Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
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Gill's Exposition
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy,.... Like a man that pants after a draught of water when thirsty; and, when he has got it, greedily swallows it down at one gulp; so these rich men swallowed…
Barnes' Notes
Here ye this, ye that swallow - Or, better in the same sense, “that pant for the needy;” as Job says, “the hireling panteth for the evening” Job 7:2. They “panted for the poor,” as the wild beast for…
Adam Clarke
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy - Ye that bruise the poor; exact from them, and tread them under foot.
God is here contending with proud oppressors, and showing them,
I. The heinousness of the sin they were guilty of; in short, they had the character of the unjust judge (Luk 18:2) that neither feared…
A fresh denunciation of Israel's sin, followed by a fresh picture of the impending calamities.
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