i

Her grievous judgment.

594.

s Jer. 2. 2.

ver, 43, 60. IIoz. 11. 1.

tver, 4, 5, 6.

u ver. 31.

Or, brothel house.

x Is. 57. 5. 7.

Jer. 2. 20. & 3.2.

y Prov. 9. 14.

pass through the fire for them?

22 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, t when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.

23 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord GOD,)

24 That thou hast also built unto thee an || eminent place, and hast made thee a high place in every street.

25 Thou hast built thy high place yat every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.

26 Thou hast also committed forch 8.10,14.& nication with "the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.

20. 7, 8. & 23. 19, 20, 21.

27 Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them

a 2 Chr. 28.18, that hate thee, the || daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.

19.
ver. 57.

i Or, cities.

12 Kings 16.

28 b Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.

29 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan cch.23.14,&c. unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast

Or, In thy daughters is thine, &c.

d ver. 24, 39.

e Is. 30. 6.

Hos. 8. 9.

† Heb.bribest.

not satisfied herewith.

30 How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;

31 || In that dthou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as a harlot, in that thou scornest hire;

32 But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!

33 They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and thirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.

34 And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary.

35 1 Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:

36 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy

thy children, which thou didst give CHRIST

unto them;

37 Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.

594.

38 And I will judge thee, tas women that break wedlock and ished blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy. 39 And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw i Gen. 9. 6. down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.

1

Ex. 21. 12. See ver, 20, 36.

k ver. 24, 31.

1 ch. 23. 26. Hos. 2. 3.

† Heb. instruments of thine ornament.

n John 8.5, 7. o Deut. 13. 16, 2 Kin. 25. 9. Jer. 39. 8. & 62. 13.

40 m They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust mch.23.46,47. thee through with their swords. 41 And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and Pexecute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to I cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more. 42 So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.

45 Thou art thy mother's daughter,
that loatheth her husband and her
children; and thou art the sister of
thy sisters, which loathed their hus-
bands and their children: "your u ver. 3.
mother was a Hittite, and your father
an Amorite.

46 And thine elder sister is Samaria,
she and her daughters that dwell at
thy left hand: and *fthy younger Deut. 32.32.
sister, that dwelleth at thy right
hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
47 Yet hast thou not walked after
their ways, nor done after their
abominations: but, || as if that were Or, that was

a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.

48 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, " Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.

49 Behold, this was the iniquity of

Is. 1. 10. + Heb. lesser than thou.

loathed as a small thing. y 2 Kin. 21. 9. ch. 5, 6, 7. ver. 48, 51. z Matt. 10. 15. & 11. 24.

e See Is. 1. 9. & ver. 60,61. fJer, 20, 16,

hast done.

52 Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters. 53 When I shall bring again their captivity, fthe captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will Ibring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them:

54 That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that

gch. 14.22,23. thou art sa comfort unto them.

+ Heb. for a report, or, hearing.

† Heb.

prides, or. excellencies.

h2 Kin. 16.5.

2 Chr. 28. 18.

Is. 7. 1. & 14.

28.

+ Heb. Aram.

i ver. 27.

Or, spoil.

kch. 23. 49,

† Heb. borne them.

55 When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate.

56 For thy sister Sodom was not + mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy † pride,

57 Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy breproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, i the daughters of the Philistines, which || despise thee round about. 58k Thou hast † borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the LORD.

59 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast 1 despised mthe

1 ch. 17. 13,16. oath in breaking the covenant.

m Deut. 29.

12, 14.

n Ps. 106. 45,

50.5.

pch. 20. 43. & 36. 31.

60 Nevertheless, I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish

o Jer. 32.40. & unto thee an everlasting covenant. 61 Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give q Is. 54. 1. & them unto thee for 9 daughters, but

60. 4.

Gal 4.26, &c.

rJer. 31. 31, &c.

s Hos. 2.19.20.

not by thy covenant.

62 $ And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD:

63 That thou mayest tremember, and be confounded, "and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast donc, saith the Lord GOD.

God's judgment upon her

CHAPTER XVII.

