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12Thou sellest{H8799)} thy people for nought, and dost not increase{H8765)} thy wealth by their price.
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Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.
How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money. …
Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-15)The people of God here complain to him of the low and afflicted condition that they were now in, under the prevailing power of their enemies and oppressors, which was the more grievous to them because they were now trampled upon, who had always been used, in their struggles with their neighbours, to win the day and get the upper hand, and because those were now their oppressors whom they had many…
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