2 It we allow our Tranflation here of the Word WS) | jippe- r-ju, with the word ſupplied themſelves, it will be hard to give a tO- jerable tenle of thete words, for chen zearing is the lame with the curting themſelu2s mentioned 1n the tormer Verle, which though it might be asa paſſionate Expreilion of the pertons forrow that did jr, yer how it ſhould comfore the triends of che deceated,will be ve- ry hard to conceive. But the Truch is, the word hath but two 113- nitications, and we have here given 1t what doth worſt tut this Text. It fignifies to Divide, and to Tear or Kend. Both 1n. Kal the firſt conjugation,and in Pthel the third conjugation it 15 uſed to f1g- nitie d/vidirg in the torimer, Iſa.5 8.7. Where we interpret It deat 3 to dea), that 1s, divide thy Bread tothe hungry ; which isthe only Text (excepting this) where it is uled in this Conjugation. In the Other conjugation 1t 15 lo uſed in many Texts, Lev. 1. 4, 5, 7. Det. 14.7. to certainly it ought ro have been tranſlated nere, Neither ſhall men deat out bread for them in mourning 10 comfort them for the dead, and feemeth to hint to us a cuſtom 1n ule a- movelt them, when they had any Friend, that had loſt his or her Relations, to ſend them tome Meat or Victuals ( tor amonglt the Hebrews all things that they ate were called Bread) and then to go and Dine or Sup with them, to have opportunity to lpeak comtor- tably to them. This douotlels is the ſenile of che words, and {o 1t 's plain enough, and this is confirmed by the next Phrate. þ Net- ther ſha men drink the cup of - conſel11ion for their father, &C. As in luch caſes they were wont to have lomething to eat, ſo they were allo wont to lend Bottles of Wine, or other chearing Liquor to driok, that they might torget their {lorrows ; this 1s called, The cup of cenjolarion, trom the end tor which the lending and drink- ing of it was intended. God te]ls them that the time ſhould come that io many ſhould dre, and fo faſt, and the reſt ſhould be to much upon the briok of the Grave, that they ſhould have no lej- {ure tor, or heart to thele Ceremonies,
8 Thou ſhalt not alſo go into the houſe of feaſting, to fit with them to ear and to drink ;.
j; God did not only forbid his Prophet, to go into houſes of mourning, to eat and tg drink according totheir Cuſtom, to com- fort thoſe who had loft their triends, but he forbad him allo to gointo Houſes where they were wont to eat, and rodrink upon 2 more cheartul account.
9 For thus ſ:jith the LORD of hoſts, the God of Iſrael, Behold * 1 wml cauſe to ceaſe out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth,
groom, and the voice of the bride k.
k And he declares that he laid this Injun&tion upon him as a Type that his Countrymen, by ſuch his for bearance, might under- ſtand, that God in his Providence was about to put anend to all their c1v'] mirth in their days»
io Þ And ir (hall come to paſs when thou ſhalt
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had the better Example of good Ji the Father of rour preſent
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King, toge:her wich what his Authority could &o to reduce you : He hath not been gone now above five years, and you are 1e- turned to your oid Vomit, and are all of you lerving me accoi d- 11g to your own tancies, lo ſtubborn are you, and reſo!v2d azainſt obeclence to me. | I
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nght, where I will thew you no favour 4.
p You would not hearken to me to obey my voice in that good Land, which I gave you, and which vou have known, and inherj- ted now many Years, therefore [will throw you our into a Lind which you know not, and which your Fathers knew not. 4 Yuu would not ſerve me in this Land, but chote to ſerve other Gocs ::1 my Land ; you ſhall ferve other Gods in a tirange Land, vou ihz!! chere have no luch opportunities as you have here at Hieruſalcm, ro worſhi me the true God according ro the preictiption and dt- ection of my. Word, ye ſhall there have no Goes elie but Idols to worſhip, and what is now matter of choice to you, ſhit then be torced upon you, the Goyernors of thoſe Countries into which you ſhall be cariied, ſhall force you to tall down, and ro woith » chelr Idols, which was veritied afterward by Nebucv.a.ineq2 27, Daniel 3, &Cc. :
14 Therefore - bchold the * days come, faith the LORD, that it ſhall no more he ſaid, The LORD
liveth that brouvht up the children of Iſrael our of 23.7
the land of Egypt.
ry It were berter cranflated Nstwithſtandine, tor that is man.- teſtly the ſenſe, God ſweetneth the dreadful Threatnings prece- ding, with a comfortable promile of their Reſ{auration.
[5 But the LORD liveth that broughtup the chil- dren of Iſrael from the land of the north, and from
all the lands whither he had driven them /: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave un - to their fathers r.
| _ | Which he faith ſhould be fo grateful a Mercy to chem, that elther-1n regard of the newnels of this deliverance, or in regard of the great Milery they ſhould be in during the Captivity ot Babj- ln, when they ſhould be delivered from it, they ſhould not to much remember their deliverance from the Houſe of Bondage in E:ypt, and magnife God for that Salvation, as this new Delive«
unto their Fathers,
16 © Behold I will ſend for many fiſhers, ſuck the LORD, and they ſhall fiſh them ; and after I wii] fend for many hunters, and they ſhall hunt them from every mountain, and from every nll, and out of toe holes of the rocks v:.
u Though lome Interpreters make theſe words 4 Promite ene:
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of God's Reſtaur-tion ot this People and making ule of Cyrits wile? as a Fiſherman or Huntſman, by kis Proclamation tercnod 0:16
Jews out of all parts of his Nominions, to retura to Hierululom
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; Or of the Calling of God's Ele& by the Apoſtles, who were Gou's
Fiſhermen, and went np and down preaching the Goſpel in ail Places ; yer the next Verſ2 rather guideth us to interpret it as a |Threatning, and by thele Fiſhermen and Huntſmen, to underſtand all thoſe Enemies whom God made ule of to deſtroy thele F-we, hunting them out ot all holes and coverts wheretoever they
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ſhew this [people all theſe words, and they ſhall fay ſhould fly, and rake Sanctuary.
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or what z5 our ſin that we have committed againſt the hid from mine eyes w.