; The ways that lead to the Temple, have as unlovely a Com- plexion as Mourners, being overgrown by reaſon that none goeth up-as uſually to che Feaſts of che Paſſover, of Tabernacles, &c. Ei. cher all the Gates of Jers/alem, gr rhe Temple, or all her Cities ars
taken from her, |' x departed p: her princes are become like harts chat find
;no paſture, and they are gone without ſtrength before
FE purſuer 9»
ſoever ſplendor the City had, whether from the multitude or gal-
very thin of people, the places that uſe to be fo full. 7 Her Priefts that were wont to be fo fully imployed at Feſtivals receiving ths peoples Oblations, and offering Sacrifices, they mourn having now - _ ing m"—_ -_ you mane we thoſe Feaſts were wont to play with Timbrels, Plal. 68. 25, ey now moutn, and perſo of all Ages and Ranks are in bitterneſs. 4 ; Y OMe, | 5 Her adverſaries are * the chief, her enemies pro- » Jer. 52: ſper : for the LORD hath afflicted her » ; for the mul- 23. titude of her tranſgreflions, her children are gone into - captivity before the enemy o.
» God hath fulfilled his threatning, Dev. 28. 43. The Enemy is got ab:ve us, and we are brought very low, for the multitude of ovir ſins, direCtly contrary to his promiſe in caſe of obedience, Ver. 13.
o Not only our young and old Men, but the little Children, have been driven like Sheep before the Enemey into a miſerable Capti» Vity.
6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is
p All the Inhabitants of Z:on have loſt their former Beauty, what-
lantry of her Inhabirants, it isall gone, her Nobles are become thi;
and 1ll-favoured like Beaſts dal ſtarved, their ors fin
_ to deftroy them, and they have no ſtrength to oppoſe or feliſt
Theme : | -
: #7 Jeruſalem remembred in the days of her affliction;
and of her miſeries, all her || pleaſant things thae ſhe [| Or, 4s
had in the days of old, when her people fell into the 9%
hand of the enemy, and none did help her r, the ad-
verfaries ſaw her, and did mock at her fabbaths /« ha » The Inhabitants of Jeruſalem now, that they are in aflition and
miſery, have time toRemember their former Mercies, and with how
many deſirable things God had once bleſſed them, and compare
her former ſtate before ſhe fell into the Enemies hands, with her
preſent ſtate now ſhe is in their power. { Now ir is an 2Mi&ion to
them to hear her Enemies mock at her Sabbaths, which while they i
enjoyed they abuſed. ne 7%
8 Jeruſalem hath grievouſly ſinned : therefore ſhe + Heb. ; & | + is removed ; all that honoured her, deſpiſe her r, * be- pe... Þ cauſe they have ſeen her nakedneſs : yea ſhe ſigheth, meving, os | and turneth backward. @
t She is carried out of her own Land into ari Enemies Countrey, ©"s- and made an hiſſing and ſcorn to thoſe who before Reverenced her, * Jer: 13+ } ( in allthis God is Righteous; for all orders of Men have grievouſly 26 Ezek. ſinned ) becauſe rhey have ſcen the Lord ſtripping her of all her 15-37-% .
Bleflings, and expoſing her to the ſcorn and Reproach ef all Men as 23: 29+ Strumpets are expoſed. * Deur.
9 Her filthinefs zs in her skirts w, ſhe * remembreth - not her laſt end, therefore ſhe came down wonderful- ly : ſhe had no comforter x : O LORD behold ry af. - fliction : -for the enemy hach magnified bizy/elf y.
w He pzrſiſteth in his compariſon of the Jewiſh people, either to a flutriſh naſty Woman, or te an impudent Wominn that is not aſhamed to expoſe her naſtineſs or wickedneſs to rhe view of all. x That is, the Jews never conſidered, or wonld nor believe what thoſe degrees of fin would at laſt bring them to, and that hath been the cauſe of that prodigious Calamity into which God had broughe them, y The Prophet turas himſelf ro God, whom he defies ro
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LE Bo - »n of this people, that is with a pitiful compaſſh — _—_— very aſia thing in Holy Scripture, to ſignific the as of the Heart, by the a&s of the inward and outward Senſes, thoſe eſpecially of the Memory, Eye and Ear, becauſe ObjeQs muſt in by the Senſes before they can affe& the Soul.
an ( 97 _ tad ſpeaking of God after the manner of Men ) the Servants of God deſiring God to have compaſſion on them, ſhew
them favour, &c. Deſire him to behold and look upon their affliQti-
oo The adverſary hath ſpread out his hand upon all ker || pleaſant things z : for ſhe hath ſeen that the hea- then entred in her ſantuary, whom thou didft com- mand rhat they * ſhould not enter into thy congregatt-
on 34. | ' 2 Thatis, hath got them into poſſeſſion. By pleaſant things are
underſtood the Ornaments of the Temple, upon whic
ox mad had laid violent hands, ſo this Phraſe of ſpreading out the hand is taken, 1/s. 25- 11- The things of the Sanftuary were always pleaſant things to thoſe that feared God, poſlibly thoſe that litcle valued them before, now looked upon them in their true notion. We ſeldom know our Mercies till we come to be deprived of them. s He means the Ammonites, and Moabites whom the Law concerned, Deut. 23. 3. Some of whom probably aſſiſted the Babylonians in the | Conqueſt of Fudes.
*Jer. 52-6. + All her people ſigh *®, they ſeek bread b, they 'Or, 9 have given their pleaſant things for mear to | | relieve make the 11. fQulc : ſee, O LORD, and conſider, for I am be-
ae 9n ome vile d
ug þ He ſpeaketh probably with reference to the Seige, afcer which : the people had ſcarcely any pleaſant things to exchange for Bread. The whole Body of the people was in a {ad conditicn, and in 2 Land that ordinarlily flowed with Milk and Honey, they were at Joſs for Bread to cat- © And gave any thing for ſomething to ſa- risfic their hunger» 4 The Prophet ſends up aſudden Ejaculation to God much like that Yer. 6. The Argument he uſeth 1s drawn from the miſery the people were in, expreſſed under the notion of being become vile, that is miierable or contemprible.
"82 © [| Is it nothing to you, all ye that + paſs by ?
_ * behold, and ſee, * if there be any ſorrow like ro my + Heb. forrow : which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD -paſs by hath aflited me in the day of his fierce anger e.
Fhe way. © , The Prophet ſpeaks in the Name of the Jewiſh Church, as a Wo- * Dan. 9. -man in miſery ſitting by the way ſide, and calling to paſſengers that 142. came by to have compaſſion on her, ſuggeſting to them, that her
affliction was no ordinary affliction, nor the effect of a common and. ordinary Providence but the effect of the Lord's fierce anger,
a moſt ſevere puniſhment. | 13 om above: hath he ſent fire into my bones, and