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"The leach has two daughters: `Give, give.` "There are three things that are never satisfied; Four that don`t say, `Enough:`
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The Leech's Insatiable Cry
Scholars explain that the 'horseleach' (a blood-sucking leech) is a vivid symbol of insatiable greed. The 'two daughters' are not literal offspring but a poetic way of representing the leech's constant, singular demand: 'Give, give.' As commentator Charles Ellicott notes, if a leech could speak, these would be its only words, introducing the theme of things that are never satisfied.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Note the numeration mounting to a climax, the two, the three, the four (Amos 1:3 and following). The word rendered “horseleach” is foun…
19th Century
Anglican
The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give.— The word “crying” is not in the Hebrew. The leech is here chosen …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The horse leech has two daughters, [crying], Give, give Or "the blood sucker" F12 ; so it began to be cal…
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Cruelty and covetousness are two daughters of the horseleech, that still cry, Give, give, and they are continually uneasy within themselve…
