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Amos 8:4

King James 2000

Hear this, O you that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

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Since therefore you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.

There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.

I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that sneers at him.

You have condemned and killed the just; and he does not resist you.

But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, neither allow you them that are entering to go in.

Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and see not; who have ears, and hear not:

And he said, Hear you therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.

Now therefore hear you the word of the LORD: you say, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not your word against the house of Isaac.

Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD has not sent you; but you make this people to trust in a lie.

Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, that rule this people who are in Jerusalem.

Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.

[To the Chief Musician upon jonathelemrechokim. A michtam of David, when the Philistines took him to Gath.] Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresses me.

They drive the needy off the road: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

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

For I know your manifold transgressions, and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten me, says the Lord GOD.

Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

And I said, What is it? And he said, This is the basket that goes forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth.




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