Amos 8:4

Modern English Version

Hear this, you who trample on the needy to make the poor of the land fail,

Cross References

Amos 5:11

Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take from him a levy of wheat, though you have built houses of hewn stone, you will not dwell in them; though you have planted pleasant vineyards, you will not drink their wine.

Proverbs 30:14

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, whose fangs are like knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among mortals.

Psalm 14:4

Have they no knowledge, all the workers of iniquity, who eat 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 justice for the poor.

Psalm 12:5

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

James 5:6

You have condemned and killed the righteous man who does not resist you.

Matthew 23:13

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven against men. For you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those who are entering to go in.

Jeremiah 5:21

Hear this now, O foolish people and without understanding, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.

1 Kings 22:19

And he said, “Hear, therefore, 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

Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, “Listen now, Hananiah. The Lord has not sent you, and you make this people trust in a lie.

Isaiah 28:14

Therefore, hear the word of the Lord, O scoffers, who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,

Isaiah 1:10

Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah:

Psalm 56:1

Be gracious to me, O God, for man would trample on me; fighting all day long he oppresses me.

Job 24:4

They turn away the needy; the poor of the earth are forced to hide.

Ezekiel 45:10

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

Amos 5:12

For I know your transgressions are many and your sins are grievous, you who oppress the just, who take a bribe and subvert the needy at the gate.

Micah 2:2

They covet fields and seize them, and houses and take them. They defraud a man of his house, and a fellow man of his inheritance.

Psalm 10:7

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

Ezekiel 22:12

In you they have taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken usury and increase, and you have injured your neighbors for gain by extortion, and you have forgotten Me, says the Lord God.

Micah 3:3

you who have eaten the flesh of My people, and have flayed their skin from them, and broken their bones in pieces; who have chopped them up like meat in the pot, and like flesh in the cauldron.

Zechariah 5:6

And I asked, “What is it?” He said, “This is the ephah basket going forth. This represents their iniquity throughout all the land.”