Amos 2:8 - Easy To Read Version8 They take clothes from poor people, and then they sit on those clothes while they worship at their altars. {\cf2\super [38]} They loaned money to poor people, and then took their clothes as collateral. {\cf2\super [39]} They make people pay fines, and then they use that money to buy wine for themselves to drink in the temple of their God. Ver CapítuloMás versionesKing James Version (Oxford) 17698 and they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god. Ver CapítuloAmplified Bible - Classic Edition8 And they lay themselves down beside every [pagan] altar upon clothes they have taken in pledge [for indebtedness], and in the house of their God [in daring contempt of Him] they frivolously drink the wine which has been exacted from those [unjustly] fined. Ver CapítuloAmerican Standard Version (1901)8 and they lay themselves down beside every altar upon clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of such as have been fined. Ver CapítuloCommon English Bible8 They stretch out beside every altar on garments taken in loan; in the house of their god they drink wine bought with fines they imposed. Ver CapítuloCatholic Public Domain Version8 And they have lain on garments taken in pledge next to every altar. And they drank the wine of the damned in the house of their God. Ver Capítulo |
That good person does not take advantage of people. If a person borrows money from him, the good man takes the collateral {\cf2\super [133]} and gives the other person the money. And when that person pays him back, then the good man gives the collateral back. The good person gives food to hungry people. And he gives clothes to people that need them.