Annotations upon the five bookes of Moses, the booke of the Psalmes, and the Song of Songs, or, Canticles VVherein the Hebrevv vvords and sentences, are compared with, and explained by the ancient Greeke and Chaldee versions, and other records and monuments of the Hebrewes: but chiefly by conference with the holy Scriptures, Moses his words, lawes and ordinances, the sacrifices, and other legall ceremonies heretofore commanded by God to the Church of Israel, are explained. With an advertisement touching some objections made against the sinceritie of the Hebrew text, and allegation of the Rabbines in these annotations. As also tables directing unto such principall things as are observed in the annotations upon each severall booke. By Henry Ainsworth.

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GIve eare ye heavens, and I will [unspec 1] speake, and let the earth heare the sayings of my mouth. My doctrine shall drop as the raine, [unspec 2] my speech shall distill as the deaw, as the small rain upon the tender herbe, and as the showres upon the grasse.

For I will proclaime the name of Iehovah; give yee greatnesse unto our [unspec 3] God.

The Rocke, perfect is his worke, [unspec 4] for all his wayes are judgement: God is faithfulnesse, and without iniquity; just and righteous is he. They have [unspec 5] corrupted themselves, their spot is not (the spot) of his sonnes, (they are) a crooked and perverse generation.

Do ye thus requite Iehovah, O peo∣ple foolish and unwise? Is not hee [unspec 6] thy Father that hath bought thee? hath not he made thee, & established thee?

Remember the dayes of old, con∣sider the yeeres of generation and ge∣neration; [unspec 7] aske thy Father, and he will shew thee; thy Elders, and they will tell thee. When the most high divi∣ded [unspec 8] inheritance to the nations, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the peoples, according to the number of the sonnes of Israel.

For Iehovahs portion is his people, [unspec 9] Iakob is the line of his inheritance. Hee found him in a land of wilder∣nesse, [unspec 10] and in an empty place, and how∣ling of the desart; hee led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

As an Engle stirreth up her nest, [unspec 11] fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, bea∣reth them on her wings. Iehovah a∣lone [unspec 12] did leade him, and there was no strange god with him.

He made him ride on the high pla∣ces of the earth, that he might eat the [unspec 13] fruits of the field, and he made him to sucke honey out of the rocke, and oile out of the flinty rocke. Butter [unspec 14] of kine, and milke of the flocke, with fat of Lambes, and of Rams of the breed of Bashan, and of Goat-bucks, with the fat of the kidneies of wheat, and the bloud of the Grape, thou did∣dest drinke pure wine. But Iesurun [unspec 15] wexed fat, and kicked; thou art wex∣en fat, thou art growne grosse, thou art covered with fatnesse: then he for∣sooke God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rocke of his sal∣vation. They provoked him to jea∣lousie [unspec 16] with strange gods, with abomi∣nations they provoked him to anger.

They sacrificed to devils, not to God▪ to gods whom they knew not, to new [unspec 17] gods that came lately up, of whom your fathers were not afraid. Of the [unspec 18] Rocke that begat thee thou art un∣mindfull, and hast forgotten God that formed thee. And Iehovah saw it, & contemptuously abhorred them, [unspec 19] because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will [unspec 20] see what their end shall be; for they are a very froward generation, sonnes in whom is no faith. They have pro∣voked me to jealousie with that which [unspec 21] is not god; they have provoked mee to anger with their vanities: and I will provoke them to jealousie with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. For a fire is kindled in mine [unspec 22] anger, and shall burne unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the land, and her increase, and set on fire the foun∣dations

of the mountaines. I will heape evils upon them, I will spend [unspec 23] mine arrowes upon them; They shall [unspec 24] be burnt with hunger, and devoured with the burning coale, and with a bitter stinging plague, and I will send upon them the teeth of beasts, with the poyson of serpents of the dust. Without, the sword shall be∣reave; [unspec 25] and from the chambers, ter∣rour: both the young man and the virgin, the suckling with the man of gray haires. I said I would scatter [unspec 26] them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men. Were it not that I fea∣red [unspec 27] the wrath of the enemy, left their adversaries should behave themselves strangely; left they should say, Our high hand, & not Iehovah hath done all this. For they are a nation voyd [unspec 28] of counsels, and there is no understan∣ding in them. O that they were wise, [unspec 29] that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end. How should one chase a thousand, & [unspec 30] two put ten thousand to flight, ex∣cept their Rocke had sold them, and Iehovah had shut them up. For their [unspec 31] Rocke is not as our Rocke, even our enemies being judges. For their vine [unspec 32] is of the vine of Sodom, and of the blasted fields of Gomorrah: their Grapes are Grapes of gall, they have most bitter clusters. Their wine is [unspec 33] the poyson of dragons, and the cru∣ell venome of aspes. Is not this laid [unspec 34] up in store with me, and sealed up in my treasuries?

To mee belongeth vengeance and [unspec 35] recompence; in the time their foot shall slide; for the day of their ca∣lamity is neere, and the things that shall come upon them make haste. For Iehovah will judge his people, [unspec 36] and repent himselfe for his servants, when hee shall see that the hand is gone, and there is none shut up, or left. And hee shall say, Where are [unspec 37] their gods, the Rocke in whom they trusted for safety? Which did eat [unspec 38] the fat of their sacrifices, did drinke the wine of their drink-offerings? let them rise up, and helpe you, let him bean hiding-place for you. See now [unspec 39] that I, I am he, and there is no God

with me: I do kill and make alive; do wound, and I heale; and there is none that delive∣reth out of mine hand. For I lift up my [unspec 40] hand to the heavens, and say, I live for ever.

If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgement, I will render [unspec 41] vengeance to my adversaries, and will reward them that hate mee. I will make mine ar∣rowes drunke with bloud, and my sword shall [unspec 42] devoure flesh, with the bloud of the slaine, and of the captives from the beginning, the revenges of the enemy. Shout joyfully yee [unspec 43] nations with his people, for he will avenge the bloud of his servants, and will render venge∣ance to his adversaries, and will make atone∣ment for his land, for his people.

And Moses came, and spake all the words [unspec 44] of this song in the eares of the people, hee and Hoshea the sonne of Nun. And Moses [unspec 45] made an end of speaking all these words unto all Israel: And he said unto them, Set your [unspec 46] heart unto all the words which I testifie a∣mong you this day, which you shall com∣mand your sonnes, to observe to doe all the words of this Law. For it is not a vaine [unspec 47] word for you, because it is your life; and through this word ye shall prolong your daies upon the land, whither yee are going over Iordan to possesse it.

And Iehovah spake unto Moses in that [unspec 48] [unspec 49] selfe-same day, saying; Goe up into this mountaine of Abarim, mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Ie∣richo, and see the land of Canaan which I am giving to the sonnes of Israel for a possession.

And die in the mount whither thou goest [unspec 50] up, and be gathered unto thy peoples, as Aa∣ron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his peoples. Because ye tres∣passed [unspec 51] against me among the sonnes of Israel, at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wildernesse of Zin, because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the sonnes of Israel. Yet [unspec 52] thou shalt see the land before thee, but thither thou shalt not goe in unto the land which I am giving to the sonnes of Israel.