Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: [there is] no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate. Ver. 1. _Come down._] From thy lofty top and towering state, as the head city of the world. _a_ Sit in the dust.... [ Continue Reading ]
Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers. Ver. 2. _Take the millstone._] As the most abject slaves used to do, _qui in pistrinum trudebantur._ Neither is this an end of thy sorrows; for out of the mill house thou must be carr... [ Continue Reading ]
Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet [thee as] a man. Ver. 3. _Thy nakedness shall be uncovered._] Thou shalt be stripped, and worse dealt with - the ordinary lot of women prisoners. At the sack of Magdeburg by Monsieur Tilly, la... [ Continue Reading ]
__ Isaiah 47:4 _[As for] our redeemer, the LORD of hosts [is] his name, the Holy One of Israel._ Ver. 4. _As for our Redeemer, &c._] This comes in by way of parenthesis, for the comfort of God's poor people.... [ Continue Reading ]
Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms. Ver. 5. _Sit thou silent._] Here he threateneth Babylon with loss of her former fame; she shall be buried in obscurity and oblivion, as out of sight and out of mind, no... [ Continue Reading ]
I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke. Ver. 6. _I was wroth._] See on Zechariah 1:15 . _ I have polluted mine inheritance._] God is his people's inheritance,... [ Continue Reading ]
And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: [so] that thou didst not lay these [things] to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it. Ver. 7. _I shall be a lady for ever._] Presumption precedeth destruction. Psa 10:6 Rev 18:7 _ So that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart._]... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore hear now this, [thou that art] given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I [am], and none else beside me; I shall not sit [as] a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: Ver. 8. _Thou that art given to pleasure._] _Delisatula; _ It is not good to t... [ Continue Reading ]
But these two [things] shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, [and] for the great abundance of thine enchantments. Ver. 9. _But these two things shall come upon thee in a momen... [ Continue Reading ]
For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I [am], and none else beside me. Ver. 10. _Thou hast trusted in thy wickedness._] God calleth that "wickedness" which they counted wisdom.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, [which] thou shalt not know._ Ver. 11. _Therefore shall evil come upon thee._] An evil, "an only ev... [ Continue Reading ]
Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail. Ver. 12. _Stand now with thine enchantments._] _a_ Try thine utmost skill, and let us see what thou canst do fo... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from [these things] that shall come upon thee. Ver. 13. _Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels._] As all such are sure to be, with a woe to bo... [ Continue Reading ]
Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: [there shall] not [be] a coal to warm at, [nor] fire to sit before it. Ver. 14. _Behold, they shall be as stubble._] As dried stubble. Nah 1:10 _See Trapp on "_ Nah 1:10 _"_ T... [ Continue Reading ]
Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, [even] thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee. Ver. 15. _Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured._] But all in vain; viz., with thy wizards and diviners, those decei... [ Continue Reading ]