trary tothe Law tor gathering. the Vintage, rough tt may leem toallude to it, Lev. 19. io. Fudah: thall be gleaned over and over, ti] there bea full End, none left; as the ifraelitts gleaned the B:njamites,Fudg.20.45.tor thus they picked them t39 ar leve- ral times both before, 2 Kings 24. 2. and alſo at the cime of Zee kiah's Reign, > Kings25.6.7,11,18,19.and this {ceris to be intits> ted in the next words. See Hab. 1.9. d As much asto fy, they ſhould not be content wich one ſpoiling, but they ſhoull go back a ſecond anda third time, again and again, to carry away both Perions and Spoil, leaving nothing behind them worth carrying away, Chap. 52.28, 29, 30. the firſt carrying away being as the Vintage,the ſecond the Gieaning.carying away firlt che prucip?l, and afterwards the more interiour fort, 2 As the G:ape Ga> cherers do, filling one Basket after 2nother. Whether theſe be the Words of the Babylotians, Calling upon and flirring up on- another to do it, as ſome ; orthe Words of God to che B's: naans, 3s moſt ; it comes much to the ſame thing : tor wha: they did was by God's Commiſſion.
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6 For thus hath the LORD of hoſts ſaid p, Hew i Or pozr ye down 4 trees, and || caſt a 7 mount againlt Jeru-
no delight in it-
Heb. Make proteffation, noting with what Earneſtneſs the D 7
out the En-fyJem. This zs the city to be / vilited ; ſhe 2s whol- Prophet would beſpeak them in his warning of them. See C92:
gines of RP OE . you Pt Jy © oppreflion in the midlt of her.
IT. 7, The Prophet taking notice of their Obſtinacy, 1peaks as
p Viz. To the Chaldeans : Here God declares whence they have one aſtoniſhed, and highly makes complaint, being greatly grie-
their Commitlſion, 4: 4. they come not up on their own heads, [ved, that he can find none that will take warning ; the like
lee Chap. 5.14, 15. God would have the Fews to know, that they have not 1o much to do with the Chaldeans as with him 3 that they are his Rod to ſcourge them for their Sins, Chap, I» 15, 16, See 2 Kings 18. 25. Andchus God is 1a1d to hits for ſuch whom he will employ in ſuch Work, 12.5. 26.and 7. 18, And Ln | he ſtiles himleltche Lord of Hoſts, to ſhew that it is in vain to contend in Bartel with them Whom he lends forth, and will be as it were, the Captain ot their Hoſts. q Heb. A Ty2e collective
Chap. 7. 23,24. He laboursto perſwade, bat all is 1a vatn3they curn a deat Ear to him, as the next Exprefition intimates. g A hgurative kind of Speech frequent with the Prophets ;- a1 nc zre
ciſed heart, an obſtinate and rebe}jious Will. Hence Circumcihon was for a Teſtimony of Obedience; and therefore the Fronier doth racitly infinuate their falfeneſls ro God, to whorn thev had proinited to be obedient, 2 Kings 1i.17.-and 23. 3. 23d
ly taken, 9. d. Cut them down all as ore Tree, not ſparing their [the Scripture. calls thote thar are void of the fear of Goa, ard very Fruit Trees; Which indeed weretobe ſpared in ſuch acale, carried out to ali manner cr. Luſts, wncircu:zciſed 3 Exch. 445 Deut. 20. 19. Either ſuch as lie in the way of your March,or all] 7.9. for Uncircumſion was aboininable among the Jerys 2 59 thar round abour Feruſalem : or, tuch as you may have need of chere| it noces both their Sin and their Srame, their Ear being ſtopped, or elſe where for your Ul, eicher to raiſe up Works againſt the unfic tor hearing, as it it were witi a Foreskin or Film over 1t; tirong places, Deut. 26. 20. or to mae other Inſtruments off As 7. 51. h Tie Prophet dota nor here leilen their Crims, by War. r Throw up one continued Trench, as a Mount rou 1d ſcheir Inability and want of Poxyer, but rather agravares it, inat- about it, See on Iſa. 37. 53. Heb. Pour ont the Engine ; of thactee|much as th:y had brought themtelves under that Incapacity by
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2 Sam. 20,15, | God is laid ro viſie ſometimes 1n mercy, Gen. by their Obſtinacy and Willfulneſs : as a drunken Man that hath 50. 24. Zeph. 2.7, and ſometimes in Judgment, as hereand Chap, deprived himic1t of his Reafon by Exceſs, renders the Wantot his 5. 9. and 23.2. They areripe for it, &zek. 7- 10, 11, 12. See Underſtanding the more inexculabie. 7 Either they reproach it I Theſ. 2. 16. and it is decreed againſt them, and ready to come in the Meſſengers Mouth, Luke 11. 45. or rather, they laugh at it; upon them, Chap. 23. 12. Hoſ. 9. 7- All Attempts have failed,and|and ſcorn it; they cannot bear Counlel : They look upon reproving now there is no remedy. t In the Abſtradt ; ſhe doth nothing |chem to be reproachiag chem : They cake ao Delight in hearing but opprels; there are found in her, all kinds ot Opprethon and] ſuch things. A tarther Reaſon of thetr Impotency and Odſtinacy, Injuſtice 3 A Synechoche, For all ocher Cruelties, 2 Kings 24. 3, 4-]All their Admonicions and Intiuftiors, ſeemed infipid, and there- Exeh.7.23. Even in that City, which was once tull of Judgment,] fore were they lo ſtupid, according to the next Words; Prov. 155
and Righteouſneſs lodged in it, {/a. 1. 21. but now is 1wallowed up with Oppreſſion.. 7 As a fountain caſteth out her waters, ſo ſhe caſt-
12, See Chap. 5.31. 2 Tim. 4.3. | 11 & Therefore | am / full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with #2 holding in ; 1 will
. ; : * * x73 11 1 . . Pſal.55.eth out her « wickedneſs: * violence and ſpoil is|,, pour 1t out upon the children o abroad, and upon
9, 10, 11. x heard in her; before me continually zs grief and