where, becauſe they never ceate, or intermit, ſuch had God's! Care and Kindneſs been over, and ro them. See on 1{2. 58, 11+ His Spirit contiaually proceeding from the Father and the Sonto | refreſr their Conſciences, Compare John 4. 10. and 7. 38, 39. þ It is doubled, to ſh=w the multitude of their Shifts ; and brokcy is added, tc: ſhew the helplefnefs of them,as being able ro hold no Water, but whea he hath made many hard Shitrs ro get Water, he cannor keep it, but it dries away, or, 1t it abide, proves un- wholſome ; by which underſtand either their Idols which are empty vain things, tlat never anſwer expectation ; or the Alſyri- ans and Egyptians, as verſe 18. which proved bur broken Reeds, and as all other Supports or Props, Friends, Traditions, Merits,c>c. are, that are truſted to, belides God, they are bur Ciſterns at the beſt, whoſe Water will putrifte, or brojzen, crackr Vetlels chreugh which they will ſoak, and leave nothing bur Mud and Dirt be- hind them,
14 © I; Wſrael a ſervant ? is hea home-born ſlave i ?
# Did Tever account him ſo, or dil I not rather always reckon bim my firſt-born ? ſo ſome, as c:7ſe ;1. But it may better relate to his ſad Condition, and Abuſes from others, as chap. 49. 1. which God or the Prophet doth here enquire into; and Slave .is here rightly added to home-born, (though not in thz Text) to enhance the Condition of his Service, becauſe the Maſter had Power to make theſe Slaves, who were born of Slaves in his Houſe ; which argues his Condition very low, whether he were thus born or had been forced to fell himſelf ro be a Slave, & He ſpeaks ei rher of the thing that 15 to be, as if it were already done, becauſe of the certainty of ir, as of chat Devaſtation made by the Aſſyri- 2s and Caldeans who uffliftted rhe Remnant of the Jews, or of that havock, that was made of them formerly by Senacherib, the Af; rians, and Fzyptian: Why is he thus tyrannized over Iſs 42e 24 * as it Strangers had the ſame right over him, as Owners over their Slaves. He remaves here the falſe Cauſes of IſraelÞs
fore, 1s meant, to ſeek help from either place ; noting. their ol {+ Strength : See on 1ſa. 8. 6. A Metaphorical Allzgory, wherein God + minds them of rwo of their broken Ciſterns, and ſthews them thcir 7.
Folly to go ſo far, when they might have been berter [Upplied nearer home, asif God were not ablc ro help then -: Compare verſe 36. y, i. e Euphrates, often called fo by way of eminency, the chief River of 4ſſjria, Iſa. 7. 20.
19 * Thine own wickedneſs ſhall correct » thee, * if. 3. 9. and thy backſlidings ſhall reprove a thee : know b there- | fore and ſee, that zt is an evilc thing and bitter, that thou haft forſaken the LORD thy God 4, and that
_ fear e is not in thee, ſaith the Lord GO D of hoſts. | |
2 The meaning is, either, 1. There needs no further Evidence againit thee than thine own evi] Courſes, Hof. 5.5. Or rather; mizbe corrett thee, z. ez. one would think ſhould be ſufficient ro reci»:m thee. See Hoſ. 2. 5, Or. 2. Thy own Wickednefs is the cauſe of tay Corredtion. Or, 3.Thy Wickedneſs will be an evidence, that whatſoever thou ſuffereſt is juſt. a The ſame with the former, but in other Words, after the manner of rhe Hebrews, or a Metonymy of the Effet? for the Cauſe ; thou wilt not be periuaded, till rhou come to ſuffer; thou wilt nor be inſtrufted, until correSted 5 Or rather, as before, thy many buckflidings might reach thee more Wiidom, and convince thee of thy Folly; fo doth the Word Re-
prove f1gnihe, Job 6.25» b, 2. e, Call ro mind thy Experiences, and F UE conſider well with thy ſelf, and thou canit not but be convinced = J” of thoſe things, what forfaking of God hath coſt thee. c Yiz. ow
Of Puniſhmenr principally; to 7a. 45. 7. though ir be true allo of Sin; therefore he calls ir bitter, becaule the efect of it will be ſo ; it will be unplealing, and birrernels in the latrer end. d,7.e. Me. e Or the fear of me, or thou haſt nor my fear in thee, this being the ground of all thy Sin and Suffering, /,! 36. 1. Rom. 3. 16, 18.
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eſt as it were thy Foot-ſteps, ard Monuments of thy frequent 74o- latriess »y Thy frequent Courſes in the Valleys, wherher of H:n« om, where they burnr their Childrens Bones 1n Sacrifice, chap. 7. 21, 31. Orin any Vallies where thou haſt been frequent in cy Idolatries-. Ic ieems to be thus larg<'y raken. « Look on and comn-
lider thy ways, as vzrſe 19. a Or, thu art as, &c. or, O Brome= aary: A Beait much uſed by Carriers in Arabia, being rife there» . 9CE ON 1/r. Go. 6. b A Metaphor taken from Creatures that ars
FO I . tloners are wont to | , . . = ther ro the Bands and Fetrers, with which —- oe Fn hunted, that keep no dirc& Path ; alluding to the Nature of th be bound, chap. 40. 4- Or, thoſe Bands, wherewith thc end: | She Dromedary, which in gendring time runs caperins this way,
Yole of Beaſts were wont to be bound. See on 1/a. 58. 6. 2 When the Deliverance was freth, lutions. Ec. ſerve, 7. e. Serve or worthip Idols: the Feminine Gender, becauſe God Ipeaks of his People, as of a Woman promiling Faithfulne{s, bur breaking Covenant. _ underſtand, 2hce, I will not _ thee, 9. d. which thou made