John Trapp on Isaiah 43:24

Ver. 24. Thou haſt bought me no ſweet cane] or calamus, whereof ſee Plin. lib. 12. cap. 22.

Neither haſt thou filled me with the fat] The Heathens had a groſs conceit, that their Gods fed on the ſteam that aſcended from their fat ſacrifices. And ſome Jews might haply hold the ſame thing. See Deut. 32.38. Pſal. 50.13.

But thou haſt made me to ſerve with thy ſins] With thine hypocriſy, and oppreſſions eſpecially, Iſai 1. The Seventy render it, Thou haſt ſtood before me in thy ſins, as outbraving me. Thou haſt tried my long patience, in ſeeing and ſuffering thy ſins, to my great annoyance: ſo Diodate paraphraſeth.

And haſt wearied me] Exprimit rei-indignitatem cum iniquitate conjunctam. God had not wearied them, but they had wearied him ſufficiently. Some make theſe to to be the words of Chriſt to his ungratefull Country-men.