thee nor, for I have wounded thee with the wotind * of an Enemy. with the chaſtiſement of a *cruel one c, for the multitude of thine Iniquiry, * becauſe thy tins were increaſed 4.
b In the time of thy Proſperity thou hadſt many Friends, bur now they have torgotten thee. Very probably che Egyprizns and Aſſriens, whoſe Helpthe Fews made often ule of, are the Lovers here intended, 2 Chron. 28. 21. Hof. 12. 1. indeed the Egyp:i4ns were before conquered, or very nic? brought low, by the King of Babylon. c They ſee the milecable care they are in, and now do not covet thee as formerly, they difcern that I have wounded thee with luch a wound, as cruel Men ule to give their Enemies. 4 Though it be in me no Act of Cruelcy, for it is but ta a juſt pu- niſhment of your Iniquities, which were encrealed to a very great multitude.
15. Why crieſt thou for thine Afffiction ? thy Sor- row 25 1ncurablee, tor the mulcitude of thine Iniquity : becauſe thy Sins were encreaſfed, I have done theſe things unto thee f.
e Why complaineſt thou of my dealings with thee 2 Or as Chap. 15.18. The caule of thy Sorrow 1s incurable, or as others, Why complaineſt thou that thy Sorrow is incurable. f Though it be fo, yer chou haſt no reaſon to complain of my dealings, tor thy deſtruftion is of thy ſelf ; I am juſt in what I have done, for I have bur given thee that Death which 1s the wages of thy work of fin, nor was I ſuddenly provoked, 1t is for the multitude of thine [lniquities, and in that Cale the living Man hath no jult reaton to complain, Lam: 3. 39.
them ſhall go into Captivity, and they that ſpoil thee ſhall be a ſpoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give tor a prey h.
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1- For, I will reſtore hcalth : unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy Wounds, faith the LORD, becauſe they called thee an Outcaſt, ſaying, This zs Zion, whom no man ſecketh after k.
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here Tranfſlater, becauſe, may ſo fignifie here, tor often the ſcorn and contempt. of God's Peoples Enemies, cauſeth God to make haſte to the!* Salvation and Deliverance : But many think that 1t were better Tranſlated although, as it is, Foſ. 17-18. Though the Heathens ca!lthee one that I have caſt off,as a Man doth his Wife, yet they fhafl ſee the contrary,for I will heal thee of thy wounds. k Though they deriding ſay, this Ziov whom none cares for : Some think that in this they alluded tothe original Signification of the Word Ton, which is a dry or waſt place.
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Sons of Aſen as he; fo as for him to be a Mediator betwixt Offen- ders, and an offended God : None but he dur ſt look in the Face of an angry God. Others underſtand it of God's People, intimating_ that inthe Day when they ſhould return out of Captivity there would be but few, that with any ſerious purpoſe of Heart would apply themtelves unto God, or fignitying the impotency that is in Man heartily to draw nigh ro God, till (as it is before ſaid ) God cauſeth him ſo to do ; and ſome think the Words have a reterence co the Covenant mentioned in the next Verſe.
22. And ye ſhall be * my People, and I will be * Chap. your God q 24.7. & q God in theſe words declares, That in that Day he would re- 37* 7> 33: new his Covenant with Iſrael, (at leaſt the true Iſraelites ) and ** 33 30 they ſhould be his People to ſerve, and to obey him, and he would
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