John Gill's Exposition on Amos 5:7

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, etc.] This seems to be spoken to kings and judges, as Aben Ezra and Kimchi observe; in whose hands is the administration of justice, and who often pervert it, as these did here addressed and complained of; that which was the most useful and salubrious, and so the most desirable to the commonwealth, namely, just judgment, was changed into the reverse, what was as bitter and as disagreeable as wormwood; or “hemlock”, as it might be rendered, and as it is in (<300612>Amos 6:12); even injustice: and leave off righteousness in the earth; leave off doing it among men: or rather, “leave [it] on the earth”f123; who cast it down to the ground, trampled upon it, and there left it; which is expressive not only of their neglect, but of their contempt of it; (see <270812>Daniel 8:12).

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