Why criest thou ...? —The personification of the previous verse is continued. The prophet looks on Judah—as in Lamentatio…

They seek you not; for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one for the multitude of your iniquity; …

The Prophet now anticipates an objection, so that the Jews would not argue with God; for it clearly appears that they always complained of God’s ex…

Why do you cry for your affliction ? &c.] Or complain of the hardne , and heavine , and continuance of it, when there was…

When God is against a people, who will be for them? Who can be for them, so as to do them any kindness? Incurable griefs are owing to incurable lus…

Here, the prophet promises liberation from destruction—from the great affliction they had endured. Concerning this, there are two points.