-3 Yea, thou & ſhalt be broken 7 in the midſt of the uncircumciſed, and ſhalt he #2 with thern that are flain »
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þ Chief of Meſech and Tabal, though not named. 7 Shall be killed with the reſt of thy wicked Followers. » Without regard hurled into the Pit wich the common Soldiers,as thou falleſt with them. » Whoſe Throars were cut after they were taken. o Of Halyattesand hi+ L:-\) dyans, in revenge 'tis like of theSpoil doneto Sardis, and by Ciaxares, in revengeof the Affeontthey gave him, forcing him toquir the Siege ' of Ninh, and by giving him Childs Fleſh to eat, pretending it was Veniſon tiken by them in hunting. =»
29 There is Edom p, her kings q, and all her prin- bcc 7, Which with their s might are - laid by * them -1:toat ere Dain by the ſword : they ſhall lie « with the uncircumciſed, and with them that go down to the
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p The Poſterity of Eſau, the Name of the Country too in which they dwelt. q Which had been many, and ſome great Warriours. r Or Dukes, as Gen: 36. 20, 21. 5 Shew'din the Afiiſtance they gave the £&/hrians, t Are lain, and Jaid aſide to be buried, as Comman-
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c Propound a Parable unto them. 4 Tf at ary time. e War, or any fore Judgment. f Chooſe out a Man, who lives on the Borders, knows the Avenues and the Ways the Enemy wil! moſt likely come to allault chem. g Appoiat him to watch the Coaſts, that they may nor be furprized.
3 It when he ſeeth the ſword bþ come 7 upon the land , he blow the trumpet +, and warn / the people; |
h Of the Enemy, or any cther Danger, which k2 may foreſee inany of the Cauſes, or Fore-runners of it 7 i. e. Coming, approaching to
the Land. + Sound the Alam; the Scund of the Truinpet 15 a
Warning, yer to this ſome:unes 'tis neceſſary / to add a Warning by word of Mouth, and teli People, brought together by the Trumper, what he ſeerh. |
4 Then whoſoever + heareth 2 the found of che + Heb. 5: trumpet, and taketh not 4 warning; if the ſword come 7-* "-97- and take o him away, his blood p ſhall be upon his owns #77 head 4. |
7 Conſiders not, and minds not what he hears, who hears and does not contider ; he turns a deaf Ear to the Meaning, thoug! not to th5 Smund of the Trump:t. » Apprehends nor, nor wil! be made ap» pretenfive of the Danger, to provide for reſiſting, or flying the Sword. 0 Deſtroy him. p The Gui'r and Blame of his Blood, of his Death, q Shall never be charged on any, but himſelf.
5 He heard r che {ound of the erumper, and took not warning, his biood s (hall be upon him : but te thac ra- keth warning, ihaii a472r 7 bis foul v.
7 He heard, as wells oth..rs who efcap'd, ard he might have 211. vercd himlic}f as they did, who took war 1ing.: s Heis iheon'y Cufe of his own Death. # Shall fave his Life. « Hinfelf, pretorve his own Perton.
6 Bur 5f the warchman fee tle ſword com ud blow » not the trumpet, and the peopie b- not
ders are uſually after their Death regarded, and their Bodies kept for 2 Funeral. » Yeras the uncircumciſed, ſo rheſe muſt tothe Pit, though no mention made of their being a terror to the Nations.
39 There be the princes of the north x all of them , atzd all the Zidonians, which are gone down with the ſlam y; with their terrour 2 they are aſhamed @ of their might, and they lie uncircum- ciſed b with them that be ſlain by the ſword c, and bear 4 their ſhame with them that go down to the
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which lay Northward from Judea, now ſwallowed up by the Babyloni- #17, y Conquer'd and ſlain. z Their Terror is buried with them. a When it appeared a vain Confidence, and too weak to reſiſt the Ene. my, and fave themſelves. 6 Scorned, and-caſt out, as profane and loarhſome. c Of their conquering Enemy. & They lie under a ſhameful Fall, from a ſeeming Glory to a Real Ignominy.
31 Pharaoh ſhall ſee them e, and ſhall be comforted F
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by the {word faith the Lord GOD.
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them all ruined, as he was, ſhould f be comforted, or rejoice, others
t- before him mer with the ſame fatal End ; and, what ever comfort d this might be, 'tis all he ſhall ever have, did he know all thoſe Things and Perſons that are here repreſented and perſonated to us.
- " 32 Forlg have cauſed my terrour in the land of the ws | living : and he + ſhall be laid z in the mid(t of the = uncircumciſed with them that are ſlain with the ſword, \|. even Pharaoh and all his multitude, faith the Lord n0- GOD
as g It is God that ſpeaketh, who had puniſh'd former Tyrants, and by = a Retaliation, that the World migh- ſe- his juſt Judgments : They _ were a Terror to the World by their Cruelty, Oppreſlion, and conti- = nued Violence; by their Covetouſneſs, Ambition and Pride : And | 7 God hath made them a Terror by his juſt Severiries in their Puniſh- wch
po * like themby choice of their Vices, and I will take him likethem by por * like Miſeries and juſt Recompenſes; and theſe ſhall be to his Subje&s = as well asto himſelf, To Hophra, who was ſtrangled, and likely caſt _ = out without Buria] : To Amaſis, who was taken out of his Tomb, and This & burnt to Aſhes ; ſo unlike the Condition of rhe Dead, which uſually bout = i5reft tothe Body, was their Condition after Death ; who in life made
— þ YT unl ke, and imagined it was above the Condition of mortal Man.
held 8 tions. cw perialas cher 4 ro Au and 3 efh 1 11 our Years
CHAP. XXXII. Gus ſh-weth the prophet his daty, and the duty of all faithful prophets, 1—-9.
#5 they are watchmen ; as alſo the juſtice of his ways towaras the penitent and the revolter, 10 16. He defendeth the equity of bus proceedings,
21----29, God's judgmen:s upmm the flatterers and mockers of the pro- Phets, 30---33.
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s Pro: I R Gain the word of the LORD came unto me, oo laying,
yy ,2 Son of man, ſpeak a to the children of thy þ peo- oo: Me 22d fay © unto them, + When 4 1 bring the
n have j# ini þ rhej\ F ths
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Wiom he had not ſpoke ſince what he ſpake in the 24: Chapter
* Of allthoſe Countries, Tyrians, Zidonians, Afriansand Syrians, &c. |
over all tis multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army lain |
I7-——20. Jeruſalem being taken, the deſolations of the land foretold,
word s upon a land, if the people of the land take 74 man of their coaſts, and ſer g him for their watch-
e Propher, after three Years ſilence enjoined him, now hath Mouth opened by a new Commiſſion. & To the 7ews in general,