I should soon have subdued their enemies - This is one of the consequences that, it is said, would have followed if they had been o…

Hearken ... subdue. —The verbs should be taken in a future sense, “Oh that my people would hearken ... I shou…

But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. So I gave them up to their own heart lust: and they walked in their o…

I would soon have brought their enemies low. Here the Israelites are taught that all the calamities which had befallen them were to be imp…

I should soon have subdued their enemies
The Canaanites, and others: this he would have done in a very little time, …

We cannot expect too little from the creature, nor too much from the Creator. We may have enough from God if we pray for it in faith. All the wicke…