p Either literally, are not ſuch Sins and Judgments enough to ſhake the very Foundations of the Earth ? Or, metonymically the Land fo the People of it, as after in the Verſe they that dwell therein. qThi that you have done, O Houſe of Jſrae), in ſinning, and this that Gi w1t] do in puniſhing, enough to melt the Earth, as Pſal. 46. 6. r Sint: every one hath ſinned too much, and every one ſhall ſuffer in this ap. proaching Calamity, every one at the News may well mourn and |z ment. s Inthe Land of J/7ae]. 2 Orby an Interrogation, ſþal i ny? 7, e, ſhall not the Judgment, the invading Troops of Aſſyria, the Dil. pleaſure of God, riie and grow as a mighty waſting Flood ? Or el: thus, the whole Land ſhall riſe up, ſobb'd in theſe Judgments, it ſal ſeem to ſwell and grow greater ready like an Hydropick to burk aſwn der ;- or elſe 'tis an Hypallage, the Land ſhall riſe up, 7. e. The Flu ſhall riſe over the Land, or which I rather incline to, the whole Jul: ment ſhall riſe as a Flood, u The Land, the State, People, and hat they have ſhall be as in a Shipwrack,or mighty Flood which breaksal down before it, be toſſed in the Surges and Waves. x And atlaſtby the Continuance of this Tempeſt drowned all, as the overfloxing d NiJus doth drown all the Plains of Eg ypt.
9 And it ſhail vme to pals y in that day z, faith tis Lord GOD, that * a will cauſe the Sun b te go don
at Noon c, and I will darken 4 the earth e in the clear day f. _ 3 Moſt certainly *twill be. z When God begins to execute theſe hi juſt and ſevere Judgments on the ten Tribes. 4 The great, juſt, ho and terrible God who is provoked by theſe Sins, and hath denounc! theſe Jndgments, my hand ſhall be evident in it. 6 Literally, ſome, but erroneouſly ; by Sun I underſtand rather the ſettled State of their Proſperity under their preſent Government in the Houed Febu, or it may reter particularly to their King and Court, which # roboam at his Death left, like the Sun at Noon, in the Height of thel Glory, as all know, who know the Hiftory of thoſe times. -« S0 Ih e's Sun did, as at Noon, ſet under the dark Cloud of home-bred Cor ſpiracies and Civil Wars by Shallum, Menabem, Pekah, and Hof? til the Midnight-Darkneſs drew on by Pul, Tiglath Pileſer, and Shalmai ſer. 4 Bring a thick Cloud of Troubles and Aflitions. e The con mon People, the whole Body of the Nation ; ſo the Su ſpeaks tif Royalty, Nobility, and great ones of this Kingdom by an Alluſion wel known in Scripture, and the Earth ſpeaks the common ſort of People ana ali are here threatned. f When they did think (as in Feroboans time) all was fate, ſure, and well ſettled, far from the Night of Soriv# and Trouble, then will God bring all this he threatneth upon thel- 10 And 1 will turn your feaſts z into mourning #, and
all your ſongs into lamentation z, and 1 * will bring!
ſackcloth k upon ll loins 1,and baldneſs upon every head: and I will make it as the mourning of an only ſos #, and the end o thereof as a bitter day p. | £ Religious, though Idolatrous in your Temples; V1. ver- 3. let. t, /, and your ordinary civil Feaſts in your Valaces, hee 93 let. J. 7 This Ingemination doth affure the thing, and foreboue the Sadneſs of their State. & As all inwardly shall be Sadneſs, lo all that appears outwardly shall ſpeak their Sorrow and Sadnels. 7 All-ſorts Perions should put on this Mourning, and gird it cloſe to their Louth that it might atHie them the more, a Cuſtom very general in £0 i 1mes and Places. m Partly pulling off the Hair of the Read chrovp Anguish, or Shaving the Head and Beard in fign of greateit Sadnens as the Eaſtern People did, Vid. Mic. 1.16, = This 1s accounted tif greateſt Mourning, and ſeems proverbially to exprels ſuch Mournilh Fer. 6. 26. and Zech.,12.10. which lee ; ſo God will affiet this Peopl with greateſt Sorrows, and fill them with greateſt Mourninge | 00 may hope theſe Troubles will over, and come to an end, but that i be little to yuur Comfort. p A bitter Day, which you Shall wh 50 had never ſeen, $hall ſucceed your dark-Night, as indeed 1 doih'0 this Day. . 11 © Behold q, the days come, faith the 17 GOD y, that I will ſend a famine-in the 1284 5, wy EH
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$s # of the LORD. | "2 _— now I ſhall. declare to you, and conſider it. r cnrely F peedily, and according tothe Threats of God. s By a ignal Hand of Divine Diſpleaſure it ſhall appear to be from God, that luch Famine cometh -upon them of 1ſrael.. 8 A ſpiritual Famine join d - h a corporal Famine, their Bodies were pin'd with Famine, dcſti- _ © Breac and Water ; and this God ſent too, but the Famine of the Soul is worſe and mote grievous. ' # Either the written Word which Iſrael had among them till their Captivity, but afterwards ſhould ever want both it, and thoſe who ſhould interpret it to them, orelſe the Word of Prophecy ; now they deſpiſe it, though they have :+ but then they ſhall deire it, and have it not : They ſhall hunt af- 7 Prophets, to-tell them when their Troubles ſhall end, though now they hate Prophets who warn them, that their T ruubles migit not begin: Now Jſrae1 deſpiſeth a Propher's. Counlel, then they hall hunt for it,but not have a Prophet to give them Counſel as P/al.74.9. 12 And they ſhall wander from fea to ſea x, and from
he North even to the Eaſt y, they ſhall run to and fro z to ſeek the. word of the LORD 3, - and ſhall