For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
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Gill's Exposition
Therefore thus saith the Lord God,.... Because of these tumults and riots, oppression and injustice, violence and robbery:
an adversary there shall be even round about the land: not Tyre, as…
Barnes' Notes
For - (and) they know not to do right They “have not known,” they have least all sense and knowledge, how “to do right” (literally, what is “straight-forward”) because they had so long ceased to do…
Adam Clarke
For they know not to do right - So we may naturally say that they who are doing wrong, and to their own prejudice and ruin, must certainly be ignorant of what is right, and what is their own interest.…
The Israelites are here again convicted and condemned, and particular notice given of the crimes they are convicted of and the punishment they are condemned to.
1. Notice is given of it to their…
Cambridge Bible
know not to do right Wrong-doing has become their second nature. Right(a rare word) is properly what is straight in front, fig. clear, true, straightforward(Isa 26:10; Isa 59:14; 2Sa 15:3).
store up…
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