Jeremiah 13

Jeremiah 13:1

GOe] publiquely, and in the sight of all men Put it not] to the end that thou thy selfe be not any way the cause of the girdles putrifying. Whereby is signified that God who is represented by the Prophet was not the cause of the peoples ruine, but the people themselves.

Jeremiah 13:11

A name] even as the girdle is an ornament to the body. The meaning is, To the end that I might be glorified through their obedience, and also by reason of the wonders which I should doe in their behalfe.

Jeremiah 13:12

Every bottle] that is to say, this people thinke to have a great vintage, to make themselves merry and drunke, tell them that I will send them another kind of drunkennesse, namely, my wrath; which shall astonish them, and make them rage like drunken persons, see Isa. 51. 17, 21. & 63. 6. Jer. 25. 27. & 51. 7.

Jeremiah 13:14

Dash them] that is to say, I will suffer the Land to be filled with factions and divisions, and let them thrust at and overthrow one another.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory] namely, by confession and repentance, see Joshua 7:19. Darknesse] namely the fore-said calamities, umble] termes taken from such as goe by night over high and craggy places.

Jeremiah 13:17

My soule] that is to say, I Jeremiah shall be able to doe no more, but retire into some solitary place, and there lament for your inevitable ruine, Lam. 1. 26.

Jeremiah 13:18

The King] namely, Jehoiakim the sonne of Josias, as it is likely The Queen] namely, the Kings wife or mother, 2 Kings 23:3. For your] or that which you weare on your heads.

Jeremiah 13:19

Of the South] namely, of Iudah, which in respect of the other Tribes lay Southward Shut up] because they are besieged, or because they are desolate, and no man dwelleth in them.

Jeremiah 13:20

That come] namely, the Chaldeans which were Northward from Iudea. Where is] or, O Iehoiakim, where is that people thou didst glory so much in? see Proverbs 14:28.

Jeremiah 13:21

Wilt thou say] the property of the Hebrew word sheweth that this was spoken to a woman, which might be the Queene, or the whole Comunalty of the Jewes When he] namely, God, or the King of the foresaid Northerne Nations Thou] namely, thou O mother of Jehoiakim, by the counsell which it is likeliest thou gavest thy sonne, to make himselfe a vassall toNebuchadnezzar, hast gotten the Chaldeans the right of Soveraignty over the Kingdome of Judah, 2 King, 24. 2. O thou Nation hast subjected thy selfe to the Babylonians, by infamous submissions, or unlawfull covenants.

Jeremiah 13:22

Thy skirts] that is to say, thou hast been carried into a shamefull and disgracefull bondage and slavery, see Isa. 20. 4. & 47. 2. Made bare] with the irons and stocks.

Jeremiah 13:23

The Ethiopian] you are altogether incorrigible, no admonition nor exhortation will prevaile with you, or doe any good, and therefore I will destroy you without any remission.

Jeremiah 13:25

The portion] a terme taken for the parting or dividing of fields and possessions In falshood] namely, in idols, false doings, and vaine hopes.

Jeremiah 13:27

Thy neighings] a terme taken from Horses when they are in heae of lust Whoredome] namely spirituall whoredome, through idolatry When] what time wilt thou take for thy conversion?