d We met with the like threatnings, Yer: 5, 24, 29, as to fear and as to their deſtruction we have otten met with the like threat- nings- : | 28 And I will ſet my throne in Elam e, and will deſtroy from thence the king and the princes, faith the LORD f. | | e God here calls the Throne of Nebuchadnezzar, or Cyrus, or "Alexander ( whoever he was that conquered the Perſian: ) his Throne. 1+ Becauſe God gave it the Conquerour. 2. Or, becauſe God ſhewed himſelf the Lord of hoſts, or the Lord of the whole Earth, by diſpoſing the Kingdom of Perſia at his pleaſure, f He doth not threaten the deſrruftion of the whole Nation, bur the making ofir all Tributary, ſo as it ſhould have no Kings nor Prin- ces of its own-
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s The Prophet having from the 46th. Chapter b the Judgments of God againſt he ite toy =" Hwvrgmsy Moabitesy Philiſtines, Ammonites, Edomites, Syrians, Kedarens ” v3 Elamites, or Perſians ( the moſt of which had been Enemies to _ fews ) in theſe two Chapters he denounceth God's Judgm = gainfſt the Chaldeans and Babylonians, Theſe were to 26%. God's Vengeance on all the reſt, and therefore are themſelves + obtads 'n the laſt place to be deſtroyed by the Meaes ; the Prophecy againſ! -hem, 1s mixed with many gracious promiſes to the Jews. _
2 Declare ye among the nations, a 7 1 , and publiſh, a: | fet up a ſtandard, publiſh, and concead. nor 4: oa: Babylon is taken, * Bel is confounded e, Merodach jz it up x 2es are broken in pieces d. IG 6 The Prophet calls ro Men to publiſh it among other Nations
wr off into poſed Speech incouraging his Soldiers from the Booty they ſhould þ
and to ſer up a Standard to make ſome fi ] rogether to hear whar he had ro ſay "is a ba. ory OE Ny, - aad been an inſtrument of great miſchief unto moſt Peo le ho ived about them, to whom it would therefore be glad dex, "8 _ News to hear that Babylon their common Enemy was a -1 c That by Bel and Meroaach are meant two principal 76 er a Babylonians, moſt think ; but what, is not ſo well agreed 'S ren think. that Bel 1s Baal by contraction, but they judge moſt v0 bably, who think it was the image of one Belus, who was Sd , 2 King of Babylon, and they judge the like of M-rodach : we f red Scripture that Meredach was ſome of their Kings Names, Iſa 4 =_— Thap* 52. 31- thoſe who deſire to be further tarisfied about < { (dols, may read the Engliſh Anns: ations upon 1/2. 46: r. and ou _ . r44:ons upon that Verſe. Ir was an ordinary practice A "8 Heathens when they had any Princes died, that had been "0 = their Government, to pay a Divine Homage to their Ima og 14 Yatues, Theſe Idols are ſaid: to be confounded. & Either b: = may - wm __ = avle at this pinch to help their laps lines, os uſe th Te "i wht =, 0uld be deſtroyed together with the lilly People that 3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation a- gainſt her e, which ſhall make her land deſolate, and none ſhall dwell therein : they ſhall remoye they ſhall _ both man and beaſt f. OY e From Media which lay Northward to. Ba rhrough which Cyrus his way to Babylon lay. , p: i Os ieemeth not to relate only to Cyrus his firſt taking of Babylon. ang
| dealt very gently with it, but to a ſecond taking of it by Darius
the King of the M-des, who upon their defecti
Monarchy,came and made an honcible onh> = c 4 2 ing up (as ſome tell us) four thouſand of their Nobles and flz i n multitudes of the common People ; or of the miſchief done $4 8 afterward by Seleucus Nicanor,who is ſaid to have built a Cir Kar he called Seleucia, within fourſcore, and Ten Miles of bar” 4 b which means he brought Babylon to an utter deſolation. tag 4 F In thoſe days,and in that time,ſaith the LORD, the children of 1fael ſhall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping g : they ſhall go wo ge the LORD their God 5b.
£ In the days wherein God ſhall begin to e 7 upon Baby/on, (which was in the time of ok "#., icon ag des ) the Children of Judah ſhall come out of Captivity, and ſome of the Children of Iſrael ( viz. thoſe of the 'Ten Tribes ) hearin that their Brethren were gone out of the Captivity of Babylon ſhath go up alſo from the ſeveral places into which they were diſpoſed b the aſyrians: Weeping either for ſorrow in the ſenſe of their _ which had brought the miſeries of Captivity upon them, or for joy thar God ever ſhould thew them ſuch a Mercy as to bring then home again into their own Country. þ And thoſe that feared vod, whether of rhe Ten Tribes, or of the Kingdom of Judah worſhipped God at feruſalem, after their 01d accuſtomed manner, *
5 They ſhall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, ſaying 3, come and ler us joyn our ſclves co the LORDin a perpetual covenant, zhat ſhail ever
be forgotten &,
7 Thar is, thoſe of Fudah and 1/-ael that fear the Lord ſhall ſort. ouſly and ſteadily ſeek the true God, and the true way of h's wore (hip. k And, being ſenſible that they had broken the covenant which their Fathers had formerly made with Sod, with a delire to renew their covenant, and that not for a time, but for ever. See chap. 31: 31. The only queſtion is, Whether this promiſe be yet ac« compliſhed or no, or when it was, or ſhall be fulfilled ? 4»ſw. it was without doubt in a great meaſure fulfilled upon the Jews come ing out of the captivity of Babylen, when thoſe of the Kingdom of Judah returned to Jeruſalem, and were very zealous for reſtoring the true Worſhip of God, and renewed their covenant with God (as we read in the Book of Ezra & Nehemiah) but Mr.Calvuin thinks it was more eminently fulfilled under the Kingdom of the M 52h, when though many believed not, yet many others did believe.and
9 © But it ſhall come to paſs in the latter days, zbat T will bring again the capcivity of Elam, faith che .
LORDg.
g We had the like promiſe as to Moab, Chap: 48:47: and as to Ammon, Yer. 6. the ſame latter days either fignifie after many days, or in the time of the Meſiss. In the former ſenſe it may refer to Cyrus, who conquered Perſis. In the latter ſence it is referred to the ſpiritual liberty which ſome of theſe poor Heathens were
Elemites were at Hieruſalem at Penteceſt, and were ſome of theſe con-
| verted to Chriſt. EET CHAP. L - *Tſa-13:1- The Judgment of Babel,and the Land of Chaldes, for thiir Idelatry,Tyranny,
brought into by the Goſpel. We read As 2: 9. that ſome of theſe | P
and 21: 1, and Pride ; with gracious promiſes of the Redemption of Ijrael inter-