Wherefore, when I came, [was there] no man? when I called, [was there] none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because [there is] no water, and dieth for thirst.
Ver. 2. Wherefore, when I came, was there no man?] Christ "came unto his own, but his own received him not." Joh 1:11 This was condemnation, Joh 3:19 their rebelling against the light of the gospel; this was the great offence, the damning sin, the very cause of their utter rejection.
Is my hand shortened at all?] Or rather, Have not you, by your obstinace and incredulity, transfused, as it were, a dead palsy into the hand of Omnipotence? "He could do there no mighty work because of their unbelief": Mar 6:5 of so venomous a nature is that cursed sin.
Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea.] I have done it, you know, Psa 106:9 and can do it again. Be not therefore "faithless, but believing." Joh 20:27