Lecture 22

^2:22^ Thau. You have called as to a festival, those that should terrify me round about, and there was none in the day of the wrath of the Lord that escaped and was left: those that I brought up, and nourished, my enemy has consumed them.

44. Here he sets forth the impossibility of escape; and concerning this, he does three things.

First, he speaks of the siege: as to a festival, that is, just as the Jews used to come to the solemn festivals, so now, inspired by you, their enemies come to besiege them. I will make a circle round about you, and will cast up a rampart against you, and raise up bulwarks to besiege you (Isa 29:3).

Second, the impossibility of escape: there was none that escaped. I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come from the rising of the sun (Isa 41:25).

Third, the destruction of those surrounded: those that I brought up, and nourished, my enemy has consumed them. I nourished them with joy (Bar 4:11).