Amos 8:4

The Scriptures 1998

Hear this, you who are swallowing up the needy, to do away with the poor of the land,

Cross References

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.

Proverbs 30:14

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

Psalm 14:4

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

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.”

James 5:6

You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous – he does not resist you.

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the reign of the heavens before men, for you do not go in, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.

Jeremiah 5:21

‘Hear this now, O foolish people without heart, who have eyes and see not, and who have ears and hear not:

1 Kings 22:19

Then he said, “Therefore hear the word of יהוה : I saw יהוה  sitting on His throne, and all the host of the heavens standing by Him, on His right and on His left.

Amos 7:16

“And now, hear the word of יהוה. You are saying, ‘Do not prophesy against Yisra’ĕ

Jeremiah 28:15

And the prophet Yirmeyah said to Ḥ

Isaiah 28:14

Therefore hear the Word of יהוה, you men of scorn, who rule this people who are in Yerushalayim,

Isaiah 1:10

Hear the word of יהוה, you rulers of Seḏ

Psalm 56:1

Show me favour, O Elohim, For man would swallow me up; Fighting all day long, he oppresses me.

Job 24:4

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

Ezekiel 45:10

“Have right scales, and a right ĕ

Amos 5:12

For I know your transgressions are many and your sins are great, afflicting the righteous and accepting bribes, and turning aside the poor at the gate.

Micah 2:2

And they coveted fields and seized them, also houses, and took them away. And they oppressed a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.

Psalm 10:7

His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; Under his tongue is trouble and wickedness.

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.

Micah 3:3

and who have eaten the flesh of My people, and stripped off their skin, and have broken their bones, and have cut it up as into a pot, like flesh in the cooking pot?”

Zechariah 5:6

And I said, “What is it?” And he said, “It is an ĕ