In thy skirts, viz. of thy garments; a synecdoche of the kind; the tokens of thy cruelty may be seen openly there: or, in thy hands, as the LXX.: or a metaphor from birds of rapine, whose wings are bloody with their prey; but not so well. Is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents, i.e. in thee is found the murders expressed here by blood of innocent persons, meant here by souls, comprising both their sacrificing of their little children to their idols, Psalms 106:37,38 Eze 16:20,21,36, murdering souls as well as bodies; and also all those cruelties, oppressions, and murders that they executed upon poor innocent persons, which were not a few in what Manasseh did, 2 Kings 21:16 Ezekiel 7:23, Ezekiel 9:9, and in special the prophets, Jeremiah 2:30, that came in God's name to reclaim them; which notes their desperate malice as well as cruelty, to slay their physicians. By secret search, Heb. by digging; as if the earth had covered the blood, or as if they had committed their wickedness in some obscure places. But upon all these; upon thy garments openly enough, as exposed to public view. There needs no such strict scrutiny to be made.
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Jeremiah 2:34
34 Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.