And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer.
Amos 8:6 - King 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? 更多版本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? English Standard Version 2016 that we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and sell the chaff of the wheat?” |
And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer.
In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.
And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
the children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;
Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.
Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth.