V.1 The Lord isn’t too weak to save them! And He is not deaf!
V.2 But their own sins were the reason for their troubles, and the cause of God’s hiding His face from them.
V.3-4 God saw every detail of their life. And He sees ours too! Is this our trouble? However, we must always remember this difference, these people were under the law. Their blessings depended on how they acted. Our blessings depend entirely on the finished work of Christ for us. But the enjoyment of our blessings depends on our obedient life entirely. So try to remember this difference as you read the Old Testament. Their hands, fingers, lips, tongue, feet and thoughts were all working. But for themselves, and against the Lord who loved them so much.
V.15 A very sad verse. Those who walk obediently are attacked. Is this true today? It surely is. The more obedient you are to God’s Word, the more narrow-minded you will be considered. But who are we trying to please, God or man?
V.16-20 God saw that there was no man who could help them, so He has stepped in Himself. This is exactly why the Lord Jesus came to earth as a Man. Beautiful verses, particularly verse 20. God knew that the only way His people would ever be happy and blessed, would be when He would send His Son!
V.21 But it certainly won’t be because they did anything; but only because God changed their hearts; and all because the Lord Jesus died for them on the cross. See how this verse is confirmed in the New Testament (Heb. 8:10-1310For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: 11And they shall not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. 12For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. 13In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. (Hebrews 8:10‑13)). The Bible is all one!