Bible verse
Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
Amos 8:4 · BSB
The verses around it, from Amos 8.
1 This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.
2 “Amos, what do you see?” He asked. “A basket of summer fruit,” I replied. So the LORD said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.”
3 “In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!”
4 Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
5 asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.
6 Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”
7 The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds.
8 Will not the land quake for this, and all its dwellers mourn? All of it will swell like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt.
KJV
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
ASV
Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
ERV
Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
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