“that we may buy the poor for silver,and the needy for a pair of sandals,and sell the sweepings with the wheat?”
Amos 8:6 (WEB)
Context Reading
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?’” 7Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob,“Surely I will never forget any of their works. 8Won’t the land tremble for this,and everyone mourn who dwells in it?Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River;and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.