Amos 8:4

A Conservative Version

Hear this, O ye who would swallow up a needy man, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

Cross References

Amos 5:11

Inasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions of wheat from him. 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.

Proverbs 30:14

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

Psalm 14:4

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, and call not upon LORD?

Psalm 140:12

I know that LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted man, and justice for the needy.

Psalm 12:5

Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, now I will arise, says LORD. I will set him in the safety he gasps for.

James 5:6

Ye have condemned, ye have murdered the righteous man. He is not hostile to you.

Matthew 23:13

Woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye close up the kingdom of the heavens ahead of men. For ye enter not in, nor do ye allow those who are entering to enter in.

Jeremiah 5:21

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

1 Kings 22:19

And [Micaiah] said, Therefore hear thou the word of LORD. I saw LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.

Amos 7:16

Now therefore hear thou the word of LORD: Thou say, Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not drop [thy word] against the house of Isaac.

Jeremiah 28:15

Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah. LORD has not sent thee, but thou make this people to trust in a lie.

Isaiah 28:14

Therefore hear the word of LORD, ye scoffers, who rule this people that is in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 1:10

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

Psalm 56:1

Be merciful to me, O God, for man would swallow me up. Fighting all the day long he oppresses me.

Job 24:4

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

Ezekiel 45:10

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

Amos 5:12

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

Micah 2:2

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.

Psalm 10:7

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

Ezekiel 22:12

In thee they have taken bribes to shed blood. Thou have taken interest and increase. And thou have greedily gained from thy neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says lord LORD.

Micah 3:3

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

Zechariah 5:6

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