Isaias — Chapter 46
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Verse 1
Bel or Belus, called also Saturnus, was of such estimation, that they offered to him in sacrifice not only men that were taken captiues, but also their owne sonnes. Nabo, otherwise called Dagon, was an especiall idol amongst the Philistims. 1. Reg. 5.
Verse 8
O me downe, fitin the duft(4)o Virgin daughter of Babylon, {it onthe ground : there is no throne forthe daughter of the-Chaldees , becaufe thou {halt no more be called nice and tender. 2, Take a mil,and grinde meale: make bare thy turpitude, ® dilcouer the fhoulder,vncouer the thighs, paffe the y rivers, 3, Thyneignomime fhal be difcouered., and thy reproch tual be feen : Lwildke vengeance,and no man fhal refift me.4-Our redeemer,the Lord of hoftes is his name,the holic one of Ifrael. 5, Sitholding thy peace. and enter into darknes, 0 daughter of the.Chaldees : becaufe thou {halt no more be called the ladie of Kingdoms,6.1 was angrie agaynit my people, 1 (6) haue contamina. ted mine inheritance, and haue giuen them into thy hand : thou haft:not shewed mercies to them: vpon the ancient thou haft made thy yoke exceeding heauie, 7. And thou haft fayd ; 1 wal-be a ladie for cuer; thou haft not put chefe things vpon thy hart, neither haft thou remem- bred thy later end, 8, And now hearethefethingsthou that art delicare > and dwelleft confidently, that fayeft in thy hart :1 am, and there is.none els befide me: 1 shal not fit a widow , and J shal not know bartenneffe, g. Thefe two things shal come to thee -odenly in one day., barrennedfle and widowhood, Al things are come vpon thee, becaufe ot the multitude of thy forceries, and for the vehement -hardnes of thine inchanters, 10, And thou hafi confidence in thy malice, and haft fayd: There is none that feeth me, Thy .. iidom,andthy knowledge, this hath deceiued.thee, And thou haft fayd in thy hart : I am,, and befide me there is none orher. 11, Euil slial come vpon thee , and thou shalt not Know the tyfing therof : and calamitie shal fal violently vpon thee, which thou canft not.expiate : smiferie shal come vpon thee fodenly , whichthou shair 7 a) Babylon not hitherto ouer- come at laft was brought to miferie aad -deftruction, 6)Gods people cdtaminating themfelues lwith finge, iwerefuffered ito fal into ig- jnominious 'Captiuitie 5 but God giueth them grace of - repentance, & then feuerely punisheth their vamer- ciful aftiiGers. q 4 iz) By waters in the Hebrew phrafe is here wnderftood the fountaine , or {pring , the Pro ohee fpea- king to thofe hat were of the tribe of luda:who chai- Henged the {pecially _ preeminences- and:blefsings of Ifrael the . Patriarch,but had not his vertues of for- titude, and in- émal fightof od,fignified y the name frael. haft fayled inthe multitude of thy counfels : let the aftrologers ofthe hea-- For I know that tranfgreffing thou wilt tranfgrefle, and 1 haue called “THE PROPHECTIE hale not know. 12. Stand with thine inchanters, and with che multitude of thy forceries, in which thou haft traueled from thy youth , if perhaps it may profite thee any thing, or if thou may{t become ftronger.13, Thou. 506 uen ftand and faue thee, which did contemplate the ftarres , and count the months , that by them they ‘might tel things chat fhal ‘come to thee,