New International Version (© 2011)
For I know how many are your offenses and how great your sins. There are those who oppress the innocent and take bribes and deprive the poor of justice in the courts.King James Bible
For 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.American Standard Version
For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins-ye that afflict the just, that take a bribe, and that turn aside the needy in the gate from their right .Young's Literal Translation
For I have known -- many are your transgressions, And mighty your sins, Adversaries of the righteous, taking ransoms, And the needy in the gate ye turned aside.Amos 5:12 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleI know your manifold transgressions - I have marked the multitude of your smaller crimes, as well as your mighty offenses. Among their greater offenses were, 1. Their afflicting the righteous. 2. Taking bribes to blind their eyes in judgment. And, 3. Refusing to hear the poor, who had no money to give them. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge I know. Deuteronomy 31:21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness... Isaiah 66:18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come... Jeremiah 29:23 Because they have committed villainy in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives... Hebrews 4:12,13 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword... manifold. 2 Kings 17:7-17 For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt... Isaiah 47:9 But these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood... they afflict. Amos 2:6,7,16 Thus said the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof... Acts 3:13,14 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Son Jesus; whom you delivered up... Acts 7:52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the Just One... James 5:4,6 Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, cries... take. 1 Samuel 8:3 And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment. Psalm 26:9,10 Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men... Isaiah 1:23 Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loves gifts, and follows after rewards: they judge not the fatherless... Isaiah 33:15 He that walks righteously, and speaks uprightly; he that despises the gain of oppressions, that shakes his hands from holding of bribes... Micah 3:11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money... Micah 7:3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a reward; and the great man... bribe. or, ransom. and they. Amos 2:7 That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek... Isaiah 10:2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey... Isaiah 29:21 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproves in the gate... Lamentations 3:34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth. Malachi 3:5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers... in the. Amos 5:10 They hate him that rebukes in the gate, and they abhor him that speaks uprightly. Deuteronomy 16:18 Judges and officers shall you make you in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, throughout your tribes... Ruth 4:1 Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by; to whom he said, Ho... Job 29:7-25 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!... Job 31:21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate: Proverbs 22:22 Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate: Amos 5:12 Parallel Commentaries
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Psalm 127:5 Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their opponents in court.
Proverbs 17:8 A bribe is seen as a charm by the one who gives it; they think success will come at every turn.
Isaiah 1:23 Your rulers are rebels, partners with thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow's case does not come before them.
Isaiah 5:23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice to the innocent.
Isaiah 29:21 those who with a word make someone out to be guilty, who ensnare the defender in court and with false testimony deprive the innocent of justice.
Ezekiel 13:22 Because you disheartened the righteous with your lies, when I had brought them no grief, and because you encouraged the wicked not to turn from their evil ways and so save their lives,
Hosea 5:3 I know all about Ephraim; Israel is not hidden from me. Ephraim, you have now turned to prostitution; Israel is corrupt.
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