Amos 2:6 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁶ The Lord says: I will not relent from punishing Israel for three crimes, even four, because they sell a righteous person for silver and a needy person for a pair of sandals.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Israel and for four [for multiplied delinquencies], I will not reverse the punishment of it or revoke My word concerning it, because they have sold the [strictly] just and uncompromisingly righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals;

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes—

Common English Bible

⁶ The LORD proclaims: For three crimes of Israel, and for four, I won’t hold back the punishment, because they have sold the innocent for silver, and those in need for a pair of sandals.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ Thus says the Lord: For three wicked deeds of Israel, and for four, I will not convert him, in so far as he has sold the just for silver and the poor for shoes.

Amos 2:6 Cross References

2 Kings 18:11

The king of Assyria deported the Israelites to Assyria and put them in Halah, along the Habor (Gozan’s river), and in the cities of the Medes,

2 Kings 18:12

because they did not listen to the Lord their God but violated his covenant #– #all he had commanded Moses the servant of the Lord. They did not listen, and they did not obey.

Isaiah 10:2

to keep the poor from getting a fair trial and to deprive the needy among my people of justice, so that widows can be their spoil and they can plunder the fatherless.

Isaiah 29:21

those who, with their speech, accuse a person of wrongdoing, who set a trap for the one mediating at the city gate and without cause deprive the righteous of justice.

Ezekiel 22:13

‘ “Now look, I clap my hands together against the dishonest profit you have made  and against the blood shed among you.

Joel 3:3

They cast lots for my people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.

Joel 3:6

You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks  to remove them far from their own territory.

Zechariah 11:5

Those who buy them slaughter them but are not punished.  Those who sell them say, “Blessed be the Lord because I have become rich!” Even their own shepherds have no compassion for them.