f He hath not builded with me encreafing my proſperity, and proteCting my Houſes, but he hath builded Forts and Batteries and Caſtles, military Buildings) to batter down my Walls and Houſes, Iſa. 29.2, 3. g Or, with Poiſon, Venom and Miſery (as ſome Tranſlate it) and it ſeems more proper than gall and rr4- varl, which have no cognation one with another. We are not wel]
acquainted with the ancient Dialect of other Countries ; the ſenſe|
is obvious, God had ſurrounded them with Miſery and Calamities. 6 * He hath ſet in dark places, as they that be dead of old h.
h The Prophet compareth their ſtate in Babylon to the ſtate of Bodies in the Graves, or in ſome Charn!! Houſe, which are places of darknels, full of rottenneſs and dead Mens Bones. Such was the ſtate of the Fews in Jeruſalem durinz the time of the Siege betore the City was taken, when Feruſalem was a moſt milerable place by reaſon of the Multitudes ſlain by the Enemy, or by the Famine : Such was their eſtate in Babylon, where the company of Heathens
he hath made me the Object of ir. : 13 He hath cauſed the | arrows of his quiver to f Heb» enter into my Te1ns e. ; .""_R s That is, he hath made his judgments, to pierce the moſt 1n- ward parts of the Nation ; or he hath mortally wounded me. In the Heb. it is the daughters of his quiver ; a way of {peaking very uſual in Hebrew, to expreſs any thing that comes from another as the effe& either of a natura! or moral cauſe ; ſo Sparks are called the Sons of the quick c3a!, Job 5.7. and Corn the Son of the floor, 8c. _ | 14 I was * a derilion to all my People, and * their , aps ſong all the day te. | vakan : Though ſome think the Prophet ſpeaks this of himſelf, yet , . conſidering he hath all along ſpoken in che Name of the People, it yr. 5+, is not probable, which makes a difficulty, how the People could © * be a derifion to themſelves? Ir ſeemeth therefore ill Tranſlated, and that it ſhould have been, I was a deriſionto all the people, leaving out my, that is, to all Forreigners, to whom the Fews were made a derifion and an hifling : There only wants the laſt Letter in QY
and ic is well obſerved by the learned Author of the Engliſh Anne zations, that the like defect is to be found as to the ſame Word, 2 Sam. 22+ 44. compared with Pſal. 18. 43. ſo that Vis nota Pronoun affix ( upon which ſuppoſal our Tranſlators go ) bur one of the Letrersthat form the plural number, the other being left out, and WQY put for Rm}, Gnammin.
15 He hath filled me with þ bitterneſs; he hath T F=>- made me drunken with wormwood . bitterneſjes. u That is, he hath filled me wich ſevere and bitter diſpenſati. ons ; Wormwood is a bitter Herb,bur it is alſo a wholſome Herb, and therefore ſome think that the Hebrew word ſhould rather be Tranſlated Henbane, and that it fiznifies ſome Herb whoſe juice is intoxicating and poiſonous. | 16 He hath alſo broken my teeth with gravel-
ſtones, he hath || covered me with aſhes w. || Or; relied w Theſe are but more metaphorical Expreſſions ſignifying the m2 mn 1/49 unpleaſant difficult condition into which God had brought this ajher. people. They were like Men that lived upon gritty b:ead, more fi to break their teeth than to nouriſh them ; they were in the ſtate of Mourners,and no ordinary Mourners,who were wont to throw aſhes on their heads, they were all over covered wich aſhes. 17 And thou haſt removed my Soul far off from peace «: I forgat TÞ proſperity y. + Heb, x Pezce, here fignifiech Proſperity, rather than a Freedom from good, war, Though during the Siege they were far from Peace in a ſtri& ſenſe, yet in their Captivity they had chat peace, bur both their minds were far off from quier, and their Perlons trom Pros ſperity ; the Prophet owneth God, as che caule of this. y They had in Canzan lived profperouſly, but now they thought of it no more, nor underſtood what ſuch a thing meant.
made their ſtate, as the ſtate of the living amongſt the dead. Vol, Il.
18 AndI ſaid,my ſtrength and my hope 1s periſhed from the LORD. P 2 19 || Re-
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