Listen to me - This refers to the God of their fathers, who now addresses them. They are regarded as being in exile and bondage, and as desp…

Look unto the rock. —The implied argument is that the wonder involved in Israel's origin is a ground of faith in its restoration and perpe…

This is for your comfort, dear friends. If God could make from Abraham and Sarah so great a nation as Israel, what is there that he cannot do?

Listen to me, you that follow righteousness. The Prophet now exhorts the Jews not to despair because they are few in number, for they had …

Hearken unto me, you that follow after righteousness
After having declared the doom of the wicked, and those that tr…

It is good for those privileged by the new birth, to consider that they were shapen in sin. This should cause low thoughts of ourselves, and high t…

1. Give ear to me, you that follow justice. Here he addre es the second obstacle to their liberation, which might be a umed from th…