What mean ye, [that] ye beat my people to pieces,.... Reduce them to the utmost poverty; so the Targum,"wherefore do ye impoverish my people?''as they did by exacting tithes of all that they possessed; by requiring large sums for their long prayers; and by various traditions they enjoined them to observe:and grind the faces of the poor?
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Isaiah 3:15
Isaiah 3:15
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