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For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the justb, they take a βbribec, and they turn asidef the poor in the gate from their right.

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James 5:6• ⁶ye have condemned, ye have killed the just; he does not resist you. (James 5:6)

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Psa. 26:9‑10• ⁹Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with men of blood;
¹⁰In whose hands are evil devices, and their right hand is full of bribes. (Psa. 26:9‑10)

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or, ransom.

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Isa. 29:21• ²¹that make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and pervert the judgment of the righteous by futility. (Isa. 29:21)

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I know.

Deut. 31:21• ²¹And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles have befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed; for I know their imagination which they are forming already this day, before I bring them into the land which I have sworn unto them. (Deut. 31:21)

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Isa. 66:18• ¹⁸And I,--their works and their thoughts are before me . … The time cometh for the gathering of all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory. (Isa. 66:18)

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Jer. 29:23• ²³because they have committed infamy in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken words of falsehood in my name, which I had not commanded them: and I am he that knoweth, and am witness, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 29:23)

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Heb. 4:12‑13• ¹²For the word of God is living and operative, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and penetrating to the division of soul and spirit, both of joints and marrow, and a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
¹³And there is not a creature unapparent before him; but all things are naked and laid bare to his eyes, with whom we have to do. (Heb. 4:12‑13)

manifold.

2 Kings 17:7‑17• ⁷And so it was, because the children of Israel had sinned against Jehovah their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods;
⁸and they walked in the statutes of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
⁹And the children of Israel did secretly against Jehovah their God things that were not right; and they built them high places in all their cities, from the watchmen's tower to the fortified city.
¹⁰And they set them up columns and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree;
¹¹and there they burned incense on all the high places, as did the nations that Jehovah had carried away from before them, and they wrought wicked things to provoke Jehovah to anger;
¹²and they served idols, as to which Jehovah had said to them, Ye shall not do this thing.
¹³And Jehovah testified against Israel and against Judah, by all the prophets, all the seers, saying, Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments, my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you through my servants the prophets.
¹⁴But they would not hear, and hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, who did not believe in Jehovah their God.
¹⁵And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant which he had made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he had testified unto them; and they followed vanity and became vain, and went after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them that they should not do like them.
¹⁶And they forsook all the commandments of Jehovah their God, and made them molten images, two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshipped all the host of the heavens, and served Baal;
¹⁷and they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger. (2 Kings 17:7‑17)

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Isa. 47:9• ⁹yet these two things shall come upon thee in a moment, in one day, loss of children and widowhood; they shall come upon thee in full measure for the multitude of thy sorceries, for the great abundance of thine enchantments. (Isa. 47:9)

they afflict.

Amos 2:6‑7,16• ⁶Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes;
⁷panting after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turning aside the way of the meek; and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name.
¹⁶and he that is stout-hearted among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith Jehovah. (Amos 2:6‑7,16)

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Acts 3:13‑14• ¹³The God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom *ye* delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when *he* had judged that he should be let go.
¹⁴But *ye* denied the holy and righteous one, and asked that a man that was a murderer should be granted to you; (Acts 3:13‑14)

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Acts 7:52• ⁵²Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain those who announced beforehand concerning the coming of the Just One, of whom *ye* have now become deliverers up and murderers! (Acts 7:52)

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James 5:4,6• ⁴Behold, the wages of your labourers, who have harvested your fields, wrongfully kept back by you, cry, and the cries of those that have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
⁶ye have condemned, ye have killed the just; he does not resist you. (James 5:4,6)

take.

1 Sam. 8:3• ³And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice. (1 Sam. 8:3)

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Psa. 26:9‑10• ⁹Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with men of blood;
¹⁰In whose hands are evil devices, and their right hand is full of bribes. (Psa. 26:9‑10)

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Isa. 1:23• ²³thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth presents, and hunteth after rewards; they judge not the fatherless, and the cause of the widow cometh not unto them. (Isa. 1:23)

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Isa. 33:15• ¹⁵--He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from taking hold of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil: (Isa. 33:15)

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Mic. 3:11• ¹¹The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money; yet do they lean upon Jehovah, and say, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us. (Mic. 3:11)

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Mic. 7:3• ³Both hands are for evil, to do it well. The prince asketh, and the judge is there for a reward; and the great man uttereth his soul's greed: and together they combine it. (Mic. 7:3)

bribe.

or, ransom.

and they.

Amos 2:7• ⁷panting after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turning aside the way of the meek; and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name. (Amos 2:7)

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Isa. 10:2• ²to turn away the poor from judgment, and to take away the right from the afflicted of my people; that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless! (Isa. 10:2)

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Isa. 29:21• ²¹that make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and pervert the judgment of the righteous by futility. (Isa. 29:21)

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Lam. 3:34• ³⁴To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth, (Lam. 3:34)

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Mal. 3:5• ⁵And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the false swearers, and against those that oppress the hired servant in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts. (Mal. 3:5)

in the.

Amos 5:10• ¹⁰They hate him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly. (Amos 5:10)

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Deut. 16:18• ¹⁸Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes, that they may judge the people with just judgment. (Deut. 16:18)

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Ruth 4:1• ¹And Boaz went up to the gate, and sat down there. And behold, he that had the right of redemption, of whom Boaz had spoken, came by. And he said, Thou, such a one, turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside and sat down. (Ruth 4:1)

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Job 29:7‑25• ⁷When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway,
⁸The young men saw me, and hid themselves; and the aged arose and stood up;
⁹Princes refrained from talking, and laid the hand on their mouth;
¹⁰The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to their palate.
¹¹When the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me;
¹²For I delivered the afflicted that cried, and the fatherless who had no helper.
¹³The blessing of him that was perishing came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
¹⁴I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was as a mantle and a turban.
¹⁵I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame;
¹⁶I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out;
¹⁷And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
¹⁸And I said, I shall die in my nest, and multiply my days as the sand;
¹⁹My root shall be spread out to the waters, and the dew will lie all night on my branch;
²⁰My glory shall be fresh in me, and my bow be renewed in my hand.
²¹Unto me they listened, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel:
²²After my words they spoke not again, and my speech dropped upon them;
²³And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
²⁴If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and they troubled not the serenity of my countenance.
²⁵I chose their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth mourners. (Job 29:7‑25)

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Job 31:21• ²¹If I have lifted up my hand against an orphan, because I saw my help in the gate: (Job 31:21)

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Prov. 22:22• ²²Rob not the poor, because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate; (Prov. 22:22)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For I know how manifold are your transgressions and your sins mighty: they afflict the just, they take a bribed, and they turn aside the right of the needy in the gate.

JND Translation Notes

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1 Sam. 12.3.