ſhall fall in the midſt of her 4. | c I will do, that is, I will execute Judgment upon the Idols of Babjloz, and the whole Land of Cha!dea ſhall be confounded, when they ſhall ſee that their Idols will do them no more Service. 4 Some in ſtead of her lain, would have it read her dancers ( for the City was taken while Belſbazzer and his whole Court were Revelling ) | bur the learned Author of the Engliſh Hmotations tells us the word © Ia: 44+ Will nor bear it. 23. & 49. 48 Then * the heaven, and the earth, and all that 173+ Rev? 55 therein ſhall ſing for Babylon e, for the ſpoilers ſhall
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38+ 2% come unto her from the north, ſaith the LORD f. | e All the Creatures in Heaven and Earth ſhall rejoice at the ven- geance which God ſhall take upon Babylon, which had been the deſtroyer of ſo many of their People. f The Median Soldiers are thoſe here called Spoilers from the North, FE 49 || As pogo bath cauſed the ſlain of Iſrael to fall, | «gps ſo at Babylon {hall fall the ſlain of |] all the earth g. 2. O : + £ The words in the Hebrew have ſome difficulty, which is not ſo 37 go of I. obvious to thoſe not acquainted with that Language,burt hath given ; = =, © occaſion to Interpreters to vary in their particular Tranſlations of rs Four it, but they moſtly agree in the general ſenſe, viz. That theſe words — with B#Y are given as a Reaſon why the whole Earth ſhould fo auch rejoice DT 20 - þ, in the ruine of Babylon, becauſe Babylon had cauſed Iſrael to fall: 2 ſ| Or, *be Th.clatter term ache Earth muſt be underſtood in a reſtrained ſenſe, OuP'« for that earth; the Chaldeans coming up from all parts of Chaliea
to help Babylon, ſhould: be ſlain there, as by the means of Babylon, the 17 aclites were ſlain thatcame up from all parts of Jude to hejp Jeruſalem.
50 Ye that have eſcaped the ſword, go away, ſtand nor ſtill : remember the LORD afar off ;, and lerjJe-
ruſalem come irito your mind k.
h Ir is hard to reſolve wiether the Prophet here ſpeaks j> the Chaldeans, or the Medes, or the Jews, though moſt underſtand .t of the Jews whom God would have leave Babylon as ſoon as they ſhould have a Liberty proclaimed. «s And to remember when they came into Judea the great things both of Juſtice toward the Chaldeans,and Mercy towards them which God had done. k And keep Jeruſalem in their mind, as the place were they were to worſhip God accor-
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uſe many words to the ſame purpoſe ; he ſaw the Jews ſaying in their hearts, How can theſe things be ? Babylon hath impregnable Walls rwo hundred foor high,(ſo Hiſtorians report ) and of a great breadth, and ir hath very ſtrong and high Towers; God by his Prophet tells them, that if they could mount up as high as Heaven, if they could make the Towers much ſtronger than they were, yer the Spoilers were to come from him, and he could and would ſend Spoilers, who would pull down her walls,and break down herTowers.
54 A ſound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and
great deſtruction from the land of the Chaldeans p.
p Toaſſure them, that what God threatned ſhould certainly be, he callsto the Jews toliſten, asif already there were a cry from Ba- _ and a ſound of a great deſtru&ion from the Land of the Chal-
eans,
55 Becauſe the LORD hath ſpoiled Babylon q, and deſtroyed out of her the great voice r, when her waves do roar, like great waters, a noiſe of their voice is ut- tered 5. |
q The Sword is not ſo much the Sword of the Meder,as the Sword of the Lord. Ir is he whois to be looked art, as the ſpoiler of Ba- bylon. r And hath made to ceaſe in that great City the nojſes cau.- ied from multitudes of people init walking up and down, and trafe ficking together. 5 The noiſe of her enemies that ſhall break in upon her ſhall be like the noiſe and roaring of the Sea when it dae theth upon the Shore or upon ſome Rocks. That ſhall be the on- ly noiſe ſhall be heard in her, inſtead of the noiſes wont there to be made from the multitude of people, or from Revellers,
56 Becauſe the ſpoiler is come upon her, evez upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their Bows is broken tr, for the LORD God of recom-
pences, ſhall ſurely requite «.
# Little moreis ſaid here than was before, only the words hing the taking of Babylon by a ſurprize when the King, and the Inhabi- tants were not aware of it, which we had before alſo told us, Yerſ. 39» 40. u In this the Prophet ſaith, that God would a& but as a juſt God, a God of Recompences, Where Gaed's people ſuffer wrong and either cannot revenge themſelves, or may not do it, being privat perſons ( to whom God hath given no power of the Sword if they can exerciſe Faith and patience, they thall find God a God of Recompences, that can and will requite their Enemies, and plead their cauſe.
57 And*®I will make drunk her princes,and her wiſe men, her captains and her rulers, and her mighty men, and they ſhall ſleep a perpetual ſleep, and not wake,
ſaith the king, whoſe name js the LORD of hoſts w.
w Drunken Men uſe to fall aſleep- The Prophet ſpeaks here me- taphorically. His meaning is, that the Lord would fill them with the wine of his fury mentioned chap: 25: 15, 16. and upon the drin- king of it they ſhould ſleep their laſt fleep, the effe&s of it ſhould be their utter Ruine and deſtrution. Yet there ſeemeth to be an alluſion to the poſture the King of Babylon, and the Thouſand of his Lords mentioned, Dan: 5. t. was in, when their City was taken ( which as was before ſaid ) wasin the time of the Feſtival of their Idol Shach ) when they were drinking Wine in the Bowls that were brought from the Temple at Jeruſalem, Verſe 30. it is ſaid, In that very night was Belſhazzar the king of the Chaldeans ain,
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51 We are confounded, becauſe we have heard re- proach 1, ſhame hath covered our faces; for ſtrangers are come into the ſanctuaries of the LORD's houſe ws.
1 The words of this verſe ſeem to prove that the Jews were the Perſons intended in the former verſe, whom God would have to go away, and not to ſtand ſtill, for it is out of doubt, that it is of them the Prophet here ſpeaketh, and whom the Prophet brings in here,