LORD, [when] thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: [but] they shall see, and be ashamed for [their] envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.
Ver. 11. Lord, when thy hand is lifted up, thou will not see,] i.e., Observe, consider, and take warning: let God's hand be never so high and glorious, so lifted up and exalted, yet these buzzards will not behold his majesty, as Isa 26:10 as being more blind than moles, more deaf than sea monsters they refuse to regard aught.
But they shall see and be confounded.] But yet, maugre their head, as one well paraphraseth the words, they shall be driven both to see and to acknowledge to their shame the great and mighty hand of God, his zeal for his people, and the fire of his wrath to consume his foes. See Zechariah 1:15; Zechariah 1:19. Experientur suo magno malo; they shall to their cost feel the weight of God's hand, which, the higher it is lifted, the heavier it will light at length. Mrs. Hutchinson, that Jezebel of New England, as she had vented about thirty misshapen opinions there, so she brought forth about thirty deformed monsters. She and her family were after this - because they would not be reclaimed, but turned off admonition, saying, This is for you, ye legalists, that your eyes might be further blinded by God's hand upon us in your legal ways, &c. - slain, some say burnt, by the Indians, who never used to exercise such an outrage upon any. a
a Story of Sect. in New England, by Mr Weld, p. 44.