How is the faithful city, that was full of judgment, become a harlot? justice dwelt in it, but now murderers.
Ibn Ezra
The prophet has thus reproved the people but they do not listen. How is the faithful city become an harlot. Jerusalem is like a woman that has become faithless to her husband, after having been a faithful wife. מלאתי Full of. The י is paragogic as in גנבתי the theft of (Gen. 31:39.) ילין Was lodging. The future is here used for the imperfect, which has no special form in Hebrew. מרצחים Murderers. Literally, they that cause to murder. It is participle Piel, and has a causative meaning, referring to the judges.
Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.
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