_ f This is expounded as the cauſe why the Jews were carried into Caprivity, becauſe of the ſervitude, and oppreflion exerciſed amongſt chem, oppreſſion by their Rulers, and ſervitude more ge- nerally, keeping their Servants beyond the Year of Jubilee, when rchey ought to have (et them ar liberty,and that this was one cauſe appeareth from Jer. 34. 17. or if becauſe of affliftion, &c. be zoined ro the next words, the ſence is plain ſhe awelleth among't che Heathen, by reaſon of her low condition, and the fiate of ſer- vitude ſhe 15 in, g Where ſhe (thac is the Jews) have neicher any frisfaction nor quiet in their own minds, nor are they by their E- nemies ſuffered to be at quiet any where. þ Thoſe thac purſued them with all violence ro deſtroy them, overtoook them 1n places where they could nor efcape them, as Huntſmen and others rake their Game by driving them into ſtrait and narrow places.
4. The ways of Zion do mourn, becauſe none corm- eth to the ſolemn feaſts; : all her gates are deſo- late &: her prieſts ſigh /, her virgins are afflicted, and ſhe z in bitterneſs m7. .
; The ways thatlead to the Temple, have as unfoyely a Com- plexion as Mourners, being overgrown by reaſon thatnone goerh up as uſually ro the Feaiis of the Paſſover, of Tavernavles, 7. Either all the Gates of Jeruſalem, or the Temple, or all her Ciries are very thin of People, the places thar uſe to be fo full. Her Priefis-that were wont to be ſo fully imployed at Feſtivals recerv- ing the Peoples Oblations, and oftering Sacrifices, thev mourn having now nothing ro do. » The Virgins who 1n thole beaſts were wont to play with Timbrels, Pſa!. 68. 25. they now mourn, and Perſons of all Ages and Ranks are in bitterneſs,
multitude of her tranſgreſſions, her children are gone into captivity before the Enetny 0- n God hath fulfilled his threarninss, Det. 23. 43. The Enemy
b got abov? 145, and we ar Sought 70) fur for thie —
3 Judah is gone into captivity, becauſe of afflicti- + yez,, on, and + becauſe of great ſervitude f : ſhe dwel- for th- leth among the heathen, ſhe findeth no relt z : all ereatnds 5 her perſecutors overtook her between the ſtraits þ. [796543
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able Captivity. i 6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty i, departed p: her princesars become like harts that fnd no paſture, and they are gone without ſtrength before the purſuer 9 | $-1 A!! the TL bitakrs of Zion have loſt their former Beauty, wha: ſoever {plencorthe City had, whether from tre multitude 0! gallantry of hci Inhabitants it is all gone, het Nobles are become thin, a1] il-tavoured hike beaſts almoſt ftarved, their Enemies purlue them to deſtroy them, and they have no firengtn to op- Cl ham
poic or refift them. | ; Ty 2 BP - Jernſalem remembred in uhc days ot her afflictt-
2 2 ba . . . | _ C _ . x - : on, aud of her miſcries, all her | plcalant things that the hand of the Enemy, and none did help her 7, the adverſaries ſaw her, aad did mock at her ſah-
baths /. | | __ 7 The Tahabitants of Feruſa/em now, that they are 17 ami nr LEE. have time to remember tietr former Mercies, _ with 20w many defirablethings God had once blefſed them, an
compre her former ſtate before ſhe fell into the Enemies hands,
with her preſ-ar fate now ſhe 15 1n their power. | Now 1t 15an >Aiftion ro them to hear her Enemies mock at her Sabbaths, which while they injoyed they abuiled. bas, 8$ Jeruſalem hath gricvoully tinned : therefore ſhe 5” + is removed: all that honoured her, delpiled here, rming, X* becauſe tacy have teen her nakedaeſs: yea ſhe ſigh- or 2 war-Qthand turnaeth backward. Aving, t She is cairied out of her own Land intoan Enemies Coun- * Jt. 12-trey, and made an hifling and fcora to thoſe who were before re- 26. 17%. yerencedher, (inall this God is righteous ; for all orders of Men 1.2. X lavepricvouſly finned; ) becauſe they have ſeen the Lord ſti1p- 23.2% ping her of ail her Blefings, and expoſing her to the {corn and * Der, repr aci of all Mer, as Strumpets are expoled. ES» 9 Herfilthiucls z in her skirts w, ſhe * remem- brett not her {a end, therefore ſhe came down won-
derfully » F\he had no comforter: O LORD, be-
hold ny attiction ; for the enemy hath magnified h17- fel y- | w ile perfiſteth in his compariſon of the Jewiſh People either to a fluttiſh,nafty Woman, or toan impudent Woman that 15 not aſhamed to expole her naſtineſs or wickedneſsto the view of all, x That is, the Jews never conſidered, or would not belteve what thoſe degrees of fin would at laſt bring them to, and that hath been the caule of that procigious Calamity into which God had brougkt them. y The Prophec turns himſelf to God, whom he defires to behold the aflliftion of this People, that 1s, with a pliti- {1 compaſſicnare ye I is@ very ulual thing in Holy Scripture to bent» theatts of the Heart. by the acts of the inward and out- war} Senſes. tnvleefpecially of the afemory, Eye and Ear, becauſe Objet; mutt he hi ft brought inly the Senſes before they can af-utthe Soul, Hoc (the tcriprare ſpeaking of God after the tongs Of Meng the Servants of God defiring God to nave com- pathon on them, ſhew them tavour, &#. defire hin to behold and took tpon rhevr atll:Clion. 12 The adverſary hath ſpread out. his hand upon
(} » X - - > If: ther | Mleafing things z : for ſhe hath ſeeq char the y ii lr, 1 * Q x # y * |, 1, heathen entered into her ſanctuary, whom Thou didft
command that thev * ſhould not enter into thy con- UFCEATION 2. a 4 That js, hath not got chem into poſſeſſion. By plezſant things
are here to be underſtood the the Ornamens of the 'lemple upon |