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Pauluf "New Version o / Zeck . ix—x . 1 . 20 d
4 Z ^ ch . ix . 14 . I £ Jehovah shal l ScfUrid the trumpet of ^ yar ; In storms of the south shall he march on * 15 . Jehovah will hold up the shield agaijrist them . If they would eat , with slingstofres shall they fill themselves :
If theyAvouM drifck aught greedily , as though it c , were wine ; So -shall they be filled as the Gup at the oprner of :,- the altar .
16 . Then shall Jehovah their God deliver those who are like tile people of his flock . For like jewels of a diadem * Are they , scattered up and down upon his soil *
pierciiig arrows of pestilence , by storms and hurricanes ., &c . Thu * you will have little or no occasion to use arms . ) &r \ ni ~ V # Dsouthern storms are the most violent in Palestine , Is . xxu 1 * Job xxxvii . 1 . Lutlolf . Hist . iEthiop . 1 . 5 . Koraii ii . 18 . 19- & £
V . 15 rl # 3 D ( t # ; 5 D Arab . ) to thrust in ; and , from that , £ o iArozb oneself Upon any thing Jor the pnrpo& of mastering it . Here the literal meaning of the words is ; if the eitemy wish to , oat , they shall find nothing but slmg-stohes and fill themselves with thera- ^ -a hyperboliciai expression ^ implying that they should be in want of provisions . ( Perhaps slinfr ~ 4 fon < £ & may here mean hail , tlie sling-stones of God > as violent storms
have been just spoken of . If we read for J ?^? p , 1 # / p ' of his sling , this in
W 3 D 1 fot 1 DH has no vau before it , and therefore defends upon t-iiltfi , adverbiascens . nn ? D Num . vii . 13 . a targe-cup or rather basin , ifjto which the blood of the victims flowed . The basin belong ^ rng t 6 the akar ( compare 2 ech . xiv . 20 . ) filled itself with blood , and as it ^^ re dratnk it up . nHJD HVIT ? the corners of the altar , L e ^ th : « greit altar of burnt offerings , were usually covered with a targe quan-r tity of blood . The meaning \ % ; they shall drink blood till they are j atoxicated .
V . 16 . The CD and On at the beginning refer , not to the enemies just before mentioned , but to the succeeding iDytNtf , the flock of his people the flock of Jehovah , as if it had been \ XXD " ) ! # *< ^ DJ 7 . In Syriac , this relation of the suffixes to the nouns which immediately follow is very
Common . - > 13 ( not from "US but from * 1 ? a circle ) means Exod . xxix . 6 . the golden , engraven and flowered diadem ( f 3 f ) of the high priest , ( before described xxviii . 36 . ) which surrounded his Cidaris . If } > J 3 tf , j > # rtly oppose ^ to ybp ' ^ 3 K in v . 15- By the succeeding vene w #
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1806, page 203, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1723/page/35/
