Vers. 30. For yee shall be as an Oke, whose leafe fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
THe Hebrew particle may bee taken affi••∣matiuely, as I haue turned it: and it seemes that the Prophet alludes to those gar∣dens vnto which they had falsely tied the ser∣uice of God; for because he had made menti∣on of these gardens, he threatens them with drought, casting in their teeth the confi∣dence, which they reposed in them. You please your selues very much, in yoour gar∣dens, and in your trees (saith he) but you shall be as trees dried, and subiect to fall. The Lord then scornes the foolish bragging of the idolaters who please themselues marue∣louslie in their inuentions: and thinke that heauen must needs be opened to them, when they are in the midst of their ceremonies. As at this day when the Papists haue lighted vp their lampes, and decked their temples; when they shine with gold and pretious stones; when they heare, the melodie of their Or∣ganes, and the sound of their bels, they thinke themselues the most happie people vnder the sunne, as if God being infinitelie beholding vnto them, and satisfied with such baggage, they were freed from feare of any danger.