His prayer also, and [how God] was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they [are] written among the sayings of the seers.
Ver. 19. His prayer also] Which was sure some excellent and eximious prayer, and is therefore so much mentioned. Affliction exciteth devotion: and then, if ever, men "pray in the Holy Ghost."
And all his sin, and his trespass.] His transgression against God, and his trespass against men. So St Paul, I was - as to the first table - "a blasphemer," saith he, and - as to the second - "a persecutor": and - as to both - "injurious," one that wronged both God and man. 1Ti 1:13
Among the sayings of the seers.] Or, Of Hosai, who might be some prophet, whose book is not now extant. Some Rabbis hold that Hosai is Isaiah. Others of them say, that Isaiah was slain by Manasseh, before his captivity. Seder Olam maketh mention of Ozai as a prophet under the reign of Amon.