Amos 8:4

World English Bible (2000)

Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause 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 don't call on Yahweh?
  • Prov 30:14 : 14 There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.
  • Amos 5:11 : 11 Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.
  • Amos 7:16 : 16 Now therefore listen to the word of Yahweh: 'You say, Don't prophesy against Israel, and don't preach against the house of Isaac.'
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
  • Jas 5:6 : 6 You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn't resist you.
  • Isa 1:10 : 10 Hear the word of Yahweh, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
  • Isa 28:14 : 14 Therefore hear the word of Yahweh, you scoffers, that rule this people in Jerusalem:
  • Isa 32:6-7 : 6 For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, To make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. 7 The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.
  • Jer 5:21 : 21 'Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and don't see; who have ears, and don't hear:
  • Jer 28:15 : 15 Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah: Yahweh has not sent you; but you make this people to trust in a lie.
  • Amos 2:6-7 : 6 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; 7 They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;
  • Ps 56:1 : 1 Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.
  • Ps 140:12 : 12 I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.
  • 1 Kgs 22:19 : 19 Micaiah said, "Therefore hear the word of Yahweh. I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
  • Ps 12:5 : 5 "Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise," says Yahweh; "I will set him in safety from those who malign 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 market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;

    6 that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?'"

  • Isa 10:1-2
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    1 Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees;

    2 to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

  • Amos 4:1-2
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    1 Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, "Bring us drinks!"

    2 The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness that behold, "The days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, and the last of you with fish hooks.

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

    4 They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

  • Amos 5:11-12
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    11 Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

    12 For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins-- you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the courts.

  • Isa 3:14-15
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    14 Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and their leaders: "It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The spoil of the poor is in your houses.

    15 What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?" says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

  • Ezek 22:29
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    29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

  • Prov 22:16
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    16 Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

  • Prov 28:3
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    3 A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.

  • Ps 82:3-4
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    3 "Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

    4 Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked."

  • Job 24:9-10
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    9 There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

    10 So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.

  • Job 5:5
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    5 whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

  • Isa 5:8-9
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    8 Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!

    9 In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: "Surely many houses will be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied.

  • Amos 2:7
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    7 They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;

  • Prov 22:22
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    22 Don't exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don't crush the needy in court;

  • Mic 3:9
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    9 Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity.

  • Isa 32:6-7
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    6 For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, To make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

    7 The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

  • Prov 28:8
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    8 He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

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    19 You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.

  • Amos 8:11
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    11 Behold, the days come," says the Lord Yahweh, "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 Yahweh.

  • Prov 21:13
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    13 Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

  • Mic 2:4
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    4 In that day they will take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, 'We are utterly ruined! My people's possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!'"

  • Ezek 4:17
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    17 that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.

  • Hos 12:7
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    7 A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.

  • Job 6:27
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    27 Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of 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 people of Canaan are undone! All those who were loaded with silver are cut off.

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    7 You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:

  • Jer 5:28
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    28 They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excell in deeds of wickedness. They don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don't judge the right of the needy.

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    12 has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, 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 have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says the Lord Yahweh.

  • Prov 14:31
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    31 He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

  • 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 Yahweh my God: "Feed the flock of slaughter.

    5 Their buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, 'Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich;' and their own shepherds don't pity them.

  • Exod 23:6
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    6 "You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

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    7 You haven't 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 their jaws 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 lofty people of the earth languish.

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    1 "Listen to this, you priests! Listen, house of Israel, and give ear, house of the king! For the judgment is against you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.