Amos 5:10
New International Version
There are those who hate the one who upholds justice in court and detest the one who tells the truth.

New Living Translation
How you hate honest judges! How you despise people who tell the truth!

English Standard Version
They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks the truth.

Berean Standard Bible
There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.

King James Bible
They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

New King James Version
They hate the one who rebukes in the gate, And they abhor the one who speaks uprightly.

New American Standard Bible
They hate him who rebukes in the gate, And they despise him who speaks with integrity.

NASB 1995
They hate him who reproves in the gate, And they abhor him who speaks with integrity.

NASB 1977
They hate him who reproves in the gate, And they abhor him who speaks with integrity.

Legacy Standard Bible
They hate him who reproves in the gate, And they abhor him who speaks with integrity.

Amplified Bible
They hate the one who reprimands [the unrighteous] in the [court held at the city] gate [regarding him as unreasonable and rejecting his reprimand], And they detest him who speaks [the truth] with integrity and honesty.

Christian Standard Bible
They hate the one who convicts the guilty at the city gate, and they despise the one who speaks with integrity.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They hate the one who convicts the guilty at the city gate and despise the one who speaks with integrity.

American Standard Version
They hate him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
They hate the poor at the gate, and he who speaks correct things they despise

Brenton Septuagint Translation
They hated him that reproved in the gates, and abhorred holy speech.

Contemporary English Version
You people hate judges and honest witnesses;

Douay-Rheims Bible
They have hated him that rebuketh in the gate: and have abhorred him that speaketh perfectly.

English Revised Version
They hate him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Israel, you hate anyone who speaks out against injustice. You are disgusted by anyone who speaks the truth.

Good News Translation
You people hate anyone who challenges injustice and speaks the whole truth in court.

International Standard Version
They have hated those who are presenting their cases in court, detesting the one who speaks truthfully.

JPS Tanakh 1917
They hate him that reproveth in the gate, And they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

Literal Standard Version
They have hated a reprover in the gate, | And they detest a plain speaker.

Majority Standard Bible
There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.

New American Bible
They hate those who reprove at the gate and abhor those who speak with integrity;

NET Bible
The Israelites hate anyone who arbitrates at the city gate; they despise anyone who speaks honestly.

New Revised Standard Version
They hate the one who reproves in the gate, and they abhor the one who speaks the truth.

New Heart English Bible
They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

Webster's Bible Translation
They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

World English Bible
They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

Young's Literal Translation
They have hated a reprover in the gate, And a plain speaker they abominate.

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Context
A Call to Repentance
9He flashes destruction on the strong, so that fury comes upon the stronghold. 10There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity. 11Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.…

Cross References
Galatians 4:16
Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?

1 Kings 22:8
The king of Israel answered, "There is still one man who can ask the LORD, but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good for me, but only bad. He is Micaiah son of Imlah." "The king should not say that!" Jehoshaphat replied.

Proverbs 15:12
A mocker does not love to be reproved, nor will he consult the wise.

Isaiah 29:21
those who indict a man with a word, who ensnare the mediator at the gate, and who with false charges deprive the innocent of justice.

Isaiah 59:15
Truth is missing, and whoever turns from evil becomes prey. The LORD looked and was displeased that there was no justice.

Jeremiah 17:16
But I have not run away from being Your shepherd; I have not desired the day of despair. You know that the utterance of my lips was spoken in Your presence.

Jeremiah 38:7
Now Ebed-melech the Cushite, a court official in the royal palace, heard that Jeremiah had been put into the cistern. While the king was sitting at the Gate of Benjamin,


Treasury of Scripture

They hate him that rebukes in the gate, and they abhor him that speaks uprightly.

hate.

Amos 7:10-17
Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words…

1 Kings 18:17
And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?

1 Kings 21:20
And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD.

abhor.

Jeremiah 17:16,17
As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was right before thee…

John 3:20
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

John 8:45-47
And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not…

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Amos 5
1. A lamentation for Israel.
4. An exhortation to repentance.
21. God rejects their hypocritical service.














(10) Rebuker in the Gate.--The person so described might be the prophet himself. So also he that speaketh uprightly.

Verses 10-12. - The prophet gives further instances of the people's corruption. Verse 10. - Him that rebuketh in the gate (Isaiah 29:21). The gate of Eastern cities was the place of public resort (Proverbs 1:21), either for business (Deuteronomy 25:7), or the administration of justice (2 Samuel 15:2), or for gossip. So "he that rebuketh in the gate" may be a judge, or a chief, or a prophet (Jeremiah 17:19; Jeremiah 19:2). It seems better to take the words thus than to join "in the gate" to "they hate," with the meaning that those who resort to the gate - kings, chiefs, judges - hate the prophet's reproof, for the following verses show that Amos is referring chiefly to judicial proceedings, and not to his own mission. Uprightly; literally, perfectly; Vulgate, perfecte; i.e. without reserve, keeping nothing back.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
you hate
שָׂנְא֥וּ (śā·nə·’ū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 8130: To hate

the one who reproves
מוֹכִ֑יחַ (mō·w·ḵî·aḥ)
Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 3198: To be right, reciprocal, to argue, to decide, justify, convict

in the gate
בַשַּׁ֖עַר (ḇaš·ša·‘ar)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 8179: An opening, door, gate

and despise
יְתָעֵֽבוּ׃ (yə·ṯā·‘ê·ḇū)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 8581: To loathe, detest

him who speaks
וְדֹבֵ֥ר (wə·ḏō·ḇêr)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

with integrity.
תָּמִ֖ים (tā·mîm)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 8549: Entire, integrity, truth


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