Their sorrows, &c.— This verse is put in opposition to the foregoing one; and intimates, that the lot of the persons here mentioned shall be very different from that of the saints, who are the objects of his love. In the words, shall be multiplied, we may suppose our blessed Saviour to comprehend all the calamities which befel the Jews, for having rejected him, and for having desired another Messiah. And this expression, Their sorrows shall be multiplied, perfectly agrees with the condition wherein the Messiah found the Jews at his coming into the world: they had then for a considerable time been subject to the Roman yoke: but within a few years after, their sorrows were to be exceedingly multiplied, as a punishment to them for rejecting that true Messiah.
Hasten after another god— The word god is not in the original; but added here, as most of the interpreters suppose that this text relates to idolaters: But here we may understand another Messiah: Our blessed Saviour seems by these words to have meant the Jews, who rejected him, and expected a Messiah very different from him, such as should come in worldly pomp, and establish a temporal kingdom among them. By their drink offerings, &c. in the next clause is meant, that the sacrifices which the Jews made to God of the blood of beasts, should be no more accepted, and that he would no longer have regard to the oblations of that unbelieving people. The latter words, take up their names, &c. may signify two things: 1. That this rebellious and obstinate people, for whom Jesus Christ had interested himself with so much love, was going to be thenceforth the object of his aversion; as the Jews testified their abomination of certain unclean hearts, by avoiding to mention them by their names. And, 2. That Jesus Christ would no longer pray unto God for them, as a nation.