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7 God now expoundeth the name of Migor-miſſ:b;b, threatning to fill this wicked Prieſt with Terrors.that he and his iriends hon! be affiighted, reflecting upon his moſt milerable ſtate, and cond; - tion ; and his Friends from whom he might poſſibly expect ſome relief, ſhould be as miſerable as he, and it ſhould be an addition to his miſery, that his Eves ſhould feeir,and ſee his whole Country ruined, ſome being ſlain by the Sword of the King of B:bylon, 0- thers by him carried into Captivity»
precious things thereof, and all the treaſures of the king of Judah -,. will I give into the hand of their enemies, which ſhall ſpoil them, and take them, ant carry them to Babylon 7.
This is but the repetition of what God had often threazned. viz. The perfect ruine of Hieruſalem, and the Land of ud, Their Military Men, or rather cheir Riches. / And all the tru of their Labours. m And whatſoever was valuable in cheir eves, or in the eyes of the greateſt perſons amonegtt them. n The Baky= loxians ſhould make a [poil, and a prey of them al!.
6 And thou Paſhur, and all that dwell in thine houſe, ſhall go into captivity, and thou ſhale come ta, Babylon, and there thou ſhalr die, and halt be burt- ried there, thou and all thy friends, :o whom chou haſt prophehed Iyes o. - ,
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4 The Prophet recovering himſelf out of his fir of Paſſion, in- courageth himſelf in his God, whom he calls the mighty and ter- rible one, ſo declaring his Faith in the Power of God, as one able to ſave him, and in the promiſe and good Will of God toward Fo : — [him therefore he ſaith, The Lord is with me, ſuch was the promiſe The following part cf the Chapter to the end of it, conrain-|of God ro this Propher, when he firft unde; rook the Propherical erh a Complaint or Prayer of the Prophet unto God, made (45 Office, Chap. 1. 8. Be notafraid of their Faces, for I am with t hee , tome think) during his impriſonment by Paſhur, bur the certain 7, Jeljver thee ſaith the Lord. e From hence he concludeth, that time 15 nor known. Our Tranſlators here might have rranflared ; though he had many rhar purſued after his life, yer they ſhould the word JTVMAD Pettitani, more favourably than thou baſt deceiv- [ſtumble in their ways of violence, and ſhou[4 nor prevail. e Thar
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