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(Heb.: 22:25) This tristich is the evangel itself. The materia laudis is introduced by כִּי. עֱנוּת (principal form עָנוּת) bending, bowing down, affliction, from עָנָה, the proper word to denote the Passion. For in Isaiah, Isa 53:4, Isa 53:7, the Servant of God is also said to be מְעֻנֶּה and נַֽעֲנֶה, and Zechariah, Zec 9:9, also introduces Him as עָנִי and נֹושָׁע. The lxx, Vulgate, and Targum erroneously render it “cry.” עָנָה does not mean to cry, but to answer, ἀμείβεσθαι; here, however, as the stem-word of ענות, it means to be bent. From the שִׁקַּץ (to regard as an abhorrence), which alternates with בָּזָה, we see that the sufferer felt the wrath of God, but this has changed into a love that sends help; God did not long keep His countenance hidden, He hearkened to him, for his prayer was well-pleasing to Him. שָׁמֵעַ is not the verbal adjective, but, since we have the definite fact of the rescue before us, it is a pausal form for שָׁמַע, as in Psa 34:7, Psa 34:18; Jer 36:13.