Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest [them] from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.
Ver. 27. Therefore thou deliveredst them] Flagitium et flagellum, sicut acus et filum. Sin and punishment are tied together with chains of adamant.
Who vexed them] Heb. Put them to straits; so that they had not what shift to make or how to help themselves.
And in the time of their trouble] Vexatio dedit intellectum. The time of affliction is the time of supplication. When out of the depths God's people cry unto him, they may have anything, Zechariah 13:9, speedy audience, unmiscarrying returns of their prayers.
Thou gavest them saviours] i.e. Deliverers, such as the judges were, Judges 3:9, and such as Flaminius the Roman was to the poor Argives; who therefore called him Saviour, Saviour, and that with such a courage, ut corvi fortuito supervolantes, in stadium deciderent, that the birds fell to the earth amazed with that outcry; the air was so dissipated with their acclamations (Plut. in Flam.).