John Trapp on Ezekiel 4:6

Ver. 6. And when thou haſt accompliſhed them] That is, art within forty years of accompliſhing them.

Thou ſhalt bear the iniquity of the houſe of Judah forty dayes] i. e. Years: beginning at the eighteenth year of Joſiah, or (as others compute it) at his thirteenth year, and ending them in the eleventh of Zedekiah, which are the bounds of Jeremy's prophecy. A very learned man yet living obſerveth, that God doth here ſet and mark out Judah's ſingular iniquity by a ſingular mark: for that they had forty years ſo pregnant inſtructions and admonitions by ſo eminent a Prophet as Jeremy: yet were they impenitent to their own deſtruction. And the like may well be ſaid of Dr. Ʋſher, that Prophet of Ireland, who (upon the Toleration of Popery there) preaching before the State at Dublin upon a ſpecial ſolemnity, made a full and bold application of this text unto them in theſe very words. From this year, ſaid he viz. Anno 1601.) will I reckon the ſin of Ireland; and dare ſay that thoſe whom you embrace ſhall be your ruine,D. Ʋſher's fun. Serm. by Dr. Bern. 39. and you ſhall bear this iniquity. And it fell out accordingly: for, forty years after, viz. Anno 1641 began the Rebellion and deſtruction of Ireland, done by thoſe Papiſts and Popiſh Prieſts then connived at.