« A Synecdockical Exprefſion extending to: all Ifles in tie AY terrancan Sea, or any other the neighbouring Coats; for rae 1e- brers Call ali People thar are ſeparared from them by the Modir err o- an Sea, Iſlanders, becauſe rhey come to rhem by Shipping : »ec of Ch::tim, Iſa. 23.1. x Underſtand 4-254, that Jay Eaſt, South- Eft of Judca, as Chi:tim did more North or North-Weſt, qd. oo from North to South, Eaſt ro Welt, and maze the Experi- ment, look to C/it:tim the moſt civilized, or Kelar tne molt barbrous, yer neither have changed their Gods. 5 Not Tiuat they were to paſs over Jocally, or fend M-ttengers thitter a&tazJly, but caſt your Lyes thither, and make your Obſervations, by what you have ever feen, or heard,did you ever hear of fuch a prodigious thing ? If you ſhould either go, or fend, you will find If iO.
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are * yet no gods? but my people have changed their
z, «7. d. No, they are unmoveable and fixed to their Idols, al- though they are fille Gods, What they ceccive from tacir Farhers, they tenaciouſly hold. a iz. The true God, who was their Glo- ry. {A Meterymy of the Adjumn#, Pſal. 156. 25 ) and who always d:d them good, giving them cauſe to glory in him, and to make their boaſt of him. 6 For thote which never did, or can do them . yvood ; that have no Eiſence or Power ; burof whom they muſt neceſſarily be aſhamed, as verſe 26.
be horribly afraid 4, be ye very deſolate e, faith the LORD. |
c Angels, ſay ſome, but rather the vilible heavenly Bodies. A pathetical Exprefon in a poerical Proſopopein, as Deut. qe 26. and
M I A H. Chap. IL, '* © [4s verſe 17% 19. He was my Son, if he now become a Slave, he may thank himſelf.
25 The young lions / roared upon him, azd + yel- 4 541 led mz, and they made his land waſte : his cities are gave or
burnt without inbabirant ». their I Underſtand, the 4ſjrians, Babylonians, and Egyptians, &c. cal- Voice.
I2d Lions from their Fiercenelſs, and young from their Strengrh. See
rhis chap. 4. 7. and 50.17. m Noting the terrible voice, that the
Lion puts forth either in the ſeizing the Prey, ſome ay, in ſport,
Lam. 2.7. or the devouring it, J/a. 5. 29. A Mctaphor, noting
the Cruelty of the Enemy, P/al. 74.4. n, 7, e. So conſumed and
waſted, that they are unhabitable ; or ſhortly he ſhall ſo contume
and waſte them : See verſe 14.
16 Alfo the children of Noph and Tahapanes «|| j or, f:e4 have broken the crown p of thy head. en thy
o Two ofthe King of Egypt's principal Seats. Concerning Noph. Crown. {Ometimes called Memphis, now Cayro : See on 1/a. 19. 13. Con- Deur. 33. cerning 7Tahapanes, ſez Exch. 30. 18. probably taking irs Name from 1 2+ Tahpcnes Queen of Egypt, i Kings 11. 19. called alſo Hanes : See Ii. 8. 8. on //a. 3». 4. And the Inhabitants and Natives of theſe Cities are called here their Children, Iſa. 37.12. þp They that take the Hebrew Word in the Notion of breaking, underſtand this of de- troying whatever is chief or principal among them, either o© Pertons or Things: Wounds m the Head being moſt dangerous. Or, d-tiling the ciief of rhe Land, either by their corporal Adul- reries (and ſo take the Word under the Notion of knowing, as Gen, 19- 5.) or ſpiritual, namely Idolatries, chap. 44. 17. or their cruet tyrannical Oppreſfſions, trampling upon all their Glocy, expreiſzd by riding over their Heads, and that univerſally in a moſt intulr- ing manner. Burt the Word may be better taken in the Notion of feeding, as the Word 1s uſed, chap. 3. 15-7, e. They have fed up-
j on her moſt fruirful and pleaſant, the top and head of all her Pa-
{tures that lay in the Southern Borders towards Egypt. See chap. 13.
18, 19, 20, thus depriving them of all way of Subſiſtence, cap. *[ 12, 10. Inſhort, they {hall make havock of all rhat is exceilcar in x5. thee, 1/a. 28. 4+ The Sum 1s, thy Leagne,O Juden, with Exypr, a- Pi:
oainſt the Chaldeans will be the cauſe of thy total-Ruin : For the Kings of 7udah had not rebelled againſt the Babylonians,but to gra=
tilie the Egyptians in cxpettation of help from rhem. Lu 17 Haſt thou not procured this unto thy ſelf q, in x that thou haſt forſaken r the LORD thy God, when ;
he led thee by the way /?
_ 9 HereGod by his Prophet ſhews, thar they may thank them- ſelves for all that is haſtening upon them : See Numb. 32. 23. 7 Here he ſhews wherein, viz. in forſaking God ; not that he lett them, bur they him, and that without any Temptation, or Pro- vocation, and therefore the more inexcuſable. { Yiz. By rhe Con- duct of his Providence in the Wilderneſs, keeping thee in Safe-
32+ 1. intimating that it 15 fuch a thing, that the very inanimate Creatures, could they be ſenſible of ir, would be aſtoniſhed. 4 The Heb. imports as much as, let your hatr be lifted up : Such a Fright,as wentvally ſry, makes our Hair ſtand an end : Such a trembling property, as ſome dreadful Tempeſt doth ſometirnes cauſe in a Man. e Loſe your Brightneſs, Luſtre, and Shining, as the Sun, that heavenly body ſeemed to do when Chriſt ſuffered, Marth. 27. 45+ or wclting ; the heinouſnels of fuch a thing, as it were, diſſolving them.
13 For my people havecommitt=d two evilsf*: they
{ Fiz. Remarkable ones, and with a witneſs. g A Artaphir taken from Springs, called /:ving here, and Gen. 26. ig, and elle-
ty from all Dangers, Exod. 3o. 21, 22. 1ſa. 63. 12, 13. or inthe way of his Counſels, which the ways of their own carnal Wiſ- dom were ſo oppoſite unto.
138 And now what haſt thou to do in the way of E- gypt 7, to drink the waters of Sihor ? or what haſt
thou to do in the way of Afſyria, to drink the waters x of the river y ?
: What bulineſs haſt thou there, or what doſt thon expeC& from thence, or what need haſt thou to go, or ſend Metlengers thi- ther, if thou wouldſt but keep cloſe ro me. «Viz. Nile It tig- nifies Black, from whence called Melzs by the Grecks, either from the blackneſs of the Land ir paſſed through, or of the Soil it caſt- eth up. See on 1/2. 23. 3. x Here, and by the ſame Words be-