XXXII. 4. Then will I leave thee upon the land, &c. See chap. xxix. verse 5.

XXXII. 6. I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains.

And whereas thou now, like a whale, swimmest in the great waters of thy land, instead of those waters shall be the blood of thy people, wherein thou mayest swim; which shall cover the earth up to the very mountain.

XXXII. 7. And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof durk; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.

And when thou, which art reputed the great light of the world, shalt be extinguished, the very face of the heavens shall seem to be covered with darkness; the sun shall seem clouded, and the moon without light: so great a change shall thy subversion seem to make in the world. So also verse 8.

XXXII. 9. I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known.

I will also affright and amaze the hearts of many nations round about thee, when I shall bring unto them, both the rumour and the expectation of thy destruction: even those countries shall be terrified, which are not so much as known unto thee. So also verse 10.

XXXII. 14. Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD.

Then will I give those troubled nations rest and tranquillity : they shall be as calm as deep waters; and their rivers shall flow as smoothly as oil, without any vehement and unquiet agitation. XXXII. 18. And cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.

Make thou some resemblance of the casting down of Egypt, and the adjoining nations, her partners, into the grave, as dead

corpses.

XXXII. 19. Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.

What nation is there, whom thou thinkest able to compare with thee, in strength and glory? But now, how strong and goodly soever thou art, go down into the dust; and be laid together with thy godless and lewd companions, of the profane heathen.

XXXII. 21. The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.

The valiant and mighty warrior before deceased, shall, as it were out of his grave, speak to Egypt and his associates; and shall say, that they are brought down as well as he they lie

slain by the sword, and are taken away in their uncircumcision and sinfulness.

XXXII. 22. Asshur is there and all her company : his graves are about him.

The great king of Assyria, and all his company, is come down to the grave.

XXXII. 23. Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, &c.

The graves of his companies and complices are set in the sides of the burial-place, round about the grave of Asshur, which lies in the midst of his attendants: all of them slain, &c.

XXXII. 24. There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword.

There is the prince of the Elamites, neighbours and assistants to the Assyrians; and all their troops; whose graves are round about the grave of their commander, all of them slain by the sword.

XXXII. 26. There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are round about him.

There are the princes of the Cappadocians and Iberians, and all their multitude round about their graves.

XXXII. 27. And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

They shall not lie with those mighty ones of the heathen, who die naturally; being not stripped of their weapons of war, having their swords laid peaceably under their heads in their graves; but they shall lie amongst the mangled and slain, and shall carry the marks of their sins in their carcases, though for the time they were terrible to the world. Verse 29, 30, as verse 24.

XXXII. 31. Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude.

Pharaoh shall, as it were, see this world of people coming down to the grave with him; and shall comfort himself, with such store of company in death.

XXXIII. 5. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. But he, that taketh warning, stands upon his own defence, and preserveth his life.

XXXIII. 10. If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live?

If, according to thy prophecies, God have determined to reckon with us for our sins, and to bring judgment upon us, to what purpose shall our conversion be? and how shall we live, though we do amend?

XXXIII. 12. The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver

him in the day of his transgression. So also verse 13. See Ezek. xviii. verse 24.

XXXIII. 22. Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, afore he that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, &c.

The powerful motion of God's Spirit was upon me in the evening, before the coming of that escaped messenger from Jerusalem; and put words into my mouth, not suffering me to keep silence any longer.

XXXIII. 24. Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.

If Abraham, being but one, had this land given to him for his inheritance: how much more may we, his seed, to whom it is deduced, being many, challenge a due interest in it!.

XXXIII. 25. Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD: Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood; and shall ye possess the land?

No; deceive not yourselves; ye are not the sons of faithful Abraham your works are contrary to his: ye do wilfully transgress my commands: ye eat the blood together with the flesh, which I have forbidden: ye are guilty both of idolatry and murder; and can ye challenge to possess the land, in the right of Abraham?

XXXIII. 26. Ye stand upon your sword.

Ye rely upon the confidence of your own sword.

XXXIII. 31. And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them.

They come to thee with reverence and respect, as the manner of my people is; and they sit before thee to hear thy words, in an awful and attentive fashion; but they will perform nothing of that, which is commanded them.

XXXIII. 32. And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instru

ment.

They seem to take much pleasure and contentment in thy sermons; even no less, than a man would do in the hearing of an excellent song, of one that hath a pleasant voice, and plays sweetly on an instrument.

XXXIII. 33. And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them.

And when these judgments shall come to pass, which I have premonished, then they shall know and find, too late, that they have had a true prophet of God among them, whom they unworthily disrespected.

XXXIV. 2. Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?

Woe to those rulers, and to those teachers and spiritual guides of Israel, that feed and pamper themselves; whereas their duty and office is, and should be, to feed the souls of my people, and govern and rule them aright.

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XXXIV. 3. Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.

Ye take of the best commodities of the people under your charge, neither is that grudged unto you; and make use of their personal employments, as occasion is offered: but ye do not perform your duty to them again: ye do not teach and govern them, as ye ought.

XXXIV. 4. The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost.

Those particular offices, which pertain to your charge, as comforting the weak, healing the sick, binding up the broken-hearted, reclaiming and reducing those that have erred, ye have not accordingly done; but rather have tyrannously and cruelly exercised an imperious authority over them.

The same allegory holds verse 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

XXXIV. 11. For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.

Behold, since my shepherds are careless, I myself will make diligent search for my sheep, that are scattered and lost; and I will find them, wheresoever they are strayed. So verse 12.

XXXIV. 13. And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel, by the rivers, &c.

And I will fetch them from those several lands whereinto they were driven by their miserable captivity, and will bring them back into their own country, and will feed them carefully and plentifully in my church. So verses 14, 15, 16.

XXXIV. 17. Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.

Behold, I judge between one man and another, between the lambs and kids, between the rams and goats: as I do now put a difference, between those of my own flock and the world; so, hereafter I will exquisitely sever them, the one to my right hand, the other to my left.

XXXIV. 18. Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures?

Seemeth it a small thing unto you, to have taken away from my people that wholesome doctrine, which I prepared for their spiritual nourishment; but ye must also foully corrupt that, which yet remaineth of my law?

XXXIV. 19. And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet; &c.

As for my people, they are fain to take up with that doctrine, which ye have depraved by your unjust and sinful glosses and traditions.

XXXIV. 20. Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.

Behold, I will judge between the proud justiciaries, who are puffed up with a conceit of their own worthiness, and the poor dejected souls, that are mean in their own eyes.

XXXIV. 21. Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad.

Because ye have insolently despised and scornfully intreated the weak-hearted; and, instead of easing their afflicted consciences, have been ready to gall and burden them more, till ye have made them utterly weary of their stations in my Church.

XXXIV. 23. And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David: he shall feed them and he shall be their shepherd.

And I will bring my Church, both Jews and Gentiles, under the government of that one King and Prophet of my chosen; even the Messiah, the true Heir and Successor of David; and he shall both teach and rule them. So also verse 24.

XXXIV. 25. And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

And I will make with them a covenant of everlasting peace, betwixt me and them; and will keep from them those spiritual dangers and annoyances, that may be hurtful unto them; and they shall be safe and secure, even in the places that would seem to threaten the greatest peril.

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XXXIV. 26. And I will make them and the places round about hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his

season.

And I will exceedingly bless and prosper them, and all that sincerely profess a holy relation to my Church; and will water them plentifully with heavenly doctrine.

XXXIV. 29. And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more.

And I will make them a glorious plant, being fast rooted in that promised Messiah, and being incorporated in him; and they shall no more be consumed with a spiritual famine, nor be trampled upon by the enemies of my Church.

XXXV. 3. Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee.