Amos 8:4

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Listen to me, you who trample on helpless people. You are trying to destroy the poor of this country.

Cross References

Amos 5:11

You take unfair taxes from the poor. You take loads of wheat from them. You build fancy houses with cut stone, but you will not live in them. You plant beautiful vineyards, but you will not drink the wine from them.

Proverbs 30:14

There are people whose teeth are like swords and their jaws like knives. They take everything they can from the poor.

Psalm 14:4

Those who are evil treat my people like bread to be eaten. And they never ask for the Lord’s help. Don’t they know what they are doing?

Psalm 140:12

I know the Lord will provide justice for the poor and will defend the helpless.

Psalm 12:5

They took advantage of the poor and stole what little they had. But the Lord knows what they did, and he says, “I will rescue those who are poor and helpless, and I will punish those who hurt them.”

James 5:6

You showed no mercy to good people. They were not against you, but you killed them.

Matthew 23:13

“It will be bad for you teachers of the law and you Pharisees! You are hypocrites! You close the way for people to enter God’s kingdom. You yourselves don’t enter, and you stop those who are trying to enter.

Jeremiah 5:21

Hear this message, you foolish people who have no sense. You have eyes, but you don’t see! You have ears, but you don’t listen!

1 Kings 22:19

But Micaiah said, “Listen to this message from the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne. All of heaven’s army was standing around him, some on his left side and some on his right side.

Amos 7:16

So listen to the Lord’s message. You tell me, ‘Don’t prophesy against Israel. Don’t speak against Isaac’s family.’

Jeremiah 28:15

Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah, “Listen, Hananiah! The Lord did not send you. But you have made the people of Judah trust in lies.

Isaiah 28:14

You leaders in Jerusalem should listen to the Lord’s message, but now you refuse to listen to him.

Isaiah 1:10

You officers of Sodom, listen to the Lord’s message. You people of Gomorrah, listen to God’s teaching.

Psalm 56:1

God, people have attacked me, so be merciful to me. They have been chasing me all day, closing in to attack me.

Job 24:4

They force the poor to move out of their way and to get off the road.

Ezekiel 45:10

“Stop cheating people. Use accurate scales and measures!

Amos 5:12

This is because I know about your many sins. You have done some very bad things: You hurt people who do right, you accept money to do wrong, and you keep the poor from receiving justice in court.

Micah 2:2

They want fields, so they take them. They want houses, so they take them. They cheat a man and take his house and his land.

Psalm 10:7

They are always cursing, lying, and planning evil things to do.

Ezekiel 22:12

There men accept bribes to kill people. You lend money and charge interest on the loans. You cheat your neighbors just to make a little money. You have even forgotten me.’ This is what the Lord GOD said.

Micah 3:3

You are destroying my people. You take their skin off them and break their bones. You chop their bones up like meat to put in the pot!

Zechariah 5:6

I said, “I don’t know. What is it?” He said, “That is a measuring bucket.” He also said, “That bucket is for measuring the sins of the people in this country.”