1 The certainty of the desolation.
11 The restoring of the tabernacle of David.

I saw. 2Ch 18:18 Isa 6:1 Eze 1:28 Joh 1:18,32 Ac 26:13 Re 1:17

upon. 3:14 Eze 9:2 10:4

Smite. Isa 6:3,4 Zec 11:1,2

lintel. or, chapiter, or knop. cut them. or, wound them. in the head. Ps 68:21 Hab 3:13

shall not flee. 2:14,15 Isa 24:17,18 30:16 Jer 48:44

2 Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:

Though. All these energetic expressions were intended to shew the utter impossibility of escape.

dig. Job 26:6 Ps 139:7-10 Isa 2:19

climb. Job 20:6 Isa 14:13-16 Jer 49:16 51:53 Eze 28:13-16 Ob 4 Lu 10:18

3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:

hide. Job 34:22 Jer 23:23,24

hid. Ps 139:9-11 Jer 16:16

the serpent. Isa 27:1

4 And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.

go. Le 26:33,36-39 De 28:64,65 Eze 5:2,12 Zec 13:8,9

set. Le 17:10 De 28:63 2Ch 16:9 Ps 34:15,16 Jer 24:6 44:11

5 And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.

toucheth. Ps 46:6 144:5 Isa 64:1 Mic 1:3 Na 1:6 Hab 3:10 Re 20:11

and all. 8:8 Jer 12:4 Ho 4:3

shall rise. Ps 32:6 93:3,4 Isa 8:7,8 Mt 7:27

6 It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name.

buildeth. Ps 104:3,13

stories. or, spheres. Heb. ascensions. {M??loth,} upper chambers, which in eastern houses are the principal apartments. Perhaps there is a reference here to the various systems which God has created in illimitable space, transcending each other as the planets do in our system.

troop. or, bundle. Ge 2:1 {Aguddah} probably is the same as the Arabic {ijad,} an arch, vault, and may here denote the vault of heaven, or atmosphere, which God hath founded, or established, upon, or over, {?l,} the earth, and into which he calleth the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth.

calleth. 5:8 Ge 7:11-19 Jer 5:22

The Lord. 4:13 Ex 3:14,15

7 Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?

ye not. Jer 9:25,26 13:23

Have not. 2:10 Ex 12:51 Ho 12:13

the Philistines. De 2:23 Jer 47:4

the Syrians. 1:5 2Ki 16:9

8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD.

the eyes. 4 Ps 11:4-6 Pr 5:21 15:3 Jer 44:27

and I. Ge 6:7 7:4 De 6:15 1Ki 13:34 Ho 1:6 9:11-17 13:15,16

savings. De 4:31 Isa 27:7,8 Jer 5:10 30:11 31:35,36 33:24-26 Joe 2:32 Ob 16,17 Ro 11:1-7,28,29

9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.

and I. Le 26:33 De 28:64

sift. Heb. cause to move. grain. Heb. stone.

10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.

the sinners. Isa 33:14 Eze 20:38 34:16,17 Zep 3:11-13 Zec 13:8,9 Mal 3:2-5 Mal 4:1 Mt 3:10-12 13:41,42,49,50

The evil. 6:1,3 Ps 10:11 Ec 8:11 Isa 5:19 28:14,15 56:12 Jer 18:18 Mal 3:15

11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:

that day. Ac 15:15-17

raise. Isa 9:6,7 11:1-10 Jer 23:5,6 30:9 33:14-16,20-26 Eze 17:24 Eze 34:23,24 37:24,25 Ho 3:5 Mic 5:2 Lu 1:31-33,69,70 Ac 2:30-36

the tabernacle. Isa 16:5 Eze 21:25-27

close. Heb. hedge, or wall. Job 1:10 Ps 80:12 89:40 Isa 5:5

as in. Ps 143:5 Isa 63:11 Jer 46:26 La 5:21 Eze 36:11 Mic 7:14

12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this.

possess. Isa 11:14 14:1,2 Joe 3:8 Ob 18-21

Edom. Ge 27:29,37 Nu 24:17 Ps 60:8 Mal 1:4

which are called by my name. Heb. upon whom my name is called. Isa 43:7 63:19 65:1 Jer 14:9 15:16 Da 9:18,19

13 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.

plowman. Le 26:5 Eze 36:35 Ho 2:21-23 Joh 4:35

soweth. Heb. draweth forth. the mountains. Isa 35:1,2 55:13 Joe 3:18,20

sweet wine. or, new wine. the hills. 5 Jud 5:5 Ps 97:5

14 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

I will bring. Ps 53:6 Jer 30:3,18 31:23 Eze 16:53 39:25 Joe 3:1,2

build. Isa 61:4 65:21 Jer 30:18 31:38-40 Eze 36:33-36 37:25-28

plant. 5:11 Isa 62:8,9 Eze 28:26 Zep 1:13

15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.

they shall. As the Jews, after their return from Babylon, were driven from their land by the Romans, this can only refer to their future conversion and restoration, and to the security and peace of the church.

Isa 60:21 Jer 24:6 32:41 Eze 34:28 37:25 Joe 3:20 Mic 4:4