ighteousness and
truth He would cause them to fall before their enemies. They should
go out one way before them and flee seven ways. Their cities should
be taken and their wives ravished. They should be led captives into
every land. They should become a proverb, a byword, a hissing and a
scorn. Every hand should be against them to do them ill. They should
find no ease whither they went, nor should the soles of their feet
have rest. Amidst those nations the Lord should give them a
trembling heart, failing eyes and sorrow of mind. Their life should
hang in doubt. They should fear night and day, and have no assurance
of life. In the morning they should say, Would God it were even, and
at even they should say, Would God it were morning.

Their land should be made desolate and be an astonishment to the
passer-by. In its desolation it should keep the sabbaths they should
fail to give it. If they would not allow the land to rest in its
sabbatic years, the Lord would cause it to have its ordained and
natural rest by driving them out of it and allowing wind and rain
and sun to take care of it and keep it fruitful.

Later on all this warning of woe and terror of judgments was
emphasized by the prophets against the Jews.

They should become a nation of sorrows and acquainted with grief.

But while the Lord should use the nations to correct them He would
not make a full end of His own people.

He would use the nations as the rods of His anger, as the
instruments of discipline. He would use them by taking advantage of
their own aggressive desires and ambitions, then after using them He
would turn upon them, punish them for their pride and godless enmity
to His people and make a full end of them.

Then as the hour should draw nigh for the restoration to the land He
would cause the Jews as the national representatives of all Israel
to bud, to blossom and fill the face of the whole world with fruit.

They should be the first to be restored to the land.

They would go back in unbelief.

And mark how the prophecies have been fulfilled!

The illustration of this fulfillment finds its most tragic emphasis
in the history of the Jews since that day when their king, the Son
of God and the Holy One of Israel was hung as a malefactor on a
Roman cross.

They have not only been wanderers in every land, but they have
suffered an agony no tongue can fittingly tell.

The men have been robbed. They have been broken on the wheel. They