Amos 8:4

Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land,

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

In Context

3And the songs of the king's house will be cries of pain in that day, says the Lord God: great will be the number of the dead bodies, and everywhere they will put them out without a word.

5Saying, When will the new moon be gone, so that we may do trade in grain? and the Sabbath, so that we may put out in the market the produce of our fields? making the measure small and the price great, and trading falsely with scales of deceit;

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Cross References

1 Kings 22:19And he said, Give ear now to the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord seated on his seat of power, with all the army of heaven in their places round him at his right hand and at his left.

Psalms 12:5\12:4\They have said, With our tongues will we overcome; our lips are ours: who is lord over us?

Psalms 56:1To the chief music-maker; put to Jonath elem rehokim. Of David. Michtam. When the Philistines took him in Gath.

Proverbs 30:14There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, their strong teeth like knives, for the destruction of the poor from the earth, and of those who are in need from among men.

Isaiah 28:14Give ear then to the word of the Lord, you men of pride, the rulers of this people in Jerusalem:

Jeremiah 5:21Give ear now to this, O foolish people without sense; who have eyes but see nothing, and ears without the power of hearing:

Matthew Henry on Amos 8:2-4

The Vision of Summer Fruit. ( b. c. 785.) 1 Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit. 2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the Lord unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more. 3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord God : there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence. The great reason why sinners defer their… Read the whole commentary →

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