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XXVI. 19 When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee. When I shall bring the Babylonians upon thee, who, like a deluge of waters, shall violently break in upon thee and swallow thee up. XXVI. 20 With the people of old time, &c. and I shall set glory in the land of the living.

With those people, which are long since dead and gone; then I shall, at the last, restore the former glory, with an increase thereof, unto the remainders of my Church, here upon earth,

XXVI. 21 I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no

more.

I will make thee a terrible example to all cities and countries, in my utter destroying thee.

XXVII. 3 And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles. And say unto Tyrus, O thou, that art situate upon the sea coast, as a fit and famous port; which art renowned for the traffic of merchandise, all the world over.

XXVII. 5, 6 They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: &c. Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, &c. They have prepared all things that belong to thy shipping, in a degree above necessity and convenience; even to wantonness, and excessful curiosity: the timber thereof is not of any ordinary and base wood, but rare and precious; and thy benches, instead of wood, which others use, are of the costliest ivory, brought from far.

XXVII. 7 Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt, &c. And, where others' sails are of plain canvass, thine are of fine linen, curiously embroidered with Egyptian work, &c.

XXVII. 8 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy ma riners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots. Thy mariners were the slaves of Zidon and Damascus, both strong and skilful; and thy pilots were the cunning seamen of thine own breeding.

XXVII. 9 The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers.

The ancient and experienced men of Gebal, who were noted for most expert shipwrights, were employed in the building and calking of thy vessels.

XXVII. 10 They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; &c.

The Persians and Lydians and Moors, famous for their prowess and skill in military affairs, both by sea and land, though far distant from thee, yet are glad to be entertained for thy warriors: they have devoted their shields and helmets to thy service.

XXVII. 11 The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy

walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls &c.

Thy valiant neighbours were, with thine own forces, upon thy walls round about, and upon thy towers of defence; and have both guarded and beautified thee with their shields.

XXVII. 12 Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, &c.

All cities and countries round about strove to furnish thee with those commodities, which they yield, and the traffic whereof might be gainful to themselves: the famous port of Tarshish traded with thee, in all variety of riches; in silver, iron, tin, &c.

XXVII. 13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.

The Grecians and Iberians and Cappadocians traded in the persons of men, which they sold to thee, and in vessels of brass. So verse 14-24.

XXVII. 26 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.

Those, that have the government of thee, have brought thee into a sea of misery: Nebuchadnezzar, like a boisterous east wind, hath broken thee in pieces.

XXVII. 27 Shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.

Shall fall into the hands of the Babylonians, and by them be destroyed.

XXVII. 28 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.

The noise of thy victors shouting, and of thy citizens crying and shrieking, shall be such, as shall make thy suburbs to shake therewith.

XXVII. 31 And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.

They shall, by tearing their hair and girding themselves with sackcloth, testify their vehement mourning for thee.

XXVII. 34 In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall.

In the time when thou shalt be destroyed by the Babylonian forces, which, like a raging sea, shall come in upon thee, thy trade, and all the commerce that thou hadst with other nations, shall utterly fail.

XXVIII. 2 And, thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, &c. Though thou set thine heart as the heart of God. Thou hast said, I am out of the reach of man's power: my seat is higher, than that it can be infested by the force or malice of men, &c. Though thou hast, in thy proud thoughts, equalled thyself with God.

XXVIII. 3 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no se cret that they can hide from thec.

And, as thou art greater than all others, so, in thine own conceit, thou art wiser than even Daniel himself: thou knowest all secret things, as well as he, in whom is the Spirit of the Most High God. · XXVIII. 8 And thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.

And thou, that hast fondly imagined thyself a God, shalt die the death of thine ordinary vassals, notwithstanding thy strong forts and bulwarks of the sea.

XXVIII. 10 Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers.

Thou shalt die such a death, as an insolent and godless pagan is worthy of, by the hand of the Babylonians.

XXVIII. 12 Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

Thou givest out thyself as absolutely perfect, both in wisdom and beauty; so as no addition can be made to thee, in either of these.

