You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.
KJV
Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
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Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat,.... To be butchered, and then eaten as sheep are; and therefore are called "the flock of slaughter",
Zac 11:4
; as the church was, not only under the ten persecutions of Rome Pagan, but through the butcheries and massacres of Rome Papal; who have worried many of Christ's sheep, have eaten their flesh and drank their blood, and have become drunken with it; it has been their meat and drink to persecute the saints of the most High;
and hast scattered us among the Heathen: the Pagan world, as the first Christians were, who were scattered up and down in the Gentile world everywhere; see
Pe1 1:1
; or the Papacy, who are sometimes called Gentiles,
Rev 11:2
; because much of the Gentile idolatry is introduced into the Popish religion; and among these many of the true members of Christ and of his church have been carried captive and scattered; and such will be found there a little before the destruction of Babylon, and will be called out from thence; see
Rev 13:10
.
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