Isa 57:16 | JFB | STEP | 16. For-- referring to the promise in , , of restoring Israel when "contrite" ( ; ; , ; ; , 13, 14; ). God "will not contend for ever" with His people, for their human spirit would thereby be utterly crushed, whereas God's object is to chasten, not to destroy them ( , ; , ). With the ungodly He is "angry every day" ( ; ). spirit ... before me-- that is, the human spirit which went forth from Me ( ), answering to "which I have made" in the parallel clause.

‏ Isaiah 57:16

16. For--referring to the promise in Is 57:14, 15, of restoring Israel when "contrite" (Ge 6:3; 8:21; Psa 78:38, 39; 85:5; 103:9, 13, 14; Mi 7:18). God "will not contend for ever" with His people, for their human spirit would thereby be utterly crushed, whereas God's object is to chasten, not to destroy them (La 3:33, 34; Mi 7:8, 9). With the ungodly He is "angry every day" (Psa 7:11; Re 14:11).

spirit ... before me--that is, the human spirit which went forth from Me (Nu 16:22), answering to "which I have made" in the parallel clause.