Amos 8:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land fail,

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  • Ps 14:4 : 4 Do all the workers of iniquity have no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon the LORD?
  • Prov 30:14 : 14 There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and whose jaws are like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.
  • Amos 5:11 : 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.
  • 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 up the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, nor allow those who are entering to go in.
  • Jas 5:6 : 6 You have condemned and killed the righteous; and he does not resist you.
  • Isa 1:10 : 10 Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.
  • Isa 28:14 : 14 Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, who rule this people who are in Jerusalem.
  • Isa 32:6-7 : 6 For the vile person will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make the soul of the hungry empty, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. 7 The schemes of the miser are evil: he devises wicked plans to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks what is right.
  • Jer 5:21 : 21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and see not; who have ears, and hear not:
  • Jer 28:15 : 15 Then said the prophet Jeremiah to Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD has not sent you; but you make this people to trust in a lie.
  • Amos 2:6-7 : 6 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: 7 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:
  • Ps 56:1 : 1 Be merciful to me, O God, for man would swallow me up; he fights against me daily oppressing 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, Therefore hear 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, says the LORD; I will set him in safety from him who puffs at him.

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    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?

  • Isa 10:1-2
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    1 Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and who write out oppressive laws they have prescribed;

    2 To turn aside the needy from justice and to take away the rights 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, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, 'Bring, and let us drink.'

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

  • Job 24:3-4
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    3 They drive away the donkey 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 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.

  • Isa 3:14-15
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    14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of His people, and their princes: for you have eaten up the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.

    15 What do you mean by crushing My people, and grinding the faces of the poor? says the Lord, the LORD of hosts.

  • Ezek 22:29
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    29 The people of the land have used oppression, and committed robbery, and have wronged the poor and needy: yes, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

  • Prov 22:16
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    16 He who oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he who gives to the rich, shall surely come to want.

  • Prov 28:3
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    3 A poor man who oppresses the poor is like a sweeping rain that leaves 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; rescue them from the hand of the wicked.

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

    10 They make him go naked without clothing and take away the sheaf from the hungry;

  • Job 5:5
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    5 Whose harvest the hungry devour, and take it even out of the thorns, and the thief swallows up their substance.

  • Isa 5:8-9
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    8 Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, till there is no place, that they may dwell alone in the midst of the earth!

    9 In my ears said the LORD of hosts, Truly many houses shall be desolate, even great and beautiful, without inhabitant.

  • Amos 2:7
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    7 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:

  • Prov 22:22
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    22 Do not rob the poor because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate;

  • Mic 3:9
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    9 Hear this, I pray you, you leaders of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.

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

    7 The schemes of the miser are evil: he devises wicked plans to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks what is right.

  • Prov 28:8
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    8 He who by usury and unjust gain increases his wealth gathers it for one who will pity the poor.

  • Ezek 13:19
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    19 Will you profane 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 who hear your lies?

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

  • Prov 21:13
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    13 Whoever stops 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 are utterly spoiled: he has changed the portion of my people; how has he removed it from me! Turning away, he has divided our fields.

  • Ezek 4:17
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    17 That they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and waste 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 loves to oppress.

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

  • Isa 26:6
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    6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor and the steps of the needy.

  • Zeph 1:11
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    11 Wail, you inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all those who handle silver are cut off.

  • Amos 5:7
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    7 You who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

  • Jer 5:28
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    28 They have grown fat, they shine: yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked: they do not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy they do not judge.

  • Ezek 18:12
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    12 Has oppressed the poor and needy, has spoiled by violence, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,

  • Ezek 22:12
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    12 In you they have taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken usury and increase, and you have greedily gained from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten Me, says the Lord GOD.

  • Prov 14:31
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    31 He who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker, but he who honors Him has mercy on the poor.

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

  • Zech 11:4-5
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    4 Thus says the LORD my God: Feed the flock of the slaughter.

    5 Whose owners slay them and hold themselves not guilty. And those who sell them say, 'Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich.' And their own shepherds do not pity them.

  • Exod 23:6
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    6 You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his dispute.

  • Job 22:7
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    7 You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

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

  • Isa 24:4
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    4 The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the proud people of the earth do languish.

  • Hos 5:1
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    1 Listen to this, O priests; and pay attention, O house of Israel; and give ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.