And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; [Is it] a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
Ver. 13. Hear ye now, O house of David.] But shamefully degenerate from your thrice worthy progenitors, and strangely forgetful of God's promises for a perpetual succession; which if ye remembered and believed, ye would not be so causelessly terrified.
Is it a small thing for you.] How heartily angry is the prophet, how blessedly blown up in this case to so great dishonour done to God! We should be so too.
To weary men.] To vex and molest. The Septuagint have it, "to strive," or "wrestle a a fall with men." By men he meaneth himself and his fellow prophets, whom Ahaz and his courtiers slighted and misused. Let this comfort God's faithful ministers under the world's indignities and injuries. See Matthew 5:11,12 .
But will ye weary, my God?] Whom I serve in my spirit, and now no more thy God b as Isa 7:11 since thou hast refused to be ruled by him; and that after manifest conviction and greatest importunity to bring thee to a better temper.
a Agonem redditis.
b Non autem tuum, O rex Ahase. - Piscat.