Charles Ellicott Commentary


Charles Ellicott Commentary
"And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David: Is it a small thing for you to weary men, that ye will weary my God also?" — Isaiah 7:13 (ASV)
Is it a small thing for you to weary men ... —The thought that men may try the long-suffering of God until He is weary to bear them, is specially characteristic of Isaiah (Isaiah 1:14). We mark the changed note of “my God,” as compared with “the Lord your God” in Isaiah 7:11. Ahaz has involved himself in a sentence of rejection. In the first part of the question Isaiah becomes the mouthpiece of a widespread hopeless discontent. Men also were weary of this idolatrous and corrupt misgovernment (Isaiah 8:6).