1 ! The destruction of the citie.
2 c Signifying that the Babylonians shulde come from the North to destroye the citie and the Temple.
2 d To marke them that shulde be saued.
3 e Which declared, that he was not bound thereunto, nether wolde remaine anie longer, then there was hope that they wolde returne from their wickednes, & worship him aright.
3 / Or, thresholde.
4 / Or, marke with Tham.
4 f He sheweth what is the maner of Gods children, whome he marketh to saluation: to wit, to mourne, and crye out against the wickednes, which they se committed against Gods glorie.
6 g Thus in all his plagues the Lord preserueth his smal nombre, which he marketh as {Exod 12,22}, {reuel 7, 3} but the chief marke is the Spirit of adoption wherewith the heart is sealed vp to life euerlasting.
6 h Which were the chief occasion of all these euils, as {Chap. 8,11}.
8 i This declareth, that the serunates of God haue a compassion, when they se his judgements executed.
8 ! A complaint of the prophet for the destruction of the people.