my people: Isaiah 1:7, Isaiah 42:22-25; 2 Kings 17:6; 2 Chronicles 28:5-8
because: Isaiah 1:3, Isaiah 27:11; Jeremiah 8:7; Hosea 4:6; Matthew 23:16-27; Luke 19:44; John 3:19-20; Romans 1:28; 2 Peter 3:5
honourable men are famished: Heb. glory are men of famine, Jeremiah 14:18; Lamentations 4:4-5, Lamentations 4:9
multitude: Jeremiah 14:3; Amos 8:13