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To turn aside - Their sentences have the effect, and are designed, to pervert justice, and to oppress the poor, or to deprive them of their …

To keep back. Others render it, to cause them to turn aside; but the true meaning is, to keep back the poor from judgment

To turn aside the needy from judgment
Such laws being made as discouraged them from any application for justice; and…

These verses are to be joined with the preceding chapter. Woe to the superior powers that devise and decree unrighteous decrees! And woe to the inf…

1. Woe to them that make wicked laws. Here he begins to threaten the foreign enemies who persecute them physically.
He threa…
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes