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Hide not, &c.--(Ps 4:6; 22:24). Against rejection he pleads former mercy and love.
Wait, &c.--in confident expectation. The last clause is, literally, "and wait," &c., as if expecting new measures of help.
speaketh--literally, "breathes out," habitually speaks (Ps 27:12; Ac 9:1).
It is folly to be fond of being praised; it is a temptation to pride.
Excessive zeal in praising raises suspicions of selfishness.(Compare Pr 19:13). very...day--literally, "a day of showers."
The success of ungodly men is their own misery.
(Compare Pr 26:27).At the time when Israel shall be delivered, and the ungodly nations punished, God shall punish also the great enemy of the Church.
stirreth--rouseth himself from spiritual drowsiness. take hold--(Isa 27:5).
until I have consumed them by his hand--until by these consuming visitations I have brought them under his power.
Why...die--by running on your own ruin in resisting Nebuchadnezzar after this warning (Eze 18:31).
Love was the spring of God's very judgments on His people, who were incurable by any other process (Eze 11:20; 37:27).
Helbon--or Chalybon, in Syria, now Aleppo; famed for its wines; the Persian monarchs would drink no other.
staves...rings--Those rings were placed at the side through which the poles were inserted on occasions of removal.
second month was Dodai--or, "Dodo." Here the text seems to require the supplement of "Eleazar the son of Dodo" (2Sa 23:9).
Introverted parallelism. (See Introduction). Of the four clauses in the two verses, one answers to four, two to three (so Mt 7:6).
In the extremity of earthly destitution (Ps 31:11; 38:11), God provides (compare Mt 25:35).
wait for the Lord--in expectation (Ps 27:14). watch for, &c.--in earnestness and anxiety.
(Compare Pr 27:2; Ro 12:16). fear...evil--reverentially regarding His law.
There may be occasion for us to justify ourselves, but not to praise ourselves.
Avoid self-praise.envy--or, "jealousy" (compare Margin; Pr 6:34), is more unappeasable than the simpler bad passions.
The "vessels" had been carried away to Babylon in the reign of Jeconiah (2Ki 24:13); also previously in that of Jehoiakim (2Ch36:5-7).
broken the yoke--I have determined to break: referring to Jeremiah's prophecy (Jer 27:12).
(Jer 44:27). The same God who, as it were (in human language), was on the watch for all means to destroy, shall be as much on the watch for the means of their restoration.
utterly bald--literally, "bald with baldness." The Phoenician custom in mourning; which, as being connected with heathenish superstitions, was forbidden to Israel (De 14:1).
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered--See Lu 21:18 (and compare for the language 1Sa 14:45; Ac 27:34).
could not bear up into--"face" the wind, we let her drift--before the gale.
the days...new covenant with...Israel...Judah--The new covenant is made with literal Israel and Judah, not with the spiritual Israel, that is, believers, except secondarily, and as grafted on the...