he that departeth ... prey - He that will not fall in with the prevailing iniquity exposes himself as a prey to the wicked (Psa 10:8, Psa 10:9).
Lord saw it - The iniquity of Israel, so desperate as to require nothing short of Jehovah’s interposition to mend it, typifies the same necessity for a Divine Mediator existing in the deep corruption of man; Israel, the model nation, was chosen to illustrate his awful fact.