and said, ‘We have done our best to buy back our Jewish countrymen who were sold to foreigners, but now you sell your own countrymen, and we have to buy them back.’ They remained silent and could not say a word.
Amos 8:6 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised We can buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and even sell the chaff! ’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition That we may buy [into slavery] the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals; yes, and sell the refuse of the wheat [as if it were good grade]? American Standard Version (1901) that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat? Common English Bible in order to buy the needy for silver and the helpless for sandals, and sell garbage as grain?” Catholic Public Domain Version in order that we may possess the destitute with money, and the poor for a pair of shoes, and may sell even the refuse of the grain?" Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version That we may possess the needy for money, and the poor for a pair of shoes, and may sell the refuse of the corn? |
and said, ‘We have done our best to buy back our Jewish countrymen who were sold to foreigners, but now you sell your own countrymen, and we have to buy them back.’ They remained silent and could not say a word.
People who live in you accept bribes in order to shed blood. You take interest and profit on a loan and brutally extort your neighbours. You have forgotten me. This is the declaration of the Lord God.
They cast lots for my people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.
You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks to remove them far from their own territory.
The Lord says: I will not relent from punishing Israel for three crimes, even four, because they sell a righteous person for silver and a needy person for a pair of sandals.
Proclaim on the citadels in Ashdod and on the citadels in the land of Egypt: Assemble on the mountains of Samaria, and see the great turmoil in the city and the acts of oppression within it.
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.’
Hear this, you who trample on the needy and do away with the poor of the land,
So I asked, ‘What is it? ’ He responded, ‘It’s a measuring basket that is approaching.’ And he continued, ‘This is their iniquity in all the land.’