often as thou didst show thy displeasure at their conduct, yet thou didst hear their prayers and bless them. Of their inventions. The Hebrew word denotes work, deed, doing, conduct. It means here what they did:—their sins. There is no allusion to any special art or cunning in what they did,—as if they had invented or found out some new form of sin. 9. Exalt the LORD our God. See notes on ver. 5. And worship at his holy hill. In ver. 5, this is, at his footstool. The holy hill refers to Zion, as the