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7,8: to poffe/s the dwelling places that are wok theirs;

the cities of ‘fudea, and houfes in them, as well as the palaces and dwelling places in Feru/alem, which they had no right unto, but what they got by the {word; what were the legal poffeffions and inheritances of others from father to fon for ages pait, thefe the Chaldeans would difpoflefs them of; and not only take them, and the fpoil and plunder of them for the prefent, but retain them in their poffeflion, as an inheritance to be tranfmitted to their pofterity. This may have fome refpeét to the length of the captivity of the ews, and their land being in the hands of their enemies for the {pace of feventy years.

Mv. 7. They are terrible and dreadful, &c.) For the fiercenefs of their countenances; the namber and valour of their troops; the fplendor of their

}armour; the victories they had obtained, and the cruelty they had exercifed; the fame of all which fpread terror wherever they came: their judgment and their dignity fhall proceed of themfelves;, they will not be directed and governed by any laws of God and man, but by their own;_ they will do according to their will and pleafure, and none will be able to gainfay and refift them; they will hear no reafon or argument; their decrees and determinations they make of themfelves fhall be put into execution, and there will be no oppofing their tyrannical meafures; they’ll ufurp a power, and take upon them an authority over others of themfelves, which all muft fubmit unto; no mercy and pity, no goodnefs and humanity are to be expected trom fuch lawlefs and imperious enemies. y¥. 8. Their horfes alfo are fwifter than the leopards, &c.]. Creatures remarkable for their fwiftnefs: thefe are creatures born of a he-panther and a lionefs, and not of a lion and a fhe-panther, as fome have affirmed; and which adultery is highly refented by the lion; nor will he fuffer it to go unrevenged, as Pliny“ and Philoftratus “ obferve: thofe thus begotten differ from common lions in this, that they have no manes: the panthers are the creatures here meant, which are very fwift, as Bochart * from various authors has obferved. Lucan * calls this creature celerem pardum, the wift panther; and Ferom fays * nothing is fwifter than the panther; and 4/ianus * obferves that the panther, by the fwiftnefs of its running, will overtake moft creatures, and particularly apes; and Euftathius ® confirms the fame, faying, that it exceeds other creatures in fwiftnefs, and as it were flies before the eyes of hunters; and O/orzus * relates, that the king of Portugal once fent to the pope of Rome a panther tamed, which being had into the woods a hunting by a Perfan hunter, with wonderful fwiftnefs leaped upon the boars and deer, and killed them at once; and the Septuagint verfion here is, their horfes will leap above the panthers; or exceed them in leaping, for which thefe panthers are very famous too: an Arabic writer 4, whom Boechart mentions, fays, it will leap above forty cubits at a leap. Pliny * reports, that the panthers in 4frica will get up into thick trees, and hide themfelves in the branches, and leap from thence on thofe that pafs by; and becaufe of the fwiftnefs of this creature, with other qualities of it. tPA MAAN latitudines terre, w De Vita Apollonii, 1. 2. ¢. 7, = Comment in Hof. v. 14. fol, 10. L.

