| 4 Nen had need take heed how they give- cauſe of appeals to God againſt them, eſpecially the appeals of ſuch asare a People that have a Covenant reJation to God. God in thoſe caſes ordina- rily ſheweth himlelfa ſwift wicneſs and Judge; and gives a ſpeedy Judgment in ſuch cauſes. Behold, faich God, I will plead thy cauſe, not with words,but aCtually wirh my judicial diſpenfations,there- fore it 1s expounded by taking vengeance. c The Vengeance which God threatneth is expreſſed metaphorically under the notion of drying up her Sea, and making her Springs dry, which ſignifi- eth the depriving her of all Neceſlaries,not only of the abundance of her Men, Riches, Treaſures, but of her Springs. Thus I had rather, expound it, than as referring to the particular Stratagem
oyverfloweth the ſhore,or any Land into which it once breaketh,
43 Her cities are a deſolation, a dry land, and * wilderneſs, and a land wherein no man dwelleth; net- ther doth ary ſon of man paſs thereby -.
u See Chap.2.6. and 9.'12, The words areal! of them de- {criptive of an utter deſolation that ſhould not only bethe fate ot Babylon the head City, but of all the inferiour- Cities:that were as Daughters to the Mother City. | |
44. And I will puniſh 'Bel and Babylon , andI w1ll bring forth out of his mouth that which he harh ſwallowed up x, and the nations ſhall not flow toge- ther any more unto him y, yea the-wall of Babylon.
ſhall fall x.
w Bel was the principal Babylonian Idol, of which fee what ts noted, Chap. 50. 2. x All the Veſſels of the Temple; 2 Chron, 36. 7. and whatever Gifts the Babylonians had preſented to him, j It was the cuſtom of other Nations to ſend Preſents to the Gods of
thoſe Nations whom they were in ſubje&ion to, or whom they
would appeaſe, whence it is that we read the: Philiftines when they had the Ark would not ſend it home without a preſent, 1 Sam. 6. 11, God by his Prophet foretelleth that the time ſhould come when the Nations could come no more to Baby!on , either to pay an homage to their chief Idol, nor yet to bring offerings unto him: + And the city of Babylon ſhovld bealſo ruined.
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Theſe words are an exortation tothe Jews to be willing upon
the firſt Proclamation of Liberty by Cyrus, to go out of Babylon,
notwithſtanding the pleaſantneſs of the place, and thar now their ſtakes had been pitched there many Years, becauſe of the ruine which ſhould moſt certainly come on that place. |
46 And leſt your hearts faint, and ye fear for the
rumour that ſhall be heard in the land b- a rumour
by which Cyrus took Babylon, viz. By drying up in ſome mealure
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Buiylin, and the whole Land of Ch2{44 ſhall be confounded, when they ſhall tee that their Idols will do them no more Service, i Sym inſtead of ber ſlain, would haye it read ber dancers {tor | the City was taken while Be!ſhatpar and his wiole Court wer | Revelliag) but the I-arne 1 Author of th: Engliſh Annotaiions | tells us rite word wil not bear 18. X |