G C my h anger and ny # fury ſhall be k poured out UPp-| x7 Their Farhers had done bad enough, bur they were fo far ;-, 26. O11 This place, up2u man and upon bealt, and upon |from reforming, chat they did worſe than che Farhers, Jude 2.19. Chap. 16.
the trees ot the field, and upoa the fruit of the / = - wenn he ethers _ Ry tif wi _ = 'T EE . Cc anging 7 c &e 1alt J6bY Partners, AS 1. Ww C a '©. grouud ; and it thall burn, and ſhall not be pleaſure turning away from them to the Propher, as one ſpeaking; 15, anda.
qguacne, but 1n vain, to ſuth a ttupid People.
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27 Therefore thou ſhalt ſpeak b all theſe c words, naro them, but they will not 4 hearken tO thee : thon ſhalt alſo call unto them, but they will nor e
anſwer thee. b Viz. Revive upon them all thou haſt been ſpeaking ow from me, theſe 40 Years and upwards. c Whereby -—_ Hs erat there is nothing wanting on h1s part; for notwitn "Y I's all their Perverſenefs,yet he ſt1]] warns them by his Prophet,w = | wi.l leave themthe more inexculable, Ezek. 2+5,7- © TH mw | needs be a great Trial to the Prophet, that he 1s aiſured ore ; ſhall 1peak co them in vain. But chis God acquatnts him on on th fore-hand, parily tor J:remiah's ſake, that he ſhould not w_ | | couraged, but the more emboldened, rhough he law no _—_ | a | vel, 2 .7. and partly tor the Peoples lake, that being "—_— - | their Obſtioacy, they might bethink themleives and _ 1 A © there might be hope, Lam. 3. 29. e This ſhews thelr fart 4% ah, tractorinels, that were not only deat to God's Meſſage by 1s n 0 phet, but, though he cried loud, followed one Exhortation Wit another, yet they would make no Return unto It. ; 23 But thou ſhalt ſay unto them, this zs a F nation, | | that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, lj i Or,” In TEccIveth g || correction; truth is periſhed, and 1s ' {trufior. cut off from their h mouth. ? FRG t | f Spoke in a way of Contempt, 9. d. a Nation more than Hea- i theniſh, though they protels themlelves a peculiar People to me, j vet to be numbred among the Gentiles. & i. e. Anſwer not the | Ends of Correction, viz. to be inſtructed, Chap. 5. 3. and ſubmit their Necks to the Yoke, which Jaid the Foundation of all their | Rebellion. þ There is no truſting or believing them in any thing | they ſay or do ; no Veracity or Fidelity, but perfidious both to Gol and Men, being all filled with Hypocriſfte, Lyes an Deceits. # "9M | 29 *Cut off thine # hair, O Jeruſalem, and caſt it k away, and take up a lamentation on high / places :' for the LORD hath rejected and forſaken the gene-| ration of his 2 wratlt. | ; Ir was an uſual Token of Sorrow among the Fews to cut off | the hair, Fob 1. 20. Iſ4- 15+ 2. Mic. 1.16. Bur here he _ either to Feremiah ; for O Jeruſalem is not in the Text ; or, to the
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Inhebitares of Feruſalem; and ſo ſpeaks to them, asa Woman, 'gf mirth, and the voice of gladneſs, the voice of Chap. 16. the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride : for the aq 33+
whoſe Hair is tor an Ornament, 1 Cor. I1. 15. Therefore this' muſt needs fignifie an higher degree of Sorrow. Cutting the Hair among the Aiictents did fignifie, 1. Mourning. 2. Bondage. , For the cutting of the Hair in Servants was a Token of Subjecti- | on: Sothat this ſpeaks Feruſalem's mournful Condition in her , Captivity. k It is to be reſerved, as ſometimes Men, and Wo-: men both do for tome uſe, but to be caſt away, and as a thing . good for nought. And thus it may agree with the Churches La- : mentation, Lam. 5. 16, for it is not here exhorted to, as a Token of Repentance, but as a threatning of Judgments. / See Chap. 3. 3. Lift up thy Voice on high in Lamentation, when thou haſt thine Eye or Thoughts upon the High Places, where thou wenteſt.a Whoring trom ie, for which thou now goeſt into Caprivity. m#: Or of his over-running Anger, as ſome render it, z. e. with whom he is extremely vexed, zhis preſent Generation, , that by their Provocations have brought themſelves under his | Wrath, wer. 18, 20. a Generation deſtin'd to the Wrath of God, called elſewhere the People of his Curſe, Iſa. 34.5. and ſuch as the Apoſtle calls Veſſels of Wrath, Rom. 9. 22. ſo tar as it concerns | the Phraſe. :
30 For the children of 7 Judah have done evil in'
* + Kings my o ſight, ſaith the LORD 3; * they have ſet their 27-4 abomination in the p houſe which is called by my
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EE 2 n Either Zudah's Poſterity, Feſb. 14. 6. or Judah's Inhabitants, ZEK. 0. which are often called therr Children ; fy Chap.2.16, 01. e, Tho' Dy Oo they will not lee it, yet I ſee 1t, and they ſhall know, that it
* iþ is in my fight, 72. e. that ic diſpleaſeth me. p Here he inſtanceth i 11 one Species of their Abominations for ail the reſt, whereby , it appears they were grown to a great height of Implety : Ir was not enough to have their Idols and Superſtitions abroad in the Hills and Groves, nor in private in their own Houſes, 1ſz. 57.6, 7, 8. Chap. 1g. 13. but they muſt bring them into God's { Houſe, as Manaſſes did, 2 Kings 21. 4+ God having but one Houſe in the World-as it were, to confront him, 2 Chron. 36. 14. Chap. 32.34. Etch. 43.8. : | 31 Andthey have built the * high places of 4 To- Gin rg, Phet, which is in the valley of the ſon of Hi Chap. 19. Pet» which z- 1n the valley of the fon of r Hinnom, oy to burn their ſons agd their daughters in the / fire : + feb. which I commanded chem not, neither came it in- Upiniry to my rt heart. brart. q See on Iſa, 30. 33. It comes from Toph that ſignifies a Drum, becauſe they did beat Drums ro hinder the Noiſe of their Chil- drens Screeches, when they burnt them in Sacrifice upon the Al- tars, Called here high placer, to Molech, which is alfo called delchom. vr Tophet was ſituate in a pleaſant Valley near Feruſa- /em, a place in the poſleflion of the Children of one Hinnom,
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'or not : Or, which I abhorred from my Heart ; he ſpeaks herein
after the manner of Men. See Chap. 3. 16. and 32-35.
32 There behold, the days * come, faith the. chap: LORD, that it ſhall - no more be called Tophet, ,;, ;. nor the valley of the ſon of Hinnom, but the val- ley of ſlaughter : for they ſhall bury in Topher ull
there be x no place.