Charles Ellicott Commentary Jeremiah 2:34

"Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor: thou didst not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things." — Jeremiah 2:34 (ASV)

Also in your skirts ... —The general meaning is clear, and points to the guilt of Israel in offering her children—the “poor innocents”—in horrid sacrifice to Molech; perhaps, also, to her maltreatment of the prophets. Their “blood” is on the “skirts” of her garments; perhaps, if we take another reading, on the “palms” of her hands. However, the last clause is quite obscure.

We have to choose, according to variations of reading and construction, between two interpretations:

1. I have not found it as by secret search (literally, by digging, as people dig through the wall of a house in search of plunder), but under every oak or terebinth, or, more probably, as in the Authorized Version, upon all these—that is, the sin was patent, flagrant, everywhere.

2. You did not find them (those who had been put to death) in the place of breaking through—that is, in the act of the robber that would have deserved death (Exodus 22:2; Job 24:16); but because of all this—that is, you slew them through your passion for idolatry.

Of these, the first interpretation is the most commendable.