Ah Lord God!
&c.] Which the Vulgate Latin version repeats three times,
"Ah, ah, ah", as being greatly distressed with the trouble that
was coming upon his people; and, it may be, not without some
doubts and temptations about their deliverance; or, at least, was
pressed in his mind with the difficulties and objections started
by the Jews that were with him in the court: behold, thou
hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power
and
stretched out arm;
with great propriety is the making of the heaven and the earth
ascribed to the mighty power of God; for nothing short of
almighty power could have produced such a stupendous work as the
heavens, with all the host of them, sun, moon, and stars, the
terraqueous globe, the earth and sea, with all that in them are;
and all this produced out of nothing, by the sole command and
word of God: and with great pertinency does the prophet begin his
prayer with such a description of God; both to encourage and
strengthen his faith in him touching the fulfilment of the above
prophecy, and to stop the mouths of the Jews, who objected the
impossibility of it: wherefore it follows, [and] there is
nothing too hard for thee;
or "hidden from thee" F26; so the Targum; which his wisdom
and knowledge did not reach, or his power could not effect: or
which is "too wonderful for thee" F1; there is nothing that
has so much of the wonderful in it, as to be above the compass of
his understanding, and out of the reach of his power, as such
things be, which are beyond the power and skill of men; but there
is no such thing with God, whose understanding is unsearchable,
and his power irresistible; with him nothing is impossible; and
who can think there is that observes that the heaven and earth
are made by him?