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what do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor? says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts.
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The Brutality of Oppression
Commentators explain that the phrases "crush my people" and "grind the face of the poor" are powerful metaphors for extreme cruelty. This isn't just neglect; it's the active, systematic destruction of the poor's livelihood and dignity, like grinding a substance on a stone until nothing is left.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
What do you mean - What is your object? Or, What advantage is it to you? Or, By what right or pretense do you do this?
Beat my peo…
16th Century
Protestant
What do you mean that you beat my people to pieces? The Prophet also mentions other particulars, from which it is evident that they ruled …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
What mean you, [that] you beat my people to pieces Reduce them to the utmost poverty; so the Targum, "wherefore do y…
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The rule was certain; whatever national prosperity or trouble might exist, it would be well with the righteous and ill with the wicked. Blessed be …
13th Century
Catholic
For Jerusalem is ruined. Here the author explains the reason for this renunciation.
First, he presents the immediate caus…
