And in the morning.

Bearing in mind the parallelism of the clauses, we obtain this meaning: That in the evening and in the morning the Israelites would perceive the glory of the Lord, who had brought them out of Egypt. "Seeing" is synonymous with "knowing." Seeing the glory of Jehovah did not consist in the sight of the glory of the Lord which appeared in the cloud, but in their perception or experience of that glory in the miraculous gift of flesh and bread (ver. 8, cf. Numbers 14:22).-- Keil.

Ye shall see the glory of the Lord.

That is, shall behold the cloudy pillar, the shekinah, resplendent with. peculiar brightness and glory, as. signal of the Lord's special presence, both to hear your murmurings and to supply your wants. It appears that on several occasions the tumults of the people were assuaged by some visible change in the ordinary appearance in the pillar of cloud, betokening, perhaps by. fierce and vehement glow, the kindling of the divine displeasure (See Numbers 12:5; Numbers 14:10; Numbers 16:42).-- Bush. The glory of the Lord is seen when his hand is put forth for the protection of this people by the discomfiture of their enemies, and for their preservation by the preternatural bestowment of the means of life.-- Murphy.

He heareth your murmurings.

In his long-suffering mercy he will give another proof of his presence and love, that his people may at length lay aside their impatience and unbelief, and feel that their murmuring is really against the Lord, and not against the mere executors of his will.-- Murphy. When we begin to fret and to be uneasy, we ought to consider that God hears all our murmurings, though silent and only the murmurings of the heart. Princes, parents, masters, do not hear all the murmurs of their inferiors against them, and it is well they do not, for perhaps they could not bear it; but God hears, and yet bears.-- M. Henry.

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