Amos 8:4

New King James Version

Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, And make the poor of the land fail,

Cross References

1 Kings 22:19

Then Micaiah said, “Therefore hear the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by, on His right hand and on His left.

Job 24:4

They push the needy off the road; All the poor of the land are forced to hide.

Psalm 10:7

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression; Under his tongue is trouble and iniquity.

Psalm 12:5

“For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, Now I will arise,” says the Lord; “I will set him in the safety for which he yearns.”

Psalm 14:4

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And do not call on the Lord?

Psalm 140:12

I know that the Lord will maintain The cause of the afflicted, And justice for the poor.

Psalm 56:1

Be merciful to me, O God, for man would swallow me up; Fighting all day he oppresses me.

Proverbs 30:14

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, And whose fangs are like knives, To devour the poor from off the earth, And the needy from among men.

Isaiah 1:10

Hear the word of the Lord, You rulers of Sodom; Give ear to the law of our God, You people of Gomorrah:

Isaiah 28:14

Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you scornful men, Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,

Jeremiah 28:15

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

Jeremiah 5:21

‘Hear this now, O foolish people, Without understanding, Who have eyes and see not, And who have ears and hear not:

Ezekiel 22:12

In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take usury and increase; you have made profit from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten Me,” says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 45:10

“You shall have honest scales, an honest ephah, and an honest bath.

Amos 5:11

Therefore, because you tread down the poor And take grain taxes from him, Though you have built houses of hewn stone, Yet you shall not dwell in them; You have planted pleasant vineyards, But you shall not drink wine from them.

Amos 5:12

For I know your manifold transgressions And your mighty sins: Afflicting the just and taking bribes; Diverting the poor from justice at the gate.

Amos 7:16

Now therefore, hear the word of the Lord: You say, ‘Do not prophesy against Israel, And do not spout against the house of Isaac.’

Micah 2:2

They covet fields and take them by violence, Also houses, and seize them. So they oppress a man and his house, A man and his inheritance.

Micah 3:3

Who also eat the flesh of My people, Flay their skin from them, Break their bones, And chop them in pieces Like meat for the pot, Like flesh in the caldron.”

Zechariah 5:6

So I asked, “What is it?” And he said, “It is a basket that is going forth.” He also said, “This is their resemblance throughout the earth:

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.

James 5:6

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