men 7Þat are + ſetled on their lees y; that fay in thei! + e curaed,)
thick!
heart =, The LOR D will not do good, neither will be do evil 2. |
ft That Day, ver. 9. which ſee let. 4. u God ſpeaks after the manner of Man, who ſearcheth dark places with Candles in hand God's Omniſcience ſeeth all things, and needs no help for diſcovery; but by this Expreſſion foretels how fully he would both diſcover and puniſh. x It 1s like enough this was literally fulfilled when the Chal- 42ans did ſearch the Vaults, Cellars and Sewers of Jeruſalem for Men, or Goods hidden in them, » In alluſion to Liquors, which not being poured out from Veſſel to Veſſel ro refine them, grow thick 4? ſctled ; ſo Men thar have known none or little Changes ſettle in SECu-
rity, and fear no Menaces. 7 Entertain an Opinion, or begi" f?
a No Proyidence to connte- pance
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hath forſaken the Earth. he fin we © itcous, and ill with the wicked. 'S) and thel houles,
vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.
c Stores int hers and Wargrobes. « diers, invading, prevailing, wa
to that Deut. 28. 30, 39+
bitterly 77.
h Appointed, foretold, and
'> preat things by thoſe Armies. to! _— - ; Very near, it is dow
ow aftually brought on them by the Lord.
Enemies eagerneſs for the Prey, your Sins and Security» ard the Lord's juſtly provoked Anger haſten this day. / 'Tis within hear- ing, the ſound of it 1s 1a mine Ears, methinks you might bear it al- ſo. m The valiant and ſtout-hearted among the Jews; they who ſhould ſupport others, ſhall be ready to fink themſelves, and as much need aCordial themſelves. n Their Courage broken, they ſhall cry out moſt yehemently, or like hopeleſs Women»
J 15 * That day 0 is a day of wrath p, a day of trou- 8:3": Ye and diſtreſs 9, a day of waſtneſs and deſolation 7, a
> day of darkneſs and gloomineſs s, a day of clouds and 86 thickdarknels 7, |
; 0 Great Day, ver. 14. þ From the Chaldeans, and from the Lord aQtively, upon the Jews paſlively. q Here the Prophet heapeth up words of much the ſame Senſe, to expreſs the grievouſneſs of the Troubles of thoſe times which ſhall agency Wes upon them ; moſt diſtreſfing Trouble, none knowing how to bear it, or where to hide from it. r Noſt deſolate waſtneſs in City, Villages and Fieldsz every where the ſpoiling Souldier ſhall lay waſte, carrying all he can, and deſtroying what he cannot carry away. s Poſſibly it might be ſo as to the remper of the Air,dark and gloomy, but figuratively I am ſure it was ſo. # Either literally from the Heavens clouded over them, or (if it refer, as it may, to the day of ſacking Feruſatem, and effets of it) Darkneſs, Gloomineſs, Clouds and thick Darkneſs arifing from the Smoak and Fire of the City every where fired by the Enemy); but Metaphorically theſe ſpeak the moſt unparallell'd Calamities.
16 A day of the trumpet « and alarm x againſt the fenced cities y, and againſt the high towers 2.
y God's Trumpet calling the Chaldeans, the Chaldeans Trumpet alſo gathering together their Troops. x Threatning and affright- ning. y Of Faudah. 7 Stately Palaces, and ſtrong Munitions, forti- fied with high Towers, built at the Angles of Walls, and therefore Heb. calls them high Corners; it may mean alſo the grear Men, which (as Corners well built) are the ſtrength and beauty of a Wall, ſo they of a State, Fudz. 20. 2, Zech. 10. 4
17 And TI will bring diſtreſs 4 upon men 6, that they ſhall walk like blind men c, becauſe they have linned againſt 4 the LORD: and their blood ſhall be
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to puniſh the bad : No God, or none that re-
is done on Earth, or as they, Exeh. 8. 12. think God rdeth wt Theſe Atheiſts God will puniſh ſeverely, 11 deſerveth; they ſhall ſee, it ſhall be well with the
> Therefore b their goods c ſhall become a booty 0, ir houſes a deſolation e : * they ſhall alſo build but not inhabit zhem 7; and they ſhall plant
- 2 yuniſhmenrt for other Sins, ſo for this ſecure Atheiſtical
1-1 of Providence, though they have denied, they ſhall feel and confeſs, that the Evil they ſuffer is both juſt, and from my hand too. heir Shops and Ware-Houſes, Fruniture in their Cham- d APrey divided among the Babyloniſh Soul- ing Villages and Cities. : hy. emember the Curſe threatned in the Law,executed on them,
] cknoniodes that who gave the Law, rules by ir. f According
14 The great g day of the LORD þ zs near, 2t 25 near i, and haſteth greatly &, ever the voice / of the day of the LORD: the mighty man 2 ſhall cry there
Not the Day of general Judgment, bur the Day in which the grcat God will bring his great Armies againſt Zudah and Feruſ::lem,
bled to ſhew the nearneſs of it, and to aſſure us it is ſo. & Your
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ver. 1, m To which their firs provoked the Lord, which their fins inkind!ed, and now it burns that none can quench it : Vid.Deat.z8. from wer. 15. to the end of the Chapter ; all which God will now make good againſt them. n Though he had with wonderſul Pari- ence waited and forborn, now he would wait no longer, -but wit! ſpeedy Executions fulfil his Threats aud accompliſh his Wrath which he did within leſs than rwenty Years attcr this Prophecy, as is moſt like, on the accurateſt Computation we can make of the _ of Zephaniah's propheſying and Nebuchadnezzar's taking rhe ity.
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The Prophet exhorteth Tjrael to Repentance, before Fidgments fall upon em, 1 — 3. The Philiſtines, Moabites, Ammonites, Ethiopia and Aſſria, threatned with Judgments, 4 — 15.
| (8 your ſelves together 9, yea, gather together b, O nation c not || defired d :