Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?
Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? Not content with appropriating to their own use the good of others, they, from mere wantonness, spoiled what they did not use, so as to be of no use to the owners.
And to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet? - "deep waters," i:e., limpid as deep waters are generally clear. Grotius explains the image as referring to the usuries with which the rich ground the poor (Ezekiel 22:12; Isaiah 24:2).
As for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet - "they eat" scantily.
They drink that which ye have fouled with your feet - "they drink" sorrowfully.