9Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:
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He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah. …
To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-14)What was said Zech. 7:7; that they should have heard the words of the former prophets , is here enlarged upon, for warning to these hypocritical enquirers, who continued their sins when they asked with great preciseness whether they should continue their fasts. This prophet had before put them in mind of their fathers’ disobedience to the calls of the prophets, and what was the consequence of it (…
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