Exodus 9:17

17 You are still abusing your power against my people, and you refuse to let them go.

Exodus 9:17 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 9:17

As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt
not let them go?
] And so against God himself, disobeying his commands, despising his messengers, and slighting his miracles, and hardening his heart against him, and refusing to let Israel go, after all; thereby showing the most intolerable pride and insolence not only against the Lord's poor people, but against himself, for what is done to them he takes as done to himself; or "dost thou still tread upon my people?"

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 trample them under foot, and make an highway or causeway of them.
F5 (ymeb llwtom Kdwe) "adhuc tu calcas populum meum?" some in Drusius; so Jarchi.

Exodus 9:17 In-Context

15 By now I could have used my power to strike you and your people with a deadly disease so that you would have disappeared from the earth.

16 But I've left you standing for this reason: in order to show you my power and in order to make my name known in the whole world.

17 You are still abusing your power against my people, and you refuse to let them go.

18 Tomorrow at this time I'll cause the heaviest hail to fall on Egypt that has ever fallen from the day Egypt was founded until now.

19 So bring under shelter your livestock and all that belongs to you that is out in the open. Every person or animal that is out in the open field and isn't brought inside will die when the hail rains down on them."