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Thy princes are rebellious against me, their sovereign Lord; they cast off my yoke, and make their own wills and lusts the rule of their life and government.
Companions of thieves; partly by giving them connivance and countenance, and receiving a recompence from them for it; and partly by practising the same violence, and cruelty, and injustice that thieves use.
Loveth gifts, i.e. bribes given to pervert justice, which are severely forbidden, Deu_10:17 27:25.
Followeth after rewards; pursuing them with all eagerness, and by all means possible.
They judge not the fatherless, & c.; they are so far from doing them justice, that they will not so much as give them a fair hearing of their cause, because they cannot make their way to them by gifts.