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The women of my people you cast out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my glory forever.
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An Attack on the Vulnerable
Commentators stress the extreme cruelty of the oppressors, who targeted women (likely widows) and children. Scholars like Calvin note that even in war, the helpless are often spared. This act of casting women from their homes revealed a society that had abandoned its most basic moral duties to care for those God specifically protects.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses - (literally, from her pleasant house,) each from her home. Thes…
19th Century
Anglican
The women of my people.—They spared not even the widows and fatherless, the objects of God’s tender care.
16th Century
Protestant
He proceeds with the same subject: that they refrained from no acts of injustice. It was indeed a proof of extreme barbarity not to spare women and…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The women of my people you have cast out from their pleasanthouses Not content to sla…
Since they say, —Prophesy not,— God will take them at their word, and their sin shall be their punishment. Let the physician no longer attend the p…
