Amos 8:6

Good News Translation

We can sell worthless wheat at a high price. We'll find someone poor who can't pay his debts, not even the price of a pair of sandals, and we'll buy him as a slave.”

Cross References

Nehemiah 5:8

and said, “As far as we have been able, we have been buying back our Jewish relatives who had to sell themselves to foreigners. Now you are forcing your own relatives to sell themselves to you, their own people!” The leaders were silent and could find nothing to say.

Ezekiel 22:12

Some of your people murder for pay. Some charge interest on the loans they make to other Israelites and get rich by taking advantage of them. They have forgotten me.” The Sovereign Lord has spoken.

Joel 3:3

They threw dice to decide who would get the captives. They sold boys and girls into slavery to pay for prostitutes and wine.

Joel 3:6

You have taken the people of Judah and Jerusalem far from their own country and sold them to the Greeks.

Amos 2:6

The Lord says, “The people of Israel have sinned again and again, and for this I will certainly punish them. They sell into slavery honest people who cannot pay their debts, the poor who cannot repay even the price of a pair of sandals.

Amos 3:9

Announce to those who live in the palaces of Egypt and Ashdod: “Gather together in the hills around Samaria and see the great disorder and the crimes being committed there.”

Amos 4:1

Listen to this, you women of Samaria, who grow fat like the well-fed cows of Bashan, who mistreat the weak, oppress the poor, and demand that your husbands keep you supplied with liquor!

Amos 8:4

Listen to this, you that trample on the needy and try to destroy the poor of the country.

Zechariah 5:6

“What is it?” I asked. He replied, “It is a basket, and it stands for the sin of the whole land.”