And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
Ver. 17. Let the power of my Lord be great.] In multiplying pardons, Isa 55:8 in passing by the many and bony, or "mighty sins of" a this people, such sins as none else could or would pardon: "For who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth such iniquity?" &c. Mic 7:18 Hebricians have observed, that in the word jidgal here used in the original text, there is a great jod, which in numbering is ten, to show, that if the people should murmur ten times more against God than they had done, yet out of tender respect to his own great name, which would otherwise be basely blasphemed, he should pardon and spare them. Hebrew Text Note
a Amos 5:12. Heb., Bony sins, fortia peccata.