it, the third beaft or Grecian monarchy, efpecially in its firft head Alexander the Great, is reprefented by it, Dan. vii. 6. he making fuch a fwift and rapid progrefs in his conquefts; and yet the Chaldean horfes would exceed them in fwiftnefs, and be very fpeedy in their march into the land of Judea, and therefore it was in vain ‘for the Fews to pleafe themifelves with the thoughts that thefe people were a great way off, and fo they fecure from them, when they could, and would be upon them prefently, ere they were aware: and are more Jierce than the evening-wolves, which creatures are naturally fierce, and efpecially when they are hungry, and particularly at evening; when having had no food all the day, their appetites are very keen, and they go in queft of their prey; and when they meet with it, fall upon it with greater eagernefs and fiercenefs. The Septuagint and Arabic verfions render it, than the wolves of 4vaéia; that there are wolves very frequent in Arabia, is obferved by Diodorus Siculus ‘, and Strabo *; but that thefe are remarkable for their fiercenefs does not appear; rather thofe in colder climates are more fierce; fo Pliny * fays, they are little and fluggifh in Africa and Egypt, but rough and fierce in cold climates. It is in the original text, more harp‘; which fome interpret of the fharpnefs of their fight. A/anus fays *, it is a moft quick and fharp-fighted creature; and can fee in the night-feafon, even tho’ the moon fhines not: the reafon of which Pfizy! gives is, becaufe the eyes of wolves are fhining, and dart light; hence /ianus ™ obferves, that that time of the night in which the wolf only by nature enjoys the light, is called wolf-light; and that Flomer ” calls a night which has fome glimmering of light, or a fort of twilight, fuch as the wolves can fee themfelves walk by, apQsrvxn w&, which is that light that precedes the rifing fun; and he alfo obferves that the wolf is facred to the fun, and to Apollo, which are the fame; and that there was an image of one at Delphos, and fo Macrodius ° fays, that the inhabitants of Lycopolis, a city of Thebais in Egypt, alike worfhip Apollo and a wolf, and in both the fun, becaufe this animal takes and confumes all things like the fun; and becaufe perceiving much by the quick fight of its eyes, overcomes the darknefs of the night; and obferves, that fome think they have their name from light, tho’ they would have it be from the morninglight; becaufe thofe creatures efpecially obferve that time for feizing on cattel, after a night’s hunger, when before day-light they are turned out of the ftables into pafture; but it is for the moft part at evening, and in the night that wolves prole about for their prey’; and from whence they have the name of evening-wolves, to which the Chaldean horfes: are here compared: and yet there feems to be an antipathy between thefe, if what fome naturalifts * fay is true; as that if a horfe by chance treads in the footfteps of a wolf, a numbnefs will immediately feize it, yea even its belly will burft; and that if the huckle-bone of a wolf is thrown under horfes drawing a chariot full fpeed, and they tread upon it, they’ll ftop and ftand ftone ftill, immoveable: whether refpect is here had to the quick fight or fharp hunger of thefe creatures, is not eafy to fay; tho’ rather fince the comparifon of them is with horfes, it feems to refpect the fiercenefs of them, for which the war-horte is famous, ¥ob xxxix. 24. and may be better under= - ftood of the fharpnefs of the appetite of eveningwolves, when hunger-bitten: and their horfemen Joall foread themfelves; or be multiplied, as the Targum; they fhall be many, and ipread themfelves all over the country, fo that there will be no efcaping; all will fall into their hands: and their horfemen fhall come from far, as Chaldea was reckoned from Judea, and efpecially in comparifon of neighbouring nations, who ufed to be trouble~ fome, as Moab, Edom, &c. fee Fer. v. 15: they Jfeall fice as the eagle that hafteth to eat, thofe horfemen fhall be fo fpeedy in their march, that they fhall feem rather to fly than ride, and even to fly as fwift as the eagle, the fwifteft of birds, and which itfelf flies fwifteft when hungry, and in fight of its prey; and the rather this bird is mentioned, becaufe ufed by many nations, as the Pex/fians, and others, for a military fign *.

¥. 9. They fhall come all for violence, &c.] Or, the whole of it *; the wholé army of the Chajdeans, every one of them; this would be their fole. view, not to do themfelves juftice, as might be pretended, or avenge any injuries or affronts done to them by the ‘ews; but purely for the fake of fpoil and plunder: their faces fhall fup up as the eaft-wind; their countenances will appear fo ftern and fierce, that their very looks will fo frighten, © as to caufe men to fink and die thro’ terror; juft as herbs and plants fhrivel up and wither away, when blafted by a nipping eaft-wind. So the Jargum, ‘* the reception or look of their faces is like ‘¢ to a vehement eaft-wind.” Some render it, *¢ the look or defign of their faces is to the eaft ';’” when the Chaldeans were on their march to Fudea, their faces were to the weft or fouth-weft; but then their defire and views were, that when they had got the fpoil they came for, as in the preceding clawie, to carry it to Babylon, which lay eaftward or northeaft of Fudea, and thither their faces looked: and they foall gather the captivity as the fand, or gather up perfons, both in Fudea, and in other countries conquered by them, as innumerable as the fand of the fea, and carry them captive into their’ own land. Captivity is put for captives.

