Amos 5:10

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

They have hated a reprover in the gate, And a plain speaker they abominate.

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  • Isa 29:21 : 21 Causing men to sin in word, And for a reprover in the gate lay a snare, And turn aside into emptiness the righteous.
  • 1 Kgs 22:8 : 8 And the king of Israel saith unto Jehoshaphat, `Yet -- one man to seek Jehovah by him, and I have hated him, for he doth not prophesy concerning me good, but evil -- Micaiah son of Imlah;' and Jehoshaphat saith, `Let not the king say so.'
  • Jer 17:16-17 : 16 And I hastened not from feeding after Thee, And the desperate day I have not desired, Thou -- Thou hast known, The produce of my lips, before Thy face it hath been, 17 Be not Thou to me for a terror, My hope `art' Thou in a day of evil.
  • Jer 20:7-9 : 7 Thou hast persuaded me, O Jehovah, and I am persuaded; Thou hast hardened me, and dost prevail, I have been for a laughter all the day, Every one is mocking at me, 8 Because from the time I speak I cry out, `Violence and destruction,' I cry, For the word of Jehovah hath been to me For reproach and for derision all the day. 9 And I said, `I do not mention Him, Nor do I speak any more in His name,' And it hath been in my heart As a burning fire shut up in my bones, And I have been weary of containing, And I am not able. 10 For I have heard the evil report of many, Fear `is' round about: `Declare, and we declare it,' All mine allies are watching `for' my halting, `Perhaps he is enticed, and we prevail over him, And we take our vengeance out of him.'
  • Amos 7:10-17 : 10 And Amaziah priest of Beth-El sendeth unto Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, `Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his words, 11 for thus said Amos: By sword die doth Jeroboam, And Israel certainly removeth from off its land.' 12 And Amaziah saith unto Amos, `Seer, go flee for thee unto the land of Judah, and eat there bread, and there thou dost prophesy; 13 and `at' Beth-El do not add to prophesy any more, for it `is' the king's sanctuary, and it `is' the royal house.' 14 And Amos answereth and saith unto Amaziah, `I `am' no prophet, nor a prophet's son `am' I, but a herdsman I `am', and a cultivator of sycamores, 15 and Jehovah taketh me from after the flock, and Jehovah saith unto me, Go, prophesy unto My people Israel. 16 And now, hear a word of Jehovah: thou art saying, Do not prophesy against Israel, nor drop `any thing' against the house of Isaac, 17 therefore thus said Jehovah: Thy wife in the city doth go a-whoring, And thy sons and thy daughters by sword do fall, And thy land by line is apportioned, And thou on an unclean land diest, And Israel certainly removeth from off its land.'
  • John 3:20 : 20 for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected;
  • John 7:7 : 7 the world is not able to hate you, but me it doth hate, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.
  • John 8:45-47 : 45 `And because I say the truth, ye do not believe me. 46 Who of you doth convict me of sin? and if I speak truth, wherefore do ye not believe me? 47 he who is of God, the sayings of God he doth hear; because of this ye do not hear, because of God ye are not.'
  • John 15:19 : 19 if of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not -- but I chose out of the world -- because of this the world hateth you.
  • John 15:22-24 : 22 if I had not come and spoken to them, they were not having sin; but now pretext they have not for their sin. 23 `He who is hating me, doth hate also my Father; 24 if I did not do among them the works that no other hath done, they were not having sin, and now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father;
  • Rev 11:10 : 10 and those dwelling upon the land shall rejoice over them, and shall make merry, and gifts they shall send to one another, because these -- the two prophets -- did torment those dwelling upon the land.'
  • 2 Chr 24:20-22 : 20 and the Spirit of God hath clothed Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest, and he standeth over-against the people, and saith to them, `Thus said God, Why are ye transgressing the commands of Jehovah, and prosper not? because ye have forsaken Jehovah -- He doth forsake you.' 21 And they conspire against him, and stone him with stones by the command of the king, in the court of the house of Jehovah, 22 and Joash the king hath not remembered the kindness that Jehoiada his father did with him, and slayeth his son, and in his death he said, `Jehovah doth see, and require.'
  • 2 Chr 25:16 : 16 And it cometh to pass, in his speaking unto him, that he saith to him, `For a counsellor to the king have we appointed thee? cease for thee; why do they smite thee?' And the prophet ceaseth, and saith, `I have known that God hath counselled to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened to my counsel.'
  • 2 Chr 36:16 : 16 and they are mocking at the messengers of God, and despising His words, and acting deceitfully with His prophets, till the going up of the fury of Jehovah against His people -- till there is no healing.
  • Prov 9:7-8 : 7 The instructor of a scorner Is receiving for it -- shame, And a reprover of the wicked -- his blemish. 8 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee, Give reproof to the wise, and he loveth thee.
  • 1 Kgs 18:17 : 17 and it cometh to pass at Ahab's seeing Elijah, that Ahab saith unto him, `Art thou he -- the troubler of Israel?'
  • 1 Kgs 21:20 : 20 And Ahab saith unto Elijah, `Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?' and he saith, `I have found -- because of thy selling thyself to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Amos 5:11-12
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    11Therefore, because of your trampling on the poor, And the tribute of corn ye take from him, Houses of hewn work ye have built, And ye do not dwell in them, Desirable vineyards ye have planted, And ye do not drink their wine.

