Amos 8:4
New International Version
Hear this, you who trample the needy and do away with the poor of the land,

New Living Translation
Listen to this, you who rob the poor and trample down the needy!

English Standard Version
Hear this, you who trample on the needy and bring the poor of the land to an end,

Berean Standard Bible
Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,

King James Bible
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

New King James Version
Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, And make the poor of the land fail,

New American Standard Bible
Hear this, you who trample the needy, to put an end to the humble of the land,

NASB 1995
Hear this, you who trample the needy, to do away with the humble of the land,

NASB 1977
Hear this, you who trample the needy, to do away with the humble of the land,

Legacy Standard Bible
Hear this, you who trample the needy, even to cause the humble of the land to cease,

Amplified Bible
Hear this, you who trample down the needy, and do away with the poor of the land,

Christian Standard Bible
Hear this, you who trample on the needy and do away with the poor of the land,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Hear this, you who trample on the needy and do away with the poor of the land,

American Standard Version
Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Hear these things, despisers of the poor and destroyers of the afflicted of the land!”

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Hear now this, ye that oppress the poor in the morning, and drive the needy ones by tyranny from the earth,

Contemporary English Version
You people crush those in need and wipe out the poor.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Hear this, you that crush the poor, and make the needy of the land to fail,

English Revised Version
Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Listen to this, those who trample on the needy and ruin those who are oppressed in the world.

Good News Translation
Listen to this, you that trample on the needy and try to destroy the poor of the country.

International Standard Version
"Hear this, you who are swallowing up the needy, who intend to make the poor of the land fail,

JPS Tanakh 1917
Hear this, O ye that would swallow the needy, And destroy the poor of the land,

Literal Standard Version
Hear this, you who are swallowing up the needy, | To cause the poor of the land to cease,

Majority Standard Bible
Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,

New American Bible
Hear this, you who trample upon the needy and destroy the poor of the land:

NET Bible
Listen to this, you who trample the needy, and do away with the destitute in the land.

New Revised Standard Version
Hear this, you that trample on the needy, and bring to ruin the poor of the land,

New Heart English Bible
Hear this, you who trample the needy, and destroy the poor of the land,

Webster's Bible Translation
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

World English Bible
Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

Young's Literal Translation
Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Basket of Ripe Fruit
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!” 4Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land, 5asking, “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.…

Cross References
Job 24:4
They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.

Psalm 14:4
Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.

Proverbs 30:14
there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.

Ezekiel 45:10
You must use honest scales, a just ephah, and a just bath.

Amos 2:7
They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.

Amos 5:11
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.

Amos 5:12
For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.


Treasury of Scripture

Hear this, O you that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

Hear.

Amos 7:16
Now therefore hear thou the word of the LORD: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac.

1 Kings 22:19
And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.

Isaiah 1:10
Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

swallow.

Amos 2:6
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;

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.

Psalm 12:5
For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.

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Amos 8
1. By a basket of summer fruit is shown the approach of Israel's end.
4. Oppression is reproved.
11. A famine of the word of God threatened.














(4) Ye that swallow up . . .--Better, ye that pant (or are greedy) for the very ashes on their heads.

Make . . . to fail.--Literally, make . . . to cease: i.e., destroy.

Verse 4. - The prophet, by admonishing the grandees of their iniquities, which they will not cast away, shows how ripe they are for judgment. That swallow up; better, that pant after (Amos 2:6, 7), like a beast after its prey, eager to devour. Even to make the poor of the land to fail; and cause the meek of the land to fail. They grasp at the property of the unresisting poor, adding field to field, and impoverishing them in various ways, to root them out of the land.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Hear
שִׁמְעוּ־ (šim·‘ū-)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently

this,
זֹ֕את (zōṯ)
Pronoun - feminine singular
Strong's 2063: Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that,

you who trample
הַשֹּׁאֲפִ֖ים (haš·šō·’ă·p̄îm)
Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 7602: To inhale eagerly, to cover, to be angry, to hasten

on the needy,
אֶבְי֑וֹן (’eḇ·yō·wn)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 34: In want, needy, poor

who do away with
וְלַשְׁבִּ֖ית (wə·laš·bîṯ)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct
Strong's 7673: To repose, desist from exertion

the poor
עֲנִיֵּי־ (‘ă·nî·yê-)
Adjective - masculine plural construct
Strong's 6035: Poor, afflicted, humble, meek

of the land,
אָֽרֶץ׃ (’ā·reṣ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 6041: Poor, afflicted, humble


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