f This whole Verſe is but expreſſive of the Prophets great af. fiction for the Miſet jes come upon the Jews. He wept himfelf al- moft blind. g His paſſion had diſturbed his bocily Humours,that is Bowels were troubled. þ His gall lying under his Liver, upon this difturbance was vormited up, they are all no more than Ex- preſitons of very great affliftion and ſorrow. # For the miſeries {:of1!len tothe Jews, he had mourned tor their ſtns before, and for t' cr Plagues too which he had in proſpect, Fer. 9. 1. he now m1: ns for them, as being come upon them ; which mourning c-:1{idered only as for their Miſeries, ſpake no more than the Prophets good Nature and Love to his Country : but conſidered 25 the Indication of Gods Wrath and Ditpleafure was alſo a godly ſorrow. kh The Children and Sacklings fainred and ſwooned, ei- -h-r for want of Water, or Bread, or Milk in their Mothers or Nurſes Breaſts during the Famine, occaſioned by the long Siege of the City. This appears inthe next Verſe.
12 They ſay to their mothers, Where 7s corn and wine ? when they ſwooned as the wounded in the ſtreets of the city, when their foul was poured out 160 their mothers boſom |,
k The 'i tle Children ignorant of the cauſe of the failure of their
ulual Food called to their Mothers for it as formerly,being ready to faint and die, as Men mortally wounded for want of Spirits
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their breath in telling you falle Stories which they pretended to | be the cauſes of the Captivity of yqur Brethren, in the mean time ; concealing the true cauſes, and ſuffering you to run on in the 7 {ame Errors, til] you come to be more miſerable than thoſe that
went into Captivity before you.
:5 All that | paſs by, *clap their hands at thee; f Heb.j:' E 7
they hiſs and wag their head at the daughter of Je- tb 9 * ruſalem 9, ſaying, 1s this the city that men call | os - mY * the pertection of, beauty, the joy of the whole * pgi. g © earth 7 ? 2+ GC. 504 : fs
q This was acording to God's Threatnings, 1 King. 9. 8. Fer. pe 18.16. and 19.18. God had poured out all his Bleflings upon bo ij this People, whatſoever might adorn them, or make them happy, TY lo as all People bleſſed the J:wiſh Nation : But now the caſe was 3p; {o altered, that all People {coffed at them, and hifled, and admi- 5; EO red at the change which God had made. DEI os
againſt thee : they hiſs, and gnaſh the teeth : they 3: 4* ſay, We have ſwallowed herup : certainly this s the
day that we looked for : we have found, we have ſcen 7t r.
r As Strangers that had no Quarrels with, nor prejudices a- gainſt the Fews, paſſing by their Country, and their great City Feruſalem, deſpiſed and ſcorned it, ſo their Enemies with whom they had former Quarrels, and who had taken up prejudices a- gainſt them, they reproached and abuſed them, and triumphed in their ruine, and in the ſucceſs of their Arms againſt them , and
bleſſed themſelves as having now ſeen the day they had looked
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17 The LORD hath done that which he had devi- ſed : he hath fulfilled his word that he had command- ed inthe daysof old: he hath thrown down and hath not pitied : and he hath cauſed chime enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath ſet up the horn of thine adverſaries s.
s God hath not ſurprized 15 by theſe Providences, he gave us notice what he would do, an4 hath done no more than what he threatned long ſince, Lev. 26. 16, &c. Deut. 28. 15, &c. It is true he hath ſeverely puniſhed us, ſo as in his Diſpenſation there appear no prints ot pity, he hath ſet up our Enemies and hath
made them to triumph over h is People, but in all this he hath but juſtified his truth, and fulfilled his word.
18 Their heart cried to the Lord r,/ O wall of the
daughter of Zion * let tears run down like a river * we 2 day and night; give thy ſelf no reſt, let not the ap- _ ll ple of thine eyes ceaſe . . t They cried unto God ſeriouſly, though not fincerely, from - their heart, though not with their whole heart ; either by the Wall or upon the Wall, or (which is judged moſt probable) by occaſion of the breaches made in the Wall. Uponthis he turns his Diſcourſe to the Wall it ſelf, and calls to it, or to thoſe that were upon 1t, or.near it inceſſantly ro mourn. In the Heb, jr is, let nor the daughter of thine Eye ceaſe, we call it the Apple. The Latines, the Pupil, or Babe of the Eye»
19 Ariſe, cry out inthe night : in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before
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and Blood uſe to faint, and died in their Mothers arms ; for fo I had ratner inrerpret the Phraſe poured out their Souls, than (as ſome) underſtanding by Souls the defires of their Souls, for he is! ſoealcing of Sucklings as well as more grown Children, the Phraſe i5 carable of both lenles.
13 What thing ſhall I take to witneſs for thee ? what thing ſhall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jeru- lem? what ſhallI equalto thee, that I may comfort ' .112e, O virgin daughter of Zion ? for thy breach 7s,
1£at like the ſea ; who can heal thee mi? z The Sum of this Verſe is, That the miſerable condition of ; e People was both incomparable and incurable, There was no
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