+ Heb. is 16 Twngh theſe three men were Þ in it, as I : live, faith -— "Wig the Lord G OD, they {hall deliver neither & ſons nor 7 0: «4. daughters ; they only ſhall be delivered, but the land fhall
be / deſolate.
i A form of Speech in which God by Oath confirms what ſpeak- eh, and *tisſuch an Oath as becomes him only who is Life, and can- not die. & Neither Sons that ſhould perpetuate their Families, and are the Support of Houſes, nor Daughters, the tenderneſs of whoſe Sex and Age does make and keep Parents AffeQions fervent towards them. No near Relation ſhould eſcape on their account. / 7. e. Moſt dcſolate, as the Heb. uſe by an Abſtratt to expreſs the Superlative Degree, Iſa. 1. 7. and 64. 10.
17 & Or if 1 » bring a » ſword upon » that land, and ſay, Sword, p go through the land ; fo that q I cut off
man and r beaſt from it :
» He is Lord of Hoſts, and hath the Militia of all the World in his Hand, the Sword js the Right of the King of Kings. n Raiſe War, and ſend Enemies to invade it. « What Land foever it be. þ Tho inanimate things have not Ears to hear, yet God ſpeaks of them ſomerimes as if they had Ears to hear, and Underſtanding to diſcern ; hereby intimating to us his over-rulivg Power, Wiſdom, Juſtice and | Sovereignty. 7 Men cut off Men in War, yet here God takes it tO | himſelf. he doth it by Men r Tho Wars chiefly deſtroy Men, yer
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the Beaſts of the Field go to wrack too, the Beaſts that are ſerviceable ' The Eaſtern Na. | Prophet minds them of to humble them, and awaken them to Fruit- |
tions * have bronghr ſtore of Camels, and many Elephants into che | fulneſs 3 Wil you boaſt your ſelves of this ? 5-One ſingle Branch of | Wars; belide the {laughter of theſe in Fight, the Spoiler waſting his ; |
in Wars are waſte, as Horſes, and Beaſts of Burden.
Enemy both ofren deftroy whole Herds and Flocks.
18 Though theſe three men ere in it, as I live, faith the Lord G OD, they ſhall deliver neither ſons nor daughters, but they only ſhall be delivered chem-
ſelves,
19 © Or #f / I ſend a t peftilence into that land, and £ pour out- my fury upon it x in blood, to cut off from it man and y beaſt -
« Diſeaſes are ſent whenever they come, eſpecially waſting Diſeaſes, which empty Narions and Cities apace. God's Bow. #« Not drop, or diſt] on a People in ſmall meaſures and by leifure., bur 3n great meaſures amd haſtily, as Waters are poured out of a Vetle] all at once almoſt. War, bur here, and in many other places, it denotes Death and De-
rhe fame Petilential Diſeaſe which kills Man, bur, either Dzath of Men by Vettilence emprieth che Nation, that there are not Men to
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g Chap.Yi 30 Though Noah, Daniel and Job, Wwero in it, as | 4 live, faith the Lord G OD, they ſhall deliver neither ſo nor daughter ; they ſhall bat deliver their own & fouls by their righteouſneſs. | Y hen PUrn OT _ - Not meritins the deliverance bur yet the Juſtice and Mercy of God ſhall ſurely keep them fi ons in the Puniſhment, who were kept from —— mn _
2I For thus faith the Lord GOD, & || How much| 0: þ b: more when I ſend my four fore Judgments upon Jeru.** þ * ſalem, the ſword, and the famine, and the noiſome
no a the peſtilence, to cut off from it man ang Calrl 7
a Thoſe three Men with their Feſt Intereſt, ſhould not be able to keep off one of the ſour, much leſs able to keep off ell four when | commiſſion them all to go ar once, as I will, nay have done againſt $2 Jeruſulem, to cut off the obſtinate, incorrigible ones amidf it. F
| 22' © Yet behold, » therein ſhall be left c a remnant
Jeruſalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon
that ſhall be 4 brought forth, borb ſons and daughters: Þþ : behold, they ſhaii come forth unto e you; and - ſhall J f ſee their g way, and their doings: and ye ſhall be 4 þ comforted concerning evil that I] have brought upon ;
le, 6 In Feruſalem it ſelf, and in the Lartl. «c Some that eſcape, for tho none could prevail with God to prevent the emptying the City and the Land, and cutting off the moſt,yet this was not to extend ro the utter cutting off and DeſtruQion of all. 4 By the proud, crue!, and barbarous Conqueror bringing them in Nakednels, Chains and in Contempt, more grievous than Death it ſelf. e Thoſe naked hunger. ſtarved, derided Captives, through Heats and Colds, through Sands and redions Travels, ſhall come, ckough with great Regrer, to you, to Babylon, whoſe Condition they willeither envy, or wiſh it their own f See them, and conſider and know. g What itis hath brought them, how finfully evil 'twas againſt God in their own Land, and how miſe. rably evil *tis and mult be with them in the Enemies Land. þ Nor rejoice 1n your Brethrens Miſery, but comforted in remembrance of the good Hour you reſolved to obey God, in yielding up to Chal. deans ; comforted in the fenſe of your State much better chan theirs and in the Vindication of you from the black Aſperſtons the falſe |Þ Prophets and their Followers caſt on you ; and finally comforted in : that your Return at ſet-time promiſed, ſhall in its time be as ſurely Þ s 1 made good, as you ſee the Threats are made good ; God will be as true ; in his Merciesas he hath been in his Judgments: this is matter of pre. | 3 ſent Afiition and Grief, that of Comfort and Hope.
23 And z they ſhall & comfort you, when ye ſee ! their ways and their doings : and ye m: ſhall know » that
I have not done without cauſe, all that I ! faith the Lord G O D. 1ave done in it,
; That farvive the Siege, Famine and Ruin of Jeruſalem, and arg brought to Babylon. k Either confeſling their = - nn they had done, juſtifying the wiſe courſe they took who yielded, con demning the Folly of hardning themſelves againſt God, his Judgments, and his Prophers, or be matter of Comfort, affording to you juſt ground of comforting your ſelves. 1 Underſtand it in the Effc&s of it upon the ruined Jews. Or, in the Relation whick they will make both of their Sins and Sufferings in the Land of Canaan. m You of the firſt Captivity, you that obeyed my Voice and ſubmitted to the Babylonian Yoke. n Be fully ſatisfied that I have had but too much cauſe, and moſt juſt Reaſon for all that I have done againſt Fers/alm and its Land, and Inhabitants of both ; you ſhall know my Hand, and as you fee] the Weight, ſo Fou ſhall ſet the Juſtice of it too again! them, and the Mercy of it towards you. ;
CHAP. XV.