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Amos 8:4

Modern King James Version

Hear this, you who trample the poor, even to make the humble of the land to fail,

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And he said, Hear therefore the Word of Jehovah: I saw Jehovah sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by Him on His right hand and on His left.

They turn the needy out of the way; the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

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

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, I will now arise, says Jehovah. I will set in safety, he pants for it.

Have all the workers of iniquity not known, eating up My people as they eat bread? They have not called on Jehovah.

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

To the Chief Musician. Concerning the silent dove, those far off. Of David, a secret treasure, when the Philistines took him in Gath. Be merciful to me, O God, for man would swallow me up; fighting daily, he presses me down.

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

Hear the Word of Jehovah, rulers of Sodom; give ear to the Law of our God, people of Gomorrah.

Therefore hear the Word of Jehovah, scornful men who rule this people in Jerusalem.

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

Now hear this, O foolish people and without heart; who have eyes and see not; who have ears and hear not;

In you they have taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken usury and increase, and you gained by extortion of your neighbors, and you have forgotten Me, says the Lord Jehovah.

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

So, because of your trampling on the poor, and you take tribute of grain from him; you have built houses of carved stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted desirable vineyards, but you shall not drink wine from them.

For I know your many transgressions and your many sins. They afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate.

Now then hear the Word of Jehovah. You say, Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not drop words against the house of Isaac.

And they covet and seize fields; and houses, and take them away. And they oppress a man and his household, even a man and his inheritance.

who also eat the flesh of My people, and strip their skin off them. And they break their bones and chop them in pieces, like that in the pot, like those in the middle of the kettle.

And I said, What is it? And he said, This is the ephah that goes forth. And he said, This is their form in all the earth.

But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of Heaven against men. For you neither go in, nor do you allow those entering to go in.

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




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