Amos 8:4

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

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  • Ps 14:4 : 4 Do all the evildoers not understand? They devour my people as if they were eating bread, but they do not call upon the LORD.
  • Prov 30:14 : 14 There is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the poor from the earth and the needy from among mankind.
  • Amos 5:11 : 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.
  • Amos 7:16 : 16 Now therefore, hear the word of the Lord: You say, 'Do not prophesy against Israel and do not preach against the house of Isaac.'
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor do you allow those entering to go in.
  • Jas 5:6 : 6 You have condemned and murdered the righteous person, who does not resist you.
  • Isa 1:10 : 10 Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah.
  • Isa 28:14 : 14 Therefore, hear the word of the LORD, you scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem.
  • Isa 32:6-7 : 6 For the fool speaks folly, and his heart inclines toward wickedness: to practice ungodliness and to speak error about the Lord, leaving the hungry unsatisfied and depriving the thirsty of drink. 7 The schemes of the wicked are evil; he devises wicked plans to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just.
  • Jer 5:21 : 21 Hear this, you foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.
  • Jer 28:15 : 15 Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah, 'Listen now, Hananiah, the LORD has not sent you, but you have led this people to trust in falsehood.'
  • Amos 2:6-7 : 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.' 7 '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.'
  • Ps 56:1 : 1 For the director, according to 'The Silent Dove of Distant Places.' A Miktam of David, when the Philistines captured him in Gath.
  • Ps 140:12 : 12 May slanderers not be established in the land; may evil hunt down violent men to their destruction.
  • 1 Kgs 22:19 : 19 Micaiah continued, 'Therefore, hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on His throne, with all the host of heaven standing around Him on His right and on His left.'
  • Ps 12:5 : 5 Those who say, 'By our tongue we will prevail; our lips are our own—who is lord over us?'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Amos 8:5-6
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    5 saying, 'When will the new moon be over, so we may sell grain, and the Sabbath end, so we may market wheat, making the ephah small and the shekel large, and falsifying the scales with deceit?

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

  • Isa 10:1-2
    2 verses
    81%

    1 Woe to those who enact unjust decrees and to those who write oppressive laws.

    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.

  • Amos 4:1-2
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    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!'

    2 The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: 'Indeed, the days are coming upon you when you will be taken away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.'

  • Job 24:3-4
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    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.

  • Amos 5:11-12
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    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.

  • Isa 3:14-15
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    78%

    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.

  • Ezek 22:29
    75%

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

  • Prov 22:16
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    16 One who oppresses the poor to increase their wealth and one who gives gifts to the rich will both come to poverty.

  • Prov 28:3
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    3 A poor man who oppresses the needy is like a driving rain that leaves no food.

  • Ps 82:3-4
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    74%

    3 Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.

    4 Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.

  • Job 24:9-10
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    74%

    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.

  • Job 5:5
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    5 The hungry devour his harvest, even taking it from among thorns; the thirsty swallow his wealth.

  • Isa 5:8-9
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    8 Woe to those who add house to house and join field to field until there is no room, and you live alone in the midst of the land.

    9 The Lord of Hosts said in my hearing: Truly, many houses will become desolate—large and beautiful ones, without occupants.

  • Amos 2:7
    74%

    7 '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.'

  • Prov 22:22
    74%

    22 Do not rob the poor because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate.

  • Mic 3:9
    74%

    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:

  • Isa 32:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6 For the fool speaks folly, and his heart inclines toward wickedness: to practice ungodliness and to speak error about the Lord, leaving the hungry unsatisfied and depriving the thirsty of drink.

    7 The schemes of the wicked are evil; he devises wicked plans to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just.

  • Prov 28:8
    74%

    8 Whoever increases his wealth by charging interest and unfair gain gathers it for one who is kind to the poor.

  • Ezek 13:19
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    19 You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. By lying to my people, who listen to lies, you have killed those who should not have died and spared those who should not live.

  • Amos 8:11
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    11 'Behold, the days are coming,' declares the Lord God, 'when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.'

  • Prov 21:13
    73%

    13 Whoever shuts their ears to the cry of the poor will also cry out and not be answered.

  • Mic 2:4
    73%

    4 On that day, they will take up a taunt against you and wail with bitter lament, saying: 'We are utterly ruined; my people's inheritance is divided. How it has been taken away from me! He removes our fields and gives them to traitors.'

  • Ezek 4:17
    73%

    17 'In this way, they will lack bread and water, and they will be appalled at one another and waste away because of their iniquity.'

  • Hos 12:7
    73%

    7 But you must return to your God; maintain love and justice and wait for your God continually.

  • Job 6:27
    73%

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

  • Isa 26:6
    73%

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

  • Zeph 1:11
    73%

    11 Wail, you residents of the Mortar, for all the merchants are silenced; all who handle silver are cut off.

  • Amos 5:7
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    7 You who turn justice to bitterness and cast righteousness to the ground—

  • Jer 5:28
    73%

    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.

  • Ezek 18:12
    73%

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

  • Ezek 22:12
    72%

    12 In you, they accept bribes to shed blood; they take interest and increase unlawfully. You have gained profit in extorting your neighbors, and you have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign LORD.

  • Prov 14:31
    72%

    31 Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.

  • Job 22:9
    72%

    9 You sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.

  • Zech 11:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    4 This is what the LORD my God says: ‘Shepherd the flock marked for slaughter.’

    5 Their buyers slaughter them without remorse, and those who sell them say, 'Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich.' Their own shepherds show no pity on them.

  • Exod 23:6
    72%

    6 Do not deny justice to your poor among you in their lawsuit.

  • Job 22:7
    72%

    7 You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

  • Prov 30:14
    72%

    14 There is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the poor from the earth and the needy from among mankind.

  • Isa 24:4
    72%

    4 The earth mourns and withers; the world fades and withers; the exalted of the earth languish.

  • Hos 5:1
    72%

    1 Hear this, O priests; pay attention, O house of Israel; listen, O royal house! For judgment is meant for you, because you have become a snare at Mizpah and a net spread over Tabor.

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