Is accomplished. — The mourner shares in the Messianic hopes of Isaiah 40:2, and expresses it nearly in the same words.
He will no more carry thee away. — Interpreted by later history, the words take their place in the list of unfulfilled prophecies, for, like all promises, they were dependent upon implied conditions, and in the rejection of the Christ by the Jews of His time there was a sin which involved a forfeiture of the blessing, and made the chastisement of a prolonged guilt necessary. For five centuries, however, the prophet’s words held good, and there was no thorough “dispersion” of the Jews till after the Roman conquest.
He will discover thy sins. — To cover sins is to forgive them (Psalms 32:1; Psalms 32:5; Psalms 85:2; so to dis or un-cover sins is, therefore, to punish them.