for from the first day] See vers. 2. that thou didst set thine heart to understand] By fasting and devotion dispose thy self to receive some Propheticall revelation from God, concerning the strate of the Church, to which the reestablishment of the Temple, and of the worship of God was forbidden, and the quiet restauration of Jerusalem, though the seventie yeares which were prefixed be past. for thy words] Namely, to fulfill thy prayers.