Amos 8:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land,

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  • Ps 14:4 : 4 Have all working iniquity not known? Those consuming my people have eaten bread, Jehovah they have not called.
  • Prov 30:14 : 14 A generation -- swords `are' their teeth, And knives -- their jaw-teeth, To consume the poor from earth, And the needy from `among' men.
  • Amos 5:11 : 11 Therefore, 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.
  • Amos 7:16 : 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,
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 `Wo to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut up the reign of the heavens before men, for ye do not go in, nor those going in do ye suffer to enter.
  • Jas 5:6 : 6 ye did condemn -- ye did murder the righteous one, he doth not resist you.
  • Isa 1:10 : 10 Hear the word of Jehovah, ye rulers of Sodom, Give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah,
  • Isa 28:14 : 14 Therefore, hear a word of Jehovah, ye men of scorning, Ruling this people that `is' in Jerusalem.
  • Isa 32:6-7 : 6 For a fool speaketh folly, And his heart doth iniquity, to do profanity, And to speak concerning Jehovah error, To empty the soul of the hungry, Yea, drink of the thirsty he causeth to lack. 7 And the miser -- his instruments `are' evil, He hath counselled wicked devices, To corrupt the poor with lying sayings, Even when the needy speaketh justly.
  • Jer 5:21 : 21 Hear ye, I pray you, this, O people, foolish and without heart, Eyes they have, and they see not, Ears they have, and they hear not.
  • Jer 28:15 : 15 And Jeremiah the prophet saith unto Hananiah the prophet, `Hear, I pray thee, O Hananiah; Jehovah hath not sent thee, and thou hast caused this people to trust on falsehood.
  • Amos 2:6-7 : 6 Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, And for four, I do not reverse it, Because of their selling for silver the righteous, And the needy for a pair of sandals. 7 Who are panting for the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, And the way of the humble they turn aside, And a man and his father go unto the damsel, So as to pollute My holy name.
  • Ps 56:1 : 1 To the Overseer. -- `On the Dumb Dove far off.' -- A secret treasure of David, in the Philistines' taking hold of him in Gath. Favour me, O God, for man swallowed me up, All the day fighting he oppresseth me,
  • Ps 140:12 : 12 I have known that Jehovah doth execute The judgment of the afflicted, The judgment of the needy.
  • 1 Kgs 22:19 : 19 And he saith, `Therefore, hear a word of Jehovah; I have seen Jehovah sitting on His throne, and all the host of the heavens standing by Him, on His right and on His left;
  • Ps 12:5 : 5 Because of the spoiling of the poor, Because of the groaning of the needy, Now do I arise, saith Jehovah, I set in safety `him who' doth breathe for it.

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  • Amos 8:5-6
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    5Saying, When doth the new moon pass, And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath, and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use perversely balances of deceit.

    6To purchase with money the poor, And the needy for a pair of sandals, Yea, the refuse of the pure corn we sell.

  • Isa 10:1-2
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    81%

    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.

  • Amos 4:1-2
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    1Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, Who `are' in the mountain of Samaria, Who are oppressing the poor, Who are bruising the needy, Who are saying to their lords: `Bring in, and we do drink.'

    2Sworn hath the Lord Jehovah by His holiness, That lo, days are coming upon you, And he hath taken you away with hooks, And your posterity with fish-hooks.

  • Job 24:3-4
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    3The ass of the fatherless they lead away, They take in pledge the ox of the widow,

    4They turn aside the needy from the way, Together have hid the poor of the earth.

  • 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.

  • Isa 3:14-15
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    14Jehovah into judgment doth enter With elders of His people, and its heads: `And ye, ye have consumed the vineyard, Plunder of the poor `is' in your houses.

    15What -- to you? ye bruise My people, And the faces of the poor ye grind.' An affirmation of the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, And Jehovah saith:

  • Ezek 22:29
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    29The people of the land have used oppression, And have taken plunder violently away, And humble and needy have oppressed, And the sojourner oppressed -- without judgment.

  • Prov 22:16
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    16He is oppressing the poor to multiply to him, He is giving to the rich -- only to want.

  • Prov 28:3
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    3A man -- poor and oppressing the weak, `Is' a sweeping rain, and there is no bread.

  • Ps 82:3-4
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    3Judge ye the weak and fatherless, The afflicted and the poor declare righteous.

    4Let the weak and needy escape, From the hand of the wicked deliver them.

