Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.
Ver. 11. Ye made a ditch also.] A new ditch, lest the old one should not suffice, to hold water for the besieged. All this was well and wisely done, had not the main matter been left undone. See 2 Chronicles 32:3; 2Ch 32:5 2 Kings 18:14; 2 Kings 18:16. The community of the Jews were carnal, and trusted in the arm of flesh. Hezekiah also himself faltered, &c.
But ye have not looked unto the maker thereof,] i.e., To the author of that trouble, treading down, and perplexity a Isa 22:5 or, to the founder of Jerusalem, which, say the Rabbis, was one of those seven things which God had in his thoughts before he made the world.
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