ver. 7.8. I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me, for since I spake I cried out, I cried, violence and spoil, because the Word of the Lord was made a reproach unto me and a derision daily; After I threatened that there should come some judgment upon the Nation I cried out of the violence and spoil that they for the present made in the Nation, and then they mocked and scorned me. The like we have in Esa, he had the same dealings from the people. Esa, 28.13, 14.1 But the Word of the Lord was to them precept upon precept, line upon line, here a little and there a little, that they might go and fall backward, and be broken, and snared and taken. You will say, how do they strive against the Prophet in this? I take it this Scripture is often mistaken, and the scope of these words are to show how the people did jeer and mock the Prophet in his preaching. But the Word of God was to them precept upon precept, that is thus,2 they scorned at Gods Word, What we have nothing but precept and precept, one precept after another, in a scorning language, the word of the Lord, and Commandment one after another, and one Prophecy after another, a line upon line, and now you would have a little more; it is spoken in a contemning way; And I rather take it to be thus, because in the Hebrew the sound of the words do carry it in a mocking, in a jeering way, as thus: trar letrar, kar lekar; 3precept to precept line to line. As mocking people will jeer in the nose at men, so they did at this time with the Prophet, the very sound of the words in the Hebrew is such as noteth a mocking and jeering of the Prophet, and they pronounced the same words again and again, as mockers and jeerers use to do, nothing but precept and precept, and when will the fellow have d•ne? And I take this to be the meaning because the threatening follows after, that they might fall backward and be broken a•d s•• red ⟨p. 78⟩and taken, wherefore (saith the text in the very next words) hear the word of the Lord ye scornful men; They manifested a scornful spirit in such kind of expressions, retorting upon the Prophet in such a manner; And Gods anger riseth in his face Wherefore •ear ye the word of the Lord ye scornful men. It is the usual way of many scornful men that if they can get any thing that Ministers speak and get a sound of it, they will by sounding of it double express their jeering and scorning;
ver. 7.8. I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me, for since I spake I cried out, I cried, violence and spoil, because the Word of the Lord was made a reproach unto me and a derision daily; After I threatned that there should come some judgment upon the Nation I cryed out of the violence and spoil that they for the present made in the Nation, and then they mocked and scorned me. The like we have in Esa, he had the same dealings from the people. Esa, 28.13, 14.1 But the Word of the Lord was to them precept upon precept, line upon line, here a little and there a little, that they might go and fall backward, and be broken, and snared and taken. You will say, how do they strive against the Prophet in this? I take it this Scripture is often mistaken, and the scope of these words are to shew how the people did jeer and mock the Prophet in his preaching. But the Word of God was to them precept upon precept, that is thus,2 they scorned at Gods Word, What we have nothing but precept and precept, one precept after another, in a scorning language, the word of the Lord, and Commandement one after another, and one Prophesie after another, a line upon line, and now you would have a little more; it is spoken in a contemning way; And I rather take it to be thus, because in the Hebrew the sound of the words do carry it in a mocking, in a jeering way, as thus: trar letrar, kar lekar; 3precept to precept line to line. As mocking people will jeer in the nose at men, so they did at this time with the Prophet, the very sound of the words in the Hebrew is such as noteth a mocking and jeering of the Prophet, and they pronounced the same words again and again, as mockers and jeerers use to do, nothing but precept and precept, and when will the fellow have d•ne? And I take this to be the meaning because the threatning follows after, that they might fall backward and be br•ken a•d s•• red ⟨p. 78⟩and taken, wherefore (saith the text in the very next words) hear the word of the Lord ye scornful men; They manifested a scornful spirit in such kind of expressions, retorting upon the Prophet in such a manner; And Gods anger riseth in his face Wher•fore •ear ye the word of the Lord ye scornful men. It is the usal way of many scornful men that if they can get any thing that Ministers speak and get a sound of it, they will by sounding of it double express their jeering and scorning;
- 1Isa. 28.13.14.
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