Its heads judge for reward - Every class was corrupted. One sin, the root of all evil (1 Timothy 6:10), covetousness, e…

For reward. — Every function is carried out by judges, priests, and prophets through bribery, and yet they claim and count upon th…

The Prophet shows here first, how gross and supine was the hypocrisy of princes as well as of the priests and prophets; and then he declares that t…

The heads thereof judge for reward
That is, the heads or principal men of Zion and Jerusalem; the kings, or sanhedrim…

Zion's walls owe no thanks to those who build them up with blood and iniquity. The sin of man does not work the righteousness of God. Even when men…