Exodus 9:17

17 You are still building yourself up at my people's expense. You are not letting 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 You know that by now I could have struck you and your people with deadly disease and there would be nothing left of you, not a trace.

16 But for one reason only I've kept you on your feet: To make you recognize my power so that my reputation spreads in all the Earth.

17 You are still building yourself up at my people's expense. You are not letting them go.

18 So here's what's going to happen: At this time tomorrow I'm sending a terrific hailstorm - there's never been a storm like this in Egypt from the day of its founding until now.

19 So get your livestock under roof - everything exposed in the open fields, people and animals, will die when the hail comes down.'"