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For they know not; those who oppress others do it as unlearned lawyers and judges do, they are shamefully ignorant of the law of God.
To do right; what is equal between man and man they will not consider, nor do they care whether it be done or not.
Store up; as men lay up wealth in their treasures, they fill their houses.
Violence; perverting judgment, first condemning the innocent, next seizing all as forfeited by law; so they did, no doubt, in those times of rebellion and usurpations; sequestrations and decimations, &c. were then too.
Robbery; the true name of all their proceedings, however palliated.
In their palaces: this intimates to us that the greatest among them were chief actors herein; see Zep_1:9; but as they stored up violence, they also treasured up misery and desolation too, as the Hebrew elegantly imports.