Amos 2:7

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

'They trample on the dust of the earth on the heads of the poor and obstruct the way of the afflicted. A man and his father go to the same girl, so that they profane My holy name.'

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the se maid, to profane my holy ne:

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    They pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father go in to the same maid, to profane My holy name:

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    they that pant{H7602} after the dust{H6083} of the earth{H776} on the head{H7218} of the poor,{H1800} and turn aside{H5186} the way{H1870} of the meek:{H6035} and a man{H376} and his father{H1} go{H3212} unto the [same] maiden,{H5291} to profane{H2490} my holy{H6944} name:{H8034}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    That pant{H7602}{(H8802)} after the dust{H6083} of the earth{H776} on the head{H7218} of the poor{H1800}, and turn aside{H5186}{(H8686)} the way{H1870} of the meek{H6035}: and a man{H376} and his father{H1} will go{H3212}{(H8799)} in unto the same maid{H5291}, to profane{H2490}{(H8763)} my holy{H6944} name{H8034}:

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    They treade vpon poore mens heades in the dust of the earth, & croke the wayes off the meke. The sonne and the father go to the harlot, to dishonoure my holy name:

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    They gape ouer the head of the poore, in the dust of the earth, and peruert the wayes of the meeke: and a man and his father will goe in to a mayde to dishonour mine holy Name.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    They gape for breath ouer the head of the poore in the dust of the earth, & peruert the way of the meke: A man and his father will go in to one mayde, to dishonour my holy name.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the [same] maid, to profane my holy name:

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, And deny justice to the oppressed; And a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    Who are panting for the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, And the way of the humble they turn aside, And a man and his father go unto the damsel, So as to pollute My holy name.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    they that pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father go unto the `same' maiden, to profane my holy name:

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    they that pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father go unto the [same] maiden, to profane my holy name:

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Crushing the head of the poor, and turning the steps of the gentle out of the way: and a man and his father go in to the same young woman, putting shame on my holy name:

  • World English Bible (2000)

    They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    They trample on the dirt-covered heads of the poor; they push the destitute away. A man and his father go to the same girl; in this way they show disrespect for my moral purity.

Referenced Verses

  • Amos 5:12 : 12 For I know your many transgressions and your mighty sins: oppressing the righteous, taking bribes, and turning aside the needy at the gate.
  • 1 Cor 5:1 : 1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and a kind of immorality that is not even found among the Gentiles—a man is sleeping with his father’s wife.
  • Mic 2:2 : 2 They covet fields and seize them; they take houses and rob them. They oppress a man and his house, a person and their inheritance.
  • Mic 2:9 : 9 You drive the women of my people out of their pleasant homes. You take away my splendor from their children forever.
  • Isa 10:2 : 2 They deprive the poor of justice and rob the rights of the needy among my people, making widows their spoil and leaving orphans to be plundered.
  • Ezek 22:11 : 11 One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife, another defiles his daughter-in-law with wickedness, and another violates his sister, his father’s daughter.
  • Ezek 36:20 : 20 And wherever they went among the nations, they profaned my holy name, for it was said about them, 'These are the LORD's people, yet they had to leave his land.'
  • Amos 4:1 : 1 Hear this word, you cows of Bashan who are on Mount Samaria, who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your masters, 'Bring us something to drink!'
  • Lev 18:8 : 8 Do not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; that would dishonor your father.
  • Lev 18:15 : 15 Do not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; you must not uncover her nakedness.
  • Lev 20:3 : 3 I will set my face against that man and cut him off from among his people because he has given his children to Molech, defiling my sanctuary and profaning my holy name.
  • 2 Sam 12:14 : 14 However, because by doing this you have shown utter contempt for the Lord, the son born to you will surely die.'
  • 1 Kgs 21:4 : 4 Ahab went home sullen and angry because of what Naboth the Jezreelite had said when he told him, 'I will not give you my inheritance.' He lay on his bed, turned his face away, and refused to eat.
  • Prov 28:21 : 21 To show partiality is not good, yet for a piece of bread, a man will transgress.
  • Mic 7:2-3 : 2 The godly have perished from the land, and there is no upright person among humanity. All of them lie in wait for blood; they hunt each other with nets. 3 Their hands are skilled at doing evil: the ruler demands gifts, the judge accepts bribes, and the powerful speak out their selfish desires. Together they weave a web of corrupt schemes.
  • Zeph 3:3 : 3 Her officials are roaring lions in her midst; her judges are wolves of the evening, leaving nothing for the morning.
  • Rom 2:24 : 24 For as it is written, 'The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.'
  • Amos 8:4 : 4 Hear this, you who trample on the needy and seek to destroy the poor of the land,

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Isa 10:2
    78%

    2 They deprive the poor of justice and rob the rights of the needy among my people, making widows their spoil and leaving orphans to be plundered.

  • Ezek 22:10-11
    2 verses
    77%

    10 In you, they have dishonored their fathers' nakedness; they have violated women during their impurity.

    11 One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife, another defiles his daughter-in-law with wickedness, and another violates his sister, his father’s daughter.

  • Ezek 22:7-8
    2 verses
    76%

    7 Within you, they have treated father and mother with contempt; they have oppressed the foreigner in your midst; they have wronged the orphan and the widow.

    8 You have despised my holy things and profaned my Sabbaths.

  • Amos 2:6
    76%

    6 This is what the LORD says: 'For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals.'

  • Isa 3:14-16
    3 verses
    76%

    14 The LORD enters into judgment against the elders and leaders of His people: 'It is you who have ruined the vineyard; the plunder taken from the poor is in your houses.'

