Amos 4:1 Cross References - Rotherham

¹ Hear ye this word, ye heifers of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy,––who say to their lords, Bring in, and let us drink!

²¹ And, a sojourner, shalt thou not tread down, neither shalt thou drive him away,––for, sojourners, ye became in the land of Egypt. ²² Neither widow nor fatherless, shalt thou humiliate: ²³ if thou, do humiliate, him, when he in anywise crieth out unto me, I will, surely hear, his outcry: ²⁴ so shall kindle mine anger, and I will slay you with the sword,––and your, wives, shall become, widows, and your, sons, fatherless.
²⁵ If, silver, thou wilt lend unto my people––unto the humbled one by thee, thou shalt not be to him like one that lendeth on interest,––thou shalt not lay upon him interest.

⁹ Take thou heed to thyself, lest there be something near thine abandoned heart, saying––Drawing nigh, is the seventh year, the year of release, and so thine eye be, evil, against thy needy brother, and thou give not unto him,––and he cry out against thee, unto Yahweh, and it become in thee, a sin! ¹⁰ Thou shalt, give, unto him, and thy heart, shall not be evil, when thou givest unto him,––for, on account of this very thing, will Yahweh thy God bless thee, in all that thou doest, and in all whereunto thou puttest thy hand. ¹¹ For the needy will not cease out of the midst of the land––for this cause, am I commanding thee, saying, Thou shalt, open, thy hand unto thy brother, to thy poor and to thy needy, in thy land.

³³ The fruit of thy soil, and all thy toilsome produce, shall a people whom thou knowest not, eat up,––and, thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed, all the days;

¹⁴ Curds of kine and milk of sheep,––With fat of well–fed lambs, Yea rams bred in Bashan and he–goats, With the white of the kernels of wheat,––And, the blood of the grape, thou didst drink as it foamed.
¹⁵ Then Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: Thou wast fat, Thou wast thick, Thou wast gorged,––So he forsook the GOD who made him, And treated as foolish his Rock of salvation.

²⁴ And he bought the hill Samaria, of Shemer, for two talents of silver,––and built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after the name of Shemer lord of the hill––Samaria.

¹⁹ For he hath oppressed––hath forsaken the poor, A house, hath he seized, which he cannot rebuild.

⁵ Because of violence done to the poor, because of the crying of the needy, Now, will I arise! O may Yahweh say,––I will place [him] in safety––let him puff at him!

¹² Many bulls have surrounded me, Strong oxen of Bashan, have enclosed me;

¹² I know that Yahweh will execute, the right of the oppressed one, the vindication of the needy.

²² Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, neither crush thou the oppressed in the gate; ²³ For, Yahweh, will plead their cause, and will despoil their despoilers of life.

¹⁰ Do not move back the ancient boundary, and, into the fields of the fatherless, do not enter; ¹¹ For, their near of kin, is strong, he, will plead their cause with thee.

¹ Then again, I, considered all the oppressive deeds which were done under the sun,––and lo! the tears of the oppressed, and they have no comforter, and, on the side of their oppressing, is power, and they have no comforter.

⁸ If, the oppression of the poor, and the wresting of justice and righteousness, thou see in the province, do not be astonished over the matter,––for, one high above the highest, is watching, yea, the Most High, is over them.

¹⁷ Learn to do well––Seek justice, Correct the oppressor,––Vindicate the fatherless, Plead the cause of the widow. ¹⁸ Come, I pray you, and let us settle the dispute, Saith Yahweh,––Though your sins be found like scarlet, As snow, shall they be made white, Though they appear red like crimson, As wool, shall they become. ¹⁹ If ye be willing––and hearken, Of the good of the land, shall ye eat; ²⁰ But, if ye refuse and rebel, With the sword, shall ye be devoured, For, the mouth of Yahweh, hath spoken it.
²¹ How, hath she become unchaste!––The city that was Faithful,––Full of justice, Righteousness lodged in her, But, now, murderers! ²² Thy silver, hath become dross,––Thy wine, weakened with water; ²³ Thy rulers, are unruly, and companions of thieves, Every one of the people, loveth a bribe, and runneth after rewards,––The fatherless, they do not vindicate, And, the plea of the widow, reacheth them not. ²⁴ Therefore, Declareth the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, The Mighty One of Israel,––Alas! I must appease me on mine adversaries, I must avenge me on mine enemies;

⁸ Alas! for them who join house to house, Field to field, bring they near,––Until there is no room, But ye are left to dwell alone, in the midst of the land.

⁶ Is not, this, the fast that I must ever choose––To unbind the tight cords of lawlessness, To unloose the bands of the yoke,––and, To let the crushed go free, and, That, every yoke, ye tear off?

²⁶ For there have been found among my people, lawless men,––One lieth in wait, as with the stooping of fowlers, They have set a trap, they capture, men: ²⁷ As, a cage, is full of birds, So, are, their houses, full of unrighteous gain,––For this cause, have they become great, and waxen rich: ²⁸ They have waxed fat, they shine, Yea, they have overpassed the records of wickedness. The right, have they not determined, the right of the fatherless, that they might prosper,––Yea, justice to the helpless, have they not decreed. ²⁹ Upon these things, shall I not bring punishment? Demandeth Yahweh. Or, on a nation such as this, shall not my soul avenge, herself?

