Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 44:2

2. Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb , which will help thee, Fear not, O Iacob, my servant, and thou Iesurun , whom I have chosen.

From the time of thy Birth, or coming out of the Womb. From that time that I first took thee to be my People, I have been forming and fashioning thee, by giving thee Laws, and Ordinances, and Teachers, by threatnings and corrections, and many other wayes. He seems to allude to the practice of Midwives, who use to compose all the parts of the new-born Infant into a right frame.

Another name of Iacob or Israel, given to him, Deut. 32. 15. and 33. 5, 26.

Marginal references: Chap. 43. 7.