Thou hast given us like sheep [appointed] for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
Ver. 11. Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat] Aliqui occisi, dispersi alii, et venundati gratias, Some of us are slain, others scattered here and there, and sold for nought (Aben-Ezra).
And hast scattered us, &c.] Oh the many miseries of such a banishment! The poet Tyrtaeus thus expresses it:
Est miserum, patria amissa laribusque vagare:
Mendiea et timida voce rogare cibos.
Cum natisque errare suis, et coniuge moesta,
Et cum matre pia, cumque parente sene.