1 Under the parable of two eagles and a vine, 11 is shewed God's judgment upon Jerusalem for revolting from Babylon to Egypt. 22 God promiseth to plant the cedar of the gospel.

A

ND the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel;

Before CHRIST about 594.

&c.

3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great a See ver. 12, wings, long winged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:

4 He cropped off the top of his ycung twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.

Heb.embroidering.

b 2 Kin, 24.12.

5 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful Heb. put it field; he placed it by great waters, and set it das a willow tree.

in a field of seed.

c Deut. 8. 7,8, 9.

d Is. 44. 4.

e ver. 14.

6 And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs. 7 There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, fthis vine did bend her fver. 15. roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.

8 It was planted in a good soil by + Heb. field. great waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.

9 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? "shall he not g2 Kin. 25. 7. pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.

Hos, 13, 15,

10 Yea, behold, heing planted, shall it prosper? hshall it not utterly with- heh. 19. 12. er, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew.

11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

12 Say now to ithe rebellious house, Know ye not what these things mean? tell them, Behold, kthe king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and hath taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with him to Babylon;

for revolting from Babylon.

Before

CHRIST

about 594.

o 2 Kin.24.20.

2 Chr. 36. 13.

p Deut. 17. 16.

Is. 31. 1, 3. &

36. 6, 9.

q ver. 9.

r Jer. 32. 5. &

34.3.& 52. 11.

ch. 12. 13.

s Jer. 37. 7:

t Jer. 52.4.

ch. 4. 2.

Lam. 5. 6.

15 But he rebelled against him in | sending his ambassadors into Egypt, Pthat they might give him horses and much people. 4 Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?

16 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.

17 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons:

18 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he ul Chr. 29.24 had "given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not escape. 19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompense upon his own head.

xch. 12.13, & 32. 3.

y ch. 20. 36.

zch. 12. 14.

a Is. 11. 1. Jer, 23. 5. Zech. 3. 8.

b Is. 53. 2.

c Ps. 2.6.

d Is. 2, 2, 3.

ch. 20, 40.

Mic. 4. 1.

Dan. 4. 12.

God's just dealings with men.

CHRIST 594.

proverb concerning the land of Is- Before rael, saying, The "fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?

3 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel.

a Jer. 31. 29. Lam. 5. 7.

4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sin- bver. 20. neth, it shall die.

51 But if a man be just, and do † that which is lawful and right,

Rom. 6. 23,

+ Heb. judgment and justice.

cch. 22. 9.

6 And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath d defiled his neigh- Lev. 18. 20. bour's wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman,

7 And hath not foppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his & pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;

8 He that hath not given forth upon iusury, neither hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, khath executed true judgment between man and man,

lon, and y will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.

21 And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward all winds: and ye shall know that I the LORD have spoken it.

22 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest a branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs ba tender one, and will plant it upon a high mountain and emi

nent:

23 d In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit,

e See ch. 31. 6. and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.

f Luke 1.62.

24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD fhave brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to gch. 22. 11. & flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done it.

24. 14.

& 20. 10.

e Lev. 18. 19. & 20. 18.

fEx. 22. 21. Lev. 19. 15.& 25. 14.

g Ex. 22. 26. Deut. 24. 12, 13.

h Deut. 15. 7, 8.

Is 58.7. Matt. 25. 35, 36.

i Ex. 22. 25. Lev. 25.36,37. Deut. 23. 19.

hath kept my judgments, to deal Neh. 5. 7.

truly; he is just, he shall surely
Ilive, saith the Lord GOD.
10 T If he beget a son that is a || rob-
ber, ma shedder of blood, and || that
doeth the like to any one of these
things,

11 And that doeth not any of those duties, but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour's wife,

12 Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath "committed abomination,

God defendeth his justice.

Before

CHRIST live.

594.

zch. 33. 16.

a ver. 32.

ch. 33. 11.

1 Tim. 2. 4.

2 Pet. 3. 9.

bch. 3. 20. &

33. 12, 13, 18.

18 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.

19 Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done thêm, he shall surely live.

20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: "the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

transgressions, whereby ye have CHRIST transgressed; and make you a heart and a new spirit: for why will ye O house of Israel?

die,

32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn || yourselves, and live ye.

MOREOVER, a take thou up a Israel,

lamentation for the princes of

2 And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.

mitted, and keep all my statutes, and
do that which is lawful and right, he

shall surely live, he shall not die.
22 All his transgressions that he
hath committed, they shall not be
mentioned unto him: in his right-
eousness that he hath done he shall
live.

23 a Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?

24 But b when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he c2 Pet. 2. 20. live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.

26e When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.

27 Again, f when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.

28 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.

4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.

1 Eph.4.22.23. m Jer. 32. 39.

ch. 11. 19. &

36. 26.

n Lam. 3, 33. ver. 23.

ch. 33. 11.

2 Pet. 3. 9.

Or, others,

594.

a ch. 26. 17. & 27. 2.

byer. 6. 2 Kings 23. 31, 32.

c 2 Kin. 23.33. 2 Chr. 36. 4. Jer.22.11,12.

5 Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took danother of her whelps, and 42Kin.23.34. made him a young lion.

6 And he went up and down among the lions, fhe became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.

e Jer. 22. 1317.

f ver. 3.

widows.

7 And he knew || their desolate Or, their palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.

8g Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: bhe was taken in their pit.

9 i And they put him in ward || in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

10 Thy mother is I like a vine || in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was mfruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

Il And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.

g 2 Kin, 24. 2..

hver. 4.

12 Chr. 36.6..

Jer. 22. 18.

| Or, in hooks.

kch.6.2.

Ich. 17.6. Or, in thy quietness, or,

in thy like

ness.

m Deut. 8. 7, 8,9..

não ch. 31.3 Dan. 4. 11.

12 But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her och. 17 10. fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed

13 And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.

14 P And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured

Hos. 13. 15.

pJudg. 9. 15. 2 Kin. 24. 20. ch. 17. 18.

The history of

Before

her fruit, so that she hath no strong HRIST rod to be a sceptre to rule. 9 This is 594. a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

q Lam, 4. 20.

about 593.

a ch. 8. 1. & 14.1.

b ver. 31. ch. 14. 3.

Or, plead

for them.

cch. 22. 2. & 23.20.

dch, 16.2.

e Ex: 6.7.

Deut. 7. 6.

[Or, sware:

and so ver.6,

&c.

Ex. 6. 8.

f Ex. 3. 8. &

4. 31.

Deut. 4. 341.

g Ex. 20. 2.

h Ex. 3. 8, 17.

Deut 8.7,8.9.

Jer. 32, 22.

i Pa. 48.. 2,

ver. 15,

Dan. 8. 9. &

11. 16, 41.

Zech. 7. 14.

k ch. 18. 31.

12 Chr. 15. 8.

m Lev. 17.7.&

18. 3.

Deut. 29. 16, 17, 18.

CHAPTER XX.

1 God refuseth to be consulted by the elders of Israel. 5 He sheweth the story of their rebellions in Egypt, 10 in the wilderness, 27 and in the land. 33 He promiseth to gather them by the gospel. 45 Under the name of a forest he sheweth the destruction of Jerusalem.

A

ND it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD, and sat before me.

2 Then came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,

3 Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye come to inquire of me? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, bI will not be inquired of by you.

4 Wilt thou || judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? d cause them to know the abominations of their fathers:

511 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I chose Israel, and || lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself fknown unto them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am the LORD your God;

6 In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, i which is the glory of all lands:

7 Then said I unto them, k Cast ye away every man I the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

8 But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they Jost. 24. 14. did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

10 Wherefore I Pcaused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilder

ness.

11 And I gave them my statutes, and tshewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them.

Israel's rebellions.

12 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them. 13 But the house of Israelt rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they u despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly x polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

14 But I wrought for my name's sakė, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.

15 Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;

16 Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for d their heart went after their idols.

17 Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.

18 But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:

rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, i which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury k ver. 8, 13. upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness. 22 1 Nevertheless I withdrew mine 1Ps. 78.38. hand, and m wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.