“Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy,and cause the poor of the land to fail,”
Amos 8:4 (WEB)
Context Reading
2He 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. 3The songs of the temple will be wailing in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh.“The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence. 4Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy,and cause the poor of the land to fail, 5saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain?And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat,making the ephahsmall, and the shekellarge,and dealing falsely with balances of deceit; 6that we may buy the poor for silver,and the needy for a pair of sandals,and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’”