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An official receives silver while a farmer waits beside a grain sack.
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Amos 5:10-13

The Gate Where Justice Fails

Let Justice Roll · Amos 5

Story guide: The scene illustrates the oracle's accusations of bribery, grain exaction, and rejection of honest speech.

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10They hate the one who reproves in the gate, and they abhor the one who speaks with integrity.

11Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take a grain tax from him, you have built houses of cut stone, but you will not live in them; you have planted delightful vineyards, but you will not drink their wine.

12For I know how many your transgressions are, and how great your sins are—oppressors of the righteous, takers of a bribe, and those who turn aside the needy in the gate.

13Therefore the prudent man keeps silent at that time, for it is an evil time.

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