When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
Ver. 12. When he maketh inquisition for blood] For innocent blood unjustly spilled; as he did for the blood of Abel, Genesis 4:10, of Naboth, (2 Kings 9:26, "Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth." Murder ever bleeds fresh in the eyes of God) of Zechariah, the son of Barachiah, 2 Chronicles 24:22; those ungrateful guests, who slew those that came to call them: "And when the king heard it" (for blood cries aloud), "he was wroth, and destroyed those murderers," Matthew 22:6,7. These shall have blood to drink, for they are worthy, Revelation 16:6. God draws articles of inquiry in this case as strict and as critical as ever the Inquisition of Spain doth; the proceedings whereof are with greatest secresy and severity.
He forgetteth not the cry of the humble] Heb. of the poor, lowly, meek, afflicted. Humility and meekness are collactaneae, twin-sisters, as Bernard hath it.