Deuteronomy 28:30-68

betroth.

20:6,7; Job 31:10; Jer 8:10; Ho 4:2

build.

Job 3:18; Isa 5:9,10; 65:21,22; Jer 12:13; La 5:2; Am 5:11

Mic 6:15; Zep 1:13

gather. Heb. profane, or, use it as common meat.

20:6; *marg:

ox.

Jud 6:1; Job 1:14,15

be restored to thee. Heb. return to thee.

sons.In several countries, particularly in Spain and Portugal, the children of the Jews have been taken from them, by order of the government, to be educated in the Popish faith.

18,41; Nu 21:29; 2Ch 29:9; Ne 5:2-5; Jer 15:7-9; 16:2-4; Eze 24:25

Joe 3:6; Am 5:27; Mic 4:10

fail.

65; Job 11:20; 17:5; Ps 69:3; 119:82,123; Isa 38:14; La 2:11; 4:17

La 5:17

The fruit.

30,51; Le 26:16; Ne 9:36,37; Isa 1:7; Jer 5:17; 8:16

thou shalt be.

29; Jer 4:17

28,68; Isa 33:14; Jer 25:15,16; Re 16:10,11

botch.

27; Job 2:6,7; Isa 1:6; 3:17,24

bring thee.

2Ki 17:4-6; 24:12-15; 25:6,7,11; 2Ch 33:11; 36:6,17,20; Isa 39:7

Jer 22:11,12,24-27; 24:8-10; 39:5-7; 52:8-11; La 4:20; Eze 12:12,13

there shalt thou.The Israelites, who were carried captive by the Assyrians, and many of the Jews in Chaldea, were finally incorporated with the nations among whom they lived, and were given up to their idolatry. It is probable, however, that this refers to Jews being compelled, in Popish countries, to conceal their religion, and profess that of the Romish church.

64; 4:28; Jer 16:13; Eze 20:32,33,39

become.

28; 29:22-28; 1Ki 9:7,8; 2Ch 7:20; Ps 44:13,14; Jer 24:9; 25:9

Joe 2:17; *marg:

Zec 8:13

a proverb.The name of Jew has long been a proverbial mark of detestation and contempt among all the nations whither they have been dispersed, and is so to this day, whether among Christians, Mohmammedans, or Pagans.

shalt carry.

Isa 5:10; Mic 6:15; Hag 1:6

for the locust.

Ex 10:14,15; Joe 1:4; 2:3,25; Am 4:9; 7:1,2

for the worms.

Joe 1:4-7; 2:2-4; Jon 4:7

anoint thyself.

Ps 23:5; 104:15; Mic 6:15

thou shalt not enjoy them. Heb. they shall not be thine.for.

32; 2Ki 24:14; La 1:5

thy trees.

38,39; Am 7:1,2

consume. or, possess.

Jud 2:3,11-15; 4:2,3; 10:7-10; 14:4; 15:11,12; 1Sa 13:3-7,19-23

2Ki 17:20,23; 24:14-16; Joh 18:31; 19:15

12,13; La 1:5

Moreover.

5,15; 29:20,21; Le 26:28; 2Ki 17:20; Pr 13:21; Isa 1:20; 65:14,15

Jer 24:9,10; La 2:15-17; Eze 7:15; 14:21

because.

11:27,28; Ps 119:21; Jer 7:22-25

a sign.

37,59; 29:20,28; Isa 8:18; Jer 19:8; 25:18; Eze 14:8; 23:32,33

Eze 36:20; 1Co 10:11

12:7-12; 16:11; 32:13-15; Ne 9:35; 1Ti 6:17-19

serve.

2Ch 12:8; Ne 9:35-37; Jer 5:19; 17:4; Eze 17:3,7,12

in hunger.

Jer 44:17,18,22,27; La 5:2-6; Eze 4:16,17

a yoke.

Isa 47:6; Jer 27:12,13; 28:13,14; Mt 11:29

bring a nation.Though the Chaldeans are frequently described under the figure of an eagle, yet these verses especially predict the desolations brought on the Jews by the Romans; who came from a country far more distant than Chaldea; whose conquests were as rapid as the eagle's flight, and whose standard bore this very figure; who spake a language to which the Jews were then entire strangers, being wholly unlike the Hebrew, of which the Chaldee was merely a dialect; whose appearance and victories were terrible; and whose yoke was a yoke of iron; and the havoc which they made tremendous.

