Amos 4:1

The Scriptures 1998

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Shomeron, who are oppressing the poor, who are crushing the needy, who are saying to their masters, “Bring wine, let us drink!”

Cross References

Psalm 22:12

Many bulls have surrounded Me; Strong ones of Bashan have encircled Me.

Amos 6:1

Woe to those at ease in Tsiyon, and those trusting in Mount Shomeron, the distinguished ones among the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Yisra’ĕ

Amos 5:11

Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take grain taxes from him – you have built houses of hewn stone but you are not going to dwell in them, you have planted pleasant vineyards but not drink wine from them.

Ezekiel 39:18

“Eat the flesh of the mighty, drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams and lambs, of goats and bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Then I looked again at all the oppression that is done under the sun: And see! The tears of the oppressed, but they have no comforter; and power on the side of their oppressors, but they have no comforter.

Malachi 3:5

“And I shall draw near to you for right-ruling. And I shall be a swift witness against the practisers of witchcraft, and against adulterers, and against them that swear to falsehood, and against those who oppress the wage earner in his wages and widows and the fatherless, and those who turn away a sojourner and do not fear Me,” said יהוה  of hosts.

Joel 3:3

“And they have cast lots for My people, and have given a young man for a whore, and sold a girl for wine, and drank it.

Ezekiel 22:29

“The people of the land have practised oppression, and committed robbery, and have wronged the poor and needy. And they oppressed the stranger without right-ruling.

Ezekiel 22:27

“Her leaders in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood, to destroy lives, and to get greedy gain.

Ezekiel 22:12

“In you they have taken a bribe to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase. You have cut off your neighbour by extortion. And you have forgotten Me,” declares the Master יהוה.

Ezekiel 22:7

“They have despised father and mother within you. They have oppressed the stranger in your midst. They have wronged the fatherless and the widow within you.

Jeremiah 51:34

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Jeremiah 50:27

Slay all her bulls, let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day has come, the time of their punishment.

Jeremiah 7:6

if you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, or walk after other mighty ones to your own evil,

Jeremiah 6:6

For thus said יהוה  of hosts, “Cut down her trees, and cast up a siege mound against Yerushalayim. She is the city to be punished, in whose midst there is only oppression.

Isaiah 58:6

“Is this not the fast that I have chosen: to loosen the tight cords of wrongness, to undo the bands of the yoke, to exempt the oppressed, and to break off every yoke?

Isaiah 5:8

Woe to those who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see the oppression of the poor, and denial of right-ruling and righteousness in a province, do not be astonished at the matter. For a higher than the high is guarding, and there are higher ones over them.

Psalm 140:12

I have known that יהוה  maintains The cause of the afflicted, The right-ruling of the poor.

Psalm 12:5

“Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, I now arise,” says יהוה, “I set in safety – he pants for it.”

Job 20:19

For he has oppressed, he has forsaken the poor, he has seized a house which he did not build.

1 Kings 16:24

And he bought the hill of Shomeron from Shemer for two talents of silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, Shomeron, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill.

Deuteronomy 28:33

“A people whom you have not known eat the fruit of your land and all your labours. And you shall be only oppressed and crushed all the days.

Jeremiah 50:11

“Because you were glad, because you rejoiced, you who plunder My inheritance, because you have grown fat like a heifer threshing grain, and you neigh like stallions,

Deuteronomy 24:14

“Do not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, of your brothers or of the strangers who is in your land within your gates.

Ezekiel 18:12

if he has oppressed the poor and needy, has committed robbery, he does not return a pledge, has lifted his eyes to the idols, or did abomination,

Amos 6:6

who are drinking wine from bowls, and anoint with the finest ointments, yet they have not been pained over the breach of Yosĕ

Numbers 21:33

and turned and went up by the way to Bashan. And Og sovereign of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Eḏ

Job 24:4

they turn the needy out of the way; the poor of the earth have hidden together.

Proverbs 22:7

The rich rules over the poor, And the borrower is servant to the lender.

Isaiah 28:1

Woe to the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephrayim, and to the fading flower of its splendid comeliness that is on the head of the fertile valley, to those who are overcome with wine!

Isaiah 56:12

“Come, let me bring wine and fill ourselves with strong drink. And tomorrow shall be as today, even much greater.”

Ezekiel 34:16

“I shall seek out the lost and bring back the strayed. And I shall bind up the broken and strengthen what was sick, but the fat and the strong I shall destroy. I shall feed them with right-ruling.”

Amos 3:1

Hear this word that יהוה  has spoken against you, O children of Yisra’ĕ

Amos 3:3

Would two walk together, without having met?