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Amos 8:4

Tree of Life Version

Hear this, you who trample the poor, destroying the afflicted of the land

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Micaiah then continued, “Therefore hear the word of Adonai. I saw Adonai sitting on His throne, with all the hosts of heaven standing by Him on His right hand and on His left.

They turn the needy off the path; they force the poor of the land into hiding.

His mouth is full of cursing, lies and oppression. On his tongue are trouble and iniquity.

They say: “With our tongue we’ll prevail. We own our lips—who can master us?”

“Will evildoers never understand— those who consume My people as they eat bread— and never call on Adonai?”

May a slanderer not endure in the land. May calamity hunt down a violent man.

For the music director: “A Silent Dove Far Away,” a Michtam of David, when the Philistines had seized him in Gath.

There is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose molars are knives, to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among humanity.

Hear the word of Adonai, you rulers of Sodom! Give ear to the Torah of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

Therefore hear the word of Adonai, you scoffers, who rule this people who are in Jerusalem:

Then said the prophet Jeremiah to the prophet Hananiah: “Hear now, Hananiah! Adonai has not sent you, yet you have caused this people to trust in a lie.

‘Hear this you foolish people who have no understanding, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.

They accept bribes in order to shed blood in you; you have taken usurious interest. You have greedily gained by oppressing your neighbors, and you have forgotten Me.” It is a declaration of Adonai.

“You are to have just balances, an honest dry measure and an honest liquid measure.

Therefore, because you trample on the poor, exacting from him a burden of grain, you built houses of hewn stone, but will not dwell in them, you planted pleasant vineyards, but will not drink their wine.

For I know your crimes are many and your sins countless— afflicting the righteous, taking bribes, and turning the needy aside at the gate.

So now, hear the word of Adonai: You are saying, ‘Do not prophesy against Israel and do not preach against the house of Isaac.’

They covet fields, so they seize them, or houses, and take them away. So they oppress a man and his house— a man and his inheritance.

Now that they have eaten the flesh of my people, stripped their skin off from them, and smashed their bones to bits, they cut it up like flesh in a pot, or like meat within a caldron.

I asked, “What is it?” He replied, “This is the measuring basket that goes out.” He continued, “This is their eye in all the land.”

“But woe to you, Torah scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut people out of the kingdom of heaven. For you do not enter yourselves, nor do you let those enter who are trying to go in.

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




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