Verses 16-18
16-18. Back to Israel’s night of affliction perhaps before, and certainly during, the captivity is the glance again taken. See Isaiah 26:8-9.
In trouble… they visited thee “They,” the then faithful of Israel, sought to find thee.
They poured out a prayer Not an audible, but a whispered, prayer: like Hannah’s prayer, from the heart’s depths. So the word here means. Its object was the nation’s salvation from overthrow and captivity. So felt the prophets and holy ones of Judah. But in vain. Calamities would come, because Judah’s sin, now socially and poetically crystallized, required them. The prayer was an agony, like that of women near to birth-giving. The prayer continued long into the night of the captivity. In ineffectual praying they almost gave themselves up as dead.
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