If our transgressions] The meaning is, It is true that you Prophets have admonished us heretofore, and we having neglected your admonitions, do bear our punishment, and are ruined past all relief; what good doth it do then to speak to us any more of these preservatives against the evill, into which we are already fallen? The Lord answereth, Your ruine is not so extreme, but that you may rise again y true repentance, which cometh alwayes in time, either before or after the punishments, so it come during lif. we pine away in them] Leviticus 26:39.