...understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed. Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, And...tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: As a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: So the holy seed...

...cities be -wafted without inhabitant, and the boufes without man, and tbe land be utterly dej 'elate, and the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forfaking in tbe midft of tbe land, which cannot be underftood of the devaftation by Sennacherib, or...

...our fathers praifed thee, is * burnt up with fire: and all our pleafant things are k laid wafte V i2 And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forfaking in the midft of the land. In this verfe, the anfwer given by the Lord to our defolate, and...

...wafted 'without inhabitant, and the houfes without man, and the land be utterly defolate ; Ver. 12. And the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forfaking in the mid/I of the land. Now this judgment faftening, was fure to draw on all other judgments...

...(ver. 11 to end) the Lord had declared, referring to the Babylonian invasion, that the cities would dst of my bowels. My strength is dried up like a potsherd ; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws ; that the Lord would remove men far away ;" but that the remnant would return. The very name of the...

...cities be wafted without inhabitant, and the koufet without man, and the land be utterly defolate, And the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great Jor/aking in the midjl of the land. Here is a remarkable gradation in the denouncing of thefe -judgments....

...their ears heavy, and shut their eyes," 8zc. " Then," said I,- " Lord, how long ?" And he answered, ." until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and...houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate."* Than which nothing could look more dark to the guilty Jews, thus doomed to destruction. Yet, to the...

...how long shall this judgment, this judicial blindness continue ? And he answered, Until the cities he -wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate ; till utter destruction come ufion them as a nation : referring to their de12 Uruclion by the Romans,...

...Then said I, Lord, how long shall this judgment, this judicial blindness continue ? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and th« land be utterly desolate ; tia utter destruction come upon them as a nation : referring to their...

...houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate ; 12. And the "Lord have removed men far aieay, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land. Now this judgment fastening, was sure to draw on all other judgments ; therefore the Prophet, touched...