Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
they afflict . . . they take--rather, "(ye) who afflict . . . take."
bribe--literally, a price with which one who has an unjust cause ransoms himself from your sentence (1 Samuel 12:3, Margin; Proverbs 6:35).
turn aside the poor in the gate--refuse them their right in the place of justice (Amos 2:7; Isaiah 29:21).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Isaiah 29:21
Amos 2:7
Amos 5:16
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