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For: this is given as an evidence of the truth of the charge, and of the justness of the resolution God had declared to punish them.
The rich men; who of all men had least temptation to deal unjustly; they were so well provided for, that without a trade they might live, and in trading they should have been content with honest gain; they should have been examples of charity and bounty, but these are the men deepest in this guilt.
Thereof; of Jerusalem, Samaria, and of every traded city in the land.
Full of violence; full of principles, practices, and fruits of violence and rapine, their minds inclined to cheatings and dishonesty, their practices managed with fraud and falsehood, and their riches heaped up through violence.
The inhabitants: the disease is universal, not some few rich men, but they that dwell in the city, are wholly oppression; or perhaps thus, who come to dwell among them, soon catch the disease, and learn these ways.
Thereof; of all the cities of the land of Canaan.
Have spoken lies; have accustomed themselves to speak falsehood, there is no truth in their affirmations or negations.
Their tongue is deceitful in their mouth; there is not a man of plain-heartedness, integrity, and honesty among them. So David complains of his times, Psa_12:1,2.