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16. For--referring to the promise in
Isa 57:14, 15,
of restoring Israel when "contrite"
(Ge 6:3; 8:21;
Ps 78:38, 39; 85:5; 103:9, 13, 14;
Mic 7:18).
God "will not contend for ever" with His people, for their human
spirit would thereby be utterly crushed, whereas God's object is to
chasten, not to destroy them
(La 3:33, 34;
Mic 7:8, 9).
With the ungodly He is "angry every day"
(Ps 7:11;
Re 14:11).
spirit . . . before me--that is, the human spirit which
went forth from Me
(Nu 16:22),
answering to "which I have made" in the parallel clause.
JFB.
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