¥.'10. And they foall fcoff at the kings, &c.] Or, he foall*, Nebuchadnezzar king of the Chaldeans,. and the army with him; who would make a jeft of kings and their armies that fhould oppofe them, as being not at all a match for them; as the kings of Fudah, Fehoiakim and Zedekiah, they carried captive, and all others confederate with them, in whom they trufted, as the king of Egypt particularly; and which is obferved to fhew the vanity of trufting in princes for fafety; tho’ it may alfo

P Vefper ubi e paftu vitulos ad teéta reducit, Auditifque lupos acuunt balatibus agni. ‘ Ac veluti pleno lupus infidiatus ovili. coe

include all other kings the Chaldeans fought againtt, and the kingdoms they invaded and fubdued: and the princes thall be a fcorn unto them; the nobles, counfellors, and minifters of ftate; or leaders and commanders of armies, and general officers, in whom great confidence is often put; but thefe the king ot Babylon and his forces would mock and laugh at, as being nothing in their hands, and who would fall an eafy prey to them: they fhall deride every firong bold; in Ferufalem, in the whole land of Fudea, and in every other country they invade, or pafs thro’, none being able to ftand out againit them: for they /hall heap duft, and take it; eafily, as it were in fport, only by raifing a duftheap, or a heap of dirt; by which is meant a mount raifed up to give them a little rife, to throw in their darts or ftones, or ufe their engines and battering-rams to more advantage, and to fcale the walls, and get poffeffion. There are two other fenfes mentioned by Kimchi, as that they fhall gather a great number of people as duft, and take it; or they fhall gather duft to fill up the trenches and ditches about the wall, that fo they may come at it, and take it.

¥. 11. Then foall his. mind change, &c.] The mind of the king of Babylon; not that when he had taken Feru/alem, he altered his purpofe, and Jaid afide his defigns of attacking other nations, and returned to his-own country; where he became guilty of grofs idolatry, in fetting up the golden image in the plain of Dura, which he required all his iubjects to worfhip, and to which he afcribed all his victories; for, five years after this, Yo ephus * fays, he led his army into Celefyria, and conquered the Moadites and Ammonites, and entered £gypt, and flew the reigning king of it: but rather the difpofition of his mind changed for the worfe upon his fuccefs in fubduing kings and princes, and their kingdoms; for tho’ his mind was never good, but always proud, haughty and ambitious, infolent, cruel and tyrannical; yet being flufhed with his conquefts, he grew more and more fo: and be {hall pafs over *, or tranfgre/s all bounds of modefty and fobriety, of humanity and goodnefs: and offend, imputing this his power unto his god 5; this particularly will be the fin he will be guilty of, he will afcribe all his atchievements to his idol Bel; or rather to himfelf, to his own prowefs and valour, his wifdom and {kill in military affairs; for fo it will bear to be rendered, making this his own power to be his god; and perhaps the golden image Nebuchadnezzar fet up to be worfhipped was for himlelf; fee Dan-iv. 30. The Targum is, ‘* therefore becaufe of the litting up of his pi-

«* rit, his kingdom was removed irom him; and ‘© he committed an offence, in that he multiplied ** glory to his idol;’”? and fome interpret the whole of this of the miferable condition Nebuchadnezzar was brought into, being a prophecy of it: shen fhall his mind change; his heart from man’s to a beaft’s, Dan, iv. 16: and be fhall pa/s over; from all fociety and converfation with men, and have his dwelling with beafts, ¥. 31, 32: and offend, or rather be punifhed, and become defolate and miferable, for his pride, and idolatry, and other fins: this his power is bis god”; {poken ironically; fee what his power is now, being changed into a beatt, which he reckoned his god, or gloried in as what he had from his god: but I rather think the whole

» Antiq. 1. 10. ¢. 9. §. 7. y amdosd IND Vi ifte eft, cujus robur fuit pro deo ejus, fiit & defolatus eft, hoc robur ejus eft dei ejus, De Dieu, is a continuation of his fuccefs, particularly. in the land of Fudea; and to be rendered, then fhall he pafs thro’, as the wind, and fall pafs over; and be Jfoall bear the punifbment of his fin, whofe power is his god; that is, the king of Babylon and his army, the Chaldeans fhould pafs thro’ all nations and kingdoms that were between them and Judea, like a {trong wind or whirlwind, to which they are compared, Yer. iv. 13. and carry all before them, none being able to refift and oppofe them; and fhould pafs over rivers that lay in their way, and the boundaries of Fudea, and fpread themfelves over the whole country; and then that country, and the inhabitants of it, fhould be punifhed for their fins, particularly for their confidence in themfelves; in their wealth and riches; in their fortrefles and {trong towers; in their own works of righteoufnefs; all which they made idols of, and trufted not in their God, as they ought to have done.

