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3%; 2 e All the Creatures in Heaven and Earth ſhall rejovce at the
Vengeance which Go hail take upon Babylon, which had been; the deſtroyer of to many of their People. f The Median Solciers| are thole here called 5 pGilers from the North, ; [ Or, bth 49 || As Babylon 5. calcd the flamn of Lirael LO | B:by/on 1s fall, fo at Babyion ſnail tall the {lata of | all the) 69 Jae , carths. _ "Gy = ſ- g The words in the Hebrew have ſome difficulty, which 15 not rn _— ſo obvious to thofe not icquainted with that Language, but Natl: blon Sec. B1vel occaſion to Interpreters to vary in their particular Tranfla- | Or. th, £1005 of It, bur they moſtly agree 1n the general lence, VF -_ ” OG theſe words are given 25 a realon why the wholeEarth ſhould 10 MEN much rejoyce inthe rnine of Babylon, becaule Babylon had cauſed
T{raet to fall: The latter term a1 the Exrthmuſt be underſtood 1n a reſtrained fence, for thar Earth; the Challeans coming up from all parts of Chald:zto help Babylon, ſhould be flain there, as by the means of Babylen the Iſraelites were {[ain that came up from all paris of Julea ro help Feruſalem,
5o Yethat have eſcaped the ſword, go away, ſtand
not {till þ : remember the LORD, afar offs, and It |
Jeruſalem comme into your mind k.
h It is hard co retolve whether the Prophet here ſpeaks to the Chaldeans, or the 21:des, or the Fews, though moſt underſtand it of the Fews whom God would have leave - Babylon as loon as ther ſhould havea Liberty proclaimed. i And to remember when they came into Fudea the great things both of Juſtice toward the Ch.ildzans ani Mercy toward them, which God had done. hk And keep Feruſalem in their mind, as the place where rhey were to worſhip God according to his direftion, and tor wich God had {0 WLOUg It,
s1 We areconfounded, becauſe we have heard re- proach 7, ſhame hath covered our taces ; for ftrans- ers are com2 into the ſanctuaries of the LOR houſe
| The words of this Verſe feem to prove that the Fews were the P-rions intended inthe former Verle whom God would have to £0 away and not ſtand ſtill, for it 1s out of doubt, that it is of them the Prophet here ſpeaketh, and whom the Prophet brings in here, faying, we are confoundel, that is, aſhamed (as it is ex- pounded in the next words) to hear the Enemies reproaching us ior our God, or tor our Religion, as P/.l. 137. 3. And m beeanſ- Pzgzans that were Strangers to the Commonwealth ot 1/-ael, who Numb. 1.51, might not come near the Tabernacle of the Lord, were come, and that not to worſhip, but to plunder and rifle in the Sanfuaries of the Lord, even in the Court of the Prieſts and
. of the T/raelits, and inthe moſt Holy Place; thoſe whole very preſence i1 thele places had been a pollution of them.
52 Wherefore behold, thedays come, faith the
ti 1.ORD, that. I will do judgment upon her graven
images, and through all her land, the wounded ſhall groan 7,
n For which complaints of my People, or rather for which profanation of my Holy Place, I will be revenged on their Gra- ven Images, and not oniy upon their Idols, but upon the Wor- thippers of them, and cauſe a groaning of wounded Men'over all the Country ofthe Chaldeans 3 I xwill cauſe tnem to know that their Idols are not able to protec them from my Power and Juſtice.
53 * Though Babylon ſhoukt mount np to hea- Ven, and though ſhe ſhould fortifiethe height of her ſtrength, yer from me ſhall ſpoilers come unto her, {aich the LORD o.
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