But the words, “Take away all iniquity,” teach us moreover, to pray for the taking away of the iniquity, instead of the removal of chastisement. The Israelites are represented, in the preceding chapters of the book of this Prophecy, as great sufferers, in temporal things, and yet the spirit teaches them to pray—not that their earthly prosperity might return unto them, not that fruitfulness be again their lot—that their sin might be pardoned; and thus does the Holy Ghost point out a connecting link