  • Job 24:9-10
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    74%

    9They take violently away From the breast the orphan, And on the poor they lay a pledge.

    10Naked, they have gone without clothing, And hungry -- have taken away a sheaf.

  • Job 5:5
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    5Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth.

  • Isa 5:8-9
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    74%

    8Wo `to' those joining house to house, Field to field they bring near, till there is no place, And ye have been settled by yourselves In the midst of the land!

    9By the weapons of Jehovah of Hosts Do not many houses a desolation become? Great and good without inhabitant!

  • Amos 2:7
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    7Who are panting for the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, And the way of the humble they turn aside, And a man and his father go unto the damsel, So as to pollute My holy name.

  • Prov 22:22
    74%

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

  • Mic 3:9
    74%

    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.

  • Isa 32:6-7
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    74%

    6For a fool speaketh folly, And his heart doth iniquity, to do profanity, And to speak concerning Jehovah error, To empty the soul of the hungry, Yea, drink of the thirsty he causeth to lack.

    7And the miser -- his instruments `are' evil, He hath counselled wicked devices, To corrupt the poor with lying sayings, Even when the needy speaketh justly.

  • Prov 28:8
    74%

    8Whoso is multiplying his wealth by biting and usury, For one favouring the poor doth gather it.

  • Ezek 13:19
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    19Yea, ye pierce Me concerning My people, For handfuls of barley, And for pieces of bread, to put to death Souls that should not die, And to keep alive souls that should not live, By your lying to My people -- hearkening to lies.

  • Amos 8:11
    73%

    11Lo, days are coming, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And I have sent a famine into the land, Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of water But of hearing the words of Jehovah.

  • Prov 21:13
    73%

    13Whoso is shutting his ear from the cry of the poor, He also doth cry, and is not answered.

  • Mic 2:4
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    4In that day doth `one' take up for you a simile, And he hath wailed a wailing of wo, He hath said, We have been utterly spoiled, The portion of my people He doth change, How doth He move toward me! To the backslider our fields He apportioneth.

  • Ezek 4:17
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    17so that they lack bread and water, and have been astonished one with another, and been consumed in their iniquity.

  • Hos 12:7
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    7Canaan! in his hand `are' balances of deceit! To oppress he hath loved.

  • Job 6:27
    73%

    27Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.

  • Isa 26:6
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    6Tread it down doth a foot, Feet of the poor -- steps of the weak.

  • Zeph 1:11
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    11Howl, ye inhabitants of the hollow place, For cut off hath been all the merchant people, Cut off have been all bearing silver.

  • Amos 5:7
    73%

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

  • Jer 5:28
    73%

    28They have been fat, they have shone, Yea, they have overpassed the acts of the evil, Judgment they have not judged, The judgment of the fatherless -- and they prosper, And the judgment of the needy they have not judged.

  • Ezek 18:12
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    12The afflicted and needy he hath oppressed, Plunder he hath taken violently away, A pledge he doth not return, And unto the idols he hath lifted up his eyes, Abomination he hath done!

  • Ezek 22:12
    72%

    12A bribe they have taken in thee to shed blood, Usury and increase thou hast taken, And cuttest off thy neighbour by oppression, And Me thou hast forgotten, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!

  • Prov 14:31
    72%

    31An oppressor of the poor reproacheth his Maker, And whoso is honouring Him Is favouring the needy.

  • Job 22:9
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    9Widows thou hast sent away empty, And the arms of the fatherless are bruised.

  • Zech 11:4-5
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    4Thus said Jehovah my God: `Feed the flock of the slaughter,

    5Whose buyers slay them, and are not guilty, And their sellers say, Blessed `is' Jehovah, And I am rich, And their shepherds have no pity on them.

  • Exod 23:6
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    6`Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of thy needy one in his strife;

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    7Thou causest not the weary to drink water, And from the hungry thou withholdest bread.

  • Prov 30:14
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    14A generation -- swords `are' their teeth, And knives -- their jaw-teeth, To consume the poor from earth, And the needy from `among' men.

  • Isa 24:4
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    4Mourned, faded hath the land, Languished, faded hath the world, Languished have they -- the high place of the people of the land.

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    1`Hear this, O priests, and attend, O house of Israel, And, O house of the king, give ear, For the judgment `is' for you, For, a snare ye have been on Mizpah, And a net spread out on Tabor.