¥. 12. Art thou not from everlafting, O Lord my God, mine holy one? 8c.] The prophet forefeeing thefe calamities coming upon his nation and people, obferves fome things for their comfort in this verfe; and expoftulates with God in the following verfes about his providential dealings, in order to obtain an anfwer from him, which might remove the objections of his own mind, and thofe of other good men he perfonates, raifed again{ft them; being {tumbled at this, that wicked men fhould be futfered to fucceed and profper, and the righteous fhould be afflicted and diftreffed by them: but for his own prefent confolation, and that of others, in a view of the worft that fhould befal them, he ftrongly afferts, we shall not die, meaning not a corporal death, for that all men die, good and bad; and this the Fews did die, and no doubt good men among them too, at the fiege and taking of Ferufalem by the Chaldean army, either by famine, or peltilence, or fword: nor a death of affiction, which the people of God are fubject to, as well as others; is often their cafe, and is for their good, and in love, and not wrath: but a fpiritual death, which none that are quickened by the Spirit and grace of God ever die; tho’ grace may be low, it is never loft; tho’ faints may be in dead and lifelefs frames, and need quickening afrefh, yet they are not without the principle of fpiritual life; grace in them is a well of living water, fpringing up to everlafting life; their fpiritual life can never fail them, fince it is fecured in Chrift: and much lefs fhall they die the fecond, or an eternal death; they are ordained to eternal life; Chrift is come, and given his flefh for it, that they might have it; it is in his hands for them; they are united to him, and have both the promife and pledge of it: and this may be argued, as by the prophet here, from the eternity of God, art thou not from everlafting? he is from everlafting to everlafting, the ancient of days, that inhabits eternity, is, was, and is to come: therefore we fhall not die; none of his people fhall perith, becaufe he loves them with an everlafting love; has made an everlafting choice of them; has fet up Chrift from everlafting, as their Surety and Saviour; entered into/an everlafting covenant with them in Chrift; is their everlafting Father, and will be their everlafting portion; is the unchangeable Jehovah, and therefore they fhall not be confumed: this may be concluded from their covenant-intereft in God,

The Zargum interprets it of perfons, workers of evil, and workers of the labour of falfhood; fee Pf. v. 4, 5: wherefore lookeft thou upon them that deal treacheroufly; the Chaldeans, who dealt trea~ cheroufly with God, by worthipping idols; and with the Fews, pretending to be their good friends and allies, when they meditated their ruin and de~ ftruétion; and yet the Lord in his providence feemed to look favourably on thefe perfidious perfons, fince they fucceeded in all their enterprizes: this was ftumbling to the prophet, and all: good men; and they knew not how, or-at leaft found great difficulty to reconcile this to the purity and holinefs of God, and to his juftice and faithfulnefs 5. fee Fer. xii. 1, 2: and boldeft thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than be? the comparifon does not lie fo much perfonally — between Nebuchadnezzar and Zedekiab the lat king of the ews, whofe eyes the king of Babylon put out, and whom he ufed in a cruel manner; who was, no doubt, comparatively fpeaking, a more righteous perfon than the Céa/dean monarch was5_ being not the worft of the kings of Yudea, and whofe name has the fignification of righteoufnefs in it: but rather between the Cha/deans and the ews; who, tho’ there were many wicked perfons among them, yet there were fome truly righteous, who fell in the common calamity; and as. to the bulk of them, were a more righteous people, at

