이사야 57:17의 주석

For the iniquity of his thievery Heb. בִּצְעוֹ, his thievery.

ואכהו And smote him, namely, my people (ver. 14), or him that is of a contrite and humble spirit (ver. 15). It is the imperfect, for which the Hebrew language has no special form.²⁸Comp. I. E. on 1:21, and Note 43.

I became wroth at the beginning and I smote him, always hiding My face from his distress and I was wroth for he went rebelliously in the way of his heart. Transpose the verse and explain it thus: For the iniquity of his thievery and the fact that he went rebelliously in the way of his heart, I became wroth and smote him.

I hid me. I hid my face when I smote him with my hand. It is a figurative expression for I smote him without pity. הסתר lit., to hide is infinitive.

וילך שובב He went on returning,²⁹A. V., He went on frowardly. with frowardness and obstinacy, in the way of his heart, that is, in his evil ways. שובב is used in a bad sense.^29aשובב is derived from שוב to return, to repeat, and means repeating perseveringly, but is always used in the Bible in a bad sense, while the verb שוב is chiefly used in a good sense: to cause to return to God or to the good way.