Amos 8:6 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁶ 4 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say: Thy God, O Dan, liveth: and the way of Bersabee liveth: and they shall fall, and shall rise no more.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ 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

⁶ 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)

⁶ 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

⁶ in order to buy the needy for silver and the helpless for sandals, and sell garbage as grain?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ 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?"

Amos 8:6 Cross References

Nehemiah 5:8

3 Moreover I shook my lap, and said: So may God shake every man that shall not accomplish this word, out of his house, and out of his labours, thus may he be shaken out, and become empty. And all the multitude said: Amen. And they praised God. And the people did according to what was said.

Ezekiel 22:12

0 As they gather silver, and brass, and tin, and iron, and lead in the midst of the furnace: that I may kindle a fire in it to melt it: so will I gather you together in my fury and in my wrath, and will take my rest, and I will melt you down.

Joel 3:3

1 Break forth, and come, all ye nations, from round about, and gather yourselves together: there will the Lord cause all thy strong ones to fall down.

Joel 3:6

4 Nations, nations in the valley of destruction: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of destruction.

Amos 2:6

4 And flight shall perish from the swift, and the valiant shall not possess his strength, neither shall the strong save his life.

Amos 3:9

The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, that lo, the days shall come upon you, when they shall lift you up on pikes, and what shall remain of you in boiling pots.

Amos 4:1

I struck you with a burning wind, and with mildew, the palmerworm hath eaten up your many gardens, and your vineyards: your olive groves, and fig groves: yet you returned not to me, saith the Lord.

Amos 8:4

2 And they shall move from sea to sea, and from the north to the east: they shall go about seeking the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.

Zechariah 5:6

And in the third chariot white horses, and in the fourth chariot grisled horses, and strong ones.