Lord my God; they are his peculiar people,, given to Chrift to be preferved by him, and covenantintereft always continues; he that is their God, is their God and guide unto death: and alfo from the holinefs of God, mine holy one; who has fworn by his holinefs to them, and is faithful to his covenant and promife; and is the fanctifier of them, that has fanétifed or fet them apart for himfelf 5 made Chrift fanctification to them, and makes them holy by his Spirit and grace, and enables them to perfevere in grace and holinefs.: moreover, this may be underftood of the people of the Fews, as a church and nation; who, tho’ they would be carried captive into Babylon, yet would ftill continue as fuch, and be returned again as fuch, and not die, fink and perifh; fince the Meffiah was ‘to fpring from them; and they might. be affured of their prefervation for that purpofe,. from the perfections of God, his covenant with them, and their relation to him: nor fhall the church of Chrift in any age die and perifh, tho’ in ever fo low a ftate; a particular church may, but the intereftand church of Chrift in general, or his fpiritual feed, never fhall. This is one of the eighteen paflages, as Farchi, Kimchi, and Ben: Melech obferve, called Tikkun-Sopkerim, the correétion of the fcribes, of Ezra, and his company; it having been written in fome copies, thou fhalt not die*; afferting the immortality of God, or his eternity to come; and that as he was from everlafting, fo he fhould continue to everlafting; and to this fenfe the Targum paraphrafes the words, ‘‘ thy word remaineth for ** ever;” and fo the Syriac verfion follows the fame reading: O Lord, thou haft ordained them for judgment, that is, the Chaldeans, either to be judged and punifhed theinfelves for their fins, as all wicked, chriftlefs finners are, even righteoufly fore-ordained to condemnation for their fins; or rather to be the inftruments of punifhing the wicked among the Jews; for this purpofe were thefe people ordained in the counfels of God, and raifed up in his providence,. and conftituted a kingdom, and. made a powerful nation; O mighty God; or rock”; the rock and refuge of his people: thou hajt eftablifbed them for correction; or founded © them, and fettled them as a monarchy, ftrong and mighty for this end, that they might be a rod in the hand of the Lord, not for deftruction, but for correction and chaftifement; and from hence it might be alfo comfortably concluded, that they fhould not die and utterly perith.. v.13. Thou art of purer eyes than to bebold evil, and canft not look upon iniquity, &c.|. The Lord with his eyes of omnifcience beholds all things good and evil, and all men good and bad, with all their actions; but then he does not look upon the fins of men with pleafure and approbation; fince they are contrary to his nature, repug- them, deftroyed many with the fword, plundered them of their fubftance, and carried them captive; and the Lord was filent all this while, faid nothing in his providence againft them, put no {top to their proceedings; and by his filence feemed to approve of, at leaft to connive at what they did; and this the prophet in the name of good men reafons with the Lord about. rage y. 14. And maketh men as the fioes of the fea, &c.] That is, fuffereft them to be ufed as the fifhes of the fea, which are eafily taken in the net, and are common to every one; whofoever will may take them up, and kill them, and ufe them for their food; and which alfo among themfelves are often hardly ufed, the lefler being devoured by the greater; and in like manner the prophet fuggeits, that the people of the Hews, who were men made ufefulnefs, and moreover were God’s covenantpeople; and it might have been expected, that a. more fpecial providence would have attended them, more than other men, and efpecially than what attended the fifhes of the fea; yet it looked as if there were no more care taken of them, than of thefe: as the creeping things that have no ruler over them, not the creeping things of the earth, but of the water, the lefler fort of fifhes that move in the water; or thofe that more properly creep, as crabs, nant to his will, and breaches of his righteous law: and tho’ fin in general may be included here, yet there feems to bea particular refpeét had to the evi/ or injury done by the Chaldeans to the fews, in invading their land, fpoiling their fubftance, and flaying their perfons; and to.

vr grievance, by. which may be meant the oppreffion and violence the fame people exercifed upon the inhabitants of ‘¥udea which, tho’ permitted by prawns.and fhrimps; fee P/. civ. 25. who have none to protect and defend them, and reftrain others from taking and hurting them: this may feem contrary to what <Ariftotle * and Pliny * fay of fome fifhes, that they go in company, and have a le the iniquity, labour or governor; but as Bochart ' obferves, it is one thing to be a leader of the way, a guide and director, which way to fteer their courfe in imming; and another thing to be as the the worfl, than their enemies were, who devoured © after the image of God, and made for fociety and - directions they might defend themfelves; fuch an - one the prophet denies they had: and fo, the prophet complains, this was the cafe of the Jews; they were expofed to the cruelty of their enemies, as if there was no God that governed in the world, and no providence to direct and order things for the prefervation of men, and to keep good men from being hurt by. evil men; or thofe that were weak and feeble, from being oppreffed by the powerful and mighty: this he reafons with the Lord about, and was defirous of an anfwer to it.

