Amos 8:4
¶Hear this, O ye that fswallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
¶Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
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Psalms 14:3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Matthew 23:14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
James 5:6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
Amos 2:7 That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:
Amos 5:11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
Amos 5:12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
Proverbs 30:14 There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
Though the prophet had several times told them what were the sins for which God would thus punish Israel, yet on a repeated threat he repeateth the rehearsal of the sins which draw down these judgments on their heads.
attend, and consider it,
greedily and cruelly devour, that do, like the greater fish, swallow up the lesser fry: in this one word the prophet includeth all the methods of their cruel oppression, wasting tho poor.
such as were objects of your mercy, had you been just and honest, as well as rich and great.
either to root them out, or to enslave them, while their necessities force them to sell themselves for bread.