Amos 8:4

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Heare this, O ye that swallow vp the poore, that ye may make the needy of the lande to fayle,

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  • Ps 14:4 : 4 Do not all the workers of iniquitie know, deuouryng my people as though they deuoured bread: that they call not vpon God?
  • Prov 30:14 : 14 There is a generation whose teeth are as swordes, and their chawes as knyues, to deuour the poore from of the earth, & the needy from among men.
  • Amos 5:11 : 11 Forasmuch then as your treading is vpon the poore, and ye take from hym burdens of wheate: ye haue buylt houses of hewen stone, but ye shall not dwell in them: ye haue planted pleasaunt vineyardes, but ye shall not drinke wine of them.
  • Amos 7:16 : 16 Now therfore heare thou the word of the Lorde: Thou sayest, Prophecie not against Israel, and speake nothing against the house of Isaac.
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 Wo vnto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye shut vp the kingdome of heauen before men: ye neither go in your selues, neither suffer ye them that come, to enter in.
  • Jas 5:6 : 6 Ye haue condempned and kylled the iust, and he hath not resisted you.
  • Isa 1:10 : 10 Heare the worde of the Lord ye lordes of Sodoma, and hearken vnto the lawe of our God thou people of Gomorra.
  • Isa 28:14 : 14 Wherfore heare the word of the Lord ye mockers, ye that haue rule of this people whiche is at Hierusalem.
  • Isa 32:6-7 : 6 But the nigarde wyll speake nigardlye, and his heart wyll worke euyll, and play the hypocrite, and imagine abhominations against God, to make the hungry leane, and to withholde drinke from the thirstie. 7 The weapons of the churlishe are euyll, he deuiseth noysome deuises, that he may beguyle the poore with deceiptfull wordes, yea euen there as he should geue sentence with the poore.
  • Jer 5:21 : 21 Heare this thou foolishe and vndiscreete people, ye haue eyes but ye see not, eares haue ye but ye heare not.
  • Jer 28:15 : 15 Then sayde the prophete Ieremie vnto the prophete Hananias: Heare me Hananias, The Lorde hath not sent thee, but thou bryngest this people into a false beliefe.
  • Amos 2:6-7 : 6 Thus sayth the Lorde, For three wickednesses of Israel, and for foure I wil not spare hym: because they solde the righteous for siluer, and the poore for a paire of shoes. 7 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.
  • Ps 56:1 : 1 To the chiefe musition as concerning the dumbe doue in a farre countrey, the golden psalme of Dauid, when the Philistines toke him in Geth. Be mercifull vnto me O Lorde: for man goeth about to deuour me, he dayly fyghtyng, oppresseth me.
  • Ps 140:12 : 12 I am sure that God wyll dispatche the cause of the afflicted: and he wyll geue iudgement for the needy.
  • 1 Kgs 22:19 : 19 And he sayd againe: Heare thou therefore the word of the Lorde. I sawe the Lord sit on his seate, and all the hoast of heauen stoode about him on his right hande and on his left.
  • Ps 12:5 : 5 For the calamities of the oppressed, for the deepe sighyng of the poore, I wyll nowe vp sayeth God: and I wyll put in safetie, hym whom the wicked hath snared.

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    5 Saying, When will the new moneth be gone, that we may sell corne? & the Sabbath, that we may set foorth wheate, and make the Epha small, & the sicle great, & falsifie the wayghtes by deceite?

    6 That we may bie the poore for siluer, and the needy for shoes, yea and sell the refuse of the wheate?

  • Isa 10:1-2
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    1 Wo be vnto them that make vnrighteous lawes, and that causeth their actuaries to wryte greeuousnesse,

    2 Where thorowe the poore are put from their right, and my seelie people robbed of iudgement, that wydowes may be their pray, and that they may rob the fatherlesse.

  • Amos 4:1-2
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    1 Heare this worde ye kyne of Basan, that are in the mountaine of Samaria, which oppresse the poore, & destroy the needy, which say to their maisters, Bring and let vs drinke.

    2 The Lord God hath sworne by his holinesse, that lo, the dayes shal come vpon you, that he will take you away with thornes, and your posteritie with fishe hookes.

  • Job 24:3-4
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    3 They driue away the asse of the fatherlesse, and take the wydowes oxe for a pledge:

    4 They cause the poore to turne out of the way, so that the poore of the earth hyde them selues together.

  • Amos 5:11-12
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    11 Forasmuch then as your treading is vpon the poore, and ye take from hym burdens of wheate: ye haue buylt houses of hewen stone, but ye shall not dwell in them: ye haue planted pleasaunt vineyardes, but ye shall not drinke wine of them.

    12 For I knowe your manyfolde transgressions, and your mightie sinnes: they afflict the iust, they take rewardes, and they oppresse the poore in the gate.

  • Isa 3:14-15
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    14 The Lorde shall enter into iudgement with the elders and princes of his people, and shall say to them: It is ye that haue burnt vp my vineyarde, the spoyle of the poore is in your houses.

    15 What meane ye that ye bray as in a morter my people, and grinde the faces of the poore? saith the Lorde God of hoastes.

  • Ezek 22:29
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    29 The people in the lande vsed wicked extortion and robbery, they vexe the poore and needy, and oppresse the straunger agaynst right.