    12For I have known -- many `are' your transgressions, And mighty your sins, Adversaries of the righteous, taking ransoms, And the needy in the gate ye turned aside.

  • 21Causing men to sin in word, And for a reprover in the gate lay a snare, And turn aside into emptiness the righteous.

  • 19Whoso is loving transgression is loving debate, Whoso is making high his entrance is seeking destruction.

  • 10Men of blood hate the perfect, And the upright seek his soul.

  • 2Ye who are hating good, and loving evil, Taking violently their skin from off them, And their flesh from off their bones,

  • 41Spoiled him have all passing by the way, He hath been a reproach to his neighbours,

  • 10Chastisement `is' grievous to him who is forsaking the path, Whoso is hating reproof dieth.

  • 10They have abominated me, They have kept far from me, And from before me have not spared to spit.

  • 12And hast said, `How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised,

  • 8They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak.

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    24Whoso is saying to the wicked, `Thou `art' righteous,' Peoples execrate him -- nations abhor him.

    25And to those reproving it is pleasant, And on them cometh a good blessing.

  • 15Hate evil, and love good, And set up judgment in the gate, It may be Jehovah, God of Hosts, doth pity the remnant of Joseph.

  • Prov 1:29-30
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    29Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.

    30They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,

  • 10He doth surely reprove you, if in secret ye accept faces.

  • 9Who is brightening up the spoiled against the strong, And the spoiled against a fortress cometh.

  • 17Yea, thou hast hated instruction, And dost cast My words behind thee.

  • 22Those hating thee do put on shame, And the tent of the wicked is not!

  • 7All hating me whisper together against me, Against me they devise evil to me:

  • 10Declare them guilty, O God, Let them fall from their own counsels, In the abundance of their transgressions Drive them away, Because they have rebelled against Thee.

  • Prov 9:7-8
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    7The instructor of a scorner Is receiving for it -- shame, And a reprover of the wicked -- his blemish.

    8Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee, Give reproof to the wise, and he loveth thee.

  • 20For they speak not peace, And against the quiet of the land, Deceitful words they devise,

  • 5Better `is' open reproof than hidden love.

  • 22Rob not the poor because he `is' poor, And bruise not the afflicted in the gate.

  • Ps 10:2-3
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    2Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in devices that they devised.

    3Because the wicked hath boasted Of the desire of his soul, And a dishonest gainer he hath blessed, He hath despised Jehovah.

  • Isa 10:1-2
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    1Wo `to' those decreeing decrees of iniquity, And writers who have prescribed perverseness.

    2To turn aside from judgment the poor, And to take violently away the judgment Of the afflicted of My people, That widows may be their prey, That the fatherless they may spoil.

  • 4Those forsaking the law praise the wicked, Those keeping the law plead against them.

  • Ps 5:5-6
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    5The boastful station not themselves before Thine eyes: Thou hast hated all working iniquity.

    6Thou destroyest those speaking lies, A man of blood and deceit Jehovah doth abominate.

  • 9Hear this, I pray you, heads of the house of Jacob, And ye judges of the house of Israel, Who are making judgment abominable, And all uprightness do pervert.

  • 15Whoso is justifying the wicked, And condemning the righteous, Even both of these `are' an abomination to Jehovah.

  • 13The fear of Jehovah `is' to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a froward mouth, I have hated.

  • 10By day and by night they go round it, on its walls. Both iniquity and perverseness `are' in its midst,

  • 23Declaring righteous the wicked for a bribe, And the righteousness of the righteous They turn aside from him.

  • 10They have gaped on me with their mouth, In reproach they have smitten my cheeks, Together against me they set themselves.

  • 26As wicked He hath stricken them, In the place of beholders.

  • 7Ye who are turning to wormwood judgment, And righteousness to the earth have put down,

  • 2And to slaughter sinners have gone deep, And I `am' a fetter to them all.

  • 10Cast out a scorner -- and contention goeth out, And strife and shame cease.

  • 5And the people hath exacted -- man upon man, Even a man on his neighbour, Enlarge themselves do the youths against the aged, And the lightly esteemed against the honoured.

  • 10And at kings it doth scoff, And princes `are' a laughter to it, At every fenced place it doth laugh, And it heapeth up dust, and captureth it.

  • 18Whoso is covering hatred with lying lips, And whoso is bringing out an evil report is a fool.

  • 21Do not I hate, Jehovah, those hating Thee? And with Thy withstanders grieve myself?

  • 7All the brethren of the poor have hated him, Surely also his friends have been far from him, He is pursuing words -- they are not!

  • 20An abomination to Jehovah `are' the perverse of heart, And the perfect of the way `are' His delight.