44:11 Thou hast given us {k} like sheep [appointed] for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
(k) Knowing God to be author of this calamity, they murmur not, but seek remedy at his hands who wounded them.
44:11 Scattered - Those who were not slain are carried into captivity, and dispersed in several places.
44:9-16 The believer must have times of temptation, affliction, and discouragement; the church must have seasons of persecution. At such times the people of God will be ready to fear that he has cast them off, and that his name and truth will be dishonoured. But they should look above the instruments of their trouble, to God, well knowing that their worst enemies have no power against them, but what is permitted from above.
