witch the Enemy hat laid violeot hands, forhis Phrale of ſpread- in, out the hand israken Iſa. 25.11. The things of the Sanctuary were always nleatant things to thoſe that feared God. Pofibly thoſe that little valued them before, now looked upon them in their true notion. We leldom know our mercies t1]] we come to be he dept fved of them. 4 He means the Ammonites,and Moabites whom the Law concerned, Deut. 23. 3. Some of whom probably aflitied the Babylonians in the Conqueſt of Fudaa. "= P0011 All her People ſigh ®, they ſeck bread b, they 1 Q., have given their pleaſant things for meat to || relieve make the the fonl c > ſee, O LORD, and conſider, for Iamibe- rut 19 come CONN vide 1. 1g 410g h He tpeaketh probably with reference tothe Siege.after which the People had icarcely any pleaſant things to exchange for Bread. The whole Body of the People was in a fad condition, and in a Land that ordinarily flowed with Milk andHoney,they were at a loſs for Breail 19 427. c And gave any thing for ſomething to ſatis- fie their hunger. 4 The Prophet ſends up a ſudden Ejaculation to God much like that Ver, 6, The Argument he uſeth is drawn ttom tne miſery the People were in, expreſſed under the notion 0' being be-ome wile, that 15 miſerable or contemptible. Or; x 12 Þ | 7: > nothing to you, all ye that Þ paſs by ? mr. - bebold mid fee, * if there he any forrow like to my ri 0 foOrroW : which is done no Inc, wherewith the + #9 ORD hath afſifted me tn the day of .his fierce an- #: ber c. e The Prophet fpeaks inthe name of the Fewiſh Church, as a Woman in milery http, by the way f14e, and calling to Paſſen- eers that came by to have Cormpaſiroit on hier, luggetting to them
The Lamentations of 7 EREMIA H.
«fine, Oreftiy contrary to his promiſe in caſe of obedience, |that her affliction was no ordinary aMiftion, nor the effect of a "yp T Hs 6: ol Do and old Men, but the little Chil-| common and ordinary Providence , but the effect of the Lord's ff LNOT COU: y 6 , —- *C = . dren have been driven like Sheep before the Enemy 1nto a miſer-| fierce anger, a moſt tevere puniſhment.
(Dr, 2 4 "2 44fi & EY Cy” 4 | ” ſc had in the days of old, whe: her pcopic tell into
Chap. | x: '$S h
13 From above hath he ſent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth againft themf; he hath ſpread a net for my feet g, he hath turned me back : he hath
» = | made me deſolate, 47d faint all the day. : _ f By Fire he means a Judgment as conſuming and as afiQive A 6-07 as Fire in the Bones, which had conſumed the ſtrength of the 5 SY ol 11. Fews. g That is, God had brought them 1nto a condition where- PN: 11. $, in they wereentangled, and could not get out. The Holy Man 4 * Dout owneth God as the firit cauſe of all the evil they ſuffered, anden- zz 2c E cicles God £0 their varioas kinds of afflictions, both in Captivity, - :c.
and during the Siege, looking bey ond the Bibylonians who were the proxima'e inſtrnmenta! cauſe,
14 The yoke of my tranſzreſſions1s bound by his hand : they are wreathed, and come upon my neck : : he harh made my ſtrength to fall: the LORD hath delivered me into their hands, from whom 1 am not ableto riſe up k.
h Still the P: ophet ev=th God in all, and acknowledgeth his Juſtice whi.c he cails their affictions tne zoke of cher ranſgrefſions,
\r-at is, which was put upon i heirNecxs upon the lameaccountythat
Yoxes are put a50ut the Necks of Reatts that ule to break Hedges, 7c. and are bound upon them to kcep them fait. 7 My puniſh- ments are twiſted as Cords, to make them more ſtrong ; I have a complication of Judgments upoa me, Sword, Famine, Peſtilence, Captivity, they are not only prepared tor my Neck, but they are 2]ready put upon it. k All my valiant Men.the ſtrength of myNa- tion is broken, and I am fo fallen that I am nor able to rile agains
15 The LORD hath trodden under foot all my mighty mer in the midſt of me / : he hath called an ” Ita. 1
aſlembly agaiuſt me, to cruſh my young men m - the, | wa = LORD hath trodden || the virgin the daughcer of are way q Or, | indah, 4s a1n winepreſs z. ray 6'aimsd.
he bit *1 Inthe midſt of me, may be interpretedeither as pleonaſtical, or of as denoung the place in which they loſt their valiant Men, ip.” in the midſt of the City during the Siege, not in the Field. m2 In- ſtead of thoſe ſolemn Aſſemblies that were wont to be called ro.
(gether within Hieruſalem by ſound of Trumpet for the ſolemn \ Worſhip of God ; God had called an Af/ſembly of Chatdeans as Advertaries againſt the City, to cruſh the Inhabitants of it. » God had trodden upon the Jews as Men uie to ſtamp Grapes in a Wine- preſs where they uleto cruſh them to pieces co ger our the Juice, and then they throw the husks that are good tor nothing upon che Dunghills. Thete are but various expreſſions to ſet out the miſery which God hath brought this People for their Sins into.
16 For theſe things | weep, * mineeye, mine eye *ſer.1;.; runneth down with water s, becauſe the comfortey and 14.1 that ſhould + relieve my ſoul, is far from me Y, M Chap.:.1 children are deſolate, becauſe the enemy hath pre } Heb.
— * bring ba vailed gq.
o For theſe fore atflictions, and for my ſins that have cauſed
them, ard for theſe impreſſions of Divine Wrath which I in them, Lord ! I that am thy propher,and we that were indeed weep, and that plentifully ; p having nei with us as tormer]y to be our hope or comtort, nor any Ee ied that will deal by usas Friends tometimes do by other: in "Sh ing fits to fetch back their Souls. q Either the orhe; Wirie « of Ju :
ants, are Walted, deitr Glate. hacid; p 4th — » Celtroy T__ made delolate, becauſe the Eneiny
17 * Zion ſpreadeth forth her hands r, and there 55 + hull none to comtort her / > the LORD hath commanded tit concerning Jacob war his adverſaries ſhould be round
about him 7 : Jeruſalem is as a mon{trous' woman mongit them .
ry The ſame in this Verſe is meant by Zion, | - f lem, unleſs Zion more eſpecially Ganiberh a Fra | Church, becaule of the Temple built upon it. She ſpreadeth © :
her hands as in a poſture of mourning, and bewailing her lelf \ / But ſhe had-none that could afford her any comfort. : God ha
commanded concerning the Fews who were deſcended from :
cob, (their twelve Tribes from his Tw Far
| elve Sons) th , mies ſhould incompaſs them. u They were Ro rol ov ll wh filthy even in the Eyes of their Enemies like Women, which were
ſeparated from the Congregation during their legal Uncleanneſc,