Amos 5:12

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Cross References

Amos 5:10

They have hated him that rebuketh in the gate: and have abhorred him that speaketh perfectly.

Isaiah 1:23

Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, the run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and the widow's cometh not in to them.

Malachi 3:5

And I will come to you in judgment, and will be a speedy witness against sorcerers, and adulterers, and false swearers, and them that oppress the hireling in his wages; the widows, and the fatherless: and oppress the stranger, and have not feared me, saith the Lord of hosts.

1 Samuel 8:3

And his sons walked not in his ways: but they turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

James 5:6

You have condemned and put to death the Just One, and he resisted you not.

James 5:4

Behold the hire of the labourers, who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they have slain them who foretold of the coming of the Just One; of whom you have been now the betrayers and murderers:

Micah 7:3

The evil of their hands they call good: the prince requireth, and the judge is for giving: and the great man hath uttered the desire of his soul, and they have troubled it.

Micah 3:11

Her princes have judged for bribes, and her priests have taught for hire, and her prophets divined for money: and they leaned upon the Lord, saying: Is not the Lord in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us.

Amos 2:16

And the stout of heart among the valiant shall flee away naked in that day, saith the Lord.

Lamentations 3:34

Lamed. To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the land,

Jeremiah 29:23

Because they have acted folly in Israel and have committed adultery with the wives of their friends and have spoken lying words in my name, which I commanded them not. I am the judge and the witness, saith the Lord.

Isaiah 66:18

But I know their works and their thoughts. I come that I may gather them together with all nations and tongues: and they shall come and shall see my glory.

Isaiah 47:9

These two things shall come upon thee suddenly in one day: barrenness and widowhood. All things are come upon thee because of the multitude of thy sorceries and for the great hardness of thy enchanters.

Isaiah 33:15

He that walketh in justices and speaketh truth, that casteth away avarice by oppression and shaketh his hands from all bribes, that stoppeth his ears lest he hear blood and shutteth his eyes that he may see no evil.

Isaiah 29:21

That made men sin by word, and supplanted him that reproved them in the gate, and declined in vain from the just.

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.

Isaiah 5:23

That justify the wicked for gifts, and take away the justice of the just from him.

Proverbs 22:22

Do no violence to the poor, because he is poor: and do not oppress the needy in the gate:

Job 31:21

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw myself superior in the gate:

Ruth 4:1

Then Booz went up to the gate, and sat there. And when he had seen the kinsman going by, of whom he had spoken before, he said to him, calling him by his name: Turn aside for a little while, and sit down here. He turned aside, and sat down.

Deuteronomy 31:21

And after many evils and afflictions shall have come upon them, this canticle shall answer them for a testimony, which no oblivion shall take away out of the mouth of their seed. For I know their thoughts, and what they are about to do this day, before that I bring them into the land which I have promised them.

Deuteronomy 16:18

Thou shalt appoint judges and magistrates in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, in all thy tribes. That they may judge the people with just judgment,

Psalm 127:5

May the Lord bless thee out of Sion: and mayest thou see the good things of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.

Proverbs 17:8

The expectation of him that expecteth, is a most acceptable jewel: whithersoever he turneth himself, he understandeth wisely.

Ezekiel 13:22

Because with lies you have made the heart of the just to mourn, whom I have not made sorrowful: and have strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his evil way and live.

Hosea 5:3

I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now Ephraim hath committed fornication, Israel is defiled.

Amos 2:3

And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all his princes with him, saith the Lord.

Amos 5:7

You that turn judgment into wormwood, and forsake justice in the land,

Amos 8:4

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

Exodus 23:3

Neither shalt thou favour a poor man in judgment.

Exodus 23:6

Thou shalt not go aside in the poor man's judgment.

Job 20:19

Because he broke in and stripped the poor: he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build: