11. remembered--Notwithstanding their perversity, He forgot not
His covenant of old; therefore He did not wholly forsake them
(Le 26:40-42, 44, 45;
Ps 106:45, 46);
the Jews make this their plea with God, that He should not now forsake
them.
saying--God is represented, in human language, mentally speaking of
Himself and His former acts of love to Israel, as His ground for pitying
them notwithstanding their rebellion.
sea--Red Sea.
shepherd--Moses; or if the Hebrew be read plural, "shepherds,"
Moses, Aaron, and the other leaders (so
Ps 77:20).
put . . . Spirit . . . within him--Hebrew, "in the inward parts
of him," that is, Moses; or it refers to the flock, "in the midst of his
people"
(Nu 11:17, 25;
Ne 9:20;
Hag 2:5).
JFB.
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