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I. GOD REPENTING. God condescends to designate His conduct by that name. The expression may be inadequate and defective, but still language had nothing better to describe the idea, nor human experience to represent the fact. When God is pleased to speak of Himself as pitying, repenting, grieving for man's sake, what is evidently intended is, that so intense is His love for man, that were His infinite nature capable of these creature passions, His love would show itself in these very forms.

II. GOD PROVOKED TO A DEGREE THAT HE CAN REPENT NO MORE. He is "weary with repenting": worn and tired out with having to cancel threatened sentences so often — as a potentate of earth might be at finding that every fresh display of patience in his subjects masked but deeper hatred to his rule, and every amnesty he declared was but a signal for raising the standard of rebellion anew. What can man do, to move the Author of his being to regard him in this way? We must not speculate; we must let the great God speak for Himself; we must try to gather out of other Scriptures what those things are which are said to weary God, wear out His patience, make Him tired of His forgivenesses, reprieves, and revoked sentences.

1. Among these provocations we may note hypocrisy and allowed formality in religious duty (Isaiah 1:13, 14).

2. We may make God weary by presumptuous and unwarranted calculations upon His mercy (Malachi 2:17).

3. Another thing Scripture teaches us wearies, puts God out of patience, is unbelief, a restoring to creature trust and dependencies, a want of simplicity and unreservedness in accepting His promises, as if we thought He would not pay them in full, or did not mean them to be taken by us, in all their length and breadth, and depth and worth.

4. The awful limit prescribed in the text may be reached, and the Divine forbearance tasked one step too far, by provocations after mercies.

(D. Moore, M. A.)

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KJV: Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.

WEB: You have rejected me, says Yahweh, you have gone backward: therefore have I stretched out my hand against you, and destroyed you; I am weary with repenting.