However, because you treated the Lord with such contempt in this matter, the son born to you will die.’
Amos 2:7 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised They trample the heads of the poor on the dust of the ground and obstruct the path of the needy. A man and his father have sexual relations with the same girl, profaning my holy name. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 that pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They pant after [the sight of] the poor [reduced to such misery that they will be throwing] dust of the earth on their heads [in token of their grief]; they defraud and turn aside the humble [who are too meek to defend themselves]; and a man and his father will have sexual relations with the same maiden, so that My holy name is profaned. American Standard Version (1901) they that pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father go unto the same maiden, to profane my holy name: Common English Bible They crush the head of the poor into the dust of the earth, and push the afflicted out of the way. Father and son have intercourse with the same young woman, degrading my holy name. Catholic Public Domain Version They grind the heads of the poor into the dust of the earth, and they divert the way of the humble. And the son, as well as his father, have gone to the same girl, so that they outrage my holy name. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version They bruise the heads of the poor upon the dust of the earth, and turn aside the way of the humble: and the son and his father have gone to the same young woman, to profane my holy name. |
However, because you treated the Lord with such contempt in this matter, the son born to you will die.’
So Ahab went to his palace resentful and angry because of what Naboth the Jezreelite had told him. He had said, ‘I will not give you my ancestors’ inheritance.’ He lay down on his bed, turned his face away, and didn’t eat any food.
It is not good to show partiality – yet even a courageous person may sin for a piece of bread.
to keep the poor from getting a fair trial and to deprive the needy among my people of justice, so that widows can be their spoil and they can plunder the fatherless.
The Lord brings this charge against the elders and leaders of his people: ‘You have devastated the vineyard. The plunder from the poor is in your houses.
Why do you crush my people and grind the faces of the poor? ’ This is the declaration of the Lord God of Armies.
One man within you commits a detestable act with his neighbour’s wife; another defiles his daughter-in-law with depravity; and yet another violates his sister, his father’s daughter.
When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name, because it was said about them, “These are the people of the Lord, yet they had to leave his land in exile.”
I will not punish your daughters when they act promiscuously or your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery, for the men themselves go off with prostitutes and make sacrifices with cult prostitutes. People without discernment are doomed.
You are not to have sexual intercourse with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; you are not to have sex with her.
‘You are not to sacrifice any of your children in the fire to Molech. Do not profane the name of your God; I am the Lord.
You are not to have sex with your father’s wife; she is your father’s family.
I will turn against that man and cut him off from his people, because he gave his offspring to Molech, defiling my sanctuary and profaning my holy name.
Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan who are on the hill of Samaria, women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to their husbands, ‘Bring us something to drink.’
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact a grain tax from him, you will never live in the houses of cut stone you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
For I know that your crimes are many and your sins innumerable. They oppress the righteous, take a bribe, and deprive the poor of justice at the city gates.
Hear this, you who trample on the needy and do away with the poor of the land,
They covet fields and seize them; they also take houses. They deprive a man of his home, a person of his inheritance.
You force the women of my people out of their comfortable homes, and you take my blessing , from their children for ever.
The princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are wolves of the night, which leave nothing for the morning.
For, as it is written: The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you. ,
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and the kind of sexual immorality that is not even tolerated among the Gentiles #– #a man is sleeping with his father’s wife.