Amos 5:12

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

For I knew your great trespasses many, and your strong sins; enemies of the rightwise man, taking a gift, and bearing down poor men in the gate.

Cross References

Job 20:19

For he brake, and made naked the house of the poor man; he ravished it, and builded it not.

Job 31:21

if I raised up mine hand upon a fatherless child, yea, when I saw me the higher in the gate;

Psalm 127:5

Blessed is the man, that hath [full-]filled his desire of those [or them]; he shall not be shamed, when he shall speak to his enemies in the gate.

Exodus 23:3

Also thou shalt not have mercy of a poor man in a cause, or doom.

Exodus 23:6

Thou shalt not bow [away] from truth in the doom of a poor man.

Proverbs 17:8

A precious stone most acceptable is the abiding of him that seeketh; whither ever he turneth himself, he understandeth prudently.

Proverbs 22:22

Do thou not violence to a poor man, for he is poor; neither defoul thou a needy man in the gate.

Isaiah 1:23

Thy princes be unfaithful, the fellows of thieves; all love gifts, and follow yieldings, either meeds; they deem not to a fatherless child, and the cause of a widow entereth not to them.

Isaiah 10:2

for to oppress poor men in doom, and to do violence to the cause of meek men of my people; that widows shall be the prey of them, and that they should ravish fatherless children.

Isaiah 29:21

which made men to do sin in word, and deceived a reprover in the gate, and bowed away in vain from a just [or rightwise] man.

Isaiah 33:15

He that goeth in rightfulnesses [or rightwisenesses], and speaketh truth; he that casteth away avarice of false challenge, and shaketh away his hands from all gifts, or bribes; he that stoppeth his ears, that he hear not blood, and closeth his eyes, that he see not evil.

Isaiah 47:9

These two things, barrenness and widowhood, shall come to thee suddenly in one day; all things came on thee for the multitude of thy witchcrafts, and for the great hardness of thine enchanters, either tregetours.

Isaiah 5:23

and ye justify a wicked man for gifts, and ye take away the rightful-ness [or rightwiseness] of a just [or rightwise] man from him.

Isaiah 66:18

Forsooth I come to gather together the works of them, and the thoughts of them, with all folks and languages; and they shall come, and shall see my glory.

Jeremiah 29:23

for they did folly in Israel, and did adultery on the wives of their friends; and they spake a word falsely in my name, which I commanded not to them; I am judge and witness, saith the Lord.

Lamentations 3:34

That he should all-foul under his feet all the bound men of [the] earth.

Ezekiel 13:22

For that that ye made falsely the heart of a just man to mourn, whom I made not sorry; and ye comforted the hands of a wicked man, that he should not turn again from his evil way, and live.

Hosea 5:3

I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me; for now Ephraim did fornication, Israel is defouled.

Amos 2:16

and a strong man of heart shall flee naked among strong men in that day, saith the Lord.

Amos 2:3

And I shall lose a judge of the midst thereof, and I shall slay with it all the princes thereof, saith the Lord.

Amos 5:10

They hated a man reproving in the gate, and they loathed a man speaking perfectly.

Amos 5:7

Which convert doom into worm-wood, and forsake rightwiseness in the land,

Amos 8:4

Hear ye this thing, which all-break a poor man, and make needy men of the land for to fail;

Micah 3:11

The princes thereof deemed for gifts, and [the] priests thereof taught for hire, and the prophets thereof divined for money; and on the Lord they rested, and said, Whether the Lord is not in the middle of us? evils shall not come on us.

Micah 7:3

The evil of their hands they say good; the prince asketh, and the doomsman is in yielding; and a great man spake the desire of his soul, and they troubled altogether it.

Malachi 3:5

And I shall come to you in doom, and I shall be a swift witness to mis-doers, either enchanters of devil’s craft, and to adulterers, and to forsworn men, and that falsely challenge the hire of an hired man, and widows, and fatherless children, and oppress a pilgrim, and dreaded not me, saith the Lord of hosts.

Acts 7:52

Whom of the prophets have not your fathers pursued, and have slain them that before-told of the coming of the rightful [or just] man, whose traitors and manslayers ye were now?

Deuteronomy 16:18

Thou shalt ordain judges, and exactors, in all thy gates which thy Lord God shall give to thee, by each of thy lineages, that they deem the people by just [or right] doom,

Deuteronomy 31:21

After that many evils and tormentings have found them, this song shall answer to him for witness-ing, which song no forgetting shall do away from the mouth of thy seed. For I know the thoughts thereof today, what things it shall do, before that I bring it into the land which I promised to it.

James 5:4

Lo! the hire of your workmen, that reaped your fields, which is defrauded of you, crieth; and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

James 5:6

ye brought, and slew the just Man, and he against-stood not you. [ye led to, and slew the just man, and he withstood you not.]

Ruth 4:1

Therefore Boaz went up to the gate, and sat there; and when he had seen the kinsman pass forth, of whom the word was had, Boaz said to him, Bow thou a little, and sit here; and he called him by his name. And he turned, and sat.

1 Samuel 8:3

And his sons went not in his ways, but they bowed after avarice, and they took gifts, and perverted doom.