¥. 15. They take up all of them with the angle, &c.] The prophet continues the metaphor of fifhing, and obferves the different ways of taking fith; which is to be applied to the cafe he is fpeaking of: as fifhermen take all they can with their angles, fo they or be, for it is in the fingular number, Nebuchadnezzar and his army, take up all out of the-fea of the world; are ambitious of getting all kingdoms and nations of the world under their power and dominion; particu- Jarly all Fudea, and all the inhabitants of it, good and bad, without any diftinétion; for all were fifh which came to their net: this may defign the artful and alluring methods they firft made ule of to get the people into their hands, by making covenants with them, and drawing them into making of prefents, and paying of tribute: zhey catch them in their net,-and gather them in their drag; with the angle the fifherman catches fifth one by one, but with the net great numbers; and what he miffes by throwing the net, he gets by ufing the drag; all which may be expreflive of the ways and methods ufed by the king of Babylon and his army, both in the times of Feconiah, and of Zedekiah; under the former he ufed the net, and carried off large numbers, and with them the royal family and great fubftance, but left many behind; under the latter he came and fwept away all, drained the land of its riches and its inhabitants:

therefore they rejoice, and are glad, as fifhermen do when they have good fport; fo thefe people rejoiced in their own fuccefs, and in the calamities of their neighbours.

- ¥. 16. Therefore they facrifice unto their net, and burn incenfe unto their drag, &c.] Either to their idols, to fortune and the ftars, as Aben Ezra; imagining they gave them fuccefs, and profpered them

HIS chapter contains an anfwer from the Lord to the expoftulations, pleadings, and reafonings of the prophet, in the name of the people. _The preparation of the prophet to receive this anfwer is defcribed, y. 1. then follows the anfwer itfelf, in which he is bid to write and make plain the vifion he had, that it might be eafily read, y. 2. and a promife is made, that vifion fhould ftill be continued to the appointed time, at which time the Meffiah would come; and this the righteous man, in oppofition to the vain and proud man, is encouraged to live in the faith of, ¥. 3, 4. and then the deftruction of the enemies of the ple of God is threatned for their pride, ambition, covetoufnefs, oppreffion and murder, y. 5— 12. which would be unavoidable, ¥. 13. and iffue in the arts and methods they uled: or to their arms, as the Targum; nor was it unufual with the heathens to worfhip their fpears, facrifice to them, and fwear by them #. So Fu/tin fays», originally the ancients worfhipped {pears for gods, in memory of whofe religion fpears are {till added to the images of the gods. Lucian' afferts, that the Scythians facrificed to a {cymiter; and Arnobius * ays the fame: and Ammianus Marecellinus' reports, that the Quadi worfhip their fwords or daggers inftead of gods; and that it was ufual to fwear by the {pear is evident from others”. Or elfe the fenfe is, they facrificed to their own valour and courage, {kill and condu&t. Becau/e by them their portion is Jat, and their meat plenteous; that is, by their angle, net, and drag; or by thofe things fignified by them, the arts and methods they ufed to fubdue nations, conquer kingdoms, and bring them into fubjection to them; they enlarged their dominions, increafed their riches and revenues, and had plenty of every thing that was defirable for food and raiment, for pleafure and profit; or to gratify the moft unbounded ambition, having every thing that heart could with for and defire: the allufion is to making fumptuous feafts, and rich banquets, on occafion of victories obtained.

v.17. Shall they therefore empty their net, 8&c.] Or thus, after this manner, fo Noldius; as fifhermen do, when they have had a good caft, and a large draught, fpread the net, and take out the fifhes, in order to throw it again, and catch more; and fo it is afked, fhould thefe Chaldeans, when they have conquered one nation, and fo filled their net or themfelves with the fpoil, carry it to Babylon, and there lay it up, and then proceed to fight _ againit another kingdom and nation, and plunder it in like manner:. and not {pare continually to flay the nations? the inhabitants of them one after another, and fubdue them under them, and make themfelves mafter of all their treafure, until they are arrived to univerfal monarchy by fuch cruel and unmerciful methods. The Targum is, ‘* fhall *¢ he fend his armies continually to confume na- ** tions, and that without mercy?” This the prophet propofes in the name of the whole body of the Lord’s people, and leaves it with him to have an anfwer to it, which is given in the following chapter.

in the fpread of the knowledge of the glory of God

‘in the world, y. 14. and alfo the ruin of other enemies is threatened, for drawing mien into apo» ftacy, and for their violence and idolatry, ¥. 15—— Ig. upon which: would follow an univerfal filence y. 1. Twill fland upon my watch, &c.| Thefe are the words of the prophet: fo the Targum introduces them, “* the prophet faid;” and this he faid in chara¢ter as a watchman, as all the prophets were: as a watchman takes the proper place he watches in and looks out, efpecially in time of danger and diftrefs, if he can fpy any one bringing tidings, that he may receive it, and notify it to the people that have appointed him a watch-