The princes of Judah were like them that remove the landmark: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Bound. This was a capital crime, under Numa, and forbidden, Deuteronomy xix. 14. (Calmet)
Juda hoped to seize what was abandoned. (St. Jerome)
They deferred doing penance, and removed the boundaries set by their fathers, (Theodoret; Calmet) the virtuous patriarchs, whom they would not imitate.
As they that take up the bound: That is, they that remove the boundary, encroaching on the property of their neighbours: figuratively: going beyond the boundary of the laws of God.
