Verses 7-8
7, 8. For a small moment These verses continue the same course of thought. See Isaiah 26:20, where the same words appear, and with same meaning. The period is short compared with the now unending reunion.
Have I forsaken thee Better, Did I forsake thee. For thy wicked deeds made it needful.
But with great mercies Now in this grand Messianic age; that is, the day of the everlasting Gospel.
Will I gather thee Will restore my people with fulness of love and blessing.
In a little wrath In an outbreak quick but brief.
I hid my face Temporarily. The wrath was overflowing, as many render it; exercised, perhaps, in the trial of captivity at Babylon; but it was of short duration; the Lord soon made his face to shine in approval on signs of utter abandonment of idol worship. In contrast with this moment, or little time, the divine kindness shall be everlasting. The divorcement forced upon Jehovah was brief; the reunion is to be perpetual.
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