Then said I, ah, Lord God!.... Expressing great sorrow and concern: this "ah" is by way of lamentation. The Targum interprets it as a petition,"and I said, receive my prayer, O Lord God:''surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem: what the false prophets did, that God is said to do, because he suffered them to deceive the people; see 1Ki 22:20.
The Targum ascribes the deception to the false prophets, and not to God,"surely behold the false prophets deceive this people, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem;''or this may be ironically said, because the false prophets pretended to speak in the name of the Lord; wherefore Jeremiah says, "surely thou hast greatly deceived", &c.
"saying, ye shall have peace"; as the false prophets did, Jer 6:14:whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul; takes away the life, many are slain by it; so the Targum,"and now behold the sword killeth among the people;''great slaughter is made by it.
L'Empereur observes that the word here used signifies, in the Arabic language, to educate or bring up; and then the sense is,"ah, Lord, thou hast brought up this people with great tenderness, and promised them all manner of happiness; but now thou thunderest out threatenings of calamities of all sorts, and death itself; and assigned a place for the sword to enter into their very souls;''so the Arabic word used in the version of Ac 22:2.
Not. ad Mosis Kimchi, odoiporia, p.