Amós 5:12

La Biblia Reina-Valera

Porque sabido he vuestras muchas rebeliones, y vuestros grandes pecados: que afligen al justo, y reciben cohecho, y á los pobres en la puerta hacen perder su causa.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
Pues yo sé que muchas son vuestras transgresiones y graves vuestros pecados: oprimís al justo, aceptáis soborno y rechazáis a los pobres en la puerta.

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Porque he sabido vuestras muchas rebeliones, y vuestros grandes pecados: que afligen al justo, y reciben cohecho, y a los pobres en la puerta hacen perder su causa.

Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Porque he sabido de vuestras muchas rebeliones, y de vuestros grandes pecados, que afligen al justo, y reciben cohecho, y a los pobres en la puerta hacen perder su causa.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I know: Deuteronomy 31:21, Isaiah 66:18, Jeremiah 29:23, Hebrews 4:12, Hebrews 4:13

manifold: 2 Kings 17:7-17, Isaiah 47:9

they afflict: Amos 2:6, Amos 2:7, Amos 2:16, Acts 3:13, Acts 3:14, Acts 7:52, James 5:4, James 5:6

take: 1 Samuel 8:3, Psalms 26:9, Psalms 26:10, Isaiah 1:23, Isaiah 33:15, Micah 3:11, Micah 7:3

bribe: or, ransom

and they: Amos 2:7, Isaiah 10:2, Isaiah 29:21, Lamentations 3:34, Malachi 3:5

in the: Amos 5:10, Deuteronomy 16:18, Ruth 4:1, Job 29:7-25, Job 31:21, Proverbs 22:22

Reciprocal: Genesis 34:20 - the gate Exodus 23:6 - General Exodus 23:8 - thou shalt take Leviticus 25:14 - General Deuteronomy 1:17 - ye shall hear Job 15:34 - the tabernacles Job 24:10 - they take away Psalms 10:9 - when Proverbs 17:15 - that justifieth Proverbs 22:7 - rich Proverbs 24:7 - openeth Proverbs 31:9 - General Ecclesiastes 5:8 - regardeth Ezekiel 16:49 - neither Ezekiel 18:7 - hath spoiled Hosea 4:18 - her Hosea 5:11 - oppressed Amos 5:7 - turn Amos 6:3 - and cause Amos 6:12 - for Micah 6:12 - the rich Habakkuk 1:4 - for Zechariah 7:10 - oppress

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins,.... Their sins were numerous, and of the first magnitude, attended with very heavy aggravations; and these with all their circumstances were well known to the omniscient God, and therefore he determined to punish them as he had threatened. Some of their transgressions are pointed out, as follow:

they afflict the just; who are so both in a moral and evangelic sense; not comparatively only, but really; and particularly whose cause was just, and yet were vexed and distressed by unjust judges, who gave the cause against them, made them pay all costs and charges, and severely mulcted them: they take a bribe; of those that were against the just, and gave the cause for them. The word signifies "a ransom" f. The Targum it false mammon. Corrupt and unjust judges are here taxed:

and they turn aside the poor in the gate [from their right]; in the court of judicature, where they should have done them justice, such courts being usually held in the gates of cities; but instead of that they perverted their judgment, and did them wrong.

f כופר "pretium redemptionis", Mercerus, Liveleus, Drusius, Lytron, Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For I know - Literally, “I have known.” They thought that God did not know, because He did not avenge; as the Psalmist says, “Thy judgments are far above out of his sight” Psalms 10:5. People who do not act with the thought of God, cease to know Him, and forget that He knows them. “Your manifold transgressions;” literally, “many are your transgressions and mighty your sins.” Their deeds, they knew, were mighty, strong, vigorous, decided. God says, that their “sins” were so, not many and great only, but “mighty, strong” , “issuing not out of ignorance and infirmity, but out of proud strength” , “‘strong’ in the oppression of the poor and in provoking God,” and bringing down His wrath. So Asaph says of the prosperous; “Pride encompasseth them, as a chain; they are corrupt, they speak oppression wickedly; they speak from on high” Psalms 73:6, Psalms 73:8.

They afflict the just - Literally, “afflicters of the just,” that is, such as habitually afflicted him; whose habit and quality it was to afflict him. Our version mostly renders the word “enemies.” Originally, it signifies “afflicting, persecuting” enemies. Yet it is used also of the enemies of God, perhaps such as persecute Him in His people, or in His Son when in the flesh. The unjust hate the just, as is said in the book of Wisdom; “The ungodly said, Therefore let us lie in wait for the righteous, because he is not for our turn, and is clean contrary to our doings: he upbraideth us with our offending the law. He profeseth to have the knowledge of God, and he calleth himself the child of the Lord. He was made to reprove our thoughts. He is grievous unto us even to behold, for his life is not as other people’s, his ways are of another fashion” (WisdomPsalms 2:1; Psalms 2:1, Psa 2:12-15). So when the Truth and Righteousness came into the world, the Scribes and Pharisees hated Him because He reproved them, “denied” Acts 3:14 and crucified “the Holy one and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto” them, haters and “enemies of the Just,” and preferring to Him the unjust.

That take a bribe - Literally, “a ransom.” It may be that, contrary to the law, which forbade, in these same words Numbers 35:22, “to take any ransom for the life of a murderer,” they took some ransom to set free rich murderers, and so, (as we have seen for many years to be the effect of unjust acquittals,) blood was shed with impunity, and was shed the more, because it was disregarded. The word, however, is used in one place apparently of any bribe, through which a man connives at injustice 1 Samuel 12:3.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 12. I know your manifold transgressions — I have marked the multitude of your smaller crimes, as well as your mighty offenses. Among their greater offenses were,

1. Their afflicting the righteous.

2. Taking bribes to blind their eyes in judgment. And,

3. Refusing to hear the poor, who had no money to give them.