Hast thou not heard, &c.] Or, Hast thou not heard, how I have made it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? (Heb. from dayes of antiquitie. Chap. 33. 7.) should I now bring it to be laid wast, and defenced cities to be ruinous heads? how I have done it] That I have made the citie of Jerusalem, Psal. 78. 68, 69. Chap. 14. 32. Or, that I have done that which thou ascribest to thy self, vers. 11, - 13. Deuteronomy 32:27. thou and thine ancestors being but mine instruments, Chap. 10. 5, 15. Or, that I have long since, even from eternitie, decreed that such things should be done: as 2 Timothy 1:9. So Acts 2:23. & Acts 4:28. that thou shouldest be to lay waste] Implying, that he built his Church, not to destroy, but to preserve it, Matthew 16:18. Or, that he had appointed him to do so to other places. ruinous heaps] Or, heaps overgrown to wit, with grasse, weeds, shrubs, and the like, Chap. 27. 10. Jeremiah 4:7. & Jeremiah 26:18.