For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

They afflict the just, they take a bribe - rather, '(ye), who afflict the just, take a bribe-literally, a price with which one who has an unjust cause ransoms himself from your sentence (, "a bribe," margin, a ransom, ).

They turn aside the poor in the gate from their right - refuse them their right in the place of justice (; ).

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