of diſtreſs y. ; " Mg be Þ With ſecret Joy and Satisfa&ion to thy Eyes and Mind ; if thy * =; wouldſt have looked, it ſhould have been with Tears and Grief not with Joy and Gladneſz at the Sight ; ſo the Word, Pſal. 37. 24. ana 54+ 7. and Prov. 29, 16. q On the Affiiftion and ſad Miſery which fejj upon thy Brother Facob ; ſo Dayin Scripture, thus abſolutely put, dotk otten fhgnity, Pu. 37. 13. Micah. 7, 4. r Having by the Miſery of War been made a Captive, and loſt his former Right and Liberty in his own Country, was now look*'d mpon as a Stranger, 7. e. one who had no more right to any thing in the Land. s This explains the for. mer. # This expounds Brother. « This tells us what Day meant. , Vaunting over the Fews, infolently upbraiding and reproaching them with virulent Words, and exulcerated Malice, y When Feruſalen was taken. Ks MN | 13 Thou ſhouldeſt notthave entred Z into the pate y i
ther ſhouldeſt thou have -| ſpoken proudly x in the dy +;
of my people b in the day of their. calamity. c ; yea, thoy 0 ſhouldeſt not. have looked on their afflition d.in the day $ of their \calamity; nor-have-laid hands on their || ſyb- Tn 3 n ſtance e& in the day of their calamity. en, ar ' 2 Asan Ehemy, a Conqueror. . #'By a Synecdoche, City is meanthy | F Gate ; the Zdomzres warring among the Babyloniaxs,.dia with them | Enter the-Gates of conquered Feruſalem, appear'd a proud inſulting de Enemy over Fidah. b Thou ſbouldeft have remembred that the Jen; Ins | thy Brethren were my People, my peculiar People. -c When their Ci. it ty was broken up, their King impriſoned, and captive with his Noble ] and other Subjetts. 4 As before'ver. 12. let. . .e Or, Strength, the aga! Word notes both-; Edom ſeized thePerſons of the Fews, and made {thc them Priſoners, . and they plundred the City, ſeized the Good; Sake -o the Citizens ; this they did with delight, but God will puniſh Cap an OI \ $ ſhall 14 Neither ſhouldeſt thou have ſtoed in the croſs-way 25.1 f, to cut off g thoſe of his that did eſcape b ; neitk:: twel ſhouldeſt thou have || delivered up # thoſe of his & tht|t rao did remain in the day of diſtreſs m. 0 of f Or, in the Breaches, viz. of the Walls, by which when the City Jong. was taken, ſome might have made their eſcape from the Enemy; $tor thou didſt, though thou shouldef: not, ſpitefully and crueliy watch a Maces ſuch Breaches, and preventedft their flight z or elſe thou didf pot ſtical thy ſelf at the head of theWays,where thou mighteft ſeize flying Jens Enem! & Either kill if they would not yield,:or cut off their Hopes of eſcap: Elame by making them Priſoners, h Out of the City, anxl were flying far- them ther for ſafety. # Reſerved them Priſoners, and brought them back cumciſ into the Hands of the Chaldeans, k Of thy Brother Facob's Poſterity, done, ii 7 Survived the taking of the City, and were fairly like to eſcape, but of the t [thou foundft them, and betrayedſt them. m When -they couldro longer defend their City, not had any hope but in a Flight throughal ef ſecret ways they knew ; but thou didſt watch theſe ways, and did{tca of Ef off many who ſought to fly through them. ; and th 15 For the day of the LORD o i near upon al the fie] the heathen p : as thou haſt done q, it ſhall be doner Gilead unto thee, thy reward s ſhall return # upon thine on 7 The head #. SOD ry _ 0 Of juſt revenge from the Lord upon this cruelty of Eon ; tle the phae?? time which the Lord hath appointed for the puniſhing of this and od, nag ther Nations. p Which God had given to Nebuchadnezzar, and ubid ny, oh by this Man's Arms God would puniſh, as Fer. 27. 2, 3 4, 5, 6,7- by the Fe: that Day may juſtly be accounted near, which ſhall come withintit Foſephus compals of one Man's Life, and that well advanced in Years, as X% Tere co bl chadnezzar now was. q Perfidiouſly, cruelly and ravenouſly againf | cob, with an hoftile revengeful Mind. 7 It ſhall be done by thine En mies tothee,as ver.7. and this came to paſs on Edom, within five Yes after Jerufalem was ſack'd and ruined, within which ſpace of time0% "MN;
diah prophelied, reproving Edom and threatning him for what he hal done againft Jeruſalem, and its Inhabitants. s The Puniſhment orke tribution of Evil, for the Evil thou haſt done to Jacob. 1 By Gots ju Hand, and by thy Enemies cruel Hand ſhall be poured out up thee. u Thy chief Men, chief in the Cruelty, ſhall be chief inſufer ing ; for the Meaſure thou haſt meaſured shall be meaſured to tht as PJal. 137. 8. Extk. 35+ 15. Joel 3. 7, 8
16 For * as ye y have drunk z upon my holy mountal a, ſo ſhall all the heathen drink continually b, yea, they drink, and they ſhall || ſwallow down, and they c ſhall
as though they had not been d. | x This with ſome, is a Confirmation of what is threatned again Edom, yet others make this Verſe the beginning of the Conſolatl' Sermon to Judah, and either ſutes well with the Context. y O- mites, or ye O Jews. x If you interpret this drinking as feaſting, velling and caroufing, 'tis to be applied to the Edomztcs and othe who triumph'd firſt by their Arms, next in their Cups over & querd Judah, a Either the whole Land, or [eruſalem, or the Tel ple, for all theſe are called by this Name, and here theſe proud ani ſolent Conquerors did drink Confuſion to the Jews. b The Ni ons, Enemies to Edom, Shall on Mount Eſau conquer firlt, and then® umph in their revelling Feaſts, and drink continually, til they bai ſwallow up Edom. c Edomites z d Shall by this means perizh ute! and their Memory ceaſe with them, ſo it ſutes with Ezet. 35+ 14" which ſee, Others refer the Words to the Jews thus, Ye nave crab
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the Cup of Aſtonishment in your Land, and in Feroſeem W! * J, and w Mountain ; ſo now 'ere long the Nations which atfified you by Elijah M drink of the C up of Aſtonishment, loag, yea drink the Dreg5% 5 Monſtrated that they Shall perish, and be no more, when your Day © dark Net) be _ fiction sball end in a Day of Light and Salvation; and when - Proſper Nations do this, Edo: shall much more, becauſe moſt deep!) 5* þ ous Wether be ,
above others, vid. Fer. 49. 17, 18, 21, 22. ' » | "rr il 17 © But e vpon mount Zion f * ſhaY) be || delivet®
g£, and || there ſhall be holineſs b, and the 'houtz of Jacob {hall poſlels their poſleſions &,
ure we ma by this alſc narchs * It tftory; i | #4 retire,