Amos 2:7

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

They bruise the heads of the poor upon the dust of the earth, and turn aside the way of the humble: and the son and his father have gone to the same young woman, to profane my holy name.

Cross References

Amos 5:12

Because I know your manifold crimes, and your grievous sine: enemies of the just, taking bribes, and oppressing the poor in the gate.

Ezekiel 22:11

And every one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife, and the father-in-law hath wickedly defiled his daughter-in-law: the brother hath oppressed his sister, the daughter of his father, in thee.

Isaiah 10:2

To oppress the poor in judgment, and do violence to the cause of the humble of my people: that widows might be their prey, and that they might rob the fatherless.

1 Corinthians 5:1

IT is absolutely heard, that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as the like is not among the heathens; that one should have his father's wife.

Micah 2:9

You have cast out the women of my people from their houses, in which they took delight: you have taken my praise for ever from their children.

Micah 2:2

And they have coveted fields, and taken them by violence, and houses they have forcibly taken away: and oppressed a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.

Romans 2:24

(For the name of God through you is blasphemed among the Gentiles, as it is written.)

Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes are in the midst of her as roaring lions: her judges are evening wolves, they left nothing for the morning.

Amos 8:4

Hear this, you that crush the poor, and make the needy of the land to fail,

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, ye fat kine that are in the mountains of Samaria: you that oppress the needy, and crush the poor: that say to your masters: Bring, and we will drink.

Ezekiel 36:20

And when they entered among the nations whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when it was said of them: This is the people of the Lord, and they are come forth out of his land.

Proverbs 28:21

He that hath respect to a person in judgment, doth not well: such a man even for a morsel of bread forsaketh the truth.

1 Kings 21:4

And Achab came into his house angry and fretting, because of the word that Naboth the Jezrahelite had spoken to him, saying: I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And casting himself upon his bed, he turned away his face to the wall, and would eat no bread.

2 Samuel 12:14

Nevertheless, because thou hast given occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, for this thing, the child that is born to thee shall surely die.

Leviticus 20:3

And I will set my face against him: and I will cut him off from the midst of his people, because he hath given of his seed to Moloch, and hath defiled my sanctuary, and profaned my holy name.

Leviticus 18:15

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter-in-law: because she is thy son's wife, neither shalt thou discover her shame.

Leviticus 18:8

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's wife: for it is the nakedness of thy father.

Hosea 4:14

I will not visit upon your daughters when they shell commit fornication, and upon your spouses when they shall commit adultery: because themselves conversed with harlots, and offered sacrifice with the effeminate, and the people that doth not understand shall be beaten.

Leviticus 18:21

Thou shalt not give any of thy seed to be consecrated to the idol Moloch, nor defile the name of thy God. I am the Lord.

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people and its princes. For you have devoured the vineyard: and the spoil of the poor is in your house.

Isaiah 3:15

Why do you consume my people, and grind the faces of the poor? Saith the Lord, the God of hosts.

Isaiah 10:1

WOE to them that make wicked laws: and, when they write, write injustice:

Amos 5:11

Therefore because you robbed the poor, and took the choice prey from him: you shall build houses with square stone, and shall not dwell in them: you shall plant most delightful vineyards, and shall not drink the wine of them.