For a small moment - The Chaldee and Syriac render this, ‘In a little anger.’ Lowth has adopted this, but without sufficient author…

For a small moment. — Historically, the words point to the seventy years of exile as being only a transient interruption …

The LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall be called. "For the LORD hath called t…

For a little moment I forsook thee. The Prophet explains the former statement more fully and shows what the nature of this divorce will be…

For a small moment have I forsaken thee The people of God seem to be forsaken by him when he hides his face from them, as it is aft…

As God is slow to anger, so he is swift to show mercy. And how sweet the returns of mercy would be when God comes and comforts them!

1. Give praise, O you barren. Here, against the dejection of their circumstances, he promises the remedy of exaltation.

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