It should seem that this is the prophet's own testimony and his own resolution, in the calamitous times coming upon the church. In the prospect of the coming Saviour, under all apparently frowning providences, he will still look for smiling mercy.
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Isaiah 8:17
17 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.