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Amos 8:4

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Listen to me, you who walk on helpless people, you who are trying to destroy the poor people of this country, saying,

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You walk on poor people, forcing them to give you grain. You have built fancy houses of cut stone, but you will not live in them. You have planted beautiful vineyards, but you will not drink the wine from them.

Some people have teeth like swords; their jaws seem full of knives. They want to remove the poor from the earth and the needy from the land.

Don’t the wicked understand? They destroy my people as if they were eating bread. They do not ask the Lord for help.

I know the Lord will get justice for the poor and will defend the needy in court.

But the Lord says, “I will now rise up, because the poor are being hurt. Because of the moans of the helpless, I will give them the help they want.”

You have judged guilty and then murdered innocent people, who were not against you.

“How terrible for you, teachers of the law and Pharisees! You are hypocrites! You close the door for people to enter the kingdom of heaven. You yourselves don’t enter, and you stop others who are trying to enter. [

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

But Micaiah said, “Hear the message from the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne with his heavenly army standing near him on his right and on his left.

So listen to the Lord’s word. You tell me, ‘Don’t prophesy against Israel, and stop prophesying against the descendants of Isaac.’

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

So listen to the Lord’s message, you who brag, you leaders in Jerusalem.

Jerusalem, your rulers are like those of Sodom, and your people are like those of Gomorrah. Hear the word of the Lord; listen to the teaching of our God!

God, be merciful to me because people are chasing me; the battle has pressed me all day long.

They push needy people off the path; all the poor of the land hide from them.

You must have honest scales, an honest dry measurement and an honest liquid measurement.

I know your many crimes, your terrible sins. You hurt people who do right, you take money to do wrong, and you keep the poor from getting justice in court.

They want fields, so they take them; they want houses, so they take them away. They cheat people to get their houses; they rob them even of their property.

Their mouths are full of curses, lies, and threats; they use their tongues for sin and evil.

The people in you take money to kill others. You take unfair interest and profits and make profits by mistreating your neighbor. And you have forgotten me, says the Lord God.

You eat my people’s flesh and skin them and break their bones; you chop them up like meat for the pot, like meat in a cooking pan.

“What is it?” I asked. He answered, “It is a measuring basket going out.” He also said, “It is a symbol of the people’s sins in all the land.”




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