An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters…

These Mourners shall be exalted to safety.] The word which ¹we translate Exalted, signifies to set in a high place, and in a place so high that a man so placed, is beyond the reach of danger or the power of an adversary; it is to be set upon a place impregnable; Hence the word is used for a Fort, Tower, or Castle, because forts and Towers, being places of defence, were for the most part built upon some high place, upon some rock or precipice (Prov. 18. 10.) The name of the Lord is a strong Tower; That is, we are as safe under his protection, as in a strong Tower founded on the steepest rock. And the Prophet describing the safety of him who walks uprightly, gives it in this word; The place of defence shall be the munition of Rocks, Isa. 33. 16. So Jer. 48. 1. Misgab is confounded and dismayed; That is, the high place or Castle of defence is dismayed, That word which is common to all places of safety, being supposed by our translators, as the proper name of some one place of more eminent safety.

These Mourners shall be exalted to safety.] The word which ¹we translate Exalted, signifies to set in a high place, and in a place so high that a man so placed, is beyond the reach of danger or the power of an adversary; it is to be set upon a place impregnable; Hence the word is used for a Fort, Tower, or Castle, because forts and Towers, being places of defence, were for the most part built upon some high place, upon some rocke or praecipice (Prov. 18. 10.) The name of the Lord is a strong Tower; That is, we are as safe under his protection, as in a strong Tower founded on the steepest rocke. And the Prophet describing the safety of him who walks uprightly, gives it in this word; The place of defence shall be the munition of Rocks, Isa. 33. 16. So Jer. 48. 1