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to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century
Presbyterian
18th Century

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 …

John Calvin

John Calvin

JohnCalvin

16th Century
Protestant
16th Century

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

John Gill

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century
Reformed Baptist
17th Century

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

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century
Presbyterian
17th Century

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…

Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas

ThomasAquinas

13th Century
Catholic
13th Century

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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