And [that] I also have walked contrary unto
them
Showed no regard unto them, as if he took no care of them, or in
a providential way concerned himself for them, but let what would
befall them; yea, came out in the way of his judgments against
them, as if he was an enemy to them, (See Gill on
Leviticus 26:24);
and have brought them into the land of their
enemies;
should acknowledge the hand of God in it, that he himself brought
them out of their own country into an enemy's land, as Assyria,
Babylon, and other nations: and that this was not the chance of
war, or owing to the superior power or skill of their enemies,
but to the just judgment of God upon them for their sins, who on
that account delivered them up into the hands of their enemies:
if then their uncircumcised heart be humbled;
their foolish proud heart, as the Targums of Onkelos and
Jonathan; it signifies a sinful, wicked, hard, and impenitent
heart, brought to a sense of sin, to repentance and humiliation
for it. Jarchi interprets it, "or if their uncircumcised heart"
as in ( Exodus
2:23 ) ; and observes another sense of the word, "perhaps
their uncircumcised heart" not only would in words confess their
sins, but be truly humbled at heart for them:
and they then accept of the punishment of their
iniquity;
take it well at the hand of God, bear it patiently without
murmuring, or thinking themselves hardly dealt by, but freely
owning it is less than their iniquities deserve; or complete and
finish the punishment of their sins, as Aben Ezra, which upon
their humiliation should be put an end to, and cease. Jarchi
takes the word in the sense of atonement and pacification, as if
by their chastisement their sins were expiated F4, and
God was pacified toward them: but rather it denotes the free and
full pardon of their sins, manifested to them upon their
repentance and humiliation for sin.