CHAP. IIII.
Vers. 1. HOw is the gold become dim, &c.] The Princes and Nobles. Vers. 2. or, the gold, that the Temple was adorned with. 1 King. 6. 22. Matth. 23. 16, 17.
the stones of the Sanctuary] Or, holinesse. Psal. 20. 2. & 114. 2. & 150. 1.
are poured out] Being demolished. Jer. 39. 8.
in the top of every street] Heb. in the head, &c. Chap. 2. 19.
V. 2. esteemed as earthen pitchers] As things of no estimation. Isai. 30. 14. Jer. 19. 11. 2 Cor. 4. 7.
V. 3. the sea-monsters draw out the breast] Or sea-calves, seales, or whales. as Psal. 44. 19. For the seales and whales breed yong ones, have teats, and give suck.
they give suck to their young ones] Heb. whelps. Ezek. 19. 2, 3.
the daughter of my people is become cruell] By extremity of di∣stresse, in the siege, enforced to neglect their children, as if they had been stript of naturall affection. Chap. 2. 11, 12, 20. Vers. 4.
like the ostriches in the wildernesse] Or, owls. Levit. 11. 16. Deut. 14. 15. Like the Ostriches, that sit not, nor hatch, nor seed, Job. 39. 14-17. Or, the Owls; such of them as keep in waste places, where they want oft times to feed their young, or feed sometime on them. Job. 30. 29. Isai. 13. 21. & 24. 13. & 43. 20. Jer. 50. 39. Mic. 1. 8. See of the ravens, Job. 38. 41.
V. 4. The tongue of the sucking child, &c.] Chap. 2. 11.
cleaveth to the roof of his mouth] For drought. Psal. 22. 15. as for fear and reverence, Job 29. 10. See Psal. 137. 6.
the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them] Or, there is none that affordeth it them. Isai. 58. 7. they can get none; there is none that giveth them any Chap. 2. 11, 12.
V. 5. They that did feed delicately] Heb. on delicates, or, dainties. Gen. 49. 20. That were daintily brought up. Prov. 29. 21. Luk. 7. 25.
brought up in scarlet] That were costly and softly clad. 2 Sam. 1. 24. Ezek. 23. 6, 12, 15. Matth. 11. 8.
embrace dunghills] Are▪ glad of any sory food, that they can find in the dunghills; Luk. 15. 16. or of any rags to cover them with, that they can rake out from thence▪ or, being harbourlesse, are fain to lye and lodge on the dung-heaps. Job 24. 8.
V. 6. the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater then the punishment of the sinne of Sodom] Or, the ini∣quitie of the daughter of my people is greater then the sinne of Sodome. So Gen. 4. 13. vers. 22.
that was overthrown as in a moment] Gen. 19. 25.
no hands stayed on her] They lay not long languishing; as wee do under the hands of our enemies. Lev. 26. 36-39. Deut. 28. 65-67. vers. 9.
V. 7. Her Nazarites] Of whom see Num. 6. 2. or, her choise ones; her select, and honourable ones. Gen. 49. 26.
purer then snow] Psal. 51. 7.
their polishing was of saphire] Or, as the polishing of saphire. as Isai. 5. 29. & 13. 8. See Exod. 24. 10.
V. 8. Their visage is blacker then a coal] Heb. darker then blacknesse. With grief and famine. Jer. 14. 2. Chap. 5. 10. Revel. 6. 5, 6.
they are not known in the streets] Their visage is so altered, that those who formerly knew them, meeting now with them, take them for some other persons.
their skin cleaveth to their bones] Their flesh is so consumed, that they are nothing but skin and bone. Job 19. 20. Psal. 102. 4, 5. & 119. 83.
V. 9. They that be slain with the sword, are better then they that be slain with hunger] Or, in better case.
these pine away] Heb. flow out. Jer. 49. 4. waste away by de∣grees, with a lingring death. Lev. 26. 39. Vers. 6.
stricken through] Faring no better then as if they were stab'd, or thrust through. Jer. 37. 10. & 51. 4.
for want of the fruits of the field] For want of food. Hag. 1. 10. See the like phrase, Psal. 109. 24.
