Verse 27
27. Mocked them A mockery consisting of the most biting ridicule, irony, and sarcasm imaginable.
Cry aloud Scream with a great voice. Your god cannot hear your low tones; he needs a mighty noise to call his attention to these parts, where his interests are sadly at stake!
For he is a god Rather, For God is he! He is, of course, the Supreme Divinity! He must be that, or nothing at all.
He is talking Talking with somebody else, and don’t know of the sore distress of his four hundred and fifty prophets here! Or שׂיח may mean, as in the margin, He meditateth. He is all swallowed up in profound contemplation; in such a brown study that at present he knows nothing else!
He is pursuing This is an erroneous rendering of שׂיג , which means a withdrawing, retirement. The idea here expressed euphemistically is, He has gone aside, that is, to do his need. “He covereth his feet in his summer chamber.” Judges 3:24.
He is in a journey He has, perhaps, gone travelling, and ought to be called home again to take care of his worshippers, who are terribly annoyed by his absence!
He sleepeth And he sleeps so soundly that it doubtless needs a great voice to start him up!
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