and they count it a ftrange thing, and the Eacrifices and Gifts which they call mine, I tell you what I account them to be ; as for Sacrifices which now they pretend to give me, it is Fleſh they ſacrifice, an cat it wheg they have done, and I acceunt no more of it : they facri- fice that they may feaſt and fill themſelves with Wine an\l Mirth, and what is that to me? x Neither owneth them as his, nor taketh any Pleaſure at all in them. Thele Sacrilices $shall never expiate thelrc Sins, nor reconcile me to them, ſaith Gad : I think here is a Meiofjs in theſe Words, they may be a ſofter expreſſion of Hatred and De- teſtation 'which God bears towards ſuch. y In his juſt and hot diſs pleaſure he will reckon with them, and by puniching them tor all make them know he remembers all their Sins, Hereremembring and viſiting are the ſame, and include Punishment. 7 Either alluding to their Bondage in Egypt, (o Ajſyria shall uſe them ; or el{e-it is an up- braiding them for, and minding them of their perfidiouſn2ſs to Sha!- man ſ:r, They had been ever Covenant-Breakers with God and Man, this laſt part of Treachery God will punish : or elſe they shall return to Eg ypr, i.e. many $hall to ſave their Lives fly from the Aſſyrian into Egypt, and there ſcek their Safety z and if they preſerve their Life there, the Punishment of their Sins $hall follow them. Exile, with Miſery as bad as Captivity, shall be their Lot there. So Cap. g. 5.
14 For lſrael a hath forgotten b his maker c, and builderh Temples d; and Judah hath multiplicd fenc:d Cities e: bur I will ſend a fire vpon his Cicies f, and 1t
ſhall devour the Palaces g thereof. |
a The ten revolted Idolatrous Tribes. 5 The ſame with ch49.2.9. which ice; or chap 4. 1. and 6. ver. Either remembers not at ail or *tis without Love, Thankfulneſs, and Contideration of what becomes him towards. God. c Who made, who preſerved, who advanced
them, and gave them all thoſe Priviledges wherein they exc?! oiter
is no Path or Tratt ; this will well ſuit them in their Captivity, when Nations, who brought them out of E:ypr, &c. d The word will ey ſhall be left asin a Wilderneſs, and may, as perhaps many did, | hear Palac:s, or Towers, - It is like their Idol-Temples were magri-
yinto more reinote and deſolate Places, and ramble into uninhabited ! Vlaces, and there take rooting, and give Being to Nations which are | now known to us, though we know not whence they deſcended. Or, ane by himſelf, in a Poſture fit to become a Prey to the Lion of 4 1 ; ſo tis reported the Lions make a Prey of the wild Affſes in the Wildernefſes, ſo will Afſyria make Jjrazt a 1 rey e Hath dearly bought the Friendſhip of Aſjyria in Pul and Shatmaneſer's Time and more dearly bought Friendſhip of Egypt in the time of So or Sabacon, or Seveclus; tor beſide all the Treaſuie they laid out on this, they part- &d vith their God for it, and ſet him againſt //r2el.
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ficent, that they might boaſt of them, aud ſcrong like Towers that they
his Reign and Apoſtacy) did depart from the Living Gol, f Bring an Enemy upon them that $hall befiege chem in their Cities, and burn them ; which was effeed by Nebuchadn-z7ar and his Armies abuut
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CHAY. Ic.
Ged rhreatneth the Iſraelites mith ſpeedy famine, captivity, and deſtrudi- on: their corruption and abominations threatned with barrenne's and flaughrer of their children ; their diſperſion among the nations for de- Jpiſing God. 1 17.
I Ejoice not a, O Iſrael b, for joy c, as other peo-
le d : for thou haſt gone a whoring from thy
* Jer. 44+ God e, thou haſt loved a * reward f|| upon every corn-
7 Boor g.
[! Or, T @ This might ſeem a moroſe Humour of a diſcontented fullen