The comparison serves to emphasize not the quantity of blood-shedding but the worthlessness of the blood. For “as dust is trodden under foot without a moment’s notice or thought, so their blood would be (compare 1 Kings 14:10; Jeremiah 9:21)."1
The comparison serves to emphasize not the quantity of blood-shedding but the worthlessness of the blood. For “as dust is trodden under foot without a moment’s notice or thought, so their blood would be (compare 1 Kings 14:10; Jeremiah 9:21)."1
17 I will bring distress on mankind, so that they shall walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the LORD; their blood shall be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.