Poor innocents] RV 'the innocent poor.'

By secret search] RV 'at the place of breaking in.' The allusion is to the law (Exodus 22:2) by which it was permissible to slay a thief caught in the act of breaking into a house. But those 'innocent poor' had committed no such crime, yet their blood had been wantonly shed: cp. the cruelties of Manasseh 2 Kings 21:16.

Upon all these] RM 'upon every oak,' or, perhaps, 'because of this,' i.e. your lust for idolatry.

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