a Job 16. 8. b P. 51. 8. I. 3× 13. Jer. 50. 17. © Ps 88, 5, 6. & 143. 3. d Job 3. 23. & 19.3. Hos. 2. 6. 22 Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD's anger none escaped nor remained: fthose that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed. CHAPTER III. 1 The faithful bewail their calamities. 22 By the mercies of God they nourish their hope. 37 They acknowledge God's jus tice. 55 They pray for deliverance, 64 and rengeance on their enemies. the man hath seen his own calamities. 18 And I said, My strength | Before and my hope is perished from CHRIST the LORD: 19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, Pthe wormwood and the gall. 20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in ; me. 21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. about 588. Ps. 31.22. . Or. Remember. P Jer. 9. 15. Heb., bured. Heb make to return to my heart. 9 Mal. 3.6. 22 It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. 23 They are new revery morn-1s. 33. 2. ing: great is thy faithfulness. 24 The LORD is my portion, I affliction by the rod of his saith my soul; therefore will I wrath. 2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. 3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. 4 a My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. 5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. 6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. 7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy. Job 30, 20.8 Also e when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. Ps. 22. 2. f.Job 10. 16, 14. 28. 13. 9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked. 10 He was unto me as a bear Hos 5. 14. & lying in wait, and as a lion in 13. 7, 8. Hos. 6. 1. secret places. 11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate. 12 He hath bent his bow, and h Job 7. 20. & hset me as a mark for the arrow. 13 He hath caused the tarrows of his quiver to enter into my 16. 12. l's 33. 2. i Job 6. 4. † Heb. sons. k Jer. 20. 7. 1 Job 30. 9. Ps. 61, 12 ver. 63. m Jer. 9. 15. † Heb bitternesses. Or. reins. 11 I was a k derision to all my I people; and their song all the day. 15 mIIe hath filled me with tbitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. 16 He hath also broken my Prov. 20. 17. teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes. 17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat rolled me in the ushes. † Heb. good. ¦ † prosperity. 35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most or High, 36 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not. 37 Who is he e that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lorde commandeth it not? 38 Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not fevil and good? 39 & Wherefore doth a living man complain, ha man for the punishment of his sins? 40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD. a superior. Hab. 1. 13. Or seeth not. Ps. 33. 9. Job 2.10. I. 45 7. Prov. 19. 3. murmur. ih Mic 7. 9. 41 Let us lift up our heart with i Ps. 86. 4. A prayer for deliverance. Before CHRIST about 588. A Dan. 9. 5. 1 ch. 2. 2, 17, 21. m ver. 8. n1 Cor. 4. 13. och. 2. 16. PIs 24. 17. Jer. 48. 43. q Is. 51. 19. * Jer 4 19. & 9 1. & 14. 17, ch. 2. 11. Ps. 77. 2. ch. 1. 16. t Is. 63. 15. † Heb * Jer. 37. 16. & 58 6.9, 10. y Dan. 6. 17. LAMENTATIONS. Zion's pitiful estate. Before CHRIST about 588. ompense, O LORD, according to | of Tour best uue vous the I noffscouring and refuse in the 46° All our enemies have open- 47 P Fear and a snare is come upon us, a desolation and destruction. 48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people. 49's Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission, 50 Till the LORD tlook down, and behold from heaven. 51 Mine eye affecteth mine heart, because of all the daughters of my city. 52 Mine enemies chased me Ps. 35 7,19. sore, like a bird, u without cause. & 69, 4. & 109. 3. & 119. 53 They have cut off my life 161. in the dungeon, and y cast a stone upon me. 542 Waters flowed over mine Ps, 69, 2 & head; then a I said, I am cut off. 55 I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon. 56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breath 57 Thou d drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not. 58 O Lord, thou hast e pleaded the causes of my soul; fthou hast redeemed my life. 59 O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong judge thou my cause. 60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their himaginations against me. 61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me; 62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day. 63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their music. 64 Render unto them a rec Or, obstinacy of m Deut. 25. 19. Jer. 10. 11. n Ps. 8. 3. his fury; he hath poured out A pitiful complaint of Zion. CHAPTER V. CHRIST his fierce anger, and hath kin- A pitiful complaint of Zion in prayer unto dled a fire in Zion, and it hath about 588. n Jer. 7. 20. Deut. 32.22. Jer. 21. 14. P Jer. 5. 31. & 6. 13. & 14. 14. & 23. 11, 21. Ez. 22. 26, 28. Zeph. 3. 4. 4 Matt. 23. 31, 37. * Jer. 2. 34. 1 Or, in that they could not but touch. 5 Num. 19. 16. Or, God. EMEMBER, O LORD, what devoured the foundations there-Ris come upon us: consider, of. 12 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem. 13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her, 14 They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, Is so that men could not touch their garments. 15 They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; départ, ye polluted. depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there. t Lev. 13. 45. 1 Or, fuce. u cli. 5. 12. X2 Kings 24.7. Y2 Kings 25. 4, 5. 