Verses 12-13
12, 13. Jehovah speaks as if grieved at such fear lest he may not fulfil his promise of restoration to Zion. It is I… I… that comforteth you. Not unreliable, mortal man, who is going first to the dust, like decaying grass, and every such fragile thing. Note the comparison, if there can be a comparison, between the strong, eternal Jehovah, in the repeated “I,” and man, a weak creature of a day.
Who art thou So easy to forget the mighty eternal Creator, who spread out the heavens and laid earth’s foundations, yet so timid before a weak, temporary oppressor, (the king of Babylon, whom Cyrus overthrew, or others of his like,) perchance, not calling to mind the fate of Pharaoh and all his kind, (of whom not a trace now remains,) in the past emergencies of God’s Israel? The argument is, that such distrust of Jehovah’s unchangeable fidelity to his covenant of promise and protection should shock Israel’s good sense and crimson his cheek. Even dejection through long exile scarcely excuses the lack of trust, especially when Israel is just at the point of the deliverance which has been so positively promised.
Where is the fury of the oppressor That is, what does it amount to in view of the power at hand ready to crush it at the seasonable moment?
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