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In the day.] i. e. And in the day, supple, in which thou shalt plant thy Slipps and Plants.
Thou shalt make the Plant to grow.] i. e. Thou shalt water thy Plants which thou hast planted, that they may grow: And by this thy paines thou shalt make them grow.
He puts Plant for Plants, a Singular for a Plurall number.
And in the morning.] i. e. And in the day following.
The morning is put here for the whole day, by a Synechdoche; and the day following, for a great while after.
Shalt thou make thy seed to flourish] i. e. Shalt thou water thy seed, and use all care and diligence that it may grow up and flourish: And by this thy paines and care thou shalt make it grow up and flourish.
But the Harvest.] i. e. Yet the fruit which cometh of the Plant, or of the seed, through thy labour.
The Harvest signifieth, not onely the time in which fruit useth to be ripe and gathered, but the fruit it self also, and so is it here taken.
Shall be an heap.] i. e. Shall be as an heap.
The note of Similitude is often left to be understood.
But why should the Harvest, or Fruit, coming of that Seed, or those Plants, be as an heap?
Answer. Because as an heap, supple, of Corn, would be presently devoured by such an Army as Salmaneser had: So should the fruit or those plants be devoured.
Or Because as an heap, supple, of dung, is troden under the feet of those which walk in the streets: So should the Fruit coming of those Plants, or Seeds, be beat down, and trod under the feet of the Assy∣rians.
In the day of grief.] i. e. In the day, in which Salmaneser shall cause thee to grieve, because of the miseries which he shall bring upon thee.
And desperate sorrow] He calls it despe∣rate sorrow, because there was no hope of joy to succeed it, or lessen it.