I will tear your flesh] I will thus punish you with extreme severity, because you well deserve it, seeing you refuse to relieve my faint and wearied followers, fighting in a common cause against Gods enemies; herein grievously sinning against God, the common-wealth, my self and all my followers your brethren, and that in favour of their tyrannous enemies. tear] Heb. thresh. of the wildernesse] i. e. Lying between Succoth and Penuel, at the brook Jabbok, Genesis 32:2. 22. 30. called also the wildernesse of Mahanaim, as lying neer unto it, 2 Samuel 17:27; 2 Samuel 17:29.