Amos 8:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ Hear this, you who trample on the needy, and bring to ruin the poor of the land,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ Hear this, O you who would swallow up and trample down the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail and come to an end,

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

Common English Bible

⁴ Hear this, you who trample on the needy and destroy the poor of the land,

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Hear this, you who crush the poor and who make those in need of land to do without.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ Hear this, you that crush the poor, and make the needy of the land to fail,

Amos 8:4 Cross References

1 Kings 22:19

Then Micaiah said, “Therefore hear the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, with all the host of heaven standing beside him to the right and to the left of him.

Job 24:4

They thrust the needy off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves.

Psalm 10:7

Their mouths are filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under their tongues are mischief and iniquity.

Psalm 12:5

“Because the poor are despoiled, because the needy groan, I will now rise up,” says the Lord; “I will place them in the safety for which they long.”

Psalm 14:4

Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the Lord?

Psalm 140:12

I know that the Lord maintains the cause of the needy and executes justice for the poor.

Psalm 56:1

Be gracious to me, O God, for people trample on me; all day long foes oppress me;

Proverbs 30:14

there are those whose teeth are swords, whose teeth are knives to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among mortals.

Isaiah 1:10

Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

Isaiah 28:14

Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 28:15

And the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah, “Listen, Hananiah, the Lord has not sent you, and you made this people trust in a lie.

Jeremiah 5:21

Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.

Ezekiel 22:12

In you, they take bribes to shed blood; you take both advance interest and accrued interest and make gain of your neighbors by extortion, and you have forgotten me, says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 45:10

“You shall have honest balances, an honest ephah, and an honest bath.

Amos 5:11

Therefore because you trample on the poor and take from them levies of grain, you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not live in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

Amos 5:12

For I know how many are your transgressions and how great are your sins— you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe and push aside the needy in the gate.

Amos 7:16

“Now therefore hear the word of the Lord. You say, ‘Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not preach against the house of Isaac.’

Micah 2:2

They covet fields and seize them, houses and take them away; they oppress householder and house, people and their inheritance.

Micah 3:3

who eat the flesh of my people, flay their skin off them, break their bones in pieces, and chop them up like meat in a kettle, like flesh in a caldron.

Zechariah 5:6

I said, “What is it?” He said, “This is a basket coming out.” And he said, “This is their iniquity in the whole land.”

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you lock people out of the kingdom of heaven. For you do not go in yourselves, and when others are going in you stop them.

James 5:6

You have condemned and murdered the righteous one, who does not resist you.