    15 'Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?' declares the Lord, the LORD of Hosts.

    16 The LORD says, 'Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, walking with outstretched necks, flirting with their eyes, taking short, mincing steps, and jingling ornaments on their feet,

  • Amos 2:8
    76%

    8 'They stretch out beside every altar on garments taken in pledge, and in the house of their gods they drink wine taken as fines.'

  • Mic 2:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2 They covet fields and seize them; they take houses and rob them. They oppress a man and his house, a person and their inheritance.

    3 Therefore, this is what the LORD says: 'I am planning disaster against this family, from which you cannot free your necks, nor will you walk proudly, for it will be a time of calamity.'

  • Amos 8:4
    74%

    4 Hear this, you who trample on the needy and seek to destroy the poor of the land,

  • Zeph 1:17
    74%

    17 I will bring distress on mankind, and they will walk like the blind because they have sinned against the Lord. Their blood will be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.

  • Job 24:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3 They drive away the orphan’s donkey and take the widow’s ox as security.

    4 They turn the needy off the path, and the poor of the land are forced to hide together.

  • Ezek 18:12
    73%

    12 oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore a pledge, looks to idols, and does detestable things,

  • Jer 3:2
    73%

    2 Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Where have you not been violated? By the roads you sat waiting for lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

  • Amos 5:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

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

    12 For I know your many transgressions and your mighty sins: oppressing the righteous, taking bribes, and turning aside the needy at the gate.

  • Job 24:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9 They snatch the orphan from the breast and take the poor as a pledge.

    10 They go about naked without clothing, and they carry sheaves while hungry.

  • Amos 5:7
    73%

    7 You who turn justice to bitterness and cast righteousness to the ground—

  • Hos 6:9
    73%

    9 As marauders lie in wait for someone, so a band of priests murder on the road to Shechem; they commit heinous crimes.

  • Jer 8:10
    73%

    10 Therefore, I will give their wives to others and their fields to new owners. From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit.

  • Jer 7:30
    73%

    30 For the people of Judah have done evil in my sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their detestable idols in the house that bears my name to defile it.

  • Isa 9:17
    72%

    17 For wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns. It sets the thickets of the forest ablaze, and they roll upward in columns of smoke.

  • Mal 2:3
    72%

    3 Behold, I will rebuke your descendants and spread dung on your faces, the dung of your feasts, and it will be carried away with you.

  • Mal 2:11
    72%

    11 Judah has been unfaithful, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, which He loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

  • Ezek 7:18
    72%

    18 They will put on sackcloth, and horror will cover them. Shame will be on every face, and every head will be shaved.

  • Amos 8:6
    72%

    6 Buying the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, even selling the sweepings of the wheat.'

  • Jer 5:28
    72%

    28 They have grown fat and sleek. They excel in evil deeds; they do not defend the rights of the fatherless so they might prosper, nor do they uphold the cause of the needy.

  • Jer 5:7
    72%

    7 How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by false gods. I satisfied them, but they committed adultery and gathered at the houses of prostitutes.

  • Lam 5:11
    72%

    11 Women in Zion were violated, virgins in the cities of Judah.

  • Mal 1:7
    72%

    7 By presenting defiled food on my altar. But you ask, 'How have we defiled you?' By saying, 'The LORD's table is contemptible.'

  • Mic 7:3
    72%

    3 Their hands are skilled at doing evil: the ruler demands gifts, the judge accepts bribes, and the powerful speak out their selfish desires. Together they weave a web of corrupt schemes.

  • Isa 3:5
    72%

    5 The people will oppress one another—man against man, neighbor against neighbor. The young will act arrogantly toward the elderly, and the dishonored against the honored.

  • Joel 2:17
    72%

    17 Let the priests, who minister before the LORD, weep between the portico and the altar. Let them say, 'Spare your people, LORD. Do not make your heritage an object of scorn, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, “Where is their God?”'

  • Mal 2:17
    72%

    17 You have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet you ask, 'How have we wearied Him?' By saying, 'Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of the Lord, and He delights in them,' or 'Where is the God of justice?'

  • Isa 26:6
    72%

    6 The feet of the oppressed, the footsteps of the needy, will trample it.

  • Hos 2:5
    72%

    5 Otherwise, I will strip her naked, expose her as on the day of her birth. I will make her like a wilderness, turn her into a dry land, and let her die of thirst.

  • Jer 2:7
    72%

    7 I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and its bounty. But you came and defiled my land. You made my inheritance detestable.

  • Mic 3:9
    71%

    9 Hear this, leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, you who despise justice and twist all that is right:

  • Ezek 36:17
    71%

    17 'Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it with their conduct and actions. Their way was as unclean as a woman's impurity in my sight.

  • Job 6:27
    71%

    27 You would even cast lots over the fatherless and barter away your friend.

  • Mic 3:11
    71%

    11 Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for silver. Yet they lean on the LORD, saying, 'Is not the LORD among us? No disaster will come upon us.'

  • Ezek 22:29
    71%

    29 The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the foreigner, denying them justice.

  • Isa 65:7
    71%

    7 Your iniquities and the iniquities of your ancestors together,' says the LORD, 'because they burned incense on the mountains and reproached me on the hills; I will measure their former deeds into their laps.'

  • Jer 6:13
    71%

    13 For from the least to the greatest, all are greedy for unjust gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit.

  • Ezek 7:21
    71%

    21 I will give it into the hands of foreigners as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as spoil, and they will defile it.