For Israel slideth back] Deuteronomy 32:15. Zac 7:11. a lambe] Seeing they have been so rebellious, and have loved liberty so well, I will grant it them, but to their ruine; like to the liberty of a lambe in the wildernesse, where it would be exposed to a thousand dangers and miseries. Unlesse he threaten them with the desolation of the countrey, and with the small number which should remain in it.