Because ye have thrust with side and shoulder, &c. Have molested and vexed the poor and weak by your unjust and violent dealings; therefore will I save my flock I will interpose, and rescue the poor of my people from violence and oppression. The reader will easily observe that the metaphors used in these verses are taken from two sorts of cattle, the one of the larger and stronger kind, the other of the smaller and weaker sort, which the larger ones are wont to thrust aside and push at with their horns.

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