Verse 2— Ye lust, and have not. That is, ye covet, and fail to obtain what you desire. Ye fight and war, yet ye have not. Possibly you kill the heathen, desiring to make pros­elytes, but you fail in your misguided zeal to secure the end at which you aimed. Your object in forcing the heathen to embrace Judaism has extended so far as to engage in personal combat and warlike struggle, and yet your purpose was not accom­plished. Because ye ask not. Two reasons appear accounting for your failure in the respects mentioned. First, because your method is wrong; secondly, because you fail to ask of God for directions- If God desires converts from heathenism, it is his of right, and his only, to direct how it shall be accomplished.