lest he fall] Though the wicked (through hardnesse of heart) contemn the Lord, the godly must, and will be afraid to offend him: and they must feare him, not onely with a loving reverence, as a father, but with an awfull dread of his displeasure, as a powerfull Judge, who will powre out his plagues on them, who wilfully harden themselves against him. See 2 Kings 17:25. Ezra 7:23. Zac 14:17. 2 Chron. 29. 7, 8. &chap. 30. 8. In this denunciation of danger to themselves, they imply some perill to Pharaoh, which afterward they set forth in expresse Comminations.