Amos 5:12

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

For I knew your many transgressions, and your strong sins: pressing upon the just, taking a ransom, and they turned away the needy in the gate

Cross References

Job 20:19

For he oppressed, forsaking the poor; he stripped the house and he will not build it up.

Job 31:21

If I lifted up my hand against the orphan when I shall see, my help in the gate:

Psalm 127:5

Happy the man who filled his quiver from them: they shall not be ashamed when they shall speak with their enemies in the gate.

Exodus 23:3

And the poor one thou shalt not make proud in his cause.

Exodus 23:6

Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of thy needy in his cause.

Proverbs 17:8

The gift a stone of grace in the, eyes of him possessing it: to all which it shall turn it shall prosper.

Proverbs 22:22

Thou shalt not strip the poor because he is poor: and thou shalt not crush the humble in the gate.

Isaiah 1:23

Thy chiefs turning away, and associates of thieves: every one loving a gift and following recompenses: the orphan they will not judge, and the cause of the widow will not come to them.

Isaiah 10:2

To turn away the judgment of the powerless, and to strip off judgment of the distressed of my people, for widows to be their plunder, and they will plunder orphans.

Isaiah 29:21

Leading a man into sin by a word, and laying snares for him doing justice in the gate, and they will turn aside the just one by vanity.

Isaiah 33:15

He going in justice and speaking uprightness, rejecting in the plunder of oppression; shaking his hands from holding upon a gift, shutting his ear from the hearing of bloods, and binding up his eyes from looking upon evil;

Isaiah 47:9

And these two shall come to thee suddenly, in one day, bereavement and widowhood: as finished they came upon thee, in the multitude of thy sorceries, and in the great numbers of thy enchantments.

Isaiah 5:23

Justifying the unjust on account of a gift, and they will take away the justice of the just from him.

Isaiah 66:18

And I come to gather together all nations and tongues, their works and their purposes; and they came and saw my glory.

Jeremiah 29:23

Because they did folly in Israel, and they will commit adultery with their neighbors' wives, and they will speak the word of a lie in my name, which I commanded them not; and I know, and a witness, says Jehovah.

Lamentations 3:34

To crush under his feet all the bound of the earth,

Ezekiel 13:22

Because ye afflicted the heart of the just one with falsehood, and I afflicted him not; and to strengthen the hands of the evil one not to turn back from his evil way, to preserve him alive.

Hosea 5:3

I knew Ephraim and Israel were not hid from me: for now thou didst commit fornication, O Ephraim; Israel was deified.

Amos 2:16

And he strong of heart among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, says Jehovah.

Amos 2:3

And I cut off the judge from the midst of her, and I will slay all her chiefs with him, said Jehovah.

Amos 5:10

They hated him setting right in the gate, and they will abhor the perfect word.

Amos 5:7

Turning judgment to wormwood and they put down justice in the earth.

Amos 8:4

Hear this, ye, panting after the needy, to cause the humble of the, land to cease.

Micah 3:11

Her heads will judge for a gift, and her priests will teach for hire, and her prophets will divine for silver: and they will lean upon Jehovah, saying, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? he will not bring evil upon us.

Micah 7:3

For doing evil with the hands to do well, the chief asking, and the judge, for peace; and the great one, he spake the mischief of his soul: and they will entangle it

Malachi 3:5

And I came near to you for judgment: and I was a swift witness against those practicing magic, and against those committing adultery, and against those swearing to falsehood, and against those oppressing the hire of the hireling, the widow and the orphan, and those turning aside the stranger, and they feared not me, said Jehovah of armies.

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did not your fathers drive out and they slew them announcing beforehand of the coming of the Just; of whom ye have now been traitors and murderers:

Deuteronomy 16:18

Judges and scribes shall thou give to thee in all thy gates which Jehovah thy God gave to thee according to thy tribes: and they judged the people just judgment

Deuteronomy 31:21

And it was when many evils and afflictions shall find him, and this song testified before him for a witness: for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouth of his seed; for I knew his formation which he did this day, before I shall bring him to the land which I sware

James 5:4

Behold, the hire of laborers having reaped your farms, withheld by you, cries out, and the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

James 5:6

Ye have condemned, ye have killed the just one; and he resists you not.

Ruth 4:1

And Boaz went up to the gate and sat there: and behold, the blood relation whom Boaz spake of, passing by; and he will say, Turn aside, sit down here; thou such a one. And he will turn aside, and sit down.

1 Samuel 8:3

And his sons went not in his way, and they will incline after plunder, and they will take a gift, and they will turn away from judgment.