Amos 8:6

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

We’re eager to trade silver for the poor, a pair of sandals for the needy! We want to mix in some chaff with the grain!”

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Referenced Verses

  • Amos 2:6 : 6 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.
  • Amos 8:4 : 4 Listen to this, you who trample the needy, and do away with the destitute in the land.
  • Lev 25:39-42 : 39 “‘If your brother becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service. 40 He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner; he must serve with you until the year of jubilee, 41 but then he may go free, he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors. 42 Since they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt, they must not be sold in a slave sale.
  • Neh 5:1-5 : 1 Nehemiah Intervenes on behalf of the Oppressed Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews. 2 There were those who said,“With our sons and daughters, we are many. We must obtain grain in order to eat and stay alive.” 3 There were others who said,“We are putting up our fields, our vineyards, and our houses as collateral in order to obtain grain during the famine.” 4 Then there were those who said,“We have borrowed money to pay our taxes to the king on our fields and our vineyards. 5 And now, though we share the same flesh and blood as our fellow countrymen, and our children are just like their children, still we have found it necessary to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters have been subjected to slavery, while we are powerless to help, since our fields and vineyards now belong to other people.”
  • Neh 5:8 : 8 I said to them,“To the extent possible we have bought back our fellow Jews who had been sold to the Gentiles. But now you yourselves want to sell your own countrymen, so that we can then buy them back!” They were utterly silent, and could find nothing to say.
  • Joel 3:3 : 3 and they cast lots for my people. They traded a boy for a prostitute; they sold a little girl for wine so they could drink.
  • Joel 3:6 : 6 You sold Judeans and Jerusalemites to the Greeks, removing them far from their own country.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Amos 8:4-5
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    85%

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

    5You say,“When will the new moon festival be over, so we can sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, so we can open up the grain bins? We’re eager to sell less for a higher price, and to cheat the buyer with rigged scales!

  • Amos 2:6-7
    2 verses
    76%

    6God 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.

    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.

  • Isa 10:2
    74%

    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.

  • Isa 3:14-15
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    72%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 7:16
    72%

    16Then the people went out and looted the Syrian camp. A seah of finely milled flour sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, just as in the LORD’s message.

  • Amos 5:11
    72%

    11Therefore, 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.

  • Lam 5:4
    72%

    4We must pay money for our own water; we must buy our own wood at a steep price.

  • Ps 44:12
    72%

    12You sold your people for a pittance; you did not ask a high price for them.

  • Neh 5:8
    71%

    8I said to them,“To the extent possible we have bought back our fellow Jews who had been sold to the Gentiles. But now you yourselves want to sell your own countrymen, so that we can then buy them back!” They were utterly silent, and could find nothing to say.

  • Joel 3:8
    71%

    8I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah. They will sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far away. Indeed, the LORD has spoken!

  • Neh 5:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2There were those who said,“With our sons and daughters, we are many. We must obtain grain in order to eat and stay alive.”

    3There were others who said,“We are putting up our fields, our vineyards, and our houses as collateral in order to obtain grain during the famine.”

  • Deut 2:6
    70%

    6You may purchase food to eat and water to drink from them.

  • Isa 26:6
    70%

    6It is trampled underfoot by the feet of the oppressed, by the soles of the poor.”

  • Ezek 13:19
    70%

    19You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. You have put to death people who should not die and kept alive those who should not live by your lies to my people, who listen to lies!

  • Job 24:10
    70%

    10They go about naked, without clothing, and go hungry while they carry the sheaves.

  • Zech 11:5
    70%

    5Those who buy them slaughter them and are not held guilty; those who sell them say,‘Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich.’ Their own shepherds have no compassion for them.

  • Mic 6:10-11
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    70%

    10“I will not overlook, O sinful house, the dishonest gain you have hoarded away, or the smaller-than-standard measure I hate so much.

    11I do not condone the use of rigged scales, or a bag of deceptive weights.

  • Amos 4:1
    70%

    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!”

  • Joel 3:3-6
    4 verses
    70%

    3and they cast lots for my people. They traded a boy for a prostitute; they sold a little girl for wine so they could drink.

