of the Edowxres, yet God would take care of ſome of their fetherlejs children, whoſe Parents being carried into captivity they had none to provide for them : if it be taken as an ironical threatning it ſounds eth ruine tv thoſe as well as the reſt, and 7 will is as much as I w2ll nor ;. but othets think that theſe are rather to be underſtood with the ſupply of ſome other words, There is net, or there ſhall be none to ſay, leave thy fatherleſs children, &c. and whoſo confiderethe thoſe words in the tenth Verſe, his Seed ſhall be ſpoiled, will ſee rea
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puniſhed, thou ſhalt not go unpuniſhed, but thou ſhalt ſurely drink of it. 7 That by the cup is meant the Wine cup of the Lords Wrath,
and that by thoſe whoſe Judgment was nor to drink of it,are meant
the Jews is not to be doubted ; but the Queſtion is how the Pro- pher ſaith, that it was nor the Judgment of the Jews to drink of this cup? The word here uſed is of ſo various ſignifications as makes the fixing the ſenſe of it here difficult, it cannot here ſignifie Juſiize, for in that ſenſe it was the Jews Judgment to drink of it, nor Can it here (as it often doth-) ſignifi the effe& of Juſtice, God's judicial diſpenſation ; for they had drunk of it, ſo it was their judgment. Ir muſt be taken in the favourableſt ſenſe imaginable.
lation to them might have looked upon it as none of their portion, yet have drunk of it: Or they who in compariſon with others did nor delerve to drink of the cup, yet have drunk of it, and can you think to eſcape, no' thou ſhalt nor eſcape, bur moſt ſurely drink of it, 1 Pet: 4:17, The time is come, that judgment is begun at the houſe of God, and if it firſt begin with that where ſhall the end of others be? When an Ifrachte hath not eſcaped the Juſtice of God, an Edomite muſt not expett it.
13 For I have ſworn by my (elf, faith the LORD, that Bozrah ſhall become a deſolarion, a reproach, a waſte, and a curſe, and all the cities thereof ſhall be
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" Obad, 14 * I have heard a rumour from the LORD p, and an Ambaſſador is ſent unto the heathen q, ſaying, Gather ye together, and come againſt her, and rife to the batrel r. | p Obadiah beginneth kis Prophecy much with ſuch words God hath revealed his Will ro me in a Viſion,or a Dream. q He ſpeaks after the manner of earthly Princes, who uſe to ſend their Amoal\- ſadors to oth-r Princes to declare their minds to them. The mean- ing is, God hath made ſuch impreſſions upon other Nations, he hath inclined them,or ſer them oaWorkzto get together in Armies to come againſt Edm in Batte]. | h i5 For lo, 1 will make thee ſmall amonglt the
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f OSadiah in his Prophecy againſt Edom, Ver. 2, hath much the ſame words importing that God would bring the Eaemites very low, and maks them very contemptible.
16 Thy terribleneſs hath deceived thee, and the pride of thy heare 7, O thou that dwelleſt in the clefcs of the rock «, that holdeſt the height of the hill ; though thou ſhouldeſt make thy neſt as high as the eagle, { will bring thee down from thence, faith the LORD w.
t Obadiah in his Prophecy againſt Edom uſeth much the ſame ex- preſſions, Yer. 3, 4. The word that is here uſed being of the num- ber of thoſe which are but once found in Scripture hath given In- terpreters liberty to abound in their ſences of it ; ſome tranſlating it Arrogance, ſome, thine 14l, but the beſt Interpreters underſtand by it their terribleneſs to others,their being ſo potent that others were all afraid of them, this deceived them, meking them to con- clude themiclves ſecure, and out of danger ; to which is alſo ad- ded the pride of the heart. u The Countrey of Edom being moun- tanious they are ſaid to dwell in the clefts of the Rocks, that 15, in places impregnable, and inaccefſivle as they thought in the heights of the Hill. w Burt the Lord lets them know no place was 20 his power inacceſſible, or impregnable, for if they dwell as high as the Eagle, which the Scripture tells us, Job 39. 27, 28. Maketh her neft on high, and dwelleth and abideth upon the rock, upon the crag of the rock, yet he would bring them down.
17 Aifo Edom ſhall be a deſolation : every one that gocth by it, ſhall be aſtoniſhed, and ſhall hiſs ar all the plagues thereof x.
x The like is ſaid of Babylon, Chap: 50: 13+ it appears from 1 Kings 9: 8. that it was a kind of Proverbial expreſſion, when they would expreſs a great deſolation, or great Plagues, rhat thoſe who paſſed by ſuch a place, ſhould be aſtoniſhed, and hiſs ar it.
* Gen19. 18 * As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomor-
me _ rah and the neighbour cizies thereof, ſaith the LORD: y 4. No Man ſhall abide there, neither ſhall a ſon of man II. dwell in it y. | 7 Sodom and Gommorah, and the Neighbour Cities were utterly deſtroyed, and therefore are ſet down both here and Chap: 50; 40. as patterns of an utter ruine and delolation- ;
Chap. i9 * Behold, he ſhall come up like a lion from the $4, * ſwelling of Jordan, againſt the habiration of the wn. ſtrong 2: but I will ſuddenly make him run away