V. 10. The hands of the pitifull women] That are so natural∣ly, toward their own children especially. 1 King. 3. 26. Isai. 49. 15.
have sodden their own children] 1 King. 6. 29.
they were their meat] Deut. 28. 57. Chap. 2. 20. vers. 3.
the destruction, &c.] Heb. breaking. Chap. 2. 13. & 3. 47.
V. 11. he hath poured out] Chap. 2. 4. Jer. 10. 25.
his fierce anger] Chap. 1. 12.
kindled fire in Zion, &c.] Deut. 32. 22. Jer. 21. 14.
V. 12. The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world would not have beleeved, &c.] It seemed to them a thing in∣credible, that God should so destroy his own feat, his chief citie. Chap. 2. 1, 20.
V. 13. For the sinnes of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests] Is all this come to passe. Jer. 5. 31. & 23. ••1. Chap. 2. 14. which yet is spoken, not to excuse the people, but to aggra∣vate their guilt, who were formost and forwardest in those cour∣ses, which they should have reproved and restrained in others. Jer. 20. 2. & 26. 11.
that have shed the bloud of the just] Of innocent, or guiltless•• persons. Isai. 59. 7. Jer. 19. 4.
in the midst of her] Or, in her. Psal. 55. 11.
V. 14. They have wandred as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with bloud] Or, the blind, as they wandred in the streets, were polluted with bloud. The citie was so full of bloud and dead corpses, that the blind could not avoid them; or, that none could shun them, but as if they were blind, Isa. 59. 10. they must needs stumble upon them. 2 King. 21. 16. & 24. 4. Jer. 2. 34. Ezek 7. 23.
so that men could not touch their garments] Or, in that they could not but touch it with their garments.
V. 15. They cryed unto them, &c.] Or, though, when they cryed unto them, &c. though they made what shift they could a∣way, when warning thereof was given, by crying to them in the Lepers note, Lev. 13. 45.
Depart ye, it is unclean,] Or, ye polluted, go some other way, for this is polluted. Num. 19. 11.
depart, depart, touch not] Isai. 52. 11. Col. 2. 21.
when they fled away and wandered] Or, they fled, and went some other way.
they said among the heathen] So abominable were their courses, that the heathen themselves thought surely, they could not long continue. Lev. 18. 16. Mic. 2. 10.
They shall no more sojourn there] Heb. not add to sojourn there. Isa. 10. 20. Vers. 16. 22. In the citie, or land, wherein they lived, and which they so notoriously defiled. Numb. 35. 33, 34. Psal. 106. 38. Though some expound it of their false Prophets flat∣tering prophecies, (of whom, vers. 13.) by which they did bear the people in hand, that their stay in Babylon and other countries, wherein they were captives, should not last long. Jer. 28. 3, 4. & 29. 8. reading the words, they said, that they should not continue sojourning among the nations.
V. 16. The anger of the LORD] Heb. face. Psal. 34. 16.
hath divided them] Or, dispersed them. Gen. 49. 7.
he will no more regard them] Heb. not add to regard, vers. 15. or, behold them. Psal. 84. 9.
they respected not the persons of the priests, &c.] Either the wic∣ked Jewes, before their destruction; or, the Chaldeans, when they had taken the citie. 2 King. 25. 18, 21. 2 Chron. 36. 17. Chap. 2. 6. & 5. 12.
V. 17. As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help] Or, while yet we were, our eyes failed in looking for, &c. as Psal. 119. 82. 123. So long as our state stood, and we were not as yet sur∣prised, we lived in expectation of succour from abroad. Jer. 4. 14. & 8. 20.
in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us] Or, we watched long; or, earnestly (Isa. 21. 5.) for a nation that could not, (Heb. will not, or, shall not) save. as Job 15. 3. Jer. 2. 11. & 7. 8. The Egyptians. Isa. 20. 5, 6. Jer. 2. 18, 36. & 37. 7, 8. 2 King. 24. 7.
V. 18. They hunt our steps] Our enemies, the Chaldeans, trace us like hounds. Psal. 56. 6. & 140. 11.
that we cannot go in our streets] Without danger; or, dare not be seen in them. Jer. 9. 21. & 49. 26. & 50. 30.
our end is near] Ezek. 7. 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 13.
our dayes are fulfilled] 2 Sam. 7. 12. Jer. 28. 34.
our end is come] Jer. 51. 13.
V. 19. Our persecuters are swifter then the Eagles of the heaven]