him that rebuketh in the gate - the judge who condemns their iniquity in the place of judgment (Isa 29:21).
abhor him that speaketh uprightly - the prophet telling them the unwelcome truth: answering in the parallelism to the judge, “that rebuketh in the gate” (compare 1Ki 22:8; Pro 9:8; Pro 12:1; Jer 36:23).