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Amos 5:12 KJV
Amos · chapter 5 · verse 12
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.Amos 5:12 · King James Version
Amos 5:12 in context
10They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
11Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
12For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
13Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
14Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- transgressionspeshaʻa revoltH6588 →
- manifoldrababundantH7227 →
- afflicttsârarto cramp, literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitiveH6887 →
- mightyʻâtsûwmpowerfulH6099 →
- bribekôpherproperly, a coverH3724 →
- asidenâṭâhto stretch or spread outH5186 →
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This is a message from God to the house of Israel, in which, I. They are told of their faults, that they might see what occasion there was for them to repent and reform, and that, when they were called to return, they might not need to ask, Wherein shall we return? 1.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 4-15