8. They f hall bring thee'down to the pit g, and thou ſhalt die the deaths 4 of rhers 7hat are Nlain in the midit ; of the ſeas. | |
f Theſe Strangers ſhall ſlay thee, which is a Blemiſh to the Honour of a King thus to be brought to the Pir. g A uſual Periphraſis of Death and the Grave hIn the Plural, becauſe of the many Terrors, Dan. gers and Woundsſuch meer with, the ſucceſſive Deaths, flain, drown. ed, eat of Fiſh, caſt upon ſhoar, and become Meat to Sea-Fowl. : If literally underſtood, Thou ſhalt die as other Common Mariners, arid be caft overboard ; if figuratively, Seas for great Diſtrefles, then a. midſt multitude of deep Diſtreſles thou ſhalt meet with more than one Death, be often dying.
9 Wilt & thou yet fay I before him that ſlayeth thee, 1 am God ? but thou ſhalt be m a man, and no God, in the hand of him that || ſlayeth thee. |;
k A cutting Taunt or Sarcaſm, what will become of thy Godſhip ** then ? { Wilt thou then dream of Immortality and Almighty Power, when thine Enemy iscutting thy Throat ? m Appear then to thy (elf and others te be a mortal weak, conquered Man, who dieth a Sacri. fice to the Conqueror's Pride and Cruelty.
10 Thou fhale die the deaths » of the uncircumciſed 0, by the hand of ſtrangers : for 1 have ſpoken 7, ſaith the Lord GOD p.
z Ver. 8. let. h. A twofold death, tempotal and eternal. » Of thy wicked, or an accurſed Death; the Jews do expreſs a vile and miſc- rable Death thus ; or the uncircumciſed, 5. e. Heathens, cruel and mercileſs Men ſhall ſlay thee, and this ſutes with whar follows in the | Verſe, and this was ignominious with the Jews, 1 Sam. 371. 4. p20 thou proud, ſelf-admiring Prince ! Slight not what is threatned, for God, the God of Truth, hath ſpoken it.
11 Moreover, the word of the LORD came unto te, ſaying,
12 Son of mari, take up a lamentation q upon the king
r of Tyrus; and fay unto him, Thus faith the Lord GOD,
Thou ſealeſt up the ſum s full of wiſdom, and perfect In beauty,
q See chap. 27. ver, 2, let. 8,6. » Called Ptince; wer. 2. letb. 5 [n the Search into the Frame of thy Government, the Manage of it, the Proſperity thereof, and its Glory, Power, Riches and Confederacies; thou doeſt think thy ſelf bur juſt to thy Kingdom to account it the perfet Idea of a good Government, that in the Tyrian State nothing 18. wanting that might be required in a good Government, in the beſt Go« vernment, and fo ſealeſt to the Premiſes; thus vainly puffc up thou wil have it, that Fulneſs of Wiſdom and PerfeQion of Beauty are inthee, but neither thy Wiſdom ſhall prevent or defeat the -Atcempts of chins Enemies, nor thy Beauty charm their Rage, thou ſhalt fall by them.
I3 Thou haſt been 7 in Eden # the garden of God x; every y precious ſtone was thy covering %, the || ſardins 4,1; topaz 5, and the diamond «, the || beryl 4, the onyx Mr and the jaſper f, the ſaphire g, the { emerald h, and the/s carbuncle z, and gold & : the / workmanſkip of thy tabrets'*
and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day thatthou m Walt created.
t Thou haſt dwelt and reigned. « In the midſt of all Delights; and though Nature made thy Lot a very barren Rock, thy Artand Induſtry, added to that of thy Progenitors, have made it as pleaſant, rich and beautiful as Een, that Place of all deſirable Enjoyments. x This is explicative of the former ; a Garden is a Place of Delight, and Men have made ſome delightful to a Wander, but none ever like that God planted : This of Tyre came as near as any, and yet ungrate ful and athieſtical Tyre dreamsof Divine Power and Stability, forget- ting humane Frailty and Uncertainty, Every ſort of rich Ston6s- z Bought te adorn thy Crown, thy Robes, thy Bed, &c. 4 Of 3 red, and by ſome ſaid to be the Ruby. 4Of a yellowiſh Green. c Of clear, wateriſh, ſparkling Colour. 4 Of a Sea-green Colour, the bell. e Reſembles the Whiteneſs of the Nail of a Man's Eand. fof dir vers Colougs, but the beſt greon. g Of $ky-colous or blue, + Green
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: in Gold that they might the ſafer be put upon his Gar- _—_ oF rg the rn hows. of elenaniton, eſpecially of the ti as appears .in Cloſe of the Verſe. 1 Now. the Prophet pw Toys, Muſick and Songs, both to Windor loud Mulick, | —_ to ſotter Muſick, as the , Lute and Tabret inthe Day of their King's. Coronation, and all this Muſick on Inſtruments of moſt exqui- ite Make, and of their own Artiſts Work too, in this they exceeded in the other. » Either born, for Birth of Princes hath been cele- beared with great Joys, or rather in the Day of this King's Coronatt* 2n or Inveſtiture in the Kingdom and Royal Dignity. 74 Thou art the 7 anointed cherub that covereth : and ] have {et 0 thee /o; thou Pp waſt upon the holy mountain of God ; thou haſt walked up and down q in the midlt ot
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