  • Prov 22:16
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    16 Who so doth a poore man wrong, to increase his owne riches and geueth vnto the ryche, at the last commeth to pouertie hym selfe.

  • Prov 28:3
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    3 One poore man oppressing another by violence, is like a raging rayne that destroyeth the fruite.

  • Ps 82:3-4
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    3 Iudge ryght vnto the poore and fatherlesse: dispatch according to iustice suche as be afflicted and in necessitie.

    4 Deliuer the poore and outcast: saue them from the hande of the vngodly.

  • Job 24:9-10
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    9 They plucke the fatherlesse from the brest, and take the pledge from the poore.

    10 They let hym go naked without clothing, and haue taken away the sheafe of the hungrie.

  • Job 5:5
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    5 His haruest was eaten of the hungrie, & taken from among the thornes, and the thurstie drunke vp their labour: It is not the earth that bringeth foorth iniquitie,

  • Isa 5:8-9
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    8 Wo vnto them that ioyne one house to another, and bring one lande so nigh vnto another, that there is no more place: Wyll ye be placed alone in the myddest of the earth?

    9 These thynges are in the eares of the Lorde of hoastes: of a trueth great and faire houses shalbe without any dweller in them.

  • Amos 2:7
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    7 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.

  • Prov 22:22
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    22 Rob not the poore, because he is poore: and oppresse not the simple in iudgement:

  • Mic 3:9
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    9 Heare this I pray you ye heades of the house of Iacob, and princes of the house of Israel: they abhorre iudgement, and peruert all equitie.

  • Isa 32:6-7
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    6 But the nigarde wyll speake nigardlye, and his heart wyll worke euyll, and play the hypocrite, and imagine abhominations against God, to make the hungry leane, and to withholde drinke from the thirstie.

    7 The weapons of the churlishe are euyll, he deuiseth noysome deuises, that he may beguyle the poore with deceiptfull wordes, yea euen there as he should geue sentence with the poore.

  • Prov 28:8
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    8 He that by vsurie and vniust gaynes gathereth riches: he shall lay them in store for a man that will pitie the poore.

  • Ezek 13:19
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    19 And wyll ye pollute me to my people for handfuls of barly, and for peeces of bread, to kyll the soules of them that dye not, and promise life to them that liue not, in lying to my people that heareth your lyes?

  • Amos 8:11
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    11 Behold the dayes come sayth the Lord God, that I will sende a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor thirst for water, but of hearing the worde of the Lorde.

  • Prov 21:13
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    13 Who so stoppeth his eares at the crying of the poore, he shall crye hym selfe and not be hearde.

  • Mic 2:4
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    4 In that day shal this parable be vsed, and a mourning shalbe made ouer you on this maner: We be vtterly desolate, the portion of my people is translated: how wyll he parte vnto vs the lande that he hath taken from vs?

  • Ezek 4:17
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    17 That they may cause a lacke of bread and water, and be astonied one at another, and be consumed in their iniquitie.

  • Hos 12:7
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    7 He is Chanaan, the ballaunces of deceipt are in his hande, he loueth to oppresse.

  • Job 6:27
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    27 Ye fall vpon the fatherlesse, and digge a pit to ouerthrowe your owne frende.

  • Isa 26:6
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    6 The foote, euen the foote of the poore, and the steppes of suche as be in necessitie shall treade it downe.

  • Zeph 1:11
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    11 Howle ye that dwel in the lowe places, for al the marchaunt people are destroyed, and all they that were laden with siluer, are rooted out.

  • Amos 5:7
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    7 They turne iudgement to wormewood, and forsake righteousnesse in the earth.

  • Jer 5:28
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    28 Hereof are they fat and welthy, and are more mischieuous then any other: they minister not the lawe, they make no ende of the fatherlesse cause, yea and they prosper: yet they iudge not the poore according to equitie.

  • Ezek 18:12
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    12 Or hath oppressed the poore and needie, or spoyled by violence, or hath not restored the pledge, or hath lyft vp his eyes vnto the idols, or hath committed abomination:

  • Ezek 22:12
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    12 Yea giftes haue ben receaued in thee to shed blood, thou hast taken vsurie and encrease, thou hast oppressed thy neighbours by extortion, and forgotten me, saith the Lorde God.

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    31 He that doth a poore man wrong, blasphemeth his maker: but who so honoureth him, hath pitie on the poore.

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    9 Thou hast sent wydowes away emptie, and the armes of the fatherlesse were broken.

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    4 Thus saith the Lorde my God: Feede the sheepe of the slaughter,

    5 Which haue ben slaine of those that possessed them, yet they toke it for no sinne, but they that solde them said, The Lorde be thanked, for I am riche: yea their owne shepheardes spare the not.

  • Exod 23:6
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    6 Thou shalt not hinder the right of thy poore in his suite.

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    7 To such as were weery, hast thou geuen no water to drinke, & hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie.

  • Prov 30:14
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    14 There is a generation whose teeth are as swordes, and their chawes as knyues, to deuour the poore from of the earth, & the needy from among men.

  • Isa 24:4
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    4 The earth is sory and consumeth away, the worlde is feeble & perisheth, the proude people of the earth are come to naught.

  • Hos 5:1
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    1 O ye priestes heare this, take heede O thou housholde of Israel, geue eare O thou house of the king, for iudgement is against you, because you are become as a snare on Mizphah, and a spread net vpon the mount of Thabor.