Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
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Gill's Exposition
Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor,.... Having oppressed, crushed, and broken the poor to pieces, he leaves them so without pity and compassion for them, and without giving them any…
Barnes' Notes
Because he hath oppressed - Margin, “crushed.” Such is the Hebrew. And forsaken the poor - He has plundered them, and then forsaken them - as robbers do. The meaning is, that he had done this by his…
The instances here given of the miserable condition of the wicked man in this world are expressed with great fulness and fluency of language, and the same thing returned to again and repeated in other…
Cambridge Bible
and hath forsaken Abandoned them, after oppressing them, to their destitution. Thus, though joining house to house (Isa 5:8) and dispossessing the poor, the houses which he robs he shall not build up…
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