Wesley Corpus

Love - Commend, encourage, defend: let your heart be toward good things, and good men. Remnant - What the invasions of enemies, or the civil wars have spared, and left in Samaria and Israel. Therefore - The prophet foreseeing their obstinacy, proceeds to denounce judgment against them. The husbandman - This sort of men are little used to such ceremonies of mourning, but now such also shall be called upon; leave your toil, betake yourselves to publick mourning. Vineyards - In these places were usually the greatest joy. Pass through - To punish all every where. That desire - Scoffingly, not believing any such day would come. To what end - What do you think to get by it Is darkness - All adversity, black and doleful. Not light - No joy, or comfort an it. And a bear - You may escape one, but shall fall in another calamity. Into the house - At home you may hope for safety, but there other kind of mischief shall meet you. I hate - Impure and unholy as they are. Will not smell - A savour, of rest or delight, I will not accept and be pleased with. Thy songs - Used in their sacrifices, and solemn feasts; herein they imitated the temple - worship, but all was unpleasing to the Lord. Will not hear - Not with delight and acceptance. Thy viols - This one kind of musical instrument is put for all the rest. Let judgment - Let justice be administered constantly. Righteousness - Equity. Stream - Bearing down all that opposes it. Have ye - Their fathers and they, tho' at so great a distance of time, are one people, and so the prophet considers them. Unto me - Was it to me, or to your idols, that you offered, even in the wilderness Ye have borne - Ye carried along with you in the wilderness; the shrine, or canopy in which the image was placed. Moloch - The great idol of the Ammonites. Chiun - Another idol. Therefore - For all your idolatry and other sins, in which you have obstinately continued.