Amos 5:12

Catholic Public Domain Version

For I know your many wicked deeds and the strength of your sins, you enemies of the just, accepting bribes, and depriving the poor at the gate.

Cross References

Job 20:19

For, having broken in, he stripped the poor. He has quickly stolen away a house he did not build.

Job 31:21

if I have lifted up my hand over an orphan, even when it might seem to me that I the advantage over him at the gate;

Psalm 127:5

May the Lord bless you from Zion, and may you see the good things of Jerusalem, all the days of your life.

Exodus 23:3

Likewise, you shall not show pity in judgment of the poor.

Exodus 23:6

You shall not deviate in judgment of the poor.

Proverbs 17:8

The expectation of those who stand ready is a most pleasing jewel. Whichever way he turns himself, he understands prudently.

Proverbs 22:22

Do not act with violence toward the pauper because he is poor. And do not weary the needy at the gate.

Isaiah 1:23

Your leaders are unfaithful, the associates of thieves. They all love gifts; they pursue rewards. They do not judge for orphans, and the widow's case is not brought before them.

Isaiah 10:2

in order to oppress the poor in judgment, and to do violence to the case of the humble of my people, in order that widows may be their prey, and that they might plunder the orphan.

Isaiah 29:21

For they caused men to sin by a word, and they supplanted him who argued against them at the gates, and they turned away from justice in vain.

Isaiah 33:15

The one who walks in justice and speaks the truth, who casts out avarice with oppression and shakes all bribes from his hands, who blocks his ears so that he may not listen to blood, and closes his eyes so that he may not see evil.

Isaiah 47:9

These two things will suddenly overwhelm you in one day: barrenness and widowhood. All things shall overwhelm you, because of the multitude of your sorceries and because of the great cruelty of your enchantments.

Isaiah 5:23

For you justify an impious man in exchange for bribes, and you carry away the justice of a just man from him.

Isaiah 66:18

But I know their works and their thoughts. I am arriving, so that I may gather them together with all nations and languages. And they will approach, and they will see my glory.

Jeremiah 29:23

For they have acted foolishly in Israel, and they have committed adultery with the wives of their friends, and they have spoken lying words in my name, which I did not command them. I am the Judge and the Witness, says the Lord.

Lamentations 3:34

LAMED. as if to crush under his feet all the prisoners of the land,

Ezekiel 13:22

For by deception you have caused the heart of the just to grieve, whom I would not sadden. And I have strengthened the hands of the impious, so that he would not be turned back from his evil way and live.

Hosea 5:3

I know Ephraim, and Israel has not been hidden from me, yet now Ephraim has committed fornication, and Israel has been contaminated.

Amos 2:16

And the stout of heart among the strong will flee away naked in that day, says the Lord.

Amos 2:3

And I will destroy the judge in their midst, and I will execute all his leaders with him, says the Lord.

Amos 5:10

They held hatred for the one who corrects at the gate, and they have abhorred the one who speaks perfectly.

Amos 5:7

You turn judgment into wormwood, and you abandon justice on earth.

Amos 8:4

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

Micah 3:11

Her leaders have judged for tributes, and her priests have taught for payment, and her prophets divined for money. And they leaned upon the Lord, saying: "Is not the Lord in our midst? No disaster will overcome us."

Micah 7:3

The evil of their hands, they call good. The leader is demanding, and the judge is yielding, and the great is speaking the desire of his soul, and they have confused it.

Malachi 3:5

And I will approach you in judgment, and I will be a swift witness against evil-doers, and adulterers, and perjurers, and those who cheat the hired hand in his wages, the widows and the orphans, and who oppress the traveler, and who have not feared me, says the Lord of hosts.

Acts 7:52

Which of the Prophets have your fathers not persecuted? And they killed those who foretold the advent of the Just One. And you have now become the betrayers and murderers of him.

Deuteronomy 16:18

You shall appoint judges and magistrates at all your gates, which the Lord your God will give to you, throughout each of your tribes, so that they may judge the people with a just judgment,

Deuteronomy 31:21

And after many evils and afflictions have overwhelmed them, this canticle will answer them as a testimony; it shall never pass into oblivion, away from the mouths of their offspring. For I know their thoughts and what they are about to do today, even before I lead them into the land which I have promised to them."

James 5:4

Consider the pay of the workers who reaped your fields: it has been misappropriated by you; it cries out. And their cry has entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

James 5:6

You led away and killed the Just One, and he did not resist you.

Ruth 4:1

Then Boaz went up to the gate, and he sat there. And when he had seen the kinsman passing by, whom he had previously discussed, he spoke to him, calling him by his name, "Pause for a little while, and sit down here." He turned aside and sat down.

1 Samuel 8:3

But his sons did not walk in his ways. Instead, they turned aside, pursuing avarice. And they accepted bribes, and they perverted judgment.