c The King of Babylon, and his Counſellors and Captains, & A! aſlembled Army. You had your Aſtemblies for your Idol-Worthip and TI will have alſo an Aflenwbly, bur it ſhall be of Chaldeans, 1. 1. 6. and others , ro deſtroy you for your Idolatry. e The Puniſhmen: by ſtoning was not inflicted on the condemned, but in the fight of the Congregation ; ſo here 15 a Congregation of many Nations, bt fore whom this juſt Judgment of God ſhaſl be executed on this Adul- tereſs. Itintimates the manner of battering ofthe Walls of Fernſa/m with Stones caſt out of their Engines. f When the Enemy ſhall al- faulr, and take the battered City, he will in his Fury ſlay and deſtioy with the Sword. g *Tis ſo called theirs, becauſe it might mind ti? Iſraelites, that the Deſtru&tion would be with the Sword of a cruel one,
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3 6 . < I .* Ci Wn * Fe - os : chanred them : Her Poiſon infuſed into them ſhe converſt with : The Impud-nce of her Carriage, as 2 Whore with a Fore-head of Brals , Ir. 2.3. # Ir includes her Eag-rnels, Conſtancy and abounding in her Wickedneſs, and moſt mode!t:y upbraids her with her molt 1N- modeſt Laſciviouſneſs, and diſcovery ofit. x Sometime it 15 figura- tively taken, ſo it may be here, tho I rather think ſhe is charged with ſuch Profticution, as the diſcovering the Parts Nature hath conceal'd,
of <ither anold profetled Enemy, or a new revolted Friend.
41 And + they ſhall 7 burn * thine houſes with fire, and & execute / judgments upon 2 thee in the fight 011; many » women: and 0 I will cauſe thee to ceaſe from ? playing the harlot, and 9 thou alfo ſhalt give no 7 hire any more. =_
> That Company mentioned, wer. 40. i As Harlots and Idolaters were to be puniſh'd,intimating alſo the burning Jeruſalem, the Temp'? and Houſes in it, as 2 Kings 25.9. 2 Chron. 36. 19. k As God's Inſtruments to do his Will, and alfo as Men that ſatisfy their own Rage. / All kind of Cruelty. m O Jeruſalem, and thine Inbabi-
and Modeſty ſhould keep ſecret. » In tay playing the harlot thou haſt ſhamelelly incired thy Lovers by diſcovery of thy ſecret Parts. z As before'was obſerved, ſhe doted on all the Idols of her Neigh- bours and Acquaintance, which become h-r Abominations by her Jo-
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49 Behold, this was the 4 iniquity of thy ſiſter So- b- N dom, #z Piide, fulnefs & of bread, and / abundance Wt; of idlenefs was in her , and in her daughters , nei- + 17 ther did ſhe » ſtrengthen the hand of the poor and needy. |
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43 x Becauſe thou haſt not y remembred the days of thy youth, but haſt = fretted me 1n all theſe #2 things;
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avainlt Jernſalem. y Vid. wer, 22. z A mixt Paſſion, in which 1s Grief as weil as Anger, ſuch as moves in the Heart of a jealous us. band; or ſuch as is the Paſſion of one that is grieved, and angred at the Rebukes of her Folly, breaks our 1nto diforderiy Carriage againſt the Reprover, and tumultuaticg within her own Breaſt, holds o: her
courſe. a Already mentioned and charged againſt thee. 6 Lay it}:
now before thine Eyes, and conliderit. c Or have wcompenſed, for
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