Isa 57:16 | JFB | STEP | 16. For —referring to the promise in , of restoring Israel when "contrite" ( ). God "will not contend for ever" with His people, for their human spirit would thereby be utterly crushed, whereas God's object is to chasten, not to destroy them ( ). With the ungodly He is "angry every day " ( ). spirit . . . before me —that is, the human spirit which went forth from Me ( ), answering to "which I have made" in the parallel clause.

Isaiah 57:16

16. For—referring to the promise in Isa 57:14, 15, of restoring Israel when "contrite" (Ge 6:3; 8:21; Ps 78:38, 39; 85:5; 103:9, 13, 14; Mic 7:18). God "will not contend for ever" with His people, for their human spirit would thereby be utterly crushed, whereas God's object is to chasten, not to destroy them (La 3:33, 34; Mic 7:8, 9). With the ungodly He is "angry every day" (Ps 7:11; Re 14:11).

spirit . . . before me—that is, the human spirit which went forth from Me (Nu 16:22), answering to "which I have made" in the parallel clause.