And I will deliver them into the hand of thoſe that ſeek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchad- nezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his ſer- vants: And afterwards it ſhall be inhabired, as in the days of old, faith the LORD g.
q The former part of this Verſe is but the ſame which the Pro- phet hath often betore ſaid. The Iatter part is a Promiſe for the Reſtauration of £gypr to ſome degrees of its former Proſperity and Liberty. Thedeterminare time for the fulfilling of this Prophecy 15told us, Ezek. 29. 13, 14. viz.at the end of forty Years: This we
are told by Civil Hiſtorians fell out in the time of amaſes a King of
Egypt coxvous with Cyrus, who was overcome by Crus his Son Cam= byjes, who broughr Egyps to be a Province belonging to the Medes and Pe/jians, by the fulfilling of which Prophecy the truth both of Feremiah's and Ezekiel's Prophecies are juſtified.
27 4 * But fear notthou, O my ſervant Jacob, and "IG, ir be nor diſmayed, O. Iſrael; For behold, I will ſave ng get thee from a far off, and thy ſeed from the land of * Ka nf their captivity, and Jacob ſhall return, and be in reſt and at eaſe, and none ſhall make him afraid.
28 Fear thou not, O Jacob my ſervant, faith the LORD, for I am with thee, for 1 will make a full end of all the nations, whither I have - driven thee but T will not make *a full end of thee, but corre& thee * Chan: in meaſure, yet will I || not leave thee wholly unpu- 10. 5-4
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7 See the Notes on Chap. 30. 10, 11. where is the ſubſtance of *7*79 4. what is ſaid in theſe two Verſes,and almoſt the very words _—_— thee off. _ peated : The great thing to be obſerved by us, | is the difference Or,in mae which the juſt and righteous God maketh betwixt his Puniſhments king thee ; of his Church and own People, and his Puniſhments of wicked men ©2") 7 who are their enemies, as there is a great difference in the root of ®'*,"® . ſuch Diſpenſations, God dealing them out to his People our of Love make thih thatthey might not be condemned with the wicked, ſo there is a ©2't* great deal of difference in the meaſure and duration of their Puniſh« ments, the Rod of the wicked ſhall nor always ly upon the backs of the Righteous, and they are corre&ed in meaſure.
C H A P. XLVIL
The Deſtrufion of the Philiſtines, Tyrians, Zidonians, and the others
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2 Thus faith the LORD, Behold * waters riſe up * out of the north b, and iball be an overflowing flood, and (hail overflow the Land, f and all that is there- in, the city, and them that dwell thein c, then the men s cry, and all the inhabitants of the Land ſhall houwl 4d.
b Calamities and AfMiCtions are often in Scripture ſet out under the notion of Waters ; and as the miſeries of Egypr were ſet out by the overflowings of their great River Nilus, ſo the Calamities of the Philiſlines are expreſſed by the overflowings of the great Ri- ver Eiphrates, theſe miſeries coming upon them by the Chaldeans, which were a Northern People, their Waters are ſaid to riſe up our of the North. « It is ſaid to be an overflowing Flood that ſhould overflow the Land, becauſe it was to be a ſweeping Judgement, which like a Flood ſhould carry all before it. d Which ſhould produce amongſt the Inhabitants of Gaza a great howling and la- mentatione :