Amos 5:11

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Therefore, because you make the poor pay taxes on their crops and exact a grain tax from them, you will not live in the houses you built with chiseled stone, nor will you drink the wine from the fine vineyards you planted.

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Referenced Verses

  • Mic 6:15 : 15 You will plant crops, but will not harvest them; you will squeeze oil from the olives, but you will have no oil to rub on your bodies; you will squeeze juice from the grapes, but you will have no wine to drink.
  • Deut 28:30 : 30 You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.
  • Zeph 1:13 : 13 Their wealth will be stolen and their houses ruined! They will not live in the houses they have built, nor will they drink the wine from the vineyards they have planted.
  • Jas 2:6 : 6 But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich oppressing you and dragging you into the courts?
  • Rev 11:8-9 : 8 Their corpses will lie in the street of the great city that is symbolically called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was also crucified. 9 For three and a half days those from every people, tribe, nation, and language will look at their corpses, because they will not permit them to be placed in a tomb. 10 And those who live on the earth will rejoice over them and celebrate, even sending gifts to each other, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.
  • Hag 1:6 : 6 You have planted much, but have harvested little. You eat, but are never filled. You drink, but are still thirsty. You put on clothes, but are not warm. Those who earn wages end up with holes in their money bags.’”
  • Deut 28:38-39 : 38 The Curse of Reversed Status“You will take much seed to the field but gather little harvest, because locusts will consume it. 39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink wine or gather in grapes, because worms will eat them.
  • Isa 5:7-8 : 7 Indeed Israel is the vineyard of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the people of Judah are the cultivated place in which he took delight. He waited for justice, but look what he got– disobedience! He waited for fairness, but look what he got– cries for help! 8 Disaster is Coming Beware, those who accumulate houses, who also accumulate landed property until there is no land left, and you are the only landowners remaining within the land.
  • Isa 59:13-14 : 13 We have rebelled and tried to deceive the LORD; we turned back from following our God. We stir up oppression and rebellion; we tell lies we concocted in our minds. 14 Justice is driven back; godliness stands far off. Indeed, honesty stumbles in the city square and morality is not even able to enter.
  • Isa 65:21-22 : 21 They will build houses and live in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. 22 No longer will they build a house only to have another live in it, or plant a vineyard only to have another eat its fruit, for my people will live as long as trees, and my chosen ones will enjoy to the fullest what they have produced.
  • Amos 3:15-4:1 : 15 I will destroy both the winter and summer houses. The houses filled with ivory will be ruined, the great houses will be swept away.” The LORD is speaking! 1 Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan who live on Mount Samaria! You oppress the poor; you crush the needy. You say to your husbands,“Bring us more to drink!”
  • Mic 2:2 : 2 They confiscate the fields they desire, and seize the houses they want. They defraud people of their homes, and deprive people of the land they have inherited.
  • Mic 3:1-3 : 1 God Will Judge Judah’s Sinful Leaders I said,“Listen, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the nation of Israel! You ought to know what is just, 2 yet you hate what is good, and love what is evil. You flay my people’s skin and rip the flesh from their bones. 3 You devour my people’s flesh, strip off their skin, and crush their bones. You chop them up like flesh in a pot– like meat in a kettle.

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    14The LORD comes to pronounce judgment on the leaders of his people and their officials. He says,“It is you who have ruined the vineyard! You have stashed in your houses what you have stolen from the poor.

    15Why do you crush my people and grind the faces of the poor?” The Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies has spoken.

  • Amos 5:12
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    12Certainly I am aware of your many rebellious acts and your numerous sins. You torment the innocent, you take bribes, and you deny justice to the needy at the city gate.

  • Mic 6:15-16
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    15You will plant crops, but will not harvest them; you will squeeze oil from the olives, but you will have no oil to rub on your bodies; you will squeeze juice from the grapes, but you will have no wine to drink.

    16You follow Omri’s edicts, and all the practices of Ahab’s dynasty; you follow their policies. Therefore I will make you an appalling sight, the city’s inhabitants will be taunted derisively, and nations will mock all of you.”

  • Zeph 1:13
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    13Their wealth will be stolen and their houses ruined! They will not live in the houses they have built, nor will they drink the wine from the vineyards they have planted.

  • Job 20:19
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    19For he has oppressed the poor and abandoned them; he has seized a house which he did not build.

  • Amos 8:4
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    4Listen to this, you who trample the needy, and do away with the destitute in the land.

  • Jer 22:13-15
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    13Judgment on Jehoiakim“‘Sure to be judged is the king who builds his palace using injustice and treats people unfairly while adding its upper rooms. He makes his countrymen work for him for nothing. He does not pay them for their labor.

    14He says,“I will build myself a large palace with spacious upper rooms.” He cuts windows in its walls, panels it with cedar, and paints its rooms red.

    15Does it make you any more of a king that you outstrip everyone else in building with cedar? Just think about your father. He was content that he had food and drink. He did what was just and right. So things went well with him.

