Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 8. Which I did swear] ydy ta ytan nasathi eth yadi, I have lifted up my hand. The usual mode of making an appeal to God, and hence considered to be a form of swearing. It is thus that Isa. lxii. 8; is to be understood: The Lord hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-9 - We are most likely to prosper in attempts to glorify God, and to be useful to men, when we learn by experience that we can do nothing of ourselves; when our whole dependence is placed on him, and our onl expectation is from him. Moses had been expecting what God would do but now he shall see what he will do. God would now be known by his name Jehovah, that is, a God performing what he had promised, an finishing his own work. God intended their happiness: I will take yo to me for a people, a peculiar people, and I will be to you a God. Mor than this we need not ask, we cannot have, to make us happy. He intended his own glory: Ye shall know that I am the Lord. These goo words, and comfortable words, should have revived the droopin Israelites, and have made them forget their misery; but they were s taken up with their troubles, that they did not heed God's promises. By indulging discontent and fretfulness, we deprive ourselves of the comfort we might have, both from God's word and from his providence and go comfortless.
Original Hebrew והבאתי935 אתכם853 אל413 הארץ776 אשׁר834 נשׂאתי5375 את853 ידי3027 לתת5414 אתה853 לאברהם85 ליצחק3327 וליעקב3290 ונתתי5414 אתה853 לכם מורשׁה4181 אני589 יהוה׃3068
