yer fanlieſt thy ſelf faichfal ro mic. 3. To the time pait, -. e. ; Haſt rhou nor all along pretended Kindnei5 to ine, and as if thuu | hadft walked cloſe with me? 2 Kings 17, 324 33. Exel. 23, 349. je Wilt thou not as a Child call upon me, whom thou hatt thus | greatly provoked, and own me as a Farther ? verſe 19. tor fuc!; ' have I been to thee, Pſal. 103..13, Mal. 1.6. and 3- i7. f Li- ther on whom I have depended, as being brought up by thee,
., orthe ſubmiſſive Expreflion of a Wite 1teeking to be reconciled
to her Husband, that God would be ro her as he had been 1n th - \ Days of her Yourh : fucha Caſe as is exprefled 1 Cor. 7. 11. Words of Flatrery uſual with Hypocrites ; or - rather, being married to 'thee in thy Youth ; a Periphrafſis for Husband, Prov. 2. 17. which ' argues great Tenderneſs towards her, verje. 2- Thus the J'ender- nets of this Relation is expretied, Mal. 2. 14. and fo God 1s laid to elpouſe them to himſelf, Ezek. 16.8 _ 5 * Will hereſerve g bs anger for ever ? will he keep it tothe end þ ? Behold, thou haſt ſpoken and done ;
evil things as thou couldeſt,
Z Here being a Defe& of the Noun, the Jews ſupply ic with thy Sin, Iſa, 43. 25+ but by the moit and beſt, as we do, his Jager. Compare it with werſ? 12. Pſal. 103. 9. Nahum, 1. 2. in which Texrs there is a DzfeCt of the ſame Word. Fhis may ſeem to be the Words of the Propher, and fo the Connexion is ealie with the foregoing Words, 4.4. If thou wouldit do ſo, try me now, Fc. Would he relerve his Anger? Would he not be rec 1nciled 2 but thou haſt taken quite another Covurte': Or, they may b« the Words of God, as it were teaching his People how tivzy thou! zc- colt him : God is more forward and earnet!t for Reconciliation, than Sinners themſelves. +þ The fame with the former {or evoy. i God's Challenge of the people, charging then: either wich their refolved Wickedneſs,thar they had made good all their evil Words by their evil Afftions; they had even done a5 they tzid ; or rather.
with their Hypocriſie. 9g. d. Norwithiftanding all thy tormer Promiſes, yet thou periiſteſt {till in thy Lewdnets and Obvitinacy, Iſa. 58. 2+ Hof. 7. 14 ;
6 4 The LORD faid alſo + unto me/, in the days of Joſiah the king 2, hait thou feen 7547 which backſliding Ifraelhad done »? the is gone up upon eve- ry high mountain, and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlor.
k Or, again ; thewing thar here begins a new Sermon, in which the Propher, from God, 1. Declares 1/rael's Apoſtacy, and how it fared with them for ir. 2. Aggravares Fud 2's Sin, for not ta- king warning. 3. Ifſues forth an Invitation of chem both ro Re- pentance, with a Promiſe of Acceptation,and r:-uniting them un- der the Meſſiah. 4. Relates the Compliance of the Faithful among; them with this Invitation. ! /7z. By Revelation ; for he peaks
the King of 4ſſria, 2 Kings 17. 5.to 13. long before Jeremiah was born ; therefore he ſaith, Haft thou wot jeen, 7. e. conlidered wherefore God gave her a Bill of Divorce, mz When he would have purged the Land, and reſtored the pure Worlhip of God. n Viz. The ten Tribes who fe!} off from Judah, and fer up a diſtin& Kingdom of their own under 7erov22m : Whar they did, v12, in their Idolatries, expretied in the next Words, an cap. 2. 20. See there, when they openly apottatrzed from Gol, and lar with one common Conleat ; inlomuch, raar a!! ener Kings pro» ved wicked and idolatrous, and poſtibly it may look «s far back as Solomon's Defettion, 1 Kings 11. 4, 5, &c, which may nov, come in remembrance. |
7 AndlI ſaid, after ſhe haddone all theſe rhings, turn thou unto me o. But the returned not. And her trea-
cherous ſiſter Judah p ſaw it 7.
0, Viz. By Repentance, As 3. 19. Altho' {h= had been fo vile and abominable, yer the Lord waired in expeQ:tion of her Re- [rurn. þ Benjamin 15 allo here comprized ; but Judav bang ine \chief is only named, theſe rwo abiding together after rus 0.!ter
lying in wait by the way for Pafſlengers, as Robbers uſe to do, [Cen revolted ro Fereboarn. Called Hjrat's Siſter, becaute they were
Ho). 6. 9. they being noted for Robbers. Or rather, 1n a way of; all deſcended from rhe Farriarch Jacob, Exc. 16:46
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