⁶ For, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, Cut ye down timber, And cast up, against Jerusalem, a mound,––That, is the city to be punished! There is, nothing, but oppression in her midst;

⁶ The sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, shall not oppress, And, innocent blood, shall not shed in this place,––And, after other gods, shall not walk, to your own hurt,

¹¹ Because they used to be glad, Because they used to be uproarious, When plundering mine inheritance,––Because they used to caper about as a heifer at grass, And bellow like bulls.

²⁷ Cut up all her bullocks, Let them go down to the slaughter,––Alas for them! For their day, hath come, Their time for punishment.

³⁴ Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon––Hath devoured me, Hath vexed me, Hath set me down as an empty vessel, He hath swallowed me like a sea–monster, He hath filled his belly with my dainties,––He hath driven me away!

⁷ Father and mother, have they despised in thee, To the sojourner, have they dealt with oppression, in the midst of thee,––The fatherless and the widow, have they maltreated in thee:

¹² Bribes, have they accepted in thee, For the sake of shedding blood,––Interest and increase, hast thou accepted, And thou hast overreached thy neighbour, by oppression, And, me, hast thou forgotten, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh.

²⁷ Her rulers within her, have been like wolves, rending prey,––In shedding blood, In destroying lives, For the sake of getting dishonest gain.

²⁹ The people of the land, have exacted oppression, and seized plunder,––Even, the afflicted and the needy, have they maltreated, And, the sojourner, have they oppressed, without justice.

¹⁸ The flesh of mighty men, shall ye eat, And, the blood of the princes of the earth, shall ye drink.––Rams, well–fed lambs and he–goats, bullocks, Fatlings of Bashan, all of them;

³ And, for my people, they cast lots,––and gave a boy for a harlot, and a girl sold they for wine––and drank.

⁶ Thus, saith Yahweh, Because of three transgressions of Israel, and because of four, will I not turn it back,––Because they have sold––for silver––the righteous, and the needy––for a pair of shoes: ⁷ Who strive to bring the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and, the way of the oppressed, they pervert,––Yea, a man and his own father, go in unto the maid, to profane my holy Name! ⁸ And, on pledged garments, they recline, beside every altar,––and, exacted wine, do they drink, in the house of their God.

⁹ Announce it over the palaces in Ashdod, and over the palaces in the land of Egypt,––and say ye––Gather yourselves together upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold ye––the great disorders in the midst thereof, and the oppressed within her. ¹⁰ Therefore do they not know how to do right, Declareth Yahweh, who are treasuring up violence and spoil in their palaces.

¹¹ Therefore––because ye have trampled on the poor, and, the gift of corn, ye would take away from him, though, houses of hewn stone, ye have built, Yet shall ye not dwell in them,––Though, delightful vineyards, ye have planted, Yet shall ye not drink the wine of them.

¹ Alas for the careless in Zion, and for them who put confidence in the mountain of Samaria,––the distinguished among the first group of nations, to whom came in the house of Israel.

⁴ Hear this, ye who pant after the needy, and to make an end of the oppressed of the land: ⁵ Who say, When will the new moon, pass away, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath that we may open grain? who diminish the ephah, and increase the shekel, and who falsify by deceitful weights: ⁶ Who buy––for silver––the poor, and the needy for a pair of shoes,––and that the refuse of the grain we may sell.

¹ Alas for them who devise iniquity and work wickedness upon their beds,––in the light of the morning, they will execute it, for it is in the power of their hand. ² Thus do they covet fields and seize them, and houses and take them away,––and so they oppress the master and his household, the man and his inheritance. ³ Therefore,––Thus, saith Yahweh, Behold me! devising, against this family, a calamity,––from which ye shall not remove your neck, neither shall ye walk loftily, for, a time of calamity, shall it be.

¹ Then said I, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and ye judges of the house of Israel,––Is it not yours to know justice? ² Ye haters of right, and lovers of wrong,––tearing away their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; ³ Who indeed have eaten the flesh of my people, and, their skin from off them, have stript, and, their bones, have they broken in pieces,––and will spread them out, as flesh with a fork, and as flesh, in the midst of a pot.

¹⁰ And, the widow and the fatherless, the sojourner and the humbled, do not ye oppress,––and, wickedness between one man and another, do not ye devise in your hearts. ¹¹ Howbeit they refused to give heed, but put forth a rebellious shoulder,––and, their ears, made they hard of hearing, that they might not hear;

⁵ Therefore will I draw near unto you for judgment, and will become a swift witness against the mutterers of incantations, and against the adulterers, and against them that swear to a falsehood,––and against them who rob the hire of the hireling, the widow and the fatherless, and that drive away the sojourner, and do not revere me, saith Yahweh of hosts.

¹ Come now! ye wealthy! Weep ye, howling, for your hardships which are coming upon you: ² Your wealth, hath rotted, and, your garments, have become, moth–eaten,–– ³ Your gold and silver, have rusted away, and, their rust, shall be, witness against you, and shall eat your flesh, as fire! Ye have laid up treasure in days of extremity:–– ⁴ Lo, the wage of the workers who have out down your fields––that which hath been kept back, by you, is crying out; and, the outcries of them who reaped, into the ears of the Lord of hosts, have entered: ⁵ Ye have luxuriated upon the land, and run riot, ye have pampered your hearts in a day of slaughter; ⁶ Ye sentenced––ye murdered the Righteous one! Is he not arraying himself against you?