Amos 8:4
Hear now this, ye that oppress the poor in the morning, and drive the needy ones by tyranny from the earth,
Brenton Septuagint
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 22:19And Michaias said, Not so, it is not I: hear the word of the Lord; it is not so. I saw the God of Israel sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven stood about him on his right hand and on his left.
Psalms 12:5lest at any time mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him: my persecutors will exult if ever I should be moved.
Psalms 56:1For the end. Destroy not: by David, for a memorial, when he fled from the presence of Saul to the cave.
Isaiah 28:14Therefore hear ye the word of the Lord, ye afflicted men, and ye princes of this people that is in Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 5:21Hear ye now these things, O foolish and senseless people; who have eyes, and see not; and have ears, and hear not:
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 →