And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
Ver. 22. And God remembered Rachel.] She began to think that God had forgotten her, because she was so long suspended, and her prayers not answered. This is a common fault. David bewails it in himself. Psa 77:1-20 Basil grew so weary of the Arian persecution, that once he cried out, An Ecclesias suas prorsus dereliquit Dominus? an novissima hora est? &c. So the Church of old: "Where is thy zeal and thy strength, Lord? the sounding of thy heart and of thy mercies toward us? are they restrained?". Isa 63:15 Here we must check and chide ourselves, for once questioning God's kind remembrance of us, whom he cannot forget, and learn and labour not to "waken our well beloved, until he please". Son 3:5 He "waits to be gracious," Isa 30:19 and, when it is fit, will come "leaping over the mountains of Bether," Son 2:17 all lets and impediments.