8. And now, O Jehovah, Thou art our Father: we are the clay, and Thou our Maker;[4] and we are all the work of Thy hand. 9. Be not extremely angry, O Jehovah, and remember not the transgression for ever! Behold, consider, we beseech Thee, we are Thy people.
10. The cities of Thy holiness have become a pasture-ground; Zion has become a pasture-ground, Jerusalem a desert. 11. The house of our holiness and of our adorning, where our fathers praised Thee, is given up to the fire, and everything that was our delight given up to devastation. 12. Wilt Thou restrain Thyself in spite of this, O Jehovah, be silent, and leave us to suffer the utmost?
FOOTNOTES:
[2] “Jehovah’s loving-kindness will I celebrate, Jehovah’s deeds of renown.”—Cheyne.
[3] “Deal falsely.”—Kay. “Play the liar.”—Cheyne.
[4] “In all their adversity He was no adversary; but the angel of His presence saved them.”—Kay, Jones. “In all their affliction, His was the conflict, and,” &c.—Birks. “In all their distress, He was distressed.”—Cheyne. “In all their affliction, He was afflicted.”—R. E. B., and others.
[5] “Abraham taketh no notice of us, and Israel does not recognise us.”—Cheyne.
[1] “When Thou didst terrible things, which we looked not for, Thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at Thy presence.”—Birks. “To make Thy name known to Thine adversaries, so that nations trembled before Thee, while Thou didst terrible things which we hoped not for: [that Thou didst come down, that the mountains shook at Thy presence] yea, from old men have not heard,” &c.—Cheyne, who adopts the suggestion that the words in brackets have been repeated by accident from ver. 1. “The passage gains greatly by their removal.”
[2] “Behold, Thou wast wroth, and we were guilty: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.”—Kay. “Yes, Thou hast been wroth, and we have sinned, and still by these are we preserved from of old.”—Birks. “Behold, Thou art wroth (for we have sinned) with Thy people continually!—and shall we be saved?”—Arnold. “Behold, Thou wast wroth when we sinned; [Thou wast] against them of old, and shall we be saved?”—Jones. “Behold Thou wast wroth, and we sinned; * * * and we went astray.”—Cheyne.
[3] “And hast delivered us into the hand of our iniquities.”—Cheyne. “And Thou causest us to perish by our iniquities.”—R. E. B.