XXVIII. 13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. Thou hast abounded with all delicacies, as if thou hadst lived in Eden, the garden of God; and, where others make them coverings of homely and ordinary matter, thy canopies are beset with all the precious stones, that can be reckoned, and with the best of metals: neither hast thou needed to take any care for thy varieties of pleasures, for thy curious music was prepared for thee, even from thy very birth.

XXVIII. 14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou advancest thyself to be as that glorious cherub, which covereth the ark of God: so dost thou spread thy protection over thy land, and so have I appointed thee to do; yea, thou tookest upon thee, as if thou wert that God, which is worshipped in his holy temple, and as that Almighty one, who walketh above in the clouds, among the lightnings and thunder-stones.

XXVIII. 15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

Thou didst arrogate a kind of perfection to thyself, in all thy ways; even from thy very nativity, till thy wickedness brake forth notoriously, to thy just conviction.

XXVIII. 16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: there fore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub from the midst of the stones of fire.

By the confluence of much people, upon the occasions of thy

merchandise, and the oppressive bargains that are used therein, thou art full of fraud and violence, and art thereupon grown exceedingly sinful; therefore will I cast thee out from those vainly pretended rights, which thou claimest in the temple of God: I will destroy thee, O thou false cherub, from the ark, whose covering thou wouldest resemble; and strike thee down from those clouds, where thou affectest to walk among the fiery meteors.

XXVIII. 18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities.

By the multitudes of thine iniquities, thou hast defiled those places of majesty and devotion, which thou wouldst have to be thought sacred.

XXVIII. 23 And the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side.

The wounded and distressed inhabitants shall be called to reckon ing, in the midst of her streets, for their many and grievous sins, by the sword of her enemy, the Babylonian.

XXVIII. 24 And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despise them.

I will put an end to the sorrows of my Church: these heathens shall no more gall and grieve them; neither shall the nations round about insult upon their miseries, and trample upon them.

XXVIII. 25 When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.

When I shall have gathered my chosen people out of all the nations of the earth amongst whom they are dispersed, and shall be sanctified in them before the rest of the world, then shall they enjoy a quiet rest, in my Church, which I have appropriated to them. So verse 26.

XXIX. 3 Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.

Behold, I am thy professed enemy, O Pharaoh, the proud king of Egypt; who, like a great dragon or whale, liest securely in those watery regions of thine, and hast said, Nilus is my own; no enemy can take it from me.

XXIX. 4 But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.

But I will put the hooks of the king of Babylon into thy jaws, and will draw thee out of those watery forts of thine, and drag thee up to the dry land; and, for thy princes and people, which are as the lesser sort of fishes, they also, as sticking to thy scales, shall be plucked out with thee.

XXIX. 5 And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee

and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven. And I will leave thee upon the Libyan sands, exposed as a prey to the fowls of the air and the beast of the field; both thee, and thy princes and people: thou shalt be slain, and thine army, in the open fields; and there shall ye lie scattered, and shall not be brought together for sepulture.

XXIX. 6 Because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.

They have been a deceitful and untrusty stay to the house of Is rael; like a crazy reed, which breaks under the hand of him that leans upon it.

XXIX. 10 From the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.

From the south borders of Egypt unto the north, shall the land be utterly desolate.

XXIX. 11 No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years. It shall lie waste and uninhabited, without traffic, without culture, for the space of forty years.

XXIX. 14 And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, &c. They shall return again, to re-inhabit, as well the midland country, as the skirts and borders of Egypt, their native land; and they shall be there restored to a tributary state, under the Persians.

XXIX. 18 Every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled; yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the ser vice that he had served against it.

Every man had worn his hair from off his head, and his skin from his shoulders, in carrying burdens for raising up mounts against Tyrus; yet did he not find that booty for his army therein, which he expected.

XXIX. 21 In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Is rael to bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them, and they shall know that I am the LORD. In that day will I raise up Israel again, to a recovery of strength and comfort; and will cause the mouths of my people to be opened, in the confession and praise of my name amongst the Baby lonians; and they shall know and acknowledge me to be the Lord.

XXX. 3 For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen. The day is near at hand, wherein the Lord will take vengeance on the heathen, which have oppressed his people. So verse 4, and 5.

XXX. 6 From the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.

From the southern coast of Egypt along unto the north parts thereof, shall they be slain with the sword.

XXX. 9 In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships

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