Who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and ensnare him who adjudges in the gate, and thrust aside the just for a thing of nought, establishing that salvation includes the removal of those who pervert justice through false accusation, entrapment of judges, and the dismissal of the righteous. The specific forms of injustice—false witness, judicial corruption, miscarriage of justice—represent the systematic ways that the powerful oppress the weak. The oracle establishes that true salvation requires the restoration of justice and the removal of those who have corrupted the legal system. The emphasis on the gate (the place of judgment) suggests that corruption has reached into the institutional structures that should protect the vulnerable. The removal of these injustices is presented as essential to the establishment of the redeemed community.

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