1/raelites indeed. d Several Nations SubjeCs to the King of Bavylon. - By the Babyloniſh King at firſt, and afterward by incident neceſlicy, or their own choice. f Have vindicated my Name, which by them was blaſphemed. g I was diſhonoured by the Jewvs in the Sighr of the Heathen, and I will be honoured by the Jews in their Sight, they (hall be Witneſfles of my Vindication. þ Sertle in Peace, and for con- tinuance. i In a Land that is theirs, their own, as *tis often called. + Their Title is of me by Deed of Gifr, not of Jate ; Bur / to one that was long ſince my Servant. m» to Jacob, Father to thele returning Captives. The H 56. repeats the Propoſition, To my Servant, to J4= ie. awed cob, with an Emphaſis, to mind them of God's Faithfulneſs. Fn
' £12 P26 And they ſhall dwell || ſafely » therein, and iha
Nere31 5. build houſes, and * plant vineyards : yea, they ſhall
K 1 & Lo in the Head of the Cyreneans and Grecianr, and the Event of it, ig ex- atly repreſented in this Hieroglypick in the Text. Amafis with thoſe Forces maſtered Libya ; the King thereof applies for help to his pj. raoh ; he gathered all the Power of Egypt out of Ezyp! with him ints Cyrene, where he was defeated, loſt all, but a few that fled with him, and on this occaſion the Ezyprians rebelled againſt him ; now this ſhort Hiſtory opens the Parable. The firſt Hook you ſze in the Chawy of this Dragon, this drew him out of his River, z. e. his Kingdom, # Theſe are the People of Egypt, the Subje&s of his Kingdom. : To adhere to theirKing in thar War. » Both the King and his Subjeq; which made up his Army, go out of the Rivers, leave Egypt, and march into Cyrene (which was part of that Kingdom now called Barca) with their King, as if they had been little Fiſhes on the back of a mighty One. Thus far the Emblem, the reſt follows. _
5 And I will leave & thee thrown into the wilder.
neſs a, thee and all the fiſh 6 of thy 1ivers : thay
brought together, nor gathrred 4: I have given thee for oth meat to the beaſts of the field, and to the fowls of the © *
| dwell with confidence when 9 I have executed judg- f Or, ſ29%: nents upon all thoſe that {| deſpiſed them round about them ; and they p ſhall know that I 4» the Lord their
» Which is to be inderſtood comparatively, ſaferthan before ; 1t muſt be accommodated to the Circumſtances of humane Conditionin
heaven. :
z When thus brought out, as a Fiſh ofit of the Water, I willleaye thee. God left this King. # The Deſerts of Lybis and Cyrexe. 4 The whole Army of Egyprians. c There was this King and his Army ry. in'd. d As uſually the Slain areto be buried, theſe were nor buried but left in the Wilderneſs, whete he fel] to bea Prey to wild Beaſts, and Birdsof Prey which haunted che Wilderneſs, and woull ſoon gz.
{uch ſafety, as excludes continual inward Cares, and Fears, and Per- picxiries; as "tis ſaid of Laſh, Fudg. 18.7. or as 1 the days of Solge 702, 1 King. 4. 25- Or as Job 11. 18, 19. o That ſeems to intimate that there might be ſome Attempts as by S2nballat and Tobias, but God blalted theſe : or it may refer more properly to the Deſtru&ion of Bab;lm, and the Nations Confederate with chem, who ruined and deſpiſed the Jews. p Returned Captives. 9 ſhall own and know by
ther to their Prey.
6 And all the Inhabitants of Egypt ſhall e know that I am the LORD, becauſe they f have been a * ſtaff of',; reed g to the houſe of Iſrael. 18. e This mighty Overthrow ſhall be known through all Egypr; andlli.;
experience, that I am not only the Lord, bur their Gcd too.
CH A P. XXIX.
A prophecy of judgment againſt Pharaoh for his treachery to Iſrael, 1—7: Ana the dcſolation of Egypt foretald, 8 — 12. its reſtoratgon aftcr forty years ; but no confid.nce for Iſrael, 1316. brt a reward to Nebuchad. nezzar for deſtroying Tyrus, 17 — 20. A promiſe of Iſrael's reſtoration, 21,
1 FN the tenth year 4, in the tenth 9nth b, in the twelfth 4zy of the month, the word of the LORD
came unto me, ſaying, | 1 a Of Jcchenial's Captivity. & Which anſwers to part of our De- c:mber, and part of Jansary.
2 Son of man, ſet thy face c againſt Pharaoh 4 king
* Ifa. 19.1 of Egypt, and propheſie e againſt him, and againſt all
Jer. 25.19f Feypt.
& 46. 2. c Vid. chap. 20. ver. 46. let. 0. and chap. 21. wer. 2. let. /. d Hophra,
as the Scripture ſtiles him, Jr 44+ 3®. the Greek Authors call him
Aprees and Yaphres; moſt like he was Grandfon to Necho, who flew 7o-
ſiah in Fight, 2 Chron. 35. 23, 24- eIn propherick Stile and Au-
thority declare what ſhall be done ro him in his Perſon. f The whole Multitude of Egyprians ; for 'tis the Place for the Pegple dwel.
Ing 1 It.
z Speak and fy, Thus faich the Lord GOD, Be- hold, 1 a» againſt thee g, Pharaoh 4 king of Egypt, the . oreat + * dragon k that lieth /in the midlt of his rivers mz, _ 71+ which hath ſaid », My river 0 is mine own p, and I have Iſa. $4 made 2t 9 for my ſelf r.