16 The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders. 17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us. 18 y They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; Ez. 7 2,3, 6. for zour end is come. Amoss 2. a Deut. 28. 49. Jer. 4. 13. b Gen. 2. 7. ch. 2. 9. © Jer. 52. 9. 19 Our persecutors are aswifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness. 20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was Ez. 12. 13. & taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen. 19. 4, 8. d Like Ecc. 11. 9. e Jer. 25. 15, 16, 21. Obad. 10. f Is. 40. 2. Or, Thine iniquity. 21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; e the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked. and behold our reproach. 2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. 4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. Before CHRIST about 588. a Ps. 89.50,51. b Ps. 79. 4. ch. 2. 15. © Ps. 79. 1. t Heb.cometh for price. d Deut.28.48. Jer. 28. 14. † Heb. On our necks are we persecuted. 5 d+Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. 6e We have given the hand fto the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. 7 Our fathers have sinned, and hare not; and we have borne Jer. 31. 29. their iniquities. e Gen. 24. 2. Jer. 50. 15. f Hos. 12. 1. Ez. 18. 2. h Gen. 42. 13. Zerh. 1. 5. 8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us Nel. 5. 15, out of their hand. 9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness. 10 Our skin was black like an oven, because of the terrible famine. 11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah. k Job 30. 30. Ps. 119. 83. ch. 4. 8. 1Or, terrors, or, storms. 1 Is. 13. 16. Zech. 14. 2. 12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: mthe faces of elders m 1s. 47. 6. were not honoured. ch. 4. 16. 13 They took the young men n to grind, and the children fell "Judg. 16. 21. under the wood. 14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music. 15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. 16 The crown is fallen from Job 19. 9. our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! 17 For this Pour heart is faint; a for these things our eyes are dim. 18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. 19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation. 21 Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; in-renew our days as of old. 22 The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iquity, O daughter of Edom; he for thy sins. will I discover thy sins. Ps. 137. 7. Or, carry thee captive 22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us. THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET EZEKIEL. Before CHRIST about 595. † Heb. a ver. 3. Acts 7.56. & Rev. 19. 11. e ch. 8. 3. 12, 15. † Heb. Jehezkel. * 1 Kings 18. 46. 2 Kings 3. 15. ch. 3. 14, 22. CHAPTER I. 1 The time of Ezekiel's prophecy at Chebar. Nthirtieth year, in the fourth OW it came to pass in the 11 Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched up Before CHRIST about 59 Or, divided above. u Is. 6. 2. x ver. 9. ch. 10. 22. y ver. 20. 12 And they went every one month, in the fifth day of the straight forward: y whither the month, as I was among the t cap-spirit was to go, they went; and tives by the river of Chebar, they turned not when they z ver. 9, 17. that the heavens were opened, went. and I saw visions of God. 2 In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of d king Jehoiachin's captivity, 3 The word of the LORD came d2 Kings 24. expressly unto +Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him. 4 And I looked, and, behold, & 8. 1. & 40. fa whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire +infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the 1. f Jer. 23. 19. & 25. 32. 8 Jer. 1.14. & 4. 6. & 6. 1. † Heb. catch ing itself. h Rev. 4. 6, &c. ich. 10.8, &c. k ver. 10. ch. 10. 14, 21. ↑ Heb. 1 Dan. 10. 6. Rev. 1. 15. m ch. 10. 8, 21. n ver. 11. O ver. 12. ch. 10. 11. P See Rev. 4. 7. r Num. 2. 3. Num. 2. 18. fire. 5 h Also out of the midst there- 6 And every one had four faces, 8 m And they had the hands of a n 9 Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward. 10 As for Pthe likeness of their 4 Num. 2. 10. faces, they four a had the face of a man, rand the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left tNum. 2. 25. side; they four also had the face of an eagle. Ezekiel's vision of God's glory. Before CHRIST about 595. Or, of life. n ca. 10. 1. ch. 10 5. P cl. 43. 2. Before about 595. the wheels were lifted up over | man, I send thee to the children wheels. n 22 And the likeness of the fir- 24 And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, Plike the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, Job 37. 4, 5. the voice of speech, as the noise of a host: when they stood, they let down their wings. Ps. 29. 3, 4. & 68.33. rch. 10. 1. s Ex. 24. 10. t ch. 8. 2. "Rev. 4. 3. & 10. 1. r c 4 d For they are impudent child ch. 3. 7. dren and stiffhearted. I do sendt Heb. thee unto them; and thou shalt hard of face. say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD. 25 And there was a voice from 71And thou shalt speak my words unto them, m whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious. 8 But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and neat that I give thee. 27 And I saw as the colour of 28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round cl. 3. 23. & about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake. CHAPTER II. 8.4. Y ch. 3. 23. a Dan. 10.11. b cli. 3. 24. 10 And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe. CHAPTER III. 1 Ezekiel eateth the roll. 4 God encourag- M Or, rebels. Jer. 6. 28. ch. 3. 9. 1 Pet. 3. 14. k ch. 3. 9, 26, 27. 1Jer. 1. 7, 17. m ver. 5. t Heb.. rebellion. n Rev. 10. 9. och. 8. 3. Jer. 1. 9. P ch. 3. 1. OREOVER he said unto me, 1 Ezekiel's commission. 6 His instruction. feet, it, b Rev, 10. 9. |