The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.
Ver. 13. The Lord standeth up to plead.] Or, To debate, Job 9:3 Pro 25:8-9 to argue the case, and to hear pleas. He is content, for the clearing of his justice and conviction of sinners, to submit his courses unto scanning. See Isaiah 5:3. Iudicate quaeso, Judge, I pray you. so Jer 2:9 Wherefore I will yet plead with you, and with your children's children will I plead. But when that is done,
He standeth to judge the people.] And the Lord will enter into judgment. Isa 3:14 Three various words are here made use of for judgment, to show, saith Oecolampadius, that God hath been, is, and shall be Judge, and that in his judgment, nihil relinquetar inexpensum, nothing shall be left unconsidered.