u A proverbial Speech, very frequent, not in common 'Lan- guage only, but Scripture allo, Job 6. 26. Eccleſ. 5. 16. and elſe- where, z.e. all the Prophet's Threats thall come to nothing : and thus they, ſcoffed at them, Tuſh, what do they lignihe ? they are but bruta fulmina : See 2 Chron, 36.15, 16. » This, poflibly , - they give as the Reaſon that they.apprehend the Yropher's Words | UW. to be but as Wind, becauſe they are not from God, they ſpeak bur Dreams of their own fanſying. » It ſhall fall upon their own heads that have thus threatned us, not upon us; or we will kill chem with the Sword, for thus vainly threatning us ; we will
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uſe them like Falſe Prophets, as they are ; and we ſhall ſee in *C the Sequel of rhis Prophecy how they uſed Jeremiah ; or it may T3 be an Imprecztion, 9.d. may it fall upon their own Heads : Thus 2G
the Heb. io be 7t unto them. 14 Wherefore z thus faith the LOR D God of a hoſts, Becauſe you ſpeak this b word, * behold, 1-Cyzp.1 5 will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it ſhall devour c them. |
z Theſe vile Wretches having now done ſpeaking, God begins to ſpeak ; and to tell them, that becauſe they had rhus {l:ghted. rhe Prophet, and God ſpeaking by him,(as in the next Words,B:cauſe-ye
ſpeak this word) therefore the Lord here tells them what he will do;
ne rather, turns himſeJf abruptly to the Propher, as Men uſually do ina paſſion. a He makes his Majeſty and Power known, to cloath his Words with the greater Terrour. 6 Y/:z. Atthe rate they diſcourſed in the former Verſe. « 7.e. Ir ſhall rake place ſuddenly, and irrefiſtibly, and fiercely, as Fire is wont to take in dry Wood to their utter Ruin and Overthrow, P/a/. 83. 14,15. 1ſa. 9. 18,19. They ſhall be but Fuel ro my Wrath which ſhall be executed by the Chaldean Army, that ſhall conſume, and ear rhem up like fire , they ſhall find my Words to be more than Wind.
I5 Lo, I will bring a * Nation upon you from + xg, « d far, O houſe of e Iſrael, faich the LORD : it x a 26.
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ract properly fo-called, //z. the Ten Tribes, were in Captivity y before : See on Chap. 4. 1. called the Houſe of 7ſ-ac!; nor only FE becauſe they deſcended from 7acob, bur becauſe they were the þ chief of that Stock. f Ir is both potent, cr, as the Word is, j rough and harſh, and of great Antiquity, ever lince the laying Lf the firſt Foundation of Brozliou by Nimrad, about 170 Years af 2 ter the Flood ; and hence it is called the Land of N:mrod, Mic. ] 5. 6. And this doth much add to their Cruelty, that they have I had Dominion and Rule in their hahds ſo long, whereby o they have not only grown more proud and haughry, bur having | been brought up 9 long in ways of Blood and Sjaughrer, they
muſt needs by this time become skilful ro deſtroy. g Which makes thy caſe much more deſperate. Ir is a great diladvantage when Perſons underſtand not one another ; they will neither underſtand thy intreaties, nor thou their offers, being both unintelligible, and inexorable , which will render thy condition much more {ad and perplexed; ſpeech being that by which Fey the affeEtion 15 readily communicated, and is the bond of humane _—_ Society : Hence this was part of the Judgment rhreatned, Det. ; 28, 36, 49, 5o. the Jews not well underſcanding rhe Syrian Tongue, which the Chaldeans ſpake, having had no converſe wirh them before the Captivity. Ir vas this put a ſtop to all converſe ar the building of 'Babel.
16 Their þ quiver js an open i ſepulchie, they are all mighty *F men.
h ColleFively expreſſed for Quivers; a Synecdoche for the whole military preparations, anda a Mc, 9nymy of the cont aining for the con- tained, viz, the Arrows, that will be ſhor our of them, called the ſons of the Quiver, Lam. 3.13. Bow and Arrow being the chief Weapons for War in thoſe Countiies, and in thoſe days. 5 A proverbial ſpeech , Pſal. 5. 9. relating to the dreadful havock,
was the Temple and Altar ; but they will find themſelves decej- ved; tor I dilownthem. ;, 11 For ” the Houlz of Iiracl and the houſe of 4 Ju-
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ſwallow many dead ; which may note their skil , and the ſucces they ſhall have ; few of their Arrows thall ſail of doing execut:- on. k Theſe Chaldeans are all Mzn of Valour fir for Warriours. 17 And they ſhall eat up thine * harveſt, and thy ! bread, hich thy ſons and thy daughters ſhould 7 eat; rhey ſhall eat up thy flocks, and thine herds ; chey thall ear up thy vines and thy z figereesz they jhail impoveriſh thy fenced Cities wherein thou crutt-
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| They thall make clean riddance, leave thee no ſapporrs of life, bur bring-an utrer famine upon thee; it is tiius threarned, ons: 28. 30, 48, 51. m Or, they thall cat up thy SONS and thy aug! ters; bur chis is only a M-ronymy Of the ef2& ; bur properly this averavircs the dreaiifulneſs of re Judgment ; Parzirs oxit of the tenderneſs of rheir affe&tion,chuling racher tro die themſelves, then to liero fee their Children ſtarved before their Eyes, and then no v-ays able to relieve them, Zam. 2.10, 11, # A particuler cnu- mation of rae D=(olation, that would be made, all rending to rhe ore:rnel of the former. 0, 7.e. Beſide the waſte that the Famine would mak? among Perſons ; their Cittes 241fo ſhould be de;zopur tired by the ſword of the Enemy : Or rather potfibly rhe Siege {hould be fo fireight, and ſtrict, as may be implied 11 rhe word imrovrifh, that they ſhouid be forced ro ear one another, 11 they were quire waſted, rhey ſhould be reduced ro fuch Poverty and exig2ncies; or the {word .inay relate £0 the mention2d mtr chiefs, as the cauie of rnem all, the Sword thall do 4] his. Fn ail which he doth nor fb uimich tell chem, that the Chaldeans {halt con- quer rhem., for thar is taken as ic were for granted, as, Wat crucl- tics they ſhall uſe when the?