Nu 24:24; Isa 5:26-30; Jer 5:15-17; Da 6:22,23; 9:26; Hab 1:6,7

Lu 19:43,44

as the eagle.

Jer 4:13; 48:40; 49:22; La 4:19; Eze 17:3,12; Ho 8:1; Mt 24:28

a nation whose.

Jer 5:15; Eze 3:6; 1Co 14:21

understand. Heb. hear.

of fierce countenance. Heb. strong of face.

Pr 7:13; Ec 8:1; *margins

Da 7:7; 8:23

shall not.

2Ch 36:17; Isa 47:6; Ho 13:16; Lu 19:44; 21:23,24

the fruit.

33; Isa 1:7; 62:8

which also.

Le 26:26; Jer 15:13; 17:3; Eze 12:19; Hab 3:16,17

Le 26:25; 2Ki 17:1-6; 18:13; 24:10,11; 25:1-4; Isa 1:7; 62:8

Jer 21:4-7; 37:8; 39:1-3; 52:4-7; Eze 4:1-8; Da 9:26; Zec 12:2; 14:2

Mt 22:7; 24:15,16; Lu 19:43,44; 21:20-24

the fruit.

18,55,57; Le 26:29; 2Ki 6:28,29; Jer 19:9; La 2:20; 4:10

Eze 5:10; Mt 24:19

body. Heb. belly.

his eye.

15:9; Pr 23:6; 28:22; Mt 20:15

and toward.The Roman armies at length besieged, sacked, and utterly desolated Jerusalem: and during this seige, the famine was so extreme, that even rich and delicate persons, both men and women, ate their own children, and concealed the horrible repast, lest others should tear it from them! "Women snatched the food out of the very mouths of their husbands, and sons of their fathers, and (what is most miserable) mothers of their infants." "In every house, if there appeared any semblance of food, a battle ensued, and the dearest friends and relations fought with one another; snatching away the miserable provisions of life." "A woman distinguished by birth and wealth, after she had been plundered by the tyrants (or soldiers) of all her possessions, boiling her own sucking child, ate half of him, and concealing the other half, reserved it for another time!"

13:6; 2Sa 12:3; Mic 7:5

his children.

Ps 103:13; Isa 49:15; Mt 7:9-11; Lu 11:11-13

in the seige.

Jer 5:10; 34:2; 52:6

and delicate.

Isa 3:16; La 4:3-6

her eye shall be evil.

54

young one. Heb. after-birth. cometh out.

Ge 49:10; Isa 49:15

for she shall.

53

If thou wilt.

15; Le 26:14,15; Jer 7:9,10,26-28

fear this glorious.

6:13; Ex 3:14,15; 6:2,3; 20:2; 34:5-7; Ne 9:5; Ps 50:7; 72:19; 83:18

Isa 41:10; 42:8; Jer 5:12; Mt 10:28; Heb 10:30,31; 12:28,29

46; 29:20-28; 31:17,18; 32:22,26; 1Ki 9:7-9; 16:3,4; La 1:9,12

La 4:12; Da 9:12; Ho 3:4; Mr 13:19

7:15; Ex 15:26

bring upon thee. Heb. cause to ascend.

61

few in number.In the seige of Jerusalem there died 1,100,000 persons, and more than 90,000 were carried captive; and, having afterwards provoked the Romans by their crimes and rebellions, they persecuted them nearly to extirpation; to which, if the tens of thousands which were slaughtered year after year in every country be added, it appears wonderful that there were any remains left.

4:27; Le 26:22; 2Ki 13:7; 24:14; Ne 7:4; Isa 1:9; 24:6; Jer 42:2

Jer 52:28-30; Mr 13:20; Ro 9:27-29

as the stars.

10:22; Ne 9:23; Ro 9:27

rejoiced over.

30:9; Isa 62:5; Jer 32:41; Mic 7:18; Zep 3:17; Lu 15:6-10,23,24,32

rejoice over.

Pr 1:26; Isa 1:24; Eze 5:13; 33:11

plucked from.

7:22; *marg:

Jer 12:14,15; 18:7; 24:6; 31:28,40; 42:10; Da 7:8

scatter.

4:27,28; Le 26:33; Ne 1:8; Jer 16:13; 50:17; Eze 11:16,17; Lu 21:24

there thou shalt.

