when I passed by thee] Hereby seems to be shewen that God did not deliver his people presently, but let them lie a long time in miserie in Egypt, amidst sundry bloudy persecutions, preserving them still alive, and not suffering them to be destroyed: which is signified by these reiterated words, Live, in thy bloud. polluted in thine own bloud] Or, trodden under foot. Being thus in thy filthinesse and forsaken of all men, I took thee and gave thee life; whereby is meant, that before God wash his Church, and give it life, there is nothing but filthinesse and death.