World English Bible
"Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,"
— Amos 8:4, World English Bible
“Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,”
“Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail, ”
“Listen to this, you who trample the needy, and do away with the destitute in the land.”
“Hear this, you that crush the poor, and make the needy of the land to fail,”
“Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land,”
“Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,”
Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
He said, "Amos, what do you see?" I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then Yahweh said to me, "The end has come on my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.
The songs of the temple will be wailings in that day," says the Lord Yahweh. "The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.
Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
Saying, 'When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?'"
Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, "Surely I will never forget any of their works.