For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
For the Lord shall judge his people - i:e., will make a just discrimination, and winnow the wheat from the chaff; the faithful from the idolatrous and the wicked among His people.
And repent himself for his servants - i:e., change his procedure toward them.
When he seeth that ... there is none shut up, or left, х `aatsuwr (H6113) wª`aazuwb] - the shut up and the let go free, or, the bond and the free; i:e., all the people were carried off or destroyed (1 Kings 14:10; 1 Kings 21:21; 2 Kings 9:8; 2 Kings 14:26); none were shut up in fortresses, concealed in caves, or immured in prisons, and none were left, a poor contemptible remnant to occupy the depopulated land (2 Kings 25:12).