thoughtſt to advance thy Glory, and to illuſtrate thy Name ; but 'ris q in very deed the ſhame of thy Reign that it bath been bloody. q Or d Family, thy Royal Family. r Deſtroying and impoveriſhing multi- wy tudes of Men and Cities. s It was thy fin whatever thou didſt think N of it. # Or Life of thy Perſon and Poſterity 3 this Blood and Cry. C. elty will ſurely ruine thy Houſe. - | th 11 For the ſtone # ſhall cry jout.. x of the wall, wy and the || beam y out of the timber ſhall || anſiver |'0rji: it. | MJafin k # The ſtrength of thy Houſe accuſeth thee. x As if it had i Voice [Org ia it crierh to God for Vengeance. y On which thy Chambers arclaid, 4am ir ſat z Confirms the Charge againſt thee, and that Fabrick cannot be long all a ſafe or beautiful Habitation, whoſe Stones and Beams are ſhaken all with the ſtrong Cries of innocent Blood, and Families ruin'd by the Oppteffion of che Builder. | the 12 & ? Wo to him that buildeth o a town þ* je. Y wa with F blood c, and eſtabliſh da city e by inj- !3-E:, -4þ"%y of quity.F. 24.5.Ny, liner of 54.1 a Whoſoever he be that lays Foundations in Blood, is here threat- 3 " faſhion. EO ned, and none ſo great as to keep off the Wo, deſerved and menaced. 7 Be b Heb. City. c In the Guilt and with the Cruelty of murdering the binds boal Innocent ; it is the worſt Cement, which is tempered with Blood of prof murder'd Men, Women and Children, d Goeth about, or thinketh on to ſtabliſh the Foundations of a City. e Babylon in particular, f By _ Force and Fraud, by Riches extcrted from the juſt Poſſeſfor. pw: 13 Behold g, 7s 7t not of the' LORD of hoſts þ, _ *. that the people 7 fhall labour. in the very fire 4, * «5. hblec and the people / ſhall weary » themſelves || tor very x Gang Gold vanity? | | Y Metal 2 The Prophet calls for attention, and that we obſerve who 'ris wherh will execute Vengeance on bloody Cities 'atid Kingdoms. Babylon is a Lyes, - mighty City, and the Kingdom 1s an over-match to ahy Ringdom, and on and perhaaps it may be thought none can give Babylon Blood to help, \ drink, or kindle a Fire in her that ſhall conſume her. h Thongh Men knows, cannot; the Lord of Hoſts can; and is nor this Vengeance his? will wane not he repay? 7 Either Babylonians and their Confederates, labour the Idc for that the Fire ſhall confurme. Or the Adyetfaries of Babylon ſhall knows be able t6 endure a Service for God againſt" Beby/on, hot as if they _— laboured in the Fire. & Either literally taken, or figuratively, will wg well conſiſt with the Text, / Either #tedes and Perſims againſt Ba- meT, bylon, or the Chaldeans for Babylon. m Spend their Strength and { Whic Life. - #, The one to. preſerve what ſhall never profit them, which Sſrait; they laid up in vain, the ther to deſtroy all (though they loſe their Threat Booty by deſtroving it) jn the Fire, yet all this trom:- the Lord of 19 Hoſts juſtly puniſhing Babylon for all her Cruelties, Awake 14 For * the earth oſhall be filled þ || with the know: *Iſaatg, _ : ledge 9 of the glory » of the LORD: s, as the waters co- hh a ver 7 the lea. my — o The Land of Chaldea, of the MeJes and Perſians and their Confe- LORD, Unprofit derates, the Lands oppreſſed by the Chaldeang, bur Fudea more par- | laters, 7 ticularly. p Every Eye ſhall ſee, of Ear hear, or Tongue ſpeak what and they they know. 9q Sight and Senſe of the r Juſt and glorious Proceedinzs vive it , a of God againſt Babylon; for when God ſhall appear to execute his fill Woc juft Judgments upon his own and his Churches Enemies, he will ap- ſeth the 1 peat Gloriovs indeed. Fs The God of Iſrael , their Holy one, as Gad ? Ne chap. 1.12. #Itis a proverbial Speech expreſſing the general No- ee. o A tice, and deep Senſe all ſhould have of God's Juſtice, Truth, Power - and ſtill a and Zeal againſt mighty Oppreſſors, ſuch as Babylon was full of. carved, *t 15 © Wo unto him that giveth his neighbour Idol; and drink z : that putteſt thy bottle x to him, and makeſt it muſt ah him drunken y alſo, that thou mayeſt look on their na- _ Ide kedneſs 2. | | he u Another publick and crying Sin of this Chaldean Kingdom was the Facing exceſſive drinking, and making one another drunk, and for this God can that bk will feverely puniſh, x Forcing them by imporrunity or Threats, were more to drink by greater meaſures than they can bear, y Never giveſt theſe to py over til] thou haſt made him vile and loathſom, as well as ſenteleſs 19 them, in his drink. x Deſigning to put the preiteſt abuſe on them, expo- : frag them to view, fcorn and derifion, or to beaſtly, cr not to be 1a- 20 Bu
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{- This is added to all the reſt, thar God's People might know this was the times of Recompences tor Son, that the Violence by Batylon done to Judea and its Inhabitants, ſhould be avenged and no longer deferr'd, but now ſhould overwhelm Babyt9n, in which ſhould be made