Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
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Gill's Exposition
Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat,.... To be butchered, and then eaten as sheep are; and therefore are called "the flock of slaughter", Zac 11:4; as the church was, not only under the…
Barnes' Notes
Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat - Margin, as in Hebrew, “as sheep of meat.” That is, as sheep are killed for food, so thou hast allowed us to be put to death. And hast scattered us…
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…
Cambridge Bible
Some of God's people are butchered like sheep (cp. Psa 44:44); others are sold as slaves. It is evidently not a deportation of the nation that is meant, but the sale of prisoners of war for slaves.…
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