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and, when the Lord of those hosts pleases, they are the executioners of his wrath and the ministers of his justice.
[5.] Captivity, or dispersion: I will scatter you among the heathen (Le 26:33), in your enemies' land, Le 26:34. Never were any people so incorporated and united among themselves as they were; but for their sin God would scatter them, so that they should be lost among the heathen, from whom God had graciously distinguished them, but with whom they had wickedly mingled themselves. Yet, when they were scattered, divine justice had not done with them, but would draw out a sword after them, which would find them out, and follow them wherever they were. God's judgments, as they cannot be outfaced, so they cannot be outrun.
[6.] The utter ruin and desolation of their land, which should be so remarkable that their very enemies themselves, who has helped it forward, should in the review be astonished at it, Le 26:32. First, Their cities should be waste, forsaken, uninhabited, and all the buildings destroyed; those that escaped the desolations of war should fall to decay of themselves. Secondly, Their sanctuaries should be a desolation, that is, their synagogues where they met for religious worship every sabbath, as well as their tabernacle where they met thrice a year. Thirdly, The country itself should be desolate, not tilled or husbanded (Le 26:34,35); then the land should enjoy its Sabbaths, because they had not religiously observed the sabbatical years which God appointed them. They tilled their ground when God would have them let it rest; justly therefore were they driven out of it; and the expression intimates that the ground itself was pleased and easy when it was rid of the burden of such sinners, under which it had groaned, Ro 8:20, &c. The captivity in Babylon lasted seventy years, and so long the land enjoyed her Sabbaths, as is said (2Ch 36:21) with reference to this.