But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, [and] seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.
Ver. 12. But, O Lord of hosts.] See Jeremiah 11:20; Jeremiah 17:10 .
Let me see thy vengeance on them.] Some pert and pride themselves over the ministry as if it were a dead Alexander's nose, which they might wring off, and not fear to be called to account therefor; but the visible vengeance of God will seize such one day, as it did Pharaoh, Ahab, Herod, Julian.
For unto thee have I opened my cause.] Prayer is an opening of the soul's causes and cases to the Lord. The same word for opened here is in another conjugation used for uncovering, making bare and naked. Gen 9:21 God's people in prayer do or should nakedly present their souls' causes without all cover shames, or so much as a rag of self or flesh cleaving to them.