Amos 8:4

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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 the LORD: Thou sayest, Do not prophesy against Israel and do not drop thy word against the house of Isaac.

Then he said, Hear thou, therefore, the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne and all the host of the heavens standing by him on his right hand and on his left.

Hear the word of the LORD, ye princes of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

Therefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that have taken rule over this people which is in Jerusalem.

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

Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD has not sent thee; and thou hast made this people to trust in a lie.

General references

Thou shalt not steal.

And if thou sell anything unto thy neighbour or buy anything of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another.

Thou shalt not do violence unto a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he is of thy brethren or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates.

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

Thou hast despised my holy things and hast profaned my sabbaths.

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

that we may buy the poor for money and the needy for a pair of shoes and sell the refuse of the wheat.