Psa 18:41, Pro 1:28, Isa 1:15, Mic 3:4 | JFB | STEP | 37-41. In actual conflict, with God's aid, the defeat of his enemies is certain. A present and continued success is expressed.

Psalms 18:41

37-41. In actual conflict, with God's aid, the defeat of his enemies is certain. A present and continued success is expressed.

Proverbs 1:28

28. Now no prayers or most diligent seeking will avail (Pr 8:17).

Isaiah 1:15

15. (Ps 66:18; Pr 28:9; La 3:43, 44).

spread . . . hands—in prayer (1Ki 8:22). Hebrew, "bloods," for all heinous sins, persecution of God's servants especially (Mt 23:35). It was the vocation of the prophets to dispel the delusion, so contrary to the law itself (De 10:16), that outward ritualism would satisfy God.

Micah 3:4

4. Then—at the time of judgment, which Micah takes for granted, so certain is it (compare Mic 2:3).

they cry . . . but he will not hear—just as those oppressed by them had formerly cried, and they would not hear. Their prayer shall be rejected, because it is the mere cry of nature for deliverance from pain, not that of repentance for deliverance from sin.

ill in their doings—Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well.