Amos 2:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

Thus says the LORD: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes:

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    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.'

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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;

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Thus saith{H559} Jehovah:{H3068} For three{H7969} transgressions{H6588} of Israel,{H3478} yea, for four,{H702} I will not turn away{H7725} the punishment thereof; because they have sold{H4376} the righteous{H6662} for silver,{H3701} and the needy{H34} for a pair of shoes—{H5275}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Thus saith{H559}{(H8804)} the LORD{H3068}; For three{H7969} transgressions{H6588} of Israel{H3478}, and for four{H702}, I will not turn away{H7725}{(H8686)} the punishment thereof; because they sold{H4376}{(H8800)} the righteous{H6662} for silver{H3701}, and the poor{H34} for a pair of shoes{H5275};

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Thus sayeth the LORDE: For thre & foure wickednesses of Israel, I wil not spare him: because he hath solde the rightuous for money, and the poore for shues.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Thus sayth the Lord, For three transgressions of Israel, and for foure, I will not turne to it, because they solde the righteous for siluer and the poore for shooes.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    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.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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;

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; Because they have sold the righteous for silver, And the needy for a pair of shoes;

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, And for four, I do not reverse it, Because of their selling for silver the righteous, And the needy for a pair of sandals.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes-

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes--

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given the upright man for silver, and the poor for the price of two shoes;

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes;

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    God Will Judge Israel This is what the LORD says:“Because Israel has committed three covenant transgressions– make that four!– I will not revoke my decree of judgment. They sold the innocent for silver, the needy for a pair of sandals.

Referenced Verses

  • Joel 3:3 : 3 And they have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy in exchange for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine that they might drink.
  • Amos 5:11-12 : 11 Since you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them. 12 For I know your many 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.
  • Mic 3:2-3 : 2 Who hate good and love evil; who strip their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; 3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, like meat for the pot, and like flesh within the cauldron.
  • 2 Kgs 18:12 : 12 because they did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded, and neither would they listen to them nor do them.
  • Isa 5:22-23 : 22 Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mix strong drink: 23 Who justify the wicked for a reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
  • Isa 29:21 : 21 That make a man an offender by a word, and lay a snare for him that reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nothing.
  • Ezek 23:5-9 : 5 And Aholah played the harlot while she was mine; and she lusted after her lovers, after the Assyrians her neighbors, 6 Who were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses. 7 Thus she committed her harlotries with them, with all the choice men of Assyria, and with all on whom she lusted: with all their idols she defiled herself. 8 She did not leave her harlotries brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their harlotry upon her. 9 Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she lusted.
  • Hos 4:1-2 : 1 Hear the word of the LORD, you children of Israel, for the LORD has a dispute with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. 2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.
  • Hos 4:11-14 : 11 Harlotry and wine and new wine take away the heart. 12 My people ask counsel from their wooden idols, and their staff declares to them, for the spirit of harlotry has caused them to err, and they have gone astray under their God. 13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shade thereof is good. Therefore your daughters shall commit harlotry, and your spouses shall commit adultery. 14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit harlotry, nor your spouses when they commit adultery, for the men themselves are separated with harlots, and they sacrifice with temple prostitutes. Therefore, the people who do not understand shall fall.
  • Hos 7:7-9 : 7 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings have fallen: there is none among them that calls unto me. 8 Ephraim, he has mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned. 9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he does not know it: yes, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he does not know it. 10 And the pride of Israel bears witness to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.
  • Hos 8:4-6 : 4 They have set up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, and I did not acknowledge it. From their silver and their gold, they have made idols for themselves, that they may be cut off. 5 Your calf, O Samaria, has cast you off; my anger is kindled against them. How long will it be until they attain innocence? 6 For it is from Israel; the workman made it, and it is not God. But the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
  • Hos 13:2-3 : 2 And now they sin more and more, and have made molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves. 3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passes away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
  • Mic 6:10-16 : 10 Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the short measure that is abominable? 11 Shall I count them pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights? 12 For the rich men there are full of violence, the inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. 13 Therefore I will make you sick by striking you, making you desolate because of your sins. 14 You shall eat, but not be satisfied; hunger shall be in your midst; you shall take hold, but shall not deliver; and what you deliver I will give up to the sword. 15 You shall sow, but not reap; you shall tread the olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil; and crush grapes, but not drink the wine. 16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels, that I may make you a desolation, and the inhabitants a hissing; therefore you shall bear the reproach of My people.
  • 2 Kgs 17:7-9 : 7 For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods. 8 And they walked in the statutes of the nations whom the LORD had cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made. 9 The children of Israel secretly did things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from the watchtower to the fortified city. 10 They set up images and groves on every high hill and under every green tree. 11 There they burned incense on all the high places, as the nations had done whom the LORD carried away before them; and they did wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger. 12 For they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, You shall not do this thing. 13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel and against Judah, by all the prophets and by all the seers, saying, Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. 14 Nevertheless they would not listen, but stiffened their necks, like their fathers, who did not believe in the LORD their God. 15 They rejected his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; they followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves, and went after the nations that were around them, although the LORD had commanded them not to do like them. 16 They left all the commandments of the LORD their God, made for themselves cast images, even two calves, made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal. 17 They caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, practiced divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 18 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel and removed them from his sight; there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
  • Amos 6:3-7 : 3 You who put far away the evil day, and bring near the seat of violence; 4 Who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall; 5 Who sing to the sound of the harp, and invent for themselves instruments of music, like David; 6 Who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the finest ointments: but are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph. 7 Therefore now they shall go captive with the first who go captive, and the banquet of those who stretch themselves shall be removed.
  • Amos 8:4-6 : 4 Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land fail, 5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, making the ephah small and the shekel large, and falsifying the balances with deceit? 6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals; yes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
  • Joel 3:6 : 6 The children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem you have sold to the Greeks, that you might remove them far from their border.

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    4 Thus says the LORD: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept His commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after which their fathers walked:

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