Amos 4:1

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan who are on the hill of Samaria, women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to their husbands, ‘Bring us something to drink.’

Cross References

Amos 6:1

Woe to those who are at ease in Zion and to those who feel secure on the hill of Samaria – the notable people in this first of the nations, those the house of Israel comes to.

Amos 5:11

Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact a grain tax from him, you will never live in the houses of cut stone you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.

Ezekiel 39:18

You will eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the earth’s princes: rams, lambs, male goats, and all the fattened bulls of Bashan.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Again, I observed all the acts of oppression being done under the sun.  Look at the tears of those who are oppressed; they have no one to comfort them. Power is with those who oppress them; they have no one to comfort them.

Malachi 3:5

‘I will come to you in judgement, and I will be ready to witness against sorcerers and adulterers; against those who swear falsely; against those who oppress the hired worker, the widow, and the fatherless; and against those who deny justice to the resident foreigner.  They do not fear me,’  says the Lord of Armies.

Joel 3:3

They cast lots for my people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.

Ezekiel 22:29

The people of the land have practised extortion and committed robbery.  They have oppressed the poor and needy and unlawfully exploited the resident foreigner.

Ezekiel 22:27

‘Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives in order to make profit dishonestly.

Ezekiel 22:12

People who live in you accept bribes in order to shed blood.  You take interest and profit on a loan and brutally extort your neighbours.  You have forgotten me.  This is the declaration of the Lord God.

Ezekiel 22:7

Father and mother are treated with contempt,  and the resident foreigner is exploited within you. The fatherless and widow are oppressed in you.

Jeremiah 51:34

‘King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty dish; he has swallowed me like a sea monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies; he has vomited me out.

Jeremiah 50:27

Put all her young bulls to the sword; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them because their day has come, the time of their punishment.

Jeremiah 7:6

if you no longer oppress the resident foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow,  and no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods, bringing harm on yourselves,

Jeremiah 6:6

For this is what the Lord of Armies says: Cut down the trees; raise a siege ramp against Jerusalem. This city must be punished. There is nothing but oppression within her.

Isaiah 58:6

Isn’t this the fast I choose: To break the chains of wickedness, to untie the ropes of the yoke, to set the oppressed free, and to tear off every yoke?

Isaiah 5:8

Woe to those who add house to house and join field to field until there is no more room and you alone are left in the land.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see oppression of the poor  and perversion of justice and righteousness in the province, don’t be astonished at the situation,  because one official protects another official, and higher officials protect them.

Job 20:19

For he oppressed and abandoned the poor; he seized a house he did not build.

1 Kings 16:24

then he bought the hill of Samaria  from Shemer for seventy kilograms  of silver, and he built up the hill. He named the city he built Samaria  based on the name Shemer, the owner of the hill.

Deuteronomy 28:33

A people you don’t know will eat your land’s produce and everything you have laboured for. You will only be oppressed and crushed continually.

Jeremiah 50:11

Because you rejoice, because you celebrate – you who plundered my inheritance – because you frolic like a young cow treading grain and neigh like stallions,

Deuteronomy 24:14

‘Do not oppress a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether one of your Israelite brothers or one of the resident foreigners in a town  in your land.

Ezekiel 18:12

and when he oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, and does not return collateral, and when he looks to the idols, commits detestable acts,

Amos 6:6

They drink wine by the bowlful and anoint themselves with the finest oils but do not grieve over the ruin of Joseph.

Numbers 21:33

Then they turned and went up the road to Bashan, and King Og of Bashan  came out against them with his whole army to do battle at Edrei.

Job 24:4

They push the needy off the road; the poor of the land are forced into hiding.

Proverbs 22:7

The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is a slave to the lender.

Isaiah 28:1

Woe to the majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards, and to the fading flower of its beautiful splendour, which is on the summit above the rich valley. Woe to those overcome with wine.

Isaiah 56:12

‘Come, let me get some wine, let’s guzzle some beer; and tomorrow will be like today, only far better! ’

Ezekiel 34:16

I will seek the lost,  bring back the strays, bandage the injured,  and strengthen the weak, but I will destroy  the fat and the strong. I will shepherd them with justice.

Amos 3:1

Listen to this message that the Lord has spoken against you, Israelites, against the entire clan that I brought from the land of Egypt:

Amos 3:3

Can two walk together without agreeing to meet?