Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 2:34

34 Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents : I have not found it by secret search , but upon all these .

Viz. Of thy garments, a Synecdoche of the Kind the tokens of thy cruelty may be seen openly there; or in thy hands as the LXX, or a metaphor from Birds of rapine whose wings are bloody with their prey, but not so well.

i. e. In thee is found the murders expressed here by blood of innocent persons, meant here by Souls, comprising both their Sacrificing of their little Children to their Idols, Psal. 106.37, 38. Ezek. 16.20, 21, 36. murdering Souls, as well as Bodies, and also all those cruelties, oppression, and murders, that they executed upon poor innocent persons, which were not a few, in what Manasseh did 2 Kin. 21.16. Ezek. 7.23. and 9.9. and in special the Prophets, verse 30. that came in Gods name to reclaim them, which notes their desperate malice, as well as cruelty to slay their Physitians.

Heb. by digging, as if the Earth had covered the Blood, or as if they had committed their wickedness in some obscure places.

Upon thy garments openly enough, as exposed to publique view, there need no such strict scrutiny to be made.

Marginal references: Heb. digging.