Made us to err from thy ways, commandments. It is the language of the godly among them being troubled, and therefore complaining that so gracious a Father should leave them to such exigences. Made us to sin by withdrawing thy Spirit and leaving us to ourselves, Psalms 81:12. It is not to be understood as if God did force them to it, but either letting loose their hearts, or by giving occasion to their hearts, being naturally too apt to apostatize by their severe afflictions: see this more cleared in the Latin Synopsis. Or, make us desperate, by leaving us so long under the oppression of the adversary, thereby casting off thy worship. From thy fear, or fear of time, viz. as the object, Psalms 5:7; or, that we may not fear thee; as seeing, that they may not see, Psalms 69:23; or, thy service, Isaiah 29:13, so as to go after other gods. Return for thy servants sake either our godly forefathers, or particularly to Abraham, Isaac, &c., viz. for the sake of thy promises made to them; or rather, our sakes, that little remnant that are thy servants, be reconciled to us, Psalms 90:13; for the next words seem to be put by apposition to the former. The tribes of thine inheritance; either,
1. The people themselves, which were divided into tribes; or, rather,
2. The land of Canaan, which God gave them as an inheritance, as appears by the next verse: q.d. What will thine enemies say if thou suffer us to perish, or thine inheritance to be destroyed. Or rods, meaning their rulers, see Isaiah 43:28, or heads of their tribes.