Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 26:11

11 LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see : but they shall see , and be ashamed for their envy at the people ; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.

And they are guilty of the same obstinate Blindness when thou dost smite and punish them, which is commonly signified by lifting up the hand, as Ezek. 44. 12. Micah 5. 9. Compare also 2 Sam. 20. 21. 1 Kings 11. 26. Or, as others render it, When thine hand is high or exalied, i. e. When thy Works are most evident and most glorious, when thou appearest most gloriously for the defence of thy People, and for the punishment of thine and their Enemies, they will not see.

The same Word is repeated in another sence: They shall feel and know that by sad and costly Experience, which they would not learn by other and easier ways. Seeing is oft put for feeling; in which sence Men are said to see affliction, Lam. 3. 1. and to see death, Psal. 89. 48. and the like.

Or, at or towards thy people, the Pronoun thy being repeated out of the following Clause, as it is in many other places of Scripture, as hath been before noted. Their Envy and Hatred against God's People blinded their Minds, that they neither could nor would see that God was on their side, though the Tokens of it were most manifest and undeniable. Which was the Case of Pharach and the Egyptians, who were not sensible that the Lord fought for Israel against the Egyptians, as they said Exod. 14. 25. till it was too late.

Not efficiently, but objectively: Such Fire or Wrath as thou usest to pour forth upon thine implacable Enemies. As my wrong, Gen. 16. 5. is not the Wrong done by me, but to me; and my violence, Ier. 51. 35. is the violence done to me, as we translate it, not by me.

Marginal references: Job 34. 27. Psal. 28. 5. Chap. 5. 12.; Or, towards thy people.