Amos 8:4

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Amos 8:4

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

Psalm 14:4

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

Proverbs 30:14

There is a generation whose teeth are swords, and their jaw teeth, knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

Inasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions of wheat from him. Ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them. Ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof.

1 Kings 22:19

And [Micaiah] said, Therefore hear thou the word of LORD. I saw LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.

Psalm 12:5

Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, now I will arise, says LORD. I will set him in the safety he gasps for.

Psalm 56:1

Be merciful to me, O God, for man would swallow me up. Fighting all the day long he oppresses me.

Psalm 140:12

I know that LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted man, and justice for the needy.

Isaiah 1:10

Hear the word of LORD, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

Isaiah 28:14

Therefore hear the word of LORD, ye scoffers, who rule this people that is in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 32:6-7

For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profaneness, and to utter error against LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

Jeremiah 5:21

Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding, who have eyes, and see not, who have ears, and hear not:

Jeremiah 28:15

Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah. LORD has not sent thee, but thou make this people to trust in a lie.

Amos 2:6-7

Thus says LORD: For three transgressions of Israel, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have sold a righteous man for silver, and a needy man for a pair of shoes--

Amos 7:16

Now therefore hear thou the word of LORD: Thou say, Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not drop [thy word] against the house of Isaac.

Matthew 23:13

Woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye close up the kingdom of the heavens ahead of men. For ye enter not in, nor do ye allow those who are entering to enter in.

James 5:6

Ye have condemned, ye have murdered the righteous man. He is not hostile to you.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Amos 8:4

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

Hear

General references

Amos 8:6

Bible References

Hear

Now therefore hear thou the word of LORD: Thou say, Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not drop [thy word] against the house of Isaac.

And [Micaiah] said, Therefore hear thou the word of LORD. I saw LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.

Hear the word of LORD, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

Therefore hear the word of LORD, ye scoffers, who rule this people that is in Jerusalem.

Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding, who have eyes, and see not, who have ears, and hear not:

Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah. LORD has not sent thee, but thou make this people to trust in a lie.

General references

Thou shall not steal.

And if thou sell anything to thy neighbor, or buy of thy neighbor's hand, ye shall not wrong each other.

Thou shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brothers, or of thy sojourners that are in thy land within thy gates.

For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

Thou have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.

Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.

that we may buy the poor for silver, and a needy man for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?