  • Isa 5:7-9
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    7Indeed Israel is the vineyard of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the people of Judah are the cultivated place in which he took delight. He waited for justice, but look what he got– disobedience! He waited for fairness, but look what he got– cries for help!

    8Disaster is Coming Beware, those who accumulate houses, who also accumulate landed property until there is no land left, and you are the only landowners remaining within the land.

    9The LORD of Heaven’s Armies told me this:“Many houses will certainly become desolate, large, impressive houses will have no one living in them.

  • Amos 5:10
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    10The Israelites hate anyone who arbitrates at the city gate; they despise anyone who speaks honestly.

  • Isa 10:2
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    2to keep the poor from getting fair treatment, and to deprive the oppressed among my people of justice, so they can steal what widows own, and loot what belongs to orphans.

  • Job 22:7
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    7You gave the weary no water to drink and from the hungry you withheld food.

  • Job 24:11
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    11They press out the olive oil between the rows of olive trees; they tread the winepresses while they are thirsty.

  • Amos 4:1
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    1Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan who live on Mount Samaria! You oppress the poor; you crush the needy. You say to your husbands,“Bring us more to drink!”

  • Jas 2:6
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    6But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich oppressing you and dragging you into the courts?

  • Prov 22:22
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    22Do not exploit a poor person because he is poor and do not crush the needy in court,

  • Mic 3:12
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    12Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed up like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the Temple Mount will become a hill overgrown with brush!

  • Prov 28:3
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    3A poor person who oppresses the weak is like a driving rain without food.

  • Amos 6:11-12
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    11Indeed, look! The LORD is giving the command. He will smash the large house to bits, and the small house into little pieces.

    12Can horses run on rocky cliffs? Can one plow the sea with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into a poisonous plant, and the fruit of righteous actions into a bitter plant.

  • Isa 26:6
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    6It is trampled underfoot by the feet of the oppressed, by the soles of the poor.”

  • Job 5:5
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    5The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty pant for their wealth.

  • Isa 5:23
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    23They pronounce the guilty innocent for a payoff, they ignore the just cause of the innocent.

  • Isa 5:11
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    11Beware, those who get up early to drink beer, those who keep drinking long after dark until they are intoxicated with wine.

  • Hab 2:12
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    12Woe to the one who builds a city by bloodshed– he who starts a town by unjust deeds.

  • Hab 2:9
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    9The one who builds his house by unjust gain is as good as dead. He does this so he can build his nest way up high and escape the clutches of disaster.

  • Isa 5:2-3
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    2He built a hedge around it, removed its stones, and planted a vine. He built a tower in the middle of it, and constructed a winepress. He waited for it to produce edible grapes, but it produced sour ones instead.

    3So now, residents of Jerusalem, people of Judah, you decide between me and my vineyard!

  • Mic 2:2
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    2They confiscate the fields they desire, and seize the houses they want. They defraud people of their homes, and deprive people of the land they have inherited.

  • Hos 10:13
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    13But you have plowed wickedness; you have reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of deception. Because you have depended on your chariots; you have relied on your many warriors.

  • Neh 5:11
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    11This very day return to them their fields, their vineyards, their olive trees, and their houses, along with the interest that you are exacting from them on the money, the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil.”

  • Amos 5:7
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    7The Israelites turn justice into bitterness; they throw what is fair and right to the ground.

  • Ezek 22:12
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    12They take bribes within you to shed blood. You engage in usury and charge interest; you extort money from your neighbors. You have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign LORD.

  • Ezek 22:29
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    29The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have wronged the poor and needy; they have oppressed the resident foreigner and denied them justice.

  • Exod 23:6
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    6“You must not turn away justice for your poor people in their lawsuits.

  • Jer 5:28
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    28That is how they have grown fat and sleek. There is no limit to the evil things they do. They do not plead the cause of the fatherless in such a way as to win it. They do not defend the rights of the poor.

  • Isa 5:5
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    5Now I will inform you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will remove its hedge and turn it into pasture, I will break its wall and allow animals to graze there.

  • Lev 19:10
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    10You must not pick your vineyard bare, and you must not gather up the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You must leave them for the poor and the resident foreigner. I am the LORD your God.

  • Joel 1:11
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    11Be distressed, farmers; wail, vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley. For the harvest of the field has perished.

  • Jas 5:5
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    5You have lived indulgently and luxuriously on the earth. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.

  • Deut 28:39
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    39You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink wine or gather in grapes, because worms will eat them.

  • Obad 1:5
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    5“If thieves came to rob you during the night, they would steal only as much as they wanted! If grape pickers came to harvest your vineyards, they would leave some behind for the poor! But you will be totally destroyed!

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    16The one who oppresses the poor to increase his own gain and the one who gives to the rich– both end up only in poverty.

  • Hag 1:6
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    6You have planted much, but have harvested little. You eat, but are never filled. You drink, but are still thirsty. You put on clothes, but are not warm. Those who earn wages end up with holes in their money bags.’”

  • Amos 2:7
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    7They trample on the dirt-covered heads of the poor; they push the destitute away. A man and his father go to the same girl; in this way they show disrespect for my moral purity.