Amos 4:1
Hear this word, ye fat kine that are in the mountains of Samaria: you that oppress the needy, and crush the poor: that say to your masters: Bring, and we will drink.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Exodus 22:21Thou shalt not molest a stranger, nor afflict him: for yourselves also were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 15:9Beware lest perhaps a wicked thought steal in upon thee, and thou say in thy heart: The seventh year of remission draweth nigh; and thou turn away thy eyes from thy poor brother, denying to lend him that which he asketh: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it become a sin unto thee.
Deuteronomy 32:14Butter of the herd, and milk of the sheep with the fat of lambs, and of the rams of the breed of Basan: and goats with the marrow of wheat, and might drink the purest blood of the grape.
Job 20:19Because he broke in and stripped the poor: he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build.
Psalms 12:5Who have said: We will magnify our tongue; our lips are our own; who is Lord over us?
Psalms 140:12But darkness shall not be dark to thee, and night shall be light as day: the darkness thereof, and the light thereof are alike to thee.
Matthew Henry on Amos 4:1
In this chapter, I. The oppressors in Israel are threatened for their oppression of the poor, ver. 1-3 . II. The idolaters in Israel, being joined to idols, are given up to their own heart's lusts, ver. 4, 5 . III. All the sins of Israel are aggravated from their incorrigibleness in them, and their refusal to return and reform, notwithstanding the various rebukes of Providence which they had been under, ver. 6-11 . IV. They are invited yet at length to humble themselves before God, since it is impossible for them… Read the whole commentary →