a Ferrſalem, tho it ſuffered unparalle'd Hardſhips. 6b Shall not be the place of your Sufferings, greater are reſerved for you, you fſhal] be tortured in 2 ſtrange Land. c Do more againſt. you at R:#1atb, whereas 2 Kings 25.6,7. the Captive King had his Children and others
_ with them firſt murdered before his Eyes, and then his own Eyes put
out, and Rzb/ath 1s called here the Border of 1/rael, for that Syria was adjoining to Iſrael on the North, and Riblath or Antioch was a pleaſant City towards the Frontiers of Syria, upon the River Orextes, which a.
- riliag in Avrilibanys runs through part of Syria, and for the Delicacy
of the Seats ir had many Cities built on it. And here Nebuchadnezzar in his Royal Stare, and amidit the Pleaſures of the Place, expe&s the Iflue of the Siege.
12 And d ye ſhall know that I 29 the e LORD: || for ye have nat f walked in my g ſtatutes, neither executed my + judgments, but have done after the 2 manners of the heathen that are round about you.
d Tho you would not believe my Threats, nor fear them, you ſhall feel them, and then you ſhall know ; thus the wicked learn. e Whom vou ſhould have obeyed, feared and returned to, and who now convincerh you of his and his Propher's Truth in all that was foretold you. f A $Scripture- phraſe expreſflive of the Courſe of Man's Life. g The Rules for Religious Obſervances. h Refer to the Politicaland
aflifted in the War. jthough + I have caft them # far off & among the + hea-+Þ 4 x Strangers will uſe you hardly, bur the moſt ſevere part of theJudg- then, and although I have / ſcattered them among the | ment will be from a provoked God, who would have pardoned, bur countreys, yet will I be to them as a little fanQuary ia
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left in Jeruſalem, and were grown as bad as the reſt, tho theirs were of a Prieſtly Lineage. Their Degeneracy and unjuſt Cenſure is more noted in the repetition of the word Brethren. y Of the ſame Paren. tage, to whom thou hadſt right of Redemption, if either their Perſon or Eſtate was to be fold: Men who ſhould have been as tender in AffeR&ion, as they were near in Blood. z All that are now in Cap. tivity, be they more or leſs, of whatſoever Condition or Rank, the: are the Men of whom the Jernſalemites ſpeak. a That is, cenſure and
condemn as greateſt Sinners, and unworthy longer to dwell in the y
Holy Land, and tacitely infer that they were better, and ſhould be Þ at CG ſafer now they were rid of them. 6 Ye, or they, are gone far from s o! the Lord; you are Apoſtates, or irreligious, a Company of Back. I el
fliders; mugh as the Heathens accus'd rhe Chriſtians of Atheiſm. 7 Je c Who keep to the Temple and Holy City, and have not yeildcd to the Babyloniſh Tyranny ; who ſtand for our ancient Privileges, are not as you, Betrayers of our Country ; thus yow may ſuppoſe they boaſt. d Promiſed, Holy, Bleſt Land, Cananrn, where our Fathers dwelt. This Land 1s ours. e We ſhallnever be put out of Poſleſlisr, but ſtill ic ſhall be our Inheritance.
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lon. h The obſtinate Fews at Jeruſalcm will call them Apoſtates and Renegadoes ; but ler ſuch falfe Accuſers know that they were ſent thi- ther, and that I the Lord ſent them thither, and will own them ther: too. 7 Not from my ſelf, but from you, your polluted Land, 2nd dreadful aproaching Judgments. & "The Ghaldeans, or ſuch as the Chaldeans placed them among. / Diſperſed and ſeparated them from one another in many Countries which were under the King of Babyin: Yer they are dear to me, and my Purpoſes are for them more graci- ous than yours are for them, or than mine are for you. 2 For a lit- tle while, 7. e. during the Seventy Years Captivity; or for a few of them, the Remnant was ever little: Or, as it refers to the SanEtuary, a little one, in oppoſition to that great, rich, ſplendid and admires Temple at Jcrſalem, which when they need moſt, ſhall help leaft ; bur I, ſaith God, will be really to my Captives what the proud ſelt- deceiving Jews promiſe their Temple ſhall be to them ; borh for Glo- ry, Defence, and for Worſhip, which ſhall with Heart and Love b? given by theſe I have ſent away, and where-ever they are,their Pray- ers, Synagogue-Worſhip, and Obedience ſhall be to me as well-plez- ſing as they ſhall deſire. They at diſtance weep on Chebar Banks* You O rebellious! pollute the Temple by your Idolatries ; I wi!! comfort the Mourners, I will puniſh you Polluters of my Temple and Worſhip.
17 Therefore ofay, Thus faith the Lord GOD, #\ will even 9 gather you from the people, and » aſſemble you out of the countreys where you have been ſcattered, and I will /give you the land of Ifrael.
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