22 C*|| The puniſhment of thine iniquity is accom- pliſhed, O daughter of Zion &, he will no more [| carry*16.40.2] thee into captivity /: he will viſit thine iniquity, O || Or, :hins daughter of Edom, he will diſcover thy ſins g. 7 gt |
k O Judes thy puniſhment is paſt, but the puniſhment of Zdom is , 0's —_— yet to' come. ' 'The Jews were to abide many years in Captivity, but fie H1a,-9agy they were now ſuffering their Jaſt puniſhment from the Chaldeans, 7 ſos, they were only for ſome Years tocontinue in that ſtate of Captives.
I Affer thy term of Captivity ſhal be expired, thou ſkalt noc tor thy old fins ſuffer any more puniſhment ; not that their preſent Captivi« ty ſhould be a!l their puniſhment in caſe they went on in ſinful courſes, ( as they did in reje&ing Chriſt, and cauſing him to be Crucified ) for thoſe new wickedneſles after many Years they were deſtroyed by the Romans, But the Prophet hints, that there thou!d at preſents or for their paſt ſins no more wrath be poured out upon them, ner would God ever detain them in this Captivity. g Bur for the Edomites, their puniſhment was yet wholly ro come, God was yet beginning to puniſh them, and would do ir, diſcovering their ſms. As the pardon of ſin is in Scripture ſer out under the notion of covering it, Pſal. 32.1- ſo the puniſhment of fin may be expreſ« ſed by diſcovering it, Job 20. 27. but the learned Author of the En. gliſh Annotations, conceiveth the Hebrew may be better read, He wif diſcover thee for thy ſins, becauſe of the Particle by {et- before 74 ſin; ( though ourTranſlation taketh no notice of it.) He will diſcover upon thy ſens, and ſo it anſwereth, Jer 49+ Io. ( as he conceiveth ) 7 have made Eſau bare, I have uncovered his ſecret places, and be ſball nos be able t0
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An humble prayer, preſenting to the Lord their grent Miſery, IS. Confeſſing $heir Sins, 16——18, Impliring D-l:erance, 19 22+ Emember, O LORD, whatis come upon us: con-
| ſider and behold our reproach 4s. ES a It hath been befcre obſerved, thar it is very frequent 1 Scrip ture to expreſs thoſe afts which are reafoably confequent fo The exerciſe of our exterior or interior ſenſes, by rerms which ſignifie the exerciſe of thoſe ſenſes. That which the Prophet here prayeth for is God's freeing the Jews from thoſe Calamities which opprei- ſed them, this he prayerh for under the notion of God's remem- bring them, and beholding their reproach. 2 Our inheritance is turned to
toaliens b.
b What our Fathers inherited as given them by thee, and we as Jeft ro us by them, is come into the hands of the Chaldeans.
2 Weare Orphans and fatherleſs c, our mothers are as Widows &e
c Weare all of us without a King ( whois the common Father of the Countrey ) we zre deprived of thy Fatherly care and proteCti- on, many young Children amongſt us are lefe without an earchly Parent. 4d Either our great Cities are Iike Widows wanting Magi- ſtrate. Or, cur Women that were Married are left Widows.
4 We have drunken our water for money, our wood Þ+ is fold to us e. |
e This ſeemerh to refer to the State of the Jews in Babylon, where it is probable their Adverfaries made them buy both Water and Wood, which in the Land of Canaan they had plentifully and with- out any further chargeto them, than ferching the one, and cutting down and bringing home the other.
5 | Our necksare under perſecution, we labour and
have no reſt f.
f As the generality of Priſ:ners of War, are made Slaves and put to hard and inceſſant labour, fo in probability the moſt of the Jews were af firſt at leaſt.
6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Aſlyrians, to be fatisfied with bread g.
Z'The ten Tribes were all carried Captives into Yſhris, many of the Kingdom of Judah, as we have heard, fled inro Egypt aft-r the taking of Jeruſalem, Giving the hana may either ſigr1fie working with their hands, and labouring for them : Or, yield:ng up them- ſelves tortheir power, or lifting up the hands as ſupplicants rothem, or ſtriking hand making Covenants with them, or lending them their hands to heip them, and all to get any thing ro Ive upon.
7 * Our fathers have ſinned and are not, and we have
born their iniquities 4,
h We muſt not urdcrſtand this in the ſame ſenſe as Ezek. 18. 2. where God r<:fle&erh upon then: for uſing a Proverb ro this ſenſe. ' Tr is the Propher who here ſpeaketh, and in the Name of the godly F-2ws who would not excuſe themleives, 2s if they ſuffered meer]y for their Forefithers ſins. - But the Proptict cunfefT-th and bewail- eth thar God had puniſhed their Iniquities and the Iniquities of their Forefathers toge' hery and it was better wich their Forefathers who had ſinned, and were dead and gone, than with them vp:n whom the puniſhment of their iniquity did abide, and was like ſo to do a Jong time. | |
8 Servants have ruled over us z: zhere is none that doth deliver «s out of their hands k
; Either thoſe who ſometimes were our Servants, tributary to us, or the Poſterity of Cham, condemned of old to be Servants to our forefather Shem, Gen. 9 26. Or the Servants of th:ſe Maſters whom we ſerve in Babylon, k And none wall help us and give us more li- berty.
9 We gat our bread with rhe peril of our lives, be-
cauſe of the ſword of the wildernels /.
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fecuted.
1 The Enemies lay encamped in all rhe Plains, fo as they could
ſtir out no way bur che Sword of rhe Chaldeans was upon them, and . what Vitals they gat they adventured their Lives for, during the | time of the Siege. :
*Jobzo. 10 Our * skin was black like an oven, becauſe of 30- Pia. the [| rerrible famine »s. no | 83. » The want of bread cauſed leanneſs, and paleneſs, and ill co- Or. 7er- lours in their Faces.
part 11 They raviſhed the women in Zion, and the maids
in the cities of Judah ». : | ; » Uſual Ourrzges of barbarous Souldiers. The Heb. is, They
W:mbled, a modeſt rerm to expreſs thoſe aCtions by. *Iſa-47.6. _ 12 Princes are hanged up by their hand w; * the
faces of elders were noc honoured:
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Toh Chap.” w Moſt probably by the Enemies hands, though ſome wou!d 3 have 1t by their hands intimating a more ſharp aid lingringdeath. Hanging was an ancient way in the Eaſtern Countries cf putting MalefaCtors te death, Gen. 40. 19.