And he said, Hear you therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
Amos 8:4 - King James 2000 Hear this, O you that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Hear this, O you who would swallow up and trample down the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail and come to an end, American Standard Version (1901) Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail, Common English Bible Hear this, you who trample on the needy and destroy the poor of the land, Catholic Public Domain Version Hear this, you who crush the poor and who make those in need of land to do without. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Hear this, you that crush the poor, and make the needy of the land to fail, |
And he said, Hear you therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
They drive the needy off the road: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that sneers at him.
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
[To the Chief Musician upon jonathelemrechokim. A michtam of David, when the Philistines took him to Gath.] Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresses me.
There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.
Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, that rule this people who are in Jerusalem.
Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD has not sent you; but you make this people to trust in a lie.
Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and see not; who have ears, and hear not:
In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten me, says the Lord GOD.
Since therefore you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.
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.
Now therefore hear you the word of the LORD: you say, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not your word against the house of Isaac.
And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
And I said, What is it? And he said, This is the basket that goes forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth.
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, neither allow you them that are entering to go in.