wounds. | u In this Verſe God aggravates their Sin of Oppreſlion, men- tion'd in the former. A Metaphor to expreſs how natural all manner of Wickednels isto her , how full ſhe is of it, and how unceſfant in it, noting her Impudence ; a Fountain being notable ro retain its Water. And the Expreſſion of Caſting it out, ſeems to imply her Violence in her Filthineſs; as it 1s ſaid of the Sea, that it cafteth out Mire and Dirt, 1/a.57-20. and favoured by the next Claule, xg. d. This is all ſhee buſteth her ſelf about, Chap. 20.8, Itis the general Complaint of her Inhabitants. » 2; That the Poor ſuſtain. Where-ever I go or look, Ican hear and lee nothing but the ſaid Complaints and Grievances of the Poor, lamenting over Oppreſſion and Cruelties that are uled againſt themy Pſal. 69. 26. this being fo expreſly againſt God's Com- mand, Exod. 22. 22,23, 24,0. Iſ4.3. 14, 15. - Fam. $« 4. for this refers rather to their Sin, that to their Sufferings trom the
Enemy, as ſome would carry it, | |
8 Be thou z inſtructed, O Jeruſalem, leſt my ſoul + Heb. be depart 4 from thee : leſt | 1 make thee deſolate, a
unlooſed 1and not b inhabired. | or di3joint- 2 Heb. Correded. q. d. By the CorreQion thou haſt felt, and ed, what is threatned, be perſwaded to Repentance before it be tov
late, Prov. 29. 15. God doth here in the midſt of Fudgment
che p aſſembly of young mea cogether : for even the husband with the q wite {hall be taken, the aged witli him that is r full of days.
k Heb. And: which tems to be a better Conrexion ; for that which pittteth him upon this Work, ſeems rather to Le that Spirit of Prophecy that 15 in him, rhanany Conſideration draw trom them. / Iam. as it were, filled with the Fire of God's Wrath, and Curles againſt this People, which I am forced co dit. charge my lelt of 3 a Metonymy of the SubjeF. See Etek. 3. 3: Chap. 4. 19. ie doth not only complain of their Stupidity, ac in the former Verte, but ſtirs up bis Indignation againſt them, m But he can contain himſelt no longer 3 which tnplies his great Unwillingneis to denounce thele Curſes g. d. The Wrath of God. by the [mpulle of his Spirit, aCting ſo violently with mine, that it w1ll break out. Seethe like, Fob 32.18, 19. Whereby jt appears. the Propher is not. carried oa by his own private Spirit, bur by the Spirit of God ; he hath no Delight in it; bur is forced to be the Meſſenger himlelf of his Wrath ; therefore it he be ſharp againit them, they muſt not impiite ir to him, bur to the Spiric of Gol, that conſtrains him thus to ſpeak, n Viz. In prophe- {y1ng, noting the great plenty of ic: A Metaphor trom violen® Rains, that we ſay do pour down upon the Earth, Chap. 7. 20. Rev. 16.1, 0 The Streets being the places where ulually li:tle Children are wont to [port themlelves.2ch. 8:5 .The fame word
remember Mercy, as it were ſuddenly putting a ſtop to his tury, |uled P/al. 8. 2. p Their fecree Meetings, whether ia Harlocs ſeeking, if by any means it may yet be prevented by their Re- | Houles, Chap. 5. 7. or for Mirth and Jollity, or co join either pentance, q. 4, Iwould yet willingly ſpare them, if-ic mifhe [thei Strength or Countel together, which Childrea are not ca« be. 4 Heb. be disjointed : A moſt emphatical Merapher,whereby | pable of ; for the Hebrews do riot only c{!] them Yourhs, that are
God would expreſs how great Griet it is to him to withdraw |paſs their Childhood, poſlibly at Fitreen or Sixteen Yeats of Aoe; himielt from them, could it poſſibly be avoided ; ( his great |but Men of Twenty or Thitty, grown to their [ill Stretigth and
Ef AffeCtion to them being here expreſſed by Soxt which is the Seat |Maturicy in the flower of cheir Years; yer it thall advartrage
of it, Pſal. 42. 1,2.) even like the ſeperating one Limb from |them nothing. q Heb. 3f.n with Womat ; the Wite fhall be
another, Hereby is intimated the near Communion that God |taken as well as the Husband one Sex as well as tif2 ocher, tha!l hath with the Faithful, and how ready he is to return, if they be a Prey to the Enemy. # Not only Met) char inav be rermed Will return. b Leſt he make them not a People. old, as they may be trom 5oto 30g which ate then laid to be
9 T Thus ſaith the LORD of hoſts, They ſhall [waxing old, but fuch as had upon the point filled up the number
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of their Days, at the edge ot the Grave, 1/z. C+. 20. talled very aged; as Bargillaz, 2 $4in. 19. 32,34,35. The lence is, that
turn d back thins hand as a grape-gatherer into the | aj fores, trom the Children to the decrepid Old wan had to cars
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[2 And their houſes ſhall be turned unto / others, with their fields and t wives together : for I will # ſtretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, faich che LORD.
{ j. e. Thei; Houſes and their Lands ſhall be devolved, or eurn- ed over to Strangers, Chay. 8 10. Even that Land which they thought had been entailed upon them, and they 10 finely fixed in for ever, P(al. 132. 13, 14. t Their molt deſirable Things : It need not bereſtiained preciſely to Wives, the Heb. fignitying Wonen largely, Chap. 7.18. compriſing Maids, Wives, Or —_— bines, and this according to the Tohreatning, Deut. 28. 30. an Chap. 8. 10 uJix. ro [mite z to give yuua ſorer Blow, Iſa. 5. 25. A Synechdoche of the k n4; ipoken after the manner of Men. Here the Propher gives them tte reaſon of this tneir unexpectec Cilamity, that they might not taink it an Impeflibiity 3 becaule God was become their Enemy.
13 For from the x leaſt of them even unto the gercatelt of them, every one z5 glven tO y covetoul- neſs *; and from the prophet even unto the prielt, every one decaleth Z tallly. wh