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Amos 5:12

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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].

For I know {H3045} your manifold {H7227} transgressions {H6588} and your mighty {H6099} sins {H2403}: they afflict {H6887} the just {H6662}, they take {H3947} a bribe {H3724}, and they turn aside {H5186} the poor {H34} in the gate {H8179} from their right.

For I know how numerous are your crimes and how outrageous your sins - bullying the innocent, extorting ransoms pushing the poor aside at the gate.

For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.

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.

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Cross-References

  • Amos 2:6 (6 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 (6 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:

  • Amos 5:10 (5 votes)

    They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

  • Isaiah 1:23 (4 votes)

    Thy princes [are] rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

  • 1 Samuel 8:3 (3 votes)

    And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

  • Malachi 3:5 (3 votes)

    And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in [his] wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger [from his right], and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

  • Isaiah 5:23 (2 votes)

    Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!