12For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
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Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes; …
They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-15)This is a message from God to the house of Israel, in which, I. They are told of their faults, that they might see what occasion there was for them to repent and reform, and that, when they were called to return, they might not need to ask, Wherein shall we return ? 1. God tells them, in general (Amos 5:12), “ I know your manifold transgressions, and your mighty sins ; and you shall be made to kno…
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