CONTENTS
This Chapter in its opening, seems to contain a prophecy of the siege
and destruction of Jerusalem, and which took place after our Lord's
return to glory. Under the figures of two staves the Lord teacheth
concerning his Church.... [ Continue Reading ]
Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars. 2
Howl, fir-tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty is
spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is
come down. 3 There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds: for
their glory is spoiled: a voice of... [ Continue Reading ]
Thus saith the Lord my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter; 5 Whose
possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty; and they that
sell them say, Blessed be the Lord; for I am rich; and their own
shepherds pity them not. 6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of
the land, saith the Lord: bu... [ Continue Reading ]
And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not,
forbear: so they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. 13 And
the Lord said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I
was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and
cast them to the potter... [ Continue Reading ]
Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break
the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
The cutting asunder of the other staff Bands, may serve perhaps to
shew, that there can be no lasting amity in the mere obligations of
the law. Judah will vex Ephraim, and Ephraim Judah, No... [ Continue Reading ]
And the Lord said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a
foolish shepherd. 16 For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land,
which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the
young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth
still: but he shall eat th... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS.
Reader! how awful this Chapter begins, and how awful it ends. The
doors are to be opened, to burn the whole dwelling that reject Christ;
and the foolish shepherd, and the idle, that direct men from Christ,
are to beset forth awful, and tremendous examples, of suffering
vengeance from G... [ Continue Reading ]