15What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
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They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.
Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; …
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, …
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes; …
What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-15)Here God proceeds in his controversy with his people. Observe, I. The ground of his controversy. It was for sin that God contended with them; if they vex themselves, let them look a little further and they will see that they must thank themselves: Woe unto their souls! For they have rewarded evil unto themselves. Alas for their souls ! (so it may be read, in a way of lamentation), for they have pr…
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