But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
Ver. 22. But thou hast utterly rejected us.] This is a sad catastrophe, or close of this doleful ditty, a Sometimes God's suppliants are put hard to it in the course of their prayers; the last grain of their faith and patience seemeth to be put into the scale. When the Son of man cometh with deliverance to his praying people, shall he find faith in the earth? Hard and scarce; and yet he comes oft when they have even done looking for him. He is seen in the mount; he helpeth those that are forsaken of their hopes: hallelujah. Sure it is that God cannot utterly reject his people whom he hath chosen. Rom 11:2-5 Tremellius rendereth it - and so the margin of our Bibles hath it, and I think better - For wilt thou utterly reject us, or be extremely wroth with us - scil., supra modulum nostrum - according to thine infinite power, and above all that we are able to bear? I cannot think it, neither doth it consist with thy covenant.
Here (as also at the end of Ecclesiastes, Isaiah, and Malachi) many of the Hebrew Bibles repeat the foregoing verse, Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, &c., yet without points, lest anything should seem added thereby to the holy Scriptures. Hebrew Text Note The reason hereof read in the end of the prophecy of Isaiah. See Trapp on " Isa 66:24 " This is also here observed by the most renowned Mr Thomas Gataker, whom, for honour's sake, I name, and to whose most accurate and elaborate annotations upon Isaiah and Jeremiah I have been not a little beholden all along. These he finished not long before his death, to the great glory of God and good of his Church. And of him, and this worthy work of his, I may fitly say, as a learned man doth of Magellan of Portugal (that great navigator), that the strait or sea now called by his name - Fretum Magellanicum - una navigatione simul et immortalem gloriam et mortem ei attulerit - was both his death and his never dying monument. b
“Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.” - 1Sa 7:12
a Est aposiopesis ad pathos.
b Boxhorn Histor. Universal.