w 0:d tor ſirong ones is applyed to any thing,that excels,as to Man, ! 3b 34. 20. to Argels, Pjal. 78. 25. Angels food, or the bread of, ihe wtzhty, And tor Horſes as here, and Fudg. 5. 22 Chape47+3- 2 Heb. he ſuineſs of it, the Trees, and Frutts, and wealth of the Land, they are entred upon their |poil, and will leave nothing 1n the Land, Chap, 4. 20. It is ſpoken ina Prophertical ſtile, who ule toexprets the certainty of what ſhall be,as it it actually were a.ready, x viz. Jernujalem, or rather the Cities with all their In- habitauts, as well as the Country, the ſingular number being put jor the plural, as Ija. 27. 10. 17 For behold, I will ſend ſerpents, cockatrices, *P:z'. $8. among you, which w*// not be y * charmed, and they 435+ \h:411 z bite you, faith the LORD. py He proceeds in increaſing of their terrour, q. d. there will be no appeaſing, allaying of their tury by any ait or method, therefore repreiented by the Cockatrice, called 1n Latine Regulus or King of Serpents, as plitting to flight all other Serpents, bur by opr:fition to Serpents, ſhewing what kind of Serpent they ſhall be, a 19:t that cannot becharmed. viz. ſuch an Enemy as by no 1n- treaty can be made exorable : See On Ta. 11, 8, LXX, deadly Ser. tents. © They ſhall afiict you with ſore puniſhments, not only Stings in their Tails, as Scorpions, bur intheirTeeth, whereby thy ſhall devour you, Ferſe 16, 13 hea would comfort my ſelf againſt 2 ſorrow : my heart z- faint | in me. 7 a The language of the People being long ſhut up in their Citles, and finding no relief, at laft faint, Lam 4, 17. But more pro- bably the Propher now ſeems to ſpeak his one Reſentments, how greatly the Calamity of his People did affect him, the like I{a.22.4. when he would ſometimes reireſh himſelf with the comfortable Refreſhments cf Nature, the thoughts of his Peoples Miſery do {o afMit him, that his Heart is ready to faint, to fink within him. | 19 Behold, the voice of the bcry of the c daughter + 1:1. of my people, #- becauſe of them that dwell in a far +, r1+d country : Js not the LORD in e Zion ? z- not her $9277 } King in her ? why have they provoked me to f ENe ge anger with their graven images, azd with g ſtrange Er af .7r It. IS £099 yanitics ? | :
4 i. e. The greatneſs of their Cry,the bitter Cries and Screeches 2nd Complains that merhinks I hear : The words are abrupt be- 21fe the Prophet 15 to repreſent ſeveral Perſons ſpeaking ; him- ielf, the People, and God. © See Chap. 4. 11.- poſhbly becauſe Jer-miab loved them, inſtrufted them, admoniſhed them as a
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up ; the like expreffion, 2 Chron. 24. 13. the work was pertect- ed, Heb. the healing, went up upon the Work, and fo Neh. 4. 7, | the prophet expreſſeth his grievous complaint by way of admirati-
on, by a Metaphor,implying the,inveteracy and obſtinacy of their Hearts, that either would not come to the Phyſician,or that they ſhould be thus incurable,where they wanted not for Prophet and Teachers, or for any ſpiritual means, flowing down daily upon them ; can Cone and Judea be without ſpiritual Phyſicians : Some underſtand it by way of Sarcaſm, q. d. where are your Me. dicines, your Arms, your Counjels, your Confederacics > And where are your Phyſiczans,your Princes and Priefts that promiſed you Reltet > Without God, you ſee no help in any means ; but the former more natural, and agrees belt with the beginriiag or
the next Chapter. CHAP. IK.
The Prophet's Lamentation confinueth over their Adultery, Deceit, Tdolairy, which God woull1 certainly puniſh, and they ſhould be laid waſte, when they jh1uld ſufficiently lament. 1, —— 22, No truſt in our ſ:lves, but in Goa, who will pun:/h all Nations, 23, —* 26.
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q Heb. who will give, &c. by way of enquiry becauſe the Hebrews do want the Imperative Moo1 ; the Prophet in this Chap- ter principally bewailing his poor Country-mens Calamity,whom he therefore calls the Daughter of his People, he expreſleth the greatneſs and excels of his Sorrows, by wiſhing that his brains were as it were diſlolved into water, (for the word is ſingular)as if he wiſhed rt were all on water, ſignifying plenty, and that his eyes might diſti!! tears like a fountain he ſame word in the Hb. for Eye ſignifies a Fountain ; noting the continuance of it, as not to be drawn dry, expreſſed by Day and Night, apprehendiog it a mifery ſo greatzas never (ufficiently to be bewailed. See Luk. 1 9. 41- rOr that areto be flain,uiz. by the Babylonians, a prophe- tical ſtile, as ſure ro be ſlain, asif they were ſlain already.
2 © that [had in the wilderneſs a lodging place of / way-faring men : thatl might leave my people, and go from them : for they be all : adulterers, an aſſembly of treacherous men.
{ He proceeds in his Lamentation,which in the formerVerſe he did by way of Compaſſion, in this in a way of Indignation, wiſh- ing tor ſome retiring place or torry ſhed,or night-Cottage: See on
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I ') H | * that my head were 9 waters, and mine + Heb. eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep who will day and night for the 7 ſlain of the daughter of my give my head, 8C- * Ila. 22.4» Chap.4.19- and 14.17.
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Chap. IX.
Wilderneſs, as David, Pſal. '55. 6, 7 ſuch as might bur ſhelter| Ctual ; my People will take no warning : They are grown to ſuch
him from the Injuries of the Weather : The LXX #n ſome remocejt Station or Corner, where he might not be an Eye witneſs of the1r Miſeries to grieve him ſo atthe heart, Pſal. 119, 136, 158. See 2 Pet. 2.7,8. and where he might hope to find better Entertain ment from the ſavage Beaſts, than from his own Country-men, 7 4. e. For the molt part, Chap. 5. 8. both Properly and Me- rapborically ; being full of all idolarrous Practices. Or, There 1s
no Integrity found among them. # That deal perfidiouſly with God and Man in all the concerns they are converſant about, I/. 1. 4. Andthough the Word here for 4ſſembly 15 moſt ordinariiy uſed for an Holy Aſſembly, Lev. 23. 36. Numb. 29. 35+ WHICH cau- ſeth ſome to underſtand ir of their being moſt vile when they ſhould be moſt devout ; yet here it moſt nacurally ſignifies a kind of Combination among them, as ſuch that have conſpired one among another to a& all manner of Villanies. ;
Tha. 59. 3 And * rhey bend their tongues {ike their y bow