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And there is none; or, yet there is none, i.e. few, Psa_14:3; they are not to be discerned among the multitude.
That calleth; such as call upon thee as they ought, as Jacob, and Moses, and David, &c. did, which often prevents the ruin of a state or kingdom: it points out the universal apostacy of the last times of the Jewish state, for which they were cut off.
To take hold of thee; either to stay thee from departing from us; see Luk_24:28,29; or to fetch thee back, when departed, Jer_12:7; or it is an allegorical allusion to one struck down and still smitten, but never stirs to lay hold on the arm that smites him, Isa_27:5; it notes their great slothfulness and carelessness, and some refer it to their lukewarmness and dead-heartedness, relying upon their privileges before they went into captivity, and so a great presage of their approaching judgments.
For, or when; so the particle is used Job_5:21 Psa_75:2.
Consumed us; or, melted us; our sins have kindled such a fire of thy wrath, that we are melted with it.
Because of our iniquities, Heb. in the hands of our iniquities, i.e. either, in the place of our iniquities, the land wherein they were committed; or, into the hands of our iniquities, to be punished by them, and as it were consumed, or melted down, or our strength exhausted by them, as wax before the fire, Lev_26:39 Eze_33:10; or, as we translate it, our iniquities being the procuring cause of it.