Amos 5:12 BSB — MannaFest

Amos 5:12

For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.

BSB

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ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

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Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

For I know - Literally, “I have known.” They thought that God did not know, because He did not avenge; as the Psalmist says, “Thy judgments are far above out of his sight” Psa 10:5. People who do not act with the thought of God, cease to know Him, and forget that He knows them. “Your manifold transgressions;” literally, “many are your transgressions and mighty your sins.” Their deeds, they knew, were mighty, strong, vigorous, decided. God says, that their “sins” were so, not many and great only, but “mighty, strong” , “issuing not out of ignorance and infirmity, but out of proud strength” , “‘strong’ in the oppression of the poor and in provoking God,” and bringing down His wrath. So Asaph says of the prosperous; “Pride encompasseth them, as a chain; they are corrupt, they speak oppression wickedly; they speak from on high” Psa 73:6, Psa 73:8. They afflict the just - Literally, “afflicters of the just,” that is, such as habitually afflicted him; whose habit and quality it was to afflict him. Our version mostly renders the word “enemies.” Originally, it signifies “afflicting, persecuting” enemies. Yet it is used also of the enemies of God, perhaps such as persecute Him in His people, or in His Son when in the flesh. The unjust hate the just, as is said in the book of Wisdom; “The ungodly said, Therefore let us lie in wait for the righteous, because he is not for our turn, and is clean contrary to our doings: he upbraideth us with our offending the law. He profeseth to have the knowledge of God, and he calleth himself the child of the Lord. He was made to reprove our thoughts. He is grievous unto us even to behold, for his life is not as other people’s, his ways are of another fashion” (Wisdom Psa 2:1, Psa 2:12-15). […]

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּ֤י	ki	for	H3588 →
יָדַ֙עְתִּי֙	ya.Da'.ti	I know	H3045 →
רַבִּ֣ים	ra.Bim	many	H7227 →
פִּשְׁעֵיכֶ֔ם	pish.'ei.Khem	transgressions your	H6588 →
וַעֲצֻמִ֖ים	va.'a.tzu.Mim	and numerous	H6099 →
חַטֹּֽאתֵיכֶ֑ם	cha.to.tei.Khem	sins your	H2403 →
צֹרְרֵ֤י	tzo.re.Rei	O opposers of	H6887 →
צַדִּיק֙	tza.Dik	[the] righteous	H6662 →
לֹ֣קְחֵי	Lo.ke.chei	O takers of	H3947 →
כֹ֔פֶר	Kho.fer	ransom	H3724 →
וְאֶבְיוֹנִ֖ים	ve.'ev.yo.Nim	and needy [people]	H34 →
בַּשַּׁ֥עַר	ba.Sha.'ar	in the gate	H8179 →
הִטּֽוּ׃	hi.Tu	they turn aside	H5186 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Malachi 3:5
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud…
leads to
- James 5:8–9
  You, too, be patient and strengthen your hearts, because the Lord’s coming is near.
- Hebrews 13:4
  Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
- Deuteronomy 5:11
  You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.
- James 5:4
  Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
- Deuteronomy 27:19
  ‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Through
Amos 5:10
There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.
leads to
- 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…
- 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.
Through
Isaiah 1:23
Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.
leads to
- Micah 7:3
  Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.