I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD.
Ver. 12. I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people] Poor and therein afflicted, therefore despised. Poverty is an affliction, and makes a man trodden upon, Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se, Quam quod ridicules homines facit, Men will be sure to go over the hedge where it is lowest. Hence St Paul joins them together, I have learned to want and to be abased. They that want must look to be abased. This thy son, saith he, Luke 15:30, not this my brother; he would not once own him, because in poverty. But though men will not, yet God will, Jam 2:5 Revelation 2:9. I know thy poverty, but that is nothing, thou art rich: poor in spirit, rich to Godward, glorying in nothing but this, that thou understandest and knowest me and my will, thyself and thy duty, Jeremiah 9:23, and art therefore a rich cargazon, a full magazine, such as the world is not worthy of.
And they shall trust in the name of the Lord] As having nothing else to trust to. So St Paul's widow indeed, being desolate and left alone, trusteth in God, who while she had a husband trusted too much in him, 1 Timothy 5:5. A noble woman of Savoy, mother to John Galear, Duke of Milan, after her husband's decease, caused a coin to be made, upon the one side whereof she drew these words, Sola facta solum Deum sequor, Being left alone, I trust in God alone.