Amos 8:5
You who ask, “When will the holy day be over so we can get back to selling grain? When will the Sabbath be over so we can open our storehouses, and cheat people with short measures and unfair scales?”
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In Context
4Listen to this, you who trample down the needy, and wipe out the poor of the land.
6You buy the poor for silver, the needy for a pair of sandals, and you sell grain mixed with chaff.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:36Make sure your scales and weights are accurate, that your measures of ephah and hin are correct. I am the Lord your God who led you out of Egypt.
Numbers 28:11At the start of every month, you are to present to the Lord a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old, all of them without defects,
Deuteronomy 25:15Make sure you always use accurate and true weights and measures. In that way you will have long lives in the country the Lord your God is giving you.
Nehemiah 13:15Around that time I noticed people treading the winepress on Sabbath. I saw others collecting grain and loading it up on donkeys, along with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens, and bringing it all into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day.
Psalms 81:3Blow the trumpet at the new moon, and at full moon, to begin our festivals,
Proverbs 16:11Accurate scales and balances are important to the Lord. He has determined all the weights in the bag.
Matthew Henry on Amos 8:5-11
The Sin and Doom of Oppressors. ( b. c. 785.) 4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, 5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit? 6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat? 7 The Lord hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget… Read the whole commentary →