Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces •n the Land of Egypt, and say, Assemble your selves upon the mountains of Samaria: and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed (or oppressions) in the midst thereof. For they know not to do right, saith the Lord, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces. Therefore, thus saith the Lord God, an adversary there shall be, even round about the Land, and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, •nd thy palaces shall be spoiled. Now mark the 15. verse, And I will smite the winter-house, with the summer-house, and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the Lord. In their Palaces, and in their Winter and Summer-houses they stored up all the riches, preys and spoils that they had got by oppression. But God tells them, that their Palaces should be spoiled, and that he would smite the Winter-house upon the Summer-house (so the Hebrew runs) God was resolved that he would dash one house against the other, and lay them all on heaps. Though their Palaces and houses were never so rich, and strong, and stately, and pompous, and glorious, and decked, and adorned, and enamelled, and checkered; yet they should all down together. So Zach. 7. 10, 11. 14. Oppress not the widow nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor, and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart. But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. Well now, mark what follows, verse 14. But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not: thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through, nor returned; for they laid the pleasant land (or as the Hebrew has it, the second Land of desire) desolate▪ Palestine was a very pleasant Land, a Land which flowed with milk and honey, a Land which was the glory of all Lands; God had made it as his Paradise, and enriched it with all plenty and pleasure, and above all with his presence and residence in his City and Temple; but they by oppressing the poor, the widow, and the fatherless, laid all ⟨p. 97⟩desolate, Jer. 12. 12. O house of David, thus saith the Lord, execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it.
Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces •n the Land of Egypt, and say, Assemble your selves upon the mountains of Samaria: and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed (or oppressions) in the midst thereof. For they know not to do right, saith the Lord, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces. Therefore, thus saith the Lord God, an adversary there shall be, even round about the Land, and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, •nd thy palaces shall be spoiled. Now mark the 15. verse, And I will smite the winter-house, with the summer-house, and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the Lord. In their Palaces, and in their Winter and Summer-houses they stored up all the riches, preys and spoils that they had got by oppression. But God tells them, that their Palaces should be spoiled, and that he would smite the Winter-house upon the Summer-house (so the Hebrew runs) God was resolved that he would dash one house against the other, and lay them all on heaps. Though their Palaces and houses were never so rich, and strong, and stately, and pompous, and glorious, and decked, and adorned, and enamelled, and checkered; yet they should all down together. So Zach. 7. 10, 11. 14. Oppress not the widow nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor, and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart. But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. Well now, mark what follows, verse 14. But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not: thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed thorow, nor returned; for they laid the pleasant land (or as the Hebrew has it, the second Land of desire) desolate▪ Palestine was a very pleasant Land, aLand which flowed with milk and honey, a Land which was the glory of all Lands; God had made it as his Paradise, and enriched it with all plenty and pleasure, and above all with his presence and residence in his City and Temple; but they by oppressing the poor, the widow, and the fatherless, laid all ⟨p. 97⟩desolate, Jer. 12. 12. O house of David, thus saith the Lord, execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it.
