Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;

Because you thrusted with sides and shoulders, and struck all the weak cattle with your horns, till they were scattered abroad:

Because ye thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the weak ones with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad,

Because with side and with shoulder ye thrust away, And with your horns push all the diseased, Till ye have scattered them to the out-place,

Because you have been pushing with side and leg, pushing the diseased with your horns till they were sent away in every direction;

Because ye thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the weak with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;

For you have pushed with your sides and shoulders, and you have threatened all the weak cattle with your horns, until they were scattered abroad.

Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder,.... As the stronger cattle do the lesser:
and pushed all the diseased with your horns; as horned cattle do those they dislike, and bear an antipathy to; which to do to the diseased is great cruelty: sheep, it is said, will take some care of those that are diseased among them, and bring them to places of sunshine and shelter; but here the horned part of the flock, and in health, are represented as acting a barbarous part to the weak and diseased: this may denote such as are in power and authority, using it to the hurt and detriment of those that are under them, and whom they should relieve and protect: it may be applied to the anathemas and excommunications of the Jews, who pronounced those an accursed and ignorant people that believed in Christ, and expelled such out of their synagogues that professed his name; and to their persecutions of the apostles and first Christians:
till he have scattered them abroad; or "without" (s); that is, without the land. The Targum is,
"through the provinces;''
obliged them to quit their country, and go unto other parts, as the first preachers of the word did; who, upon the persecution at the death of Stephen, were scattered abroad everywhere, Acts 8:1.
(s) "foras", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Polanus, Cocceius, Starckius,

scattered them abroad--down to the time of the carrying away to Babylon [GROTIUS].