Amos 8:4

English Standard Version 2016

Hear this, you who trample on the needy and bring the poor of the land to an end,

Cross References

Amos 5:11

Therefore because you trample on the poor and you exact taxes of grain from him, you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

Proverbs 30:14

There are those whose teeth are swords, whose fangs are knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among mankind.

Psalm 14:4

Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the Lord?

Psalm 140:12

I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and will execute justice for the needy.

Psalm 12:5

“Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the Lord; “I will place him in the safety for which he longs.”

James 5:6

You have condemned and murdered the righteous person. He does not resist you.

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.

Jeremiah 5:21

“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, but see not, who have ears, but hear not.

1 Kings 22:19

And Micaiah said, “Therefore hear the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing beside him on his right hand and on his left;

Amos 7:16

Now therefore hear the word of the Lord. “You say, ‘Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not preach against the house of Isaac.’

Jeremiah 28:15

And Jeremiah the prophet said to the prophet Hananiah, “Listen, Hananiah, the Lord has not sent you, and you have made this people trust in a lie.

Isaiah 28:14

Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you scoffers, who rule this people in Jerusalem!

Isaiah 1:10

Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom! Give ear to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

Psalm 56:1

Be gracious to me, O God, for man tramples on me; all day long an attacker oppresses me;

Job 24:4

They thrust the poor off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves.

Ezekiel 45:10

“You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath.

Amos 5:12

For I know how many are your transgressions and how great are your sins— you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe, and turn aside the needy in the gate.

Micah 2:2

They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.

Psalm 10:7

His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.

Ezekiel 22:12

In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take interest and profit and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but me you have forgotten, declares the Lord God.

Micah 3:3

who eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones in pieces and chop them up like meat in a pot, like flesh in a cauldron.

Zechariah 5:6

And I said, “What is it?” He said, “This is the basket that is going out.” And he said, “This is their iniquity in all the land.”