I said to them, “As much as possible, we have bought back our fellow Jews who had been sold to the nations. Now you also are selling your brothers so that they will be sold back to us?” Then they became silent and could not find anything to say.
Amos 8:6 - Tree of Life Version buy the poor for silver, the needy for a pair of sandals! We’ll even sell the refuse of the grain!’” 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? |
I said to them, “As much as possible, we have bought back our fellow Jews who had been sold to the nations. Now you also are selling your brothers so that they will be sold back to us?” Then they became silent and could not find anything to say.
They accept bribes in order to shed blood in you; you have taken usurious interest. You have greedily gained by oppressing your neighbors, and you have forgotten Me.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth— blood, fire and pillars of smoke.
Thus says Adonai: “For three crimes of Israel even for four, I will not relent. For they sell the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of shoes.
Proclaim on the citadels in Ashdod and the citadels in the land of Egypt: “Assemble on Samaria’s mountains: Behold the great tumult within it, even the oppression within it.”
Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on Samaria’s hill, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters: “Bring, so we may drink.”
Hear this, you who trample the poor, destroying the afflicted of the land
I asked, “What is it?” He replied, “This is the measuring basket that goes out.” He continued, “This is their eye in all the land.”