Matthew Poole Commentary - Isaiah 56:11 - 56:11

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Isaiah 56:11 - 56:11


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Greedy dogs which can never have enough; insatiably covetous.



That cannot understand, Heb. that know not to understand; that do not care, or love, or desire (as knowing is frequently taken) either to understand the law or word of God themselves, or to make the people to understand it.



They all look to their own way; they regard neither God’s command and glory, nor the people’s good, but only the satisfaction of their own base lusts. See Poole "Isa_53:6".



Every one for his gain, from his quarter; in their several places and stations, as they have opportunity. Heb. from his or their end or extremity, i.e. universally, or all from one end of that body or society of men unto the other; as the same word signifies, Gen_19:4; from one end of the city to the other; or, as we there render it,



from every quarter; and as the same word is by divers learned men rendered, 1Ki_12:31, out of the meanest of the people, but out of all the people, or indifferently out of every tribe; of which See Poole "1Ki_12:31". But if that phrase be rightly rendered there, out of the meanest of the people, as divers also expound the same phrase, Gen_47:2, of the meanest of his brethren, why may it not as well be rendered here, even from the meanest or poorest of his flock? which is a great aggravation of their covetousness and cruelty, to extort gains from such as needed their charity.