For he oppressed and abandoned the poor; he seized a house he did not build.
Amos 5:12 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised 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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For I know how manifold are your transgressions and how mighty are your sins–you who afflict the [uncompromisingly] righteous, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the [court of the city] gate from their right. American Standard Version (1901) For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins—ye that afflict the just, that take a bribe, and that turn aside the needy in the gate from their right. Common English Bible I know how many are your crimes, and how numerous are your sins— afflicting the righteous, taking money on the side, turning away the poor who seek help. Catholic Public Domain Version For I know your many wicked deeds and the strength of your sins, you enemies of the just, accepting bribes, and depriving the poor at the gate. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Because I know your manifold crimes, and your grievous sine: enemies of the just, taking bribes, and oppressing the poor in the gate. |
For he oppressed and abandoned the poor; he seized a house he did not build.
if I ever cast my vote against a fatherless child when I saw that I had support in the city gate,
‘You must not deny justice to a poor person among you in his lawsuit.
A bribe seems like a magic stone to its owner; wherever he turns, he succeeds.
Don’t rob a poor person because he is poor, and don’t crush the oppressed at the city gate,
Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love graft and chase after bribes. They do not defend the rights of the fatherless, and the widow’s case never comes before them.
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.
those who, with their speech, accuse a person of wrongdoing, who set a trap for the one mediating at the city gate and without cause deprive the righteous of justice.
The one who lives righteously and speaks rightly, who refuses profit from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears from listening to murderous plots and shuts his eyes against evil schemes –
These two things will happen to you suddenly, in one day: loss of children and widowhood. They will happen to you in their entirety, in spite of your many sorceries and the potency of your spells.
who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.
‘Knowing their works and their thoughts, I have come to gather all nations and languages; they will come and see my glory.
because they have committed an outrage in Israel by committing adultery with their neighbours’ wives and have spoken in my name a lie, which I did not command them. I am he who knows, and I am a witness.’ This is the Lord’s declaration.
Because you have disheartened the righteous person with lies (when I intended no distress), and because you have supported the wicked person so that he does not turn from his evil way to save his life,
I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me. For now, Ephraim, you have acted promiscuously; Israel is defiled.
Even the most courageous of the warriors will flee naked on that day – this is the Lord’s declaration.
I will cut off the judge from the land and kill all its officials with him. The Lord has spoken.
They hate the one who convicts the guilty at the city gate, and they despise the one who speaks with integrity.
Those who turn justice into wormwood also throw righteousness to the ground.
Hear this, you who trample on the needy and do away with the poor of the land,
Her leaders issue rulings for a bribe, her priests teach for payment, and her prophets practise divination for silver. Yet they lean on the Lord, saying, ‘Isn’t the Lord among us? No disaster will overtake us.’
Both hands are good at accomplishing evil: the official and the judge demand a bribe; when the powerful man communicates his evil desire, they plot it together.
‘I will come to you in judgement, and I will be ready to witness against sorcerers and adulterers; against those who swear falsely; against those who oppress the hired worker, the widow, and the fatherless; and against those who deny justice to the resident foreigner. They do not fear me,’ says the Lord of Armies.
Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become.
‘Appoint judges and officials for your tribes in all your towns the Lord your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgement.
And when many troubles and afflictions come to them, this song will testify against them, because their descendants will not have forgotten it. For I know what they are prone to do, even before I bring them into the land I swore to give them.’
Look! The pay that you withheld from the workers who mowed your fields cries out, and the outcry of the harvesters has reached the ears of the Lord of Armies.
You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous, who does not resist you.
Boaz went to the gate of the town and sat down there. Soon the family redeemer Boaz had spoken about came by. Boaz said, ‘Come over here and sit down.’ So he went over and sat down.
However, his sons did not walk in his ways #– #they turned towards dishonest profit, took bribes, and perverted justice.