Amos 8:4

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 14:4 : 4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
  • Prov 30:14 : 14 There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
  • Amos 5:11 : 11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
  • Amos 7:16 : 16 Now therefore hear thou the word of the LORD: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac.
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
  • Jas 5:6 : 6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
  • Isa 1:10 : 10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
  • Isa 28:14 : 14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
  • Isa 32:6-7 : 6 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. 7 The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
  • Jer 5:21 : 21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
  • Jer 28:15 : 15 Then said the prophet emiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie.
  • Amos 2:6-7 : 6 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes; 7 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:
  • Ps 56:1 : 1 To the chief Musician upon Jonath-elem-rechokim, Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath. Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.
  • Ps 140:12 : 12 I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
  • 1 Kgs 22:19 : 19 And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
  • Ps 12:5 : 5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.

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    5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?

    6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

  • Isa 10:1-2
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    1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;

    2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

  • Amos 4:1-2
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    1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Saria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.

    2 The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.

  • Job 24:3-4
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    3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

    4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

  • Amos 5:11-12
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    11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

    12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

  • Isa 3:14-15
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    14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

    15 What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

  • Ezek 22:29
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    29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

  • Prov 22:16
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    16 He that opesseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.

  • Prov 28:3
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    3 A poor man that opesseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.

  • Ps 82:3-4
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    3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

    4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.

  • Job 24:9-10
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    9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

    10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

  • Job 5:5
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    5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

  • Isa 5:8-9
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    8 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!

    9 In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

  • Amos 2:7
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    7 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:

  • Prov 22:22
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    22 Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither opess the afflicted in the gate:

  • Mic 3:9
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    9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.

  • Isa 32:6-7
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    6 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

    7 The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

  • Prov 28:8
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    8 He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.

  • Ezek 13:19
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    19 And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies?

  • Amos 8:11
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    11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a fine in the land, not a fine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:

  • Prov 21:13
    73%

    13 Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.

  • Mic 2:4
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    4 In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.

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    17 That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.

  • Hos 12:7
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    7 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

  • Job 6:27
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    27 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.

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    6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.

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    11 Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off.

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    7 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

  • Jer 5:28
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    28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

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    12 Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,

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    12 In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.

  • Prov 14:31
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    31 He that opesseth the poor reoacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.

  • Job 22:9
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    9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

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    4 Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;

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  • Exod 23:6
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    6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

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    7 Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

  • Prov 30:14
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    14 There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

  • Isa 24:4
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    4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.

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    1 Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye use of Israel; and give ye ear, O use of the king; for judgment is toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.