and said to them, “According to our ability we have redeemed our brothers, the Yehuḏim, who were sold to the nations. And you even sell your brothers! Or should they be sold to us?” And they were silent and found not a word to say.
Amos 8:6 - The Scriptures 2009 to buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the chaff of the wheat?” Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition That we may buy [into slavery] the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals; yes, and sell the refuse of the wheat [as if it were good grade]? American Standard Version (1901) that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat? Common English Bible in order to buy the needy for silver and the helpless for sandals, and sell garbage as grain?” Catholic Public Domain Version in order that we may possess the destitute with money, and the poor for a pair of shoes, and may sell even the refuse of the grain?" Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version That we may possess the needy for money, and the poor for a pair of shoes, and may sell the refuse of the corn? |
and said to them, “According to our ability we have redeemed our brothers, the Yehuḏim, who were sold to the nations. And you even sell your brothers! Or should they be sold to us?” And they were silent and found not a word to say.
“In you they have taken a bribe to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase. You have cut off your neighbour by extortion. And you have forgotten Me,” declares the Master יהוה.
“And they have cast lots for My people, and have given a young man for a whore, and sold a girl for wine, and drank it.
and the people of Yehuḏah and the people of Yerushalayim you have sold to the sons of Yawan, to remove them far from their borders.
Thus said יהוה, “For three transgressions of Yisra’ĕl, and for four, I do not turn it back, because they sell the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals,
“Cry out at the palaces in Ashdoḏ, and at the palaces in the land of Mitsrayim, and say, ‘Gather on the mountains of Shomeron, and see the many unrests in her midst, and the oppressed ones within her.
Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Shomeron, who are oppressing the poor, who are crushing the needy, who are saying to their masters, “Bring wine, let us drink!”
Hear this, you who are swallowing up the needy, to do away with the poor of the land,
And I said, “What is it?” And he said, “It is an ĕphah-measure that is going forth.” Again he said, “This is their appearance throughout the earth: