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another; aunt so the t'argum, "to deliver thy neck as
"the necks of the slain, of the wicked :" it may be ren-
dered, to put thee to the necks of the slain{w}; or, as
Kimchi, with the necks of the slain; though some un-
derstand it, as it' the ,liviners by the_it lies, promising
peace and prosperity, encouraged the Amnonites to
insult the Jews, and as it were to trample upon the
necks of the dead: whose da!! is come, when their
shall have an end; along with Zedekiah their king; a
description of the Jews; see the note on vet. 27.
 Vet. 30. Shall I cause it to return into his sheath ?
&e.] The drawn and furbished sword of the Chal-
deans? no, I will not; it shall never return or be put
up until the Ammonites are utterly consumed. Some
read these words in the imperative, as the Targum,
"return the sword to its sheath ;" so the Vutgate Latin
version, return to thy sheath; and so may be considered
as a direction to the Aremort-ires to put up their swords,
and not stand in their own defiance, since it would be
to no purpose; though Jerom, and Grotius after him,
take the words to be an apostrophe to the drawn sword
of the Chaldeans to sheath itself, having done its work
upon the Jews and Aremonities; or tothe Chaldeans to
return to Babylon, and where they also should be
punished; and so interpret all that .follows of the tle-
struction of the Babyloninns by the Medes and PersianS;
but the first sense is best: I will judge thee in the place
where thou wast created, in the land of thy _nativity ; not
in the place where their father Ammon was born, which
was at Zoar; but where they first became' a kingdom
an{t state, a body politic; or where the present genera-
tion of them were born; they should not be carried out
of their own land, but destroyed in it.
Vet. 2,1. And 1 will pour out mine indignation upon
thee, &c.] Like a mighty flood, whidh should sweep
them away tbr their sins and transgressions; and parti-
cularly fbr their reproaches of God and his people,
which caused his indignation to rise, and him to pour
it out upon them in such a manner: lwill blow against
thee in the fire of my wrath; as men put metal into a
furnace, and then blow upon it, in order to melt it, and
consume the d't'oss; and which fire, so blown, is ex-.
cecding fierce and very consuming; who can stand
against such a blast as that of the wrath of God, not
only kindled, but blown with his breath like a stream
of brimstone ? and deliver thee into the hand of brutish
men; or burners"; that burn with fierce anger, bar-
barous and inhuman, that would stew no mercy nor
compassion, such were the Chaldeans, Hab;i. 6, 7, 8:
and .skilful to destroy; though like brutes or beasts of
prey for their cruelty; yet, like men, rational, cunning.
and art. ful to devise ways and means to destroy men;
well versed in the art of war; and thoroughly learned in
all the lessons and methods of violence and destruction.
Ver. 32. Thou shall be for .fuel .for the fire, &c.]
Easily consumed, as briers and thorns cast into a fur-
nace; such are wicked men tothe fire of God's wrath:
thy blood shall be in the midst of the land; such large
numbers shall be slain everywhere, that the land shah
flow with the blood of them; who shall lie unburied,
and rot, and putrefy upon the ground: thou shall be no
more remembered; but lie in everlasting oblivion,
as they do to this day; the name of an Ammonite
being nowhere mentioned and heard of: for I the
Lord have spoken it; who never alters the thing that is
gone out of his lips; and sooner shall heaven and earth
pass away than one word of his. The Targum is,
"for I the Lord have decreed by my word ;" and his
counsel shall stand, and every purpose and resolution
of his shall be accomplished.

C H A P. XXFF.

IN this chapter a catalogue or list of the sins of the
Jews is given; a comparison of them to dross is made,
and they are dealt with accordingly; and a complaint
is lodged against all ranks and orders of men for their
sins; on account of which, there being no intercessor
for them, they are threatened with captivity and de-
struction. The prophet is ordered to judge them, and lay
before them their abominable sins, ver. 1-, 2. of which a
long list is given, as murder, idolatry; contempt of
pare. nts; oppression of the stranger, fatherless, and
widow; negligence of holy things; profanation of the
sabbath; tale-bearing, lewdness and uncleanness of
various sorts; bribery, usury, extortion, and dishonest
gain, ver. 3--13. for which the Lord threatens to deal
with them in a manner that wo.utd be intolerable to
them; that he would carry them captive, and scatter
them among the Heathen, vet.,. 14, 15, 16. they are
compared to dross, and as such should be gathered into
a furnace, and melted down, ver. l7, 18, 19, 2O, c21,
all ranks and orders of men are complained of, because
of their sins, and threatened, ver. 23, 24. the prophets.
for their voraciousness, rapine, murder, and lies, vet.
25, 28. the priests, for their violation of the law, neglect
of holy things, and profanation of the sabbath, vet.
the princes, for their cruel:ty, murder, and dishonest
gain, ver. 27. the people of the land, for their op-
pression and robbery, vet. 29. and there being none to
stand in the gap for them, the Lord threatens to pour
out his wrath upon them, and consume them, vet. 30, 31.
Ver. 1. Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me.
&c.] The word of prophecy from the Lord, as the
Targum, another prophecy: saying; as follows:
Vet. 2. Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt
thou judge. the bloody city ? &c.] Or, city of bloods {y} ?
the city of-Jerusalem, in which was shed the blood
of the prophets sent unto her; the doubling of
the word denotes the vehem-ency with which it was
expressed: wilt' thou plead for and excuse such a city
as this ?: surely no; so some: or wilt thou do thy work
and office as a prophet ? hast thou  courage enough to

{w} \^yllx yrawu la Ktwa ttl\^ ut ponant te cum cervicibus interfec-
torum, Munster, Tigurine version; applicando te ad cervices confos-
sorum, Junius & Tremellius, Polanus.
{x} \^Myreb\^ ardentium, Junias & Tremellius, Piscator, Polanus; uren-
tium, so some in Vatablus.
{y} \^Mymd rye ta\^ civitatem sanguinum, Vulg. Lat. Munster, Mon-
tanus.