Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the
poor innocents
Either of the innocent infants of poor persons, who were sacrificed to Moloch; or of the poor prophets of the Lord, whom they slew, because they faithfully reproved them for their sins; and the blood of those being found in their skirts is expressive of the publicness and notoriety of their sin, and also of the large quantity of blood shed, inasmuch as the skirts of their garments were filled with it, as if they had trod and walked in blood; see ( Isaiah 63:3 ) . I have not found it by secret search;
or, "by digging" F17; there was no need to dig for it; it lay above ground; it was upon their skirts, public enough: or, "in ditches", as the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin
``you did not find them with a digging instrument, or in digging, when you slew them;''you did not find them prepared as thieves to break up your houses, or digging down your walls, and breaking through into your houses, then you would have been justified by the law in slaying them, ( Exodus 22:2 ) , but this was not the case: but upon all these;