pesha involves one person or group violating a relationship of trust with another and this is a really common word in the Bible because it's one long story about a broken relationship between God and the Israelites at Mount Sinai they agreed to worship only their God and to care for the poor among them but they didn't and so God raised up prophets to confront them like the prophet Amos he accused the Israelites of pesha specifically for idolatry and selling the poor for a pair of sandals he also accused other nations like Tire who profited from capturing
whole towns and then selling them into slavery or the ammonites for murdering the innocent to enlarge their borders for Amos these are all acts of pesha they violate the universal trust that exists between all humans who are made in the image of God he watched these leaders justify the mistreatment of humans in the name of national security or a strong economy but for Amos it was a betrayal of humanity [Music]