36; Jer 16:13

among.After the conquest of their country by the Romans, Hadrian, by a public decree, ratified by the senate, forbad any Jew to come even within sight of Judea; and hence they were dispersed over every quarter of the globe, where they found no alleviation or respite from misery. In no country are they treated as denizens; all suspect them as enemies, and behave to them as aliens; if they do not, as had been too frequently the case, harass, oppress, and persecute them, even unto death.

shalt thou.

Ge 8:9; Isa 57:21; Eze 5:12-17; 20:32-35; Am 9:4,9,10

the Lord.

Le 26:36; Isa 51:17; Eze 12:18,19; Ho 11:10,11; Hab 3:16; Lu 21:26

failing of eyes.

Le 26:16; Isa 65:14; La 3:65; Mt 24:8; Ro 11:10

67; La 1:13; Heb 10:27; Re 6:15-17

34; Job 7:3,4; Re 9:6

bring thee into Egypt.This verse seems especially to point out an event, which took place subsequently to the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus, and the desolation made by Hadrian. Numbers of the captives were sent by sea into Egypt (as well as into other countries), and sold for slaves at a vile price, and for the meanest offices; and many thousands were left to perish from want; for the multitude was so great, that purchasers could not be found for them all at any price!

17:16; Jer 43:7; 44:12; Ho 8:13; 9:3

there ye shall.

Ex 20:2; Ne 5:8; Es 7:4; Joe 3:3-7; Lu 21:24

Psalms 79:1-2

1 The psalmist complains of the desolation of Jerusalem.

8 He prays for deliverance;

13 and promises thankfulness.

A.M. 3416. B.C. 588. (Title.) A Psalm.This Psalm is supposed, with much probability, to have been written on the destruction of the city and temple of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar.

of Asaph. or, for Asaph.

74:1; *title, marg:

the heathen.

74:3,4; 80:12,13; 2Ki 21:12-16; 25:4-10; 2Ch 36:3,4,6,7,17

Lu 21:24; Re 11:2

into.

74:2; 78:71; Ex 15:17; Isa 47:6

holy.

74:7,8; 2Ki 24:13; La 1:10; Eze 7:20,21; 9:7

have laid.

2Ki 25:9,10; 2Ch 36:19; Jer 26:18; 39:8; 52:13; Mic 3:12

Jer 7:33; 15:3; 16:4; 34:20

Isaiah 1:7

country.

5:5,6,9; 6:11; 24:10-12; Le 26:34; De 28:51; 2Ch 28:5,16-21

Ps 107:34,39; Jer 6:8

burned.

9:5; 34:9; Jer 2:15

strangers.

5:17; De 28:33,43,48-52; La 5:2; Eze 30:12; Ho 7:9; 8:7

overthrown by strangers. Heb. the overthrow of strangers.

Isaiah 5:17

shall the lambs.

7:21,22,25; 17:2; 32:14; 40:11; 65:10; Zep 2:6,14

the waste.

10:16; De 32:15; Ps 17:10,14; 73:7; 119:70; Jer 5:28; Am 4:1-3

strangers.

1:7; De 28:33; Ne 9:37; La 5:2; Ho 8:7; Lu 21:24

Isaiah 63:18

people.

62:12; Ex 19:4-6; De 7:6; 26:19; Da 8:24; 1Pe 2:9

our.

64:11,12; Ps 74:3-7; La 1:10; 4:1; Mt 24:2; Re 11:2

Jeremiah 6:12

And their.

8:10; De 28:30-33,39-43; Isa 65:21,22; La 5:3,11; Zep 1:13

I will.

1Ch 21:16; Isa 5:25; 9:12,17,21; 10:4; La 2:4,5,8; 3:3

Ezekiel 7:21

2Ki 24:13; 25:9,13-16; 2Ch 36:18,19; Ps 74:2-8; 79:1; Jer 52:13-23

Ezekiel 7:24

I will bring.

21:31; 28:7; Ps 106:41; Jer 4:7; 12:12; Hab 1:6-10

they shall.That is, "the Chaldeans shall possess the houses of the Jews." The antecedents of pronouns are thus frequently understood in Hebrew poetry.

Jer 6:12; La 5:2

I will also.

33:28; Isa 5:14

the pomp.That is, the magnificence of their greatest and haughtiest princes.

their holy places shall be defiled. or, they shall inherittheir holy places.

21:2; 2Ch 7:19; Ps 83:12