Verses 7-19
8. Lie] RV ’deal falsely.’
9. He was afflicted] so Heb. traditional reading, meaning that He felt His people’s pains as His own (Judges 10:16). But Heb. written text ’he was no adversary’ (RM), but, on the contrary, their deliverer. The angel] see Exodus 23:20; Exodus 32:34; Exodus 33:2.
Bare them] see Deuteronomy 1:31; Deuteronomy 32:11.
10. Cp. Psalms 78:40.
11. He (Israel) remembered] The thought of past mercies evoked penitence (Psalms 78:35). Shepherd] RV ’shepherds.’ Within him] i.e. Israel, e.g. Exodus 35:31; Numbers 11:25.
12. RV ’That caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses.’ Arm] see Isaiah 51:9 (also in connexion with the exodus).
13. In the wilderness] i.e. in a grassy plain.
14. RV ’As the cattle that go down.’ This refers to the settlement in Canaan.
15. Strength] RV ’mighty acts.’ Sounding of thy bowels] stands for sympathetic pity (Isaiah 16:11). Read, ’the sounding.. and thy mercies toward me are restrained.’
16. The patriarchs might disown their descendants, but Jehovah’s love is sure. The thought is similar to Isaiah 49:15. The passage is remarkable as one of the very few in OT. where God is addressed as Father (Isaiah 64:8). 17f. A bold expostulation. Hardened, etc.] Have their sins caused God to give them up and become their adversary, as in Pharaoh’s case?
18. A little while] whereas Jehovah had promised them an everlasting inheritance!
19. RV ’We are become as they over whom thou never barest rule; as they that were not called’ etc.
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