We are [thine]: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name.
Ver. 19. We are thine.] And shouldst thou then deal with us as some profane, idolatrous nation? See here the holy boldness of faith standing upon interrogatories, 1Pe 3:21 and filling her mouth with arguments of all sorts.
Thou never barest rule over them.] No such reason or relation is there of children, servants, subjects, wherefore they should thus be favoured and we disowned. Amo 3:2 Isa 63:17