Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
Ver. 41. Yea, they turned back and tempted God] They did it afresh, and after some resolutions and short winded wishes of doing better.
And limited the Holy One] Designarunt, they prescribed to him, and set him his bounds which he must not pass; as Popilius, the Roman ambassador, drew a circle round about King Antiochus, and bade him give answer ere he stirred out of it, for he would be put off no longer. Now, God is limited, when as either his power is questioned, as Psalms 78:20, or his will circumscribed, as if he were bound to serve man's lusts, or means appointed him whereby he must work, and not otherwise.