Comparing this chapter with the close of the foregoing chapter, the comfortable promises here with the terrible threatenings there, we may, with the apostle, “behold the goodness and severity of God,” , towards the Jewish church which fell, severity when Zion was ploughed as a field, but towards…

It is a very comfortable but with which this chapter begins, and very reviving to those who lay the interests of God’s church near their heart and are concerned for the welfare of it.

These verses relate to Zion and Jerusalem, here called the tower of the flock or the tower of Edor; we read of such a place near Bethlehem; and some conjecture it is the same place where the shepherds were keeping their flocks when the angels brought them tidings of the birth of Christ, and some…