This [is] the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
Ver. 6. This is the generation of them that seek him] These are the true seekers, far different from those that so style themselves today; being no better indeed than the Jesuits' by-blows bastards, as one wittily calleth them, though they are not yet so wise as to know their own father (Mr Baxter). These are a generation too, but an evil and adulterous one, in these last and loosest times of abounding and abetted errors.
That seek thy face] i.e. Thy favour, that desire nothing more than to be in communion with thee and conformity unto thee.
O Jacob] Or, O God of Jacob. As the Church is called Christ, 1 Corinthians 12:12; so God is here called Jacob, such a near union there is between him and his people. Or, this is Jacob. So the true seekers are fitly called, first, because Israelites indeed, John 1:47 Romans 9:6; secondly, because they see God face to face, as Jacob did at Penuel, Genesis 32:24; Genesis 32:26; Genesis 32:29,30; thirdly, because they also, as here, do bear away a blessing, Hosea 12:4, even righteousness from the God of their salvation, as in the verse foregoing. Adiecitur Selah ut ostendatur quantopere haec sententia sit consideranda (Vatab.).