Though I have bound - Rather, (as in the E. M.) And I have chastened, I have strengthened their arms, and they imagine mischief against …

Bound. —Should be instructed. God has imparted skill and power to fight their enemies. . So the grace of the Spirit is of…

God again reproaches the Israelites for having in a shameful manner abused his goodness and forbearance. Some consider the verb יסר, isar,…

Though I have bound [and] strengthened their arms
As a surgeon sets a broken arm and swathes and binds it, and so restores it …

Israel was as a cake not turned, half burnt and half dough, none of it fit for use; a mixture of idolatry and of the worship of Jehovah. There were…