Amos 8:4
Hear this, you who crush the poor and who make those in need of land to do without.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
In Context
Cross References
1 Kings 22:19Yet truly, continuing, he said: “Because of his, listen to the word of the Lord. I saw the Lord sitting upon his throne. And the entire army of heaven was standing beside him, to the right and to the left.
Psalms 12:5lest at any time my enemy may say, “I have prevailed against him.” Those who trouble me will exult, if I have been disturbed.
Psalms 56:1Unto the end. May you not destroy. Of David, with the inscription of a title, when he fled from Saul into a cave.
Proverbs 30:14There is a generation which has swords in place of teeth, and which commands their molars to devour the indigent from the earth and the poor from among men.
Isaiah 28:14Because of this, listen to the word of the Lord, you mocking men, who lord it over my people who are at Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 5:21Listen, O foolish people who have no heart! You have eyes, but you do not see, and ears, but you do not hear.
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 →