The people of thy holine ... —Better, For a little while have they po e ed thy sanctuary, or, with a various rea…

O LORD, why have you made us err from your ways, and hardened our heart from your fear? Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of your inhe…

For a little time. It is remarkable that the people should call it “a little time;” for fourteen hundred years had elapsed since the peopl…

The people of your holine have po e ed it but a little
while
Either the land of Canaan,…

They implore him to look down on the miserable condition of their once-favored nation. Would it not be glorious to his name to remove the veil from…

1. Who is this. Here he begins to addre the separation of the wicked from the good in the execution of the promised salvatio…