When I would have healed Israel – God begins anew by appealing to Israel, showing that all He had done to heal them had only served to mak…

The verse may be rendered: When I heal Israel (referring to a cessation in the attacks of the menacing foe, or to such a thrill of finer f…

God, so that He might show how corrupt the state of all the people of Israel was, compares Himself here to a physician. A physician, while wishing …

When I would have healed Israel
Or rather, "when I healed Israel" ^F11; for this is not to be understood o…

A practical disbelief in God's government was at the bottom of all Israel's wickedness; as if God could not see it or did not heed it. Their sins a…