Amos 5:12 - Y'all Version Bible

¹² For I know how many are y’all’s offenses, and how great are y’all’s sins— Oppressing the just, taking a bribe, turning away the needy in the courts.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² 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

¹² 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)

¹² 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

¹² 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

¹² 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.

Amos 5:12 Tagairtí Cros

Job 20:19

For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up.

Job 31:21

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate;

Psalm 127:5

Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won’t be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

Exodus 23:3

You must not favor a poor man in his cause.

Exodus 23:6

“You must not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

Proverbs 17:8

A bribe is a precious stone in the eyes of him who gives it; wherever he turns, he prospers.

Proverbs 22:22

Don’t exploit the poor because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

Isaiah 1:23

Your rulers are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

Isaiah 10:2

to deprive the poor of justice, and to rob the oppressed among my people of their rights, making widows their plunder, and that the fatherless their prey!

Isaiah 29:21

who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for one who reproves in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

Isaiah 33:15

He who walks righteously and speaks blamelessly, he who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—

Isaiah 47:9

But these two things will come to you in a moment in one day: the loss of children and widowhood. They will come on you in their full measure, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments.

Isaiah 5:23

who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!

Isaiah 66:18

“For I know their works and their thoughts. The time comes that I will gather all nations and languages, and they will come and will see my glory.

Jeremiah 29:23

For they have done foolish things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I did not command them. I am ʜᴇ who knows. I am witness to it,” says YHWH.

Lamentations 3:34

To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,

Ezekiel 13:22

Because you have grieved the heart of the righteous with lies, those whom I have not made sad, and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way and be saved alive.

Hosea 5:3

I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute. Israel is defiled.

Amos 2:16

He who is courageous among the mighty will flee away naked on that day,” says YHWH.

Amos 2:3

and I will cut off the judge from among them, and will kill all its princes with him,” says YHWH.

Amos 5:10

They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

Amos 5:7

You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth!

Amos 8:4

Y’all must listen to this, those who trample the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

Micah 3:11

Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money; yet they lean on YHWH, and say, “Isn’t YHWH among us? No disaster will come on us.”

Micah 7:3

Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe. The powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

Malachi 3:5

I will come near to y’all for judgment. I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, adulterers, perjurers, and those who exploit laborers, widows, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says YHWH Almighty.

Acts 7:52

Which one of the prophets didn’t y’all’s ancestors persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers y’all have now become!

Deuteronomy 16:18

You are to appoint judges and officers for all your town gates that YHWH your God gives you, according to your tribes. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.

Deuteronomy 31:21

It will happen, when many evils and troubles have come on them, that this song will testify before them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten out of the mouths of their descendants; for I know their ways and what they are doing today, before I have brought them into the land which I promised them.”

James 5:4

Look! The wages of the laborers who mowed y’all’s fields, which y’all have kept back by fraud, cry out against y’all. The cries of the harvesters have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

James 5:6

Y’all have condemned and murdered the righteous person who was not resisting y’all.

Ruth 4:1

Boaz went up to the city gate and sat down there. Then he saw the kinsman-redeemer that he mentioned come by. Boaz said to him, “Come over here, ‘unnamed-character,’ and sit down!” So he turned and sat down.

1 Samuel 8:3

His sons didn’t walk in his ways, but turned away after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.