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Chapter Companion with them in Punifhment, as thou haft
XVI. been in Wickednefs.
C/\"\J Ver. 55. When Samaria and her 'Daughters JJjall
Ver. 55. return to their former Efiate, then thou and thy
daughters (hall return to your former EfiateJ]
When the Prophets foretel the General Converfion
and Reftoration of the Jewifi Nation, they always
join Judah and Jfrael together, as equal Sharers in
that Blefling. See Chap, xxxvii. 16— 22. and the
Notes there.
Ver.56^7 Ver. 56, 57. For thy Sifter Sodom was not mentioned
by thy Mouth in the Day of thy Tride, 'Before
thy Wickednefs was difcovered.~\ Thefe Words
fhould be joined together in the fame Verfe or Sentence
: God faith to Jerufalem, that in the height
of her Profperity, before her Wickednefs fo fully
appeared to the Eyes of the World, by the extraordinary
Judgments brought upon her, fhe did
not refleQ: upon the terrible Vengeance which be-
fel Sodom, and was defigned for an Example or
Warning to thofe that fhould afterward live Ungodly
; 2 Tet. ii. 6.
Ver.57,58 Ver. 57, 58. oAs at the time of thy Reproach of
the 'Daughters of Syria, &c] The Words begin a
New Sentence, which may be tranflated more
perfpicuoufly thus, joining them to the following
Verfe : 'But when it was the time of thy becoming
the Reproach of the Daughters of Syria, &c. The
Particle I\fmo, fometimes (ignifies When : See NoU
dius, p. 43 1. The Words, with regard to what goes
before,import thus much : In thy Profperity thou didft
defpife thofe who. are no worfe than thyfelf: But
fince thou haft been infulted and invaded by thy
Neigh-