Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.
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Gill's Exposition
Yet thou sayest, because I am innocent,.... Or, "that I am innocent"; though guilty of such flagrant and notorious crimes, acting like the adulterous woman, Pro 30:20 to whom the Jews are all along…
Barnes' Notes
I have not found it ... - Rather, thou didst not find them breaking into thy house. The meaning is, that these poor innocents had committed no crime: they were not thieves caught in the act, whom the…
The prophet here goes on in the same strain, aiming to bring a sinful people to repentance, that their destruction might be prevented.
I. He avers the truth of the charge. It was evident beyond…
Cambridge Bible
blood, etc.] "The allusion may be to deaths due to miscarriage of justice or the result of exaction (Jer 7:6; Jer 22:3 end, 17; cf. Mic 3:10; Psa 94:21), or to the sacrifice of children (see Jer 19:4;…
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