Amos 5:13

"For I know how many are your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts."

Key Reflection

This verse highlights the severity of societal injustices and corruption among the Israelites. Amos condemns them for oppressing the righteous, accepting bribes, and denying justice to the poor, emphasizing their moral failure and the divine awareness of these transgressions.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time -The “time” may be either the time of the obduracy of the wicked, or that of the common punishment. For a time may be called “evil,” whether evil is done, or is suffered in it, as Jacob says, “Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been”Genesis 47:9. Of the first, he would perhaps say, that the oppressed poor would, if wise, be silent, not complaining or accusing, for, injustice having the mastery, complaint would only bring on them fresh sufferings.

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