Matthew Poole and continuators on Deuteronomy 32:36

36 For the LORD shall judge his people , and repent himself for his servants , when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left .

Or, Nevertheless, or, But yet, as the particle, chi, is sometimes used, as Iob 5. 7. Isa. 9. 1. and 49. 25. Having now spoken of the dreadful calamity which would come upon his people, he now turns his discourse into a more comfortable strain, according to the usual method of the Prophets, and here begins to shew that after God had humbled and sorely chastised his people, yet at last he would have mercy upon them and turn their captivity, as it here follows.

(i. e.) Shall plead their cause, shall protect and deliver them, as that phrase is oft used. See Psal. 7. 8. and 10. 18. Isa. 1. 17. and 11. 4. Ier. 5. 28. and 22. 16.

(i. e.) Repent of the evils he hath brought upon them, will change his course and carriage towards them.

None shut up, either in their strong cities or castles or other hiding places, or in the enemies hands or prisons, whence there might be some hope or possibility of redemption; and none left, as the poor and contemptible people are neglected and usually left by the conquerours in the conquered land, as 2 King. 25. 12. but all seem to be cut off and the people quite destroyed. So this phrase is used 1 King. 14. 10. and 21. 21. and 2 King. 9. 8. and 14. 26.

Marginal references: Psal. 106. 45. Jer. 31. 20.; Heb. hand.