SEV Biblia, Chapter 8:18
Y clamaréis aquel día a causa de vuestro rey que os habréis elegido, mas el SEÑOR no os oirá en aquel día.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 18. And ye shall cry out in that day, because of your king , etc.] His power and pride, his oppression and tyranny, his heavy exactions, and intolerable yoke, and yet not be able to free themselves from them; all that they could do would be only to cry out under them as grievously distressed, and not knowing how to help themselves; and which would be the more aggravated, because they brought all this upon themselves, as it follows: which ye shall have chosen you ; for though the choice of a king for them, at a proper time, God had reserved to himself, yet in later times, as is here suggested, they would choose for themselves, and did, (see Hosea 8:4) besides, to have a king in general was at first their own choice, though the particular person was by the designation of the Lord: and the Lord will not hear you in that day ; will not regard them, have no compassion on them, suffer them to remain under their oppressions, and not deliver them out of them; because they rejected him from being their King, and put themselves out of his protection, into the hands of another, and therefore it was just to leave them to their own choice.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 10-22 - If they would have a king to rule them, as the eastern kings rule their subjects, they would find the yoke exceedingly heavy. Those tha submit to the government of the world and the flesh, are told plainly what hard masters they are, and what tyranny the dominion of sin is The law of God and the manner of men widely differ from each other; the former should be our rule in the several relations of life; the latte should be the measure of our expectations from others. These would by their grievances, and, when they complained to God, he would not hea them. When we bring ourselves into distress by our own wrong desire and projects, we justly forfeit the comfort of prayer, and the benefi of Divine aid. The people were obstinate and urgent in their demand Sudden resolves and hasty desires make work for long and leisurel repentance. Our wisdom is, to be thankful for the advantages, an patient under the disadvantages of the government we may live under and to pray continually for our rulers, that they may govern us in the fear of God, and that we may live under them in all godliness an honesty. And it is a hopeful symptom when our desires of worldl objects can brook delay; and when we can refer the time and manner of their being granted to God's providence __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
וזעקתם 2199 ביום 3117 ההוא 1931 מלפני 6440 מלככם 4428 אשׁר 834 בחרתם 977 לכם ולא 3808 יענה 6030 יהוה 3068 אתכם 853 ביום 3117 ההוא׃ 1931
