The indictment is an opportunity to review all of the covenantal failures of the power structure. It will not surprise that the indictment basically concerns two matters, the abuse of neighbors, especially vulnerable neighbors, and the dishonoring of God. And of course those two go together as violation of the two commandments, love God and love neighbor. The urban elite, they assert, have not loved God. That refusal is evident in arrogance, pride, and self-indulgence, as they imagine they are the
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