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Judgment is turned away backward: he speaks here of the sentences and decrees in courts of judicature, which are carried quite contrary to right and justice. God denies you justice, as you have denied help to others.
Justice standeth afar off: it notes the same thing with the former, to show that justice and judges are far asunder.
Truth is fallen; a metaphor taken from a feeble person that wants support, without which he falls; thus truth hath none to support or patronize it: the same, only otherwise expressed, with Isa_59:16. Truth is cast upon the ground, and justice trampled under foot.
In the street, i.e. in public.
Equity cannot enter; no such thing will be admitted in their courts; all corrupt, so that all equity and justice is violently kept off by the authority of the great ones.