    4Why are you doing these things to me, Tyre and Sidon? Are you trying to get even with me, land of Philistia? If you are, I will very quickly repay you for what you have done!

    5For you took my silver and my gold and brought my precious valuables to your own palaces.

    6You sold Judeans and Jerusalemites to the Greeks, removing them far from their own country.

  • Hag 1:6
    70%

    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.’”

  • Isa 58:7
    69%

    7I want you to share your food with the hungry and to provide shelter for homeless, oppressed people. When you see someone naked, clothe him! Don’t turn your back on your own flesh and blood!

  • 2 Kgs 7:1
    69%

    1Elisha replied,“Listen to the LORD’s message. This is what the LORD has said,‘About this time tomorrow a seah of finely milled flour will sell for a shekel and two seahs of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria.’”

  • Rev 6:6
    69%

    6Then I heard something like a voice from among the four living creatures saying,“A quart of wheat will cost a day’s pay and three quarts of barley will cost a day’s pay. But do not damage the olive oil and the wine!”

  • Ruth 4:8
    69%

    8So the guardian said to Boaz,“You may acquire it,” and he removed his sandal.

  • Hos 12:7
    69%

    7The Lord Refutes Israel’s False Claim of Innocence The businessmen love to cheat; they use dishonest scales.

  • Zeph 1:11
    69%

    11Wail, you who live in the market district, for all the merchants will disappear and those who count money will be removed.

  • Job 22:6
    69%

    6“For you took pledges from your brothers for no reason, and you stripped the clothing from the naked.

  • Neh 10:31
    69%

    31We will not buy on the Sabbath or on a holy day from the neighboring peoples who bring their wares and all kinds of grain to sell on the Sabbath day. We will let the fields lie fallow every seventh year, and we will cancel every loan.

  • Isa 52:3
    69%

    3For this is what the LORD says:“You were sold for nothing, and you will not be redeemed for money.”

  • Job 24:4
    68%

    4They turn the needy from the pathway, and the poor of the land hide themselves together.

  • Mic 3:11
    68%

    11Her leaders take bribes when they decide legal cases, her priests proclaim rulings for profit, and her prophets read omens for pay. Yet they claim to trust the LORD and say,“The LORD is among us. Disaster will not overtake us!”

  • Neh 5:5
    68%

    5And now, though we share the same flesh and blood as our fellow countrymen, and our children are just like their children, still we have found it necessary to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters have been subjected to slavery, while we are powerless to help, since our fields and vineyards now belong to other people.”

  • Ezek 7:12
    68%

    12The time has come; the day has struck! The customer should not rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for divine wrath comes against their whole crowd.

  • Prov 11:26
    68%

    26People will curse the one who withholds grain, but they will praise the one who sells it.

  • Lam 5:6
    68%

    6We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria in order to buy food to eat.

  • Job 6:27
    68%

    27Yes, you would gamble for the fatherless, and auction off your friend.

  • Prov 28:8
    68%

    8The one who increases his wealth by increasing interest gathers it for someone who is gracious to the needy.

  • Ezek 7:19
    68%

    19They will discard their silver in the streets, and their gold will be treated like filth. Their silver and gold will not be able to deliver them on the day of the LORD’s fury. They will not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs because their wealth was the obstacle leading to their iniquity.

  • Mic 2:4
    68%

    4In that day people will sing this taunt song to you– they will mock you with this lament:‘We are completely destroyed; they sell off the property of my people. How they remove it from me! They assign our fields to the conqueror.’

  • Isa 46:6
    68%

    6Those who empty out gold from a purse and weigh out silver on the scale hire a metalsmith, who makes it into a god. They then bow down and worship it.

  • Isa 55:2
    68%

    2Why pay money for something that will not nourish you? Why spend your hard-earned money on something that will not satisfy? Listen carefully to me and eat what is nourishing! Enjoy fine food!

  • Prov 1:13
    68%

    13We will seize all kinds of precious wealth; we will fill our houses with plunder.