of Jacob, and dweiled in a part of Arabia, that obtained the Name of +, probably from Xx the Son of Diſhan, who de- icended from Seir, Gen. 36. 20, 28. they our of their od hatred
to the Fews rejoyced at their ruine,as we learn from the Prophecy of 004474, who upon this account was fent to Propheſie againſt them, the Prophet here ironically faith, R-joyce in the lame lenſe as Eccleſ. 11. 9. Solomon bids the young Manrej-yce, bur their joy ſhould be but for a little time. ; For God was dea'ing out the Cup of his Fury to more than the Fewiſh Nari>n, and amongſt others to the Elomites. k And they ſhould be filled, and intoxicated with it, and m22he themſelves naked as drunken Men ſometimes do
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Sy bat they men could not touch their garments ould not + A variety of loterpreters hath made this Text much more dif-: 4 ouch. fioult than it is. Certainly nothing can appear more reaſonable, than to interpret the Pronoun in the front of the Verb relatively, and to fetch the antecedent from the tormer Verle. They, that is, hr wry Carte the Prophets and the Prieſts wandred up and down the Streets like _ ” Ti -q Ct dt ; blind Men, being ſpiritually blind, polluting themſelves with] ©2 ll | The pPUununment 0 thine LNQUILY 15 aC-" Iſa.40.25 blood, either the blood of the Children which they ſlew, or the| compliſhed, O daughter of Zion &, he will no more {i Ot, :bin2 Juſt men qqongare _— ons = ſlaughter * whom my —_— | carry Tnee 1nto captivity /: he will viſit thine 1ni- 75 a "p couraged, or at leaſt did not diſcourage ; ſo as one could not touc : - : i of Ot || Or, ca) or or a Prieſt, but he muſt be legally polluted, and there + 8k O daughter of Edom, he will diſcover LNY thee captive Ns B+ for thy ſans,
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were ſo many of them, that Men could not walk 1n the Streets, but he muſt rouch ſome of them. Some thinking the Diſcourle of the Prieſts done with, interpret They of the blind Men in the City who could not walk up and down the Streets without touching the Bo. dies of ſcme that were ſlain, Others in:erpret che words of the common People: Who during the Stege, could no more avoid rouching Bodies ſlain and ſo polluticg themſelves with blood,then blind men could,lo asthey abhorred to touch their own Garments. The firſt ſenſe to me ſeemeth moſt natural and eafie,
15 They cricd unto them, Depart ye || , zt /- un- clean, depart, depart, touch not when they fled a- way and wandred y: they ſaid amongſt the heathen,
They ſhall no more ſojourn there. h 7 The vartous application of the Pronoun They by Interpreters makes themas much divided in the ſenſe of this as of the tormer Verſe. Either the F-ws that made Conlcience of keeping tothe Law apainſt touching dead Bodies, cried to the other Fews to leave the City as themſelves did, the City being now fo tull of dead Bodies that they could not ſtay in ic without polluting themſelves, Or the Prieſts called to them to that purpoſe. Or their Enemies ſpake in that Language to them. # For their Enemies had reſolve they ſhould not ſtay at Jeruſalem. 16 The] anger of the L.ORD hath divided them, he will no more tegard them 2: they reſpe&ted not the perſons of the prieſts, they favoured not the el-
ders 6.
4 Theſe words ſeem to be the Language of their Enemies tri- um>hing over them, as dilcerning that their God was provoked againſt - hoot would have no more regard or reſpe&t unto them : and that b they had miſuſed his Prophets which agreeth with 2 Chyo. 36. 16. But others rather think theſe latter words (if not the former alſo) are the Prophets words expreflive of the cauſe of their miſeries, viz. The Lords anger who had divided them, &c. and the effect of ic. Their Enemies having no regard to the moſt grave and venerable Perſons amongſt them.
17 Asforus, * our eyes as yet failed for our vain help : in our watching, we have watched for a na-
tion that could not ſave us c.
c That is, 1n expectation of the Ezyptians, whom they waited for to raiſe the ſiege, it was a long time before they came, and when they did come they could do them no ſervice at all, Fer. 37+
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ſtreets : ourend is near, our days are fulfilled, for our end is come 4.
4 The Chaldeans employed in the ſiege are ſo cloſe npon u5,that we cannot ſtir a foot about our buſineſſes, nor look out at our Doors, not walk ſately in the Streets ; we are ruined, there is an end of Civil State ; our period is come, and the time of our pro- ſperity is elapſed.
'19 Our perſecutors are * ſwifter than the eagles of the heaven, they purſued us npon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderneſs c.
. e Our Enemies who purſued us to deſtroy us were very ſwitt inthelr purſuic oft us, (5 [wiſe as an Eagle, 4s a proverbial Ex-