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Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor: you did not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things.
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Rebellion's Bloody Fruit
Commentators explain that Israel's rebellion was not passive but led to horrific violence. The 'blood of the innocent poor' on their 'skirts' refers to the public and undeniable guilt of either offering child sacrifices to idols like Molech or murdering God's prophets who spoke against their sin. This shows how turning from God can lead to the most depraved actions.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
I have not found it ... - Rather, you did not find them breaking into your house. The meaning is that these poor innocents had committed no …
19th Century
Anglican
Also in your skirts ... —The general meaning is clear, and points to the guilt of Israel in offering her children—the “poor innoce…
Baptist
God's ancient people had so completely turned away from him, and wandered so far from him, that they had practiced all manner of evil in order to p…
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16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet repeats, I believe, what he had said before—that the wickedness of his nation was incorrigible. For they did not repent when warned, bu…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents Either of the in…
The nation had not been affected by the judgments of God, but sought to justify themselves. To those who make the world their home and their portio…
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13th Century
Catholic
2:36a How utterly vile you have become by repeating the same ways!
1. Here, he accuses them of crimes against their neighb…
