Therefore his people return hither— "Therefore God's people falleth off to them, and from thence they reap no small advantage." Green. Mudge renders it, Therefore, let his people come before them, and waters in full measure would be wrung out from them. This seems, says he, to continue the description of their haughtiness and oppression. "Should God's people (for he is mentioned in the next verse) come before them, they would squeeze them to the uttermost: they would wring out all the juice in their bodies." Waters in full measure, seems to be proverbial. Houbigant and Fenwick give different versions from any of these. Houbigant reads, Therefore bread fills them to the full, and water is drank by them in a flowing cup. Fenwick reads the passage in a parenthesis.
"(For this his people broken-hearted sit, And tears in great abundance shed.)"
The reader must judge for himself.