Amos 8:4

A Basket Of Ripe Fruit

³ The songs of the temple will be wailings in that day," says the Lord GOD. "The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence. ⁴ Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail, ⁵ Saying, 'When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;

Give Ear

Oppress the Poor

Poor of the Land

Amos

Psalm 14:4

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

Proverbs 30:14

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

Amos 5:11

Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

1 Kings 22:19

Micaiah said, "Therefore hear the word of the LORD. I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.

Psalm 12:5

"Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise," says the LORD; "I will set him in safety from those who malign him."

Psalm 56:1

Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.

Psalm 140:12

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

Isaiah 1:10

Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom. Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.

Isaiah 28:14

Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scoffers, that rule this people in Jerusalem:

Isaiah 32:6-7

For the fool will speak folly, and his heart plans iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against the 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, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and do not see; who have ears, and do not hear:

Jeremiah 28:15

Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, "Hear now, Hananiah: the LORD has not sent you; but you make this people to trust in a lie.

Amos 2:6-7

Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes;

Amos 7:16

Now therefore listen to the word of the LORD: 'You say, Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not proclaim against the house of Isaac.'

Matthew 23:13

"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites. Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you do not enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter."

James 5:6

You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He does not resist you.