Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 57:18

18 I have seen his ways , and will heal him : I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him, and to his mourners .

I have taken notice of these evil ways in which he seems resolved to walk, and that he is neither bettered by Mercies nor Judgments.

Or, yet I will heal him. Although I might justly destroy him, and leave him to perish in his own ways, yet of my meer Mercy, and for my own Names sake, I will pity them, and turn them from their sins, and bring them out of all their troubles.

Or, to wit, the copulative Conjunction being put expositively, as it is frequently.

To those that are humbled under Gods Hand, that mourn in Sion, Isa. 61. 2, 3. for their own and others [illegible: 1+ letters]ns, Ezek. 9. 4. and for the calamities of Gods Church and People, Isa. 66. 10.