Other voices from the uttermost part(strictly, "the skirt") of the earthare heard singing "Glory to the righteous," i.e. the righteous people, Israel. But these jubilant utterances of his more fortunately situated fellow-believers only extort from the prophet a cry of despair.

My leanness Lit. "emaciation to me," hence R.V. "I pine away."

the treacherous dealers Cf. ch. Isaiah 21:2; Isaiah 33:1. Assonance is here carried to an extreme: "deceivers deceive, yea with deceit do deceivers deceive."

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