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5They break in pieces{H8762)} thy people, O LORD, and afflict{H8762)} thine heritage.
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What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. …
Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; …
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)In these verses we have, I. A solemn appeal to God against the cruel oppressors of his people, Ps. 94:1 , 2 . This speaks terror enough to them, that they have the prayers of God’s people against them, who cry day and night to him to avenge them of their adversaries; and shall he not avenge them speedily? Luke 18:3 , 7 . Observe here, 1. The titles they give to God for the encouraging of their fai…
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