with Injuſtice and Violence oppreffing all. a Is grown up to be, though a Rod to puniſh bad Men, yet to be worſe than thoſe it puniſh- 'eth; in brief, you may expett the very worſt from the Power, Pride, and Violence of thoſe I am now letting in upon you. Or, 2. It may re- fer to 1/-ae!; thus your Tribe (or Rod, the ſame word) bloſſometh, but 'tis in Sin, and that in Pride and Violence, ſo grown thar 'tis a moſt wicked Rod of Injuſtice and Opprefſion to your Neighbours, Bre. thren, Servants, &c. as Feremiah, Hoſea, and other Prophets as well as Ezekiel complained. And now your Sins thus ripe, your Sorrows muſt be very near; as 'tis not many Months between the budding of the Tree, and rhe ripening and gathering of the Fruit. 6 This alfo is fairly applicable to both Chaldeans and Jews ; the Jews ſhould be utterly waſted firſt for their Sins, which God will puniſh by this vio- lent, proud, mighty Enemy; and afterwards he will deſtroy Root and Branch of that mighty Oppreſlor : and c fo ſad ſhall the Sufferings of | both he, that the living ſhall not bewail their dead Friends, becauſe they ſhall judg the Dead in better caſe than the living. and tho the Words may have this double aſpe&, yet Irake them to refer principally and firſt to the Jews, and their near approaching Sorrows.
12 The dtime is come, the day draweth near, let not the e buyer rejoice nor the ſeller f mourn; for g wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
d See Verſe 2,3,6, 7. e Tho he honeſtly poſſeſs what his Money purchaſed, yet let him not hug himſelf in the thought of his Riches. 7 Men uſually part with their Eſtates, grieving that they muſt cran(- mit their Right co others; bur let Sellers now think how little a while they could have kept them, and how little time they ſhall keep them who have bought them. g Such Wrath from God, an off:nded Judg, and from inſolent Enemies, that Buyer and Seller ſhall find cheir State much alike. x
13 For the ſeller 5 ſhall not z return to that which is ſold, -f- although they were & yet alive: for the viſion / s touching the whole multitude thereof, 2yh:ch ſhall not re,
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any ſhould ſurvive the Captivity, yet the Conqueror waſting and de- ſtroying all, would confound all diſtin& Titles, and antient Boundaries. ' The Evils foreſeen and threatned, are deſigned againſt all the Multi. tudeof 1ſrac!, whoſe Sin and Impenitence have 1avolved them in theſe Judgmentsand Miſeries, asT amaſlured by a Viſion which cannot fail of Accompliſhment, which ſhall not return vain, and nor performed. : Nor ſhall any one Man of them all be able to fortify himſelf, and ſe. cure his State againſt theſe Threats by his Obſtinacy and Sin, or by any ſinful Contrivances.
I4 » They have blown the trumpet, even to make o all ready, but p none goeth to the battel: for my q wrath s upon all the multitude thereol.
2 The Houſe of 1ſraet have publiſh'd their Reſolution for War, and ſummoned in all fit for Arms; ſo, if the words be read as here: Or, if inthe Imperative Mood 6low ye, 8c. they are a ſmart Trony againſt the Preparations the Jews can poflibly make for repelling the Ene- my, and defending their City. o Perſons fit for the War, and all war- like Proviſions, a thing neceſlary in caſe of Invaſions, but in their caſe a vain Attempt. p There 15 not a Man going to the War, (as the Heb.) all are backward in this Danger. q That Difpleaſure which takes away their Prudence and Courage, that theſe Men of Might {l:ep, and none finds his Hands or Weapons, 1/a. 29. 14.
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and might ſtop the Purſuer whom they hope Silver may ſtop a while, and give them ſome ſpace to get away : Or, might occaſion Quarrels among Souldiers of Fortune, which might ſer them one againſt ano- ther til the diſtreſſed Jew could get away from them all, Chaldeans, who in this day of their own Rage, and God's Wrath| . againſt the Jews, did (as the Meds and Perſians ſhall, Iſa. 13. 17.) not;
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' id ſhall be on the y mountains ke doves z of the valleys, all of cham s mourning, 5 every one for his INIQUItY» | | Ty _ read the Words they are a Prediction ; ſome ſhall eſcape, 4:4 Promiſe of ſome Mercy in the Eſcape. Bur if we read them, as 7c may thus, And fly je that are eſcaped of them, in the Imperative, they are a Command to, or DireCtion for ſuch as would eſcape, like that Jer, 21.9. y Wandring out of their proper place, and uneaſy. » That are frighted our of their neſts, and fly among the wilder fort of Doves, which give Them trouble and Danger ; ſuch will be the State of eſcaped Ones among ſavage Idolaters. a Bemoaning them- ſelves, and making a mournful noife, Nah. 2. 7. 6 Either for the Pu- niſhment of their Iniquity, ſo the worſt of choſe thar eſcape : Or, for their Iniquity cauſe of their Puniſhment, ſo the beſt among them. Or, for both together ; the Mourning, though on different Motives, yer ſhould be univerſal, every one weeping.