Amos 8:4

¶ Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

Hear {H8085} this, O ye that swallow up {H7602} the needy {H34}, even to make {H7673} the poor {H6041}{H6035} of the land {H776} to fail {H7673},

Listen, you who swallow the needy and destroy the poor of the land!

Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,

Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

Commentary

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Cross-References

  • Amos 5:11 (6 votes)

    Forasmuch therefore as your treading [is] upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

  • Proverbs 30:14 (6 votes)

    [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.

  • Psalms 14:4 (6 votes)

    ¶ Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.

  • Isaiah 32:6 (5 votes)

    For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

  • Isaiah 32:7 (5 votes)

    The instruments also of the churl [are] evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

  • Amos 2:6 (3 votes)

    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;

  • Amos 2:7 (3 votes)

    That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the [same] maid, to profane my holy name: