Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou [art] the LORD God, and [that] thou hast turned their heart back again.
Ver. 37. Hear me, O Lord, hear me.] God is distinguished from all false gods by his hearing of prayers. This the prophet well knew, and therefore crieth, "Hear me, Lord, hear me": the people also acknowledge it, 1Ki 18:39 where seeing God's answer by fire to the prophet's prayer, they cry out, as fully convinced, "The Lord," and not Baal, "he is God; the Lord, he is God."
And that thou hast turned.] Or, Turn thou their hearts, &c.