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No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.
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Justice as a Weapon
Commentators explain that the phrase "weigh the violence of your hands" is a deeply ironic image. The wicked leaders are using the very symbol of justice—the scales—to measure out and dispense violence and oppression. Instead of upholding the law, they twist it into a tool for their own evil, making their sin particularly grievous because it comes under the guise of a just process.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness - Whatever might be the outward appearances, whatever pretenses they might make to just judgment, …
19th Century
Anglican
In heart ... in the earth (or, better, in the land).—These in the text are in antithesi…
16th Century
Protestant
Yea, rather, in heart you plot wickedness. In the former verse he complained of the gross shamelessness manifested in their conduct. Now h…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Yea, in heart you work wickedness So far were they from speaking righteousness, and judging uprightly. The heart of …
When wrong is done under the form of law, it is worse than any other; especially it is grievous to behold those who profess to be children of God, …