TAke thee] This seems to be commanded during the former vision for to be really put in execution, to signifie a totall destruction of the Nation, here understood by the hair of the head and beard; whereof one part was consumed in the siege by famine and pestilence, as it were by fire, another was kild by the Chaldeans, a third was scattered over the world, and perished by Gods vengeance; and a small remnant escaped, whereof a part also perished by divers calamities. See vers. 12. Jeremiah 15:2. and cause] Isaiah 7:20.