14And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
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Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity. …
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; …
Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-15)The scope of this paragraph is the same with that of the last, to show that sin is the great mischief-maker; as it is that which keeps good things from us, so it is that which brings evil things upon us. But as there it is spoken by the prophet, in God’s name, to the people, for their conviction and humiliation, and that God might be justified when he speaks and clear when he judges, so here it se…
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