4Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land,
4Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land,
1 Thus hath the Lord Jehovah shewed me, and, lo, a basket of summer-fruit.
2 And He saith, 'What art thou seeing, Amos?' and I say, 'A basket of summer-fruit.' And Jehovah saith unto me: 'The end hath come unto My people Israel, I do not add any more to pass over to it.
3 And howled have songstresses of a palace in that day, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Many are the carcases, into any place throw — hush!
4 Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land,
5 Saying, When doth the new moon pass, And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath, and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use perversely balances of deceit.
6 To purchase with money the poor, And the needy for a pair of sandals, Yea, the refuse of the pure corn we sell.
8:4Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
8:4Hear this, you who trample the needy and do away with the poor of the land,
8:4Hear this, you that crush the poor, and make the needy of the land to fail,
8:4Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
8:4Hear this, ye that pant after the needy, even to cause to fail the poor of the land,
8:4Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
8:4Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
8:4Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
8:4Hear this, O you that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,