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Amos 8:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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,

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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,

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American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Common English Bible

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

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Catholic Public Domain Version

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

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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,

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Amos 8:4
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And he said, Therefore hear thou the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.


They turn the needy out of the way: The poor of the earth hide themselves together.


His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression: Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.


For the spoiling of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, Now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety at whom they puff.


Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And call not upon the LORD.


I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, And the right of the needy.


Be merciful unto me, O God; for man would swallow me up: All the day long he fighting oppresseth me.


There is a generation whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, To devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.


Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.


Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem:


Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; the LORD hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie.


Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:


In thee have they taken bribes to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by oppression, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD


Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.


Forasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions from him of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof.


For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins; ye that afflict the just, that take a bribe, and that turn aside the needy in the gate from their right.


Now therefore hear thou the word of the LORD: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac;


And they covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.


who also eat the flesh of my people; and they flay their skin from off them, and break their bones: yea, they chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.


And I said, What is it? And he said, This is the ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance in all the land:


But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye enter not in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering in to enter.


Ye have condemned, ye have killed the righteous one; he doth not resist you.


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