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Amos 5:11

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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.

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Their wealth will become plunder and their houses a ruin. They will build houses but never live in them, plant vineyards but never drink their wine.


You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourself with oil; and you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.


You will become engaged to a woman, but another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it.  You will plant a vineyard but not enjoy its fruit.


Yet you have dishonoured the poor.  Don’t the rich oppress you and drag  you into court?


You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough to be satisfied. You drink but never have enough to be happy. You put on clothes but never have enough to get warm. The wage earner puts his wages into a bag with a hole in it.’


They covet fields  and seize them; they also take houses. They deprive a man of his home, a person of his inheritance.


I will demolish the winter house and the summer house; the houses inlaid with ivory  will be destroyed, and the great houses  will come to an end. This is the  Lord’s declaration.


Joy and rejoicing  have been removed from the orchard; no one is singing or shouting for joy in the vineyards. No one tramples grapes  in the winepresses. I have put an end to the shouting.


They will take your wealth as spoil and plunder your merchandise.  They will also demolish your walls and tear down your beautiful homes. Then they will throw your stones, timber, and soil into the water.


The Lord says: I will not relent from punishing Israel for three crimes, even four, because they sell a righteous person for silver and a needy person for a pair of sandals.


Proclaim on the citadels in Ashdod and on the citadels in the land of Egypt: Assemble on the mountains of Samaria, and see the great turmoil in the city and the acts of oppression within it.


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.’


For the Lord commands: The large house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.


Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does anyone plough there with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood   –


Hear this, you who trample on the needy and do away with the poor of the land,


Therefore, I will make Samaria a heap of ruins  in the countryside, a planting area  for a vineyard. I will roll her stones  into the valley and expose her foundations.


Though Edom says, ‘We have been devastated, but we will rebuild  the ruins,’ the Lord of Armies says this: ‘They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called a wicked country  and the people the Lord has cursed  for ever.


then I will do this to you: I will bring terror  on you #– #wasting disease and fever that will cause your eyes to fail and your life to ebb away. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.


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


Since you have pushed with flank and shoulder and butted all the weak ones with your horns until you scattered them all over,


Threshing-floor and wine vat will not sustain them, and the new wine will fail them.


They trample the heads of the poor on the dust of the ground and obstruct the path of the needy. A man and his father have sexual relations with the same girl, profaning my holy name.


I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel.  , They will rebuild and occupy ruined cities, plant vineyards and drink their wine, make gardens and eat their produce.





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