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In this verse God aggravates their sin of oppression, mentioned in the former.
As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness; a metaphor, to express how natural all manner of wickedness is to her, how full she is of it, and how incessant in it, noting her impudence, a fountain being not able to retain its water; and the expression of casting it out seems to imply her violence in her filthiness, as it is said of the sea, that it casteth out mire and dirt, Isa_57:20, and favoured by the next clause.
Violence and spoil is heard in her: q.d. This is all she busieth herself about, Jer_20:8. It is the general complaint of her inhabitants.
Before me continually is grief and wounds, viz. that the poor sustain: wherever I go or look, I can hear and see nothing but the sad complaints and grievances of the poor, lamenting over oppression and cruelties that are used against them, Psa_69:26, this being so expressly against God’s command, Exo_22:22-24, &c.; Isa_3:14,15 Jas 5:4; for this refers rather to their sin than to their sufferings from the enemy, as some would carry it.