Amos 4:1 Cross References

Amos 4:1

1: Listen to me, you "fat cows" of Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy and who are always asking your husbands for another drink!

Amos 6:1

  1. How terrible it will be for you who lounge in luxury and think you are secure in Jerusalem and Samaria! You are famous and popular in Israel, you to whom the people go for help.

Psalms 22:12

  1. My enemies surround me like a herd of bulls; fierce bulls of Bashan have hemmed me in!

Ezekiel 39:18

  1. Eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of princes as though they were rams, lambs, goats, and fat young bulls of Bashan!

Amos 5:11

  1. You trample the poor and steal what little they have through taxes and unfair rent. Therefore, you will never live in the beautiful stone houses you are building. You will never drink wine from the lush vineyards you are planting.

Micah 2:1

  1. How terrible it will be for you who lie awake at night, thinking up evil plans. You rise at dawn and hurry to carry out any of the wicked schemes you have power to accomplish.
  2. When you want a certain piece of land, you find a way to seize it. When you want someone's house, you take it by fraud and violence. No one's family or inheritance is safe with you around!
  3. But this is what the LORD says: "I will reward your evil with evil; you won't be able to escape! After I am through with you, none of you will ever again walk proudly in the streets."

Joel 3:3

  1. They cast lots to decide which of my people would be their slaves. They traded young boys for prostitutes and little girls for enough wine to get drunk.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

  1. Again I observed all the oppression that takes place in our world. I saw the tears of the oppressed, with no one to comfort them. The oppressors have great power, and the victims are helpless.

Malachi 3:5

  1. At that time I will put you on trial. I will be a ready witness against all sorcerers and adulterers and liars. I will speak against those who cheat employees of their wages, who oppress widows and orphans, or who deprive the foreigners living among you of justice, for these people do not fear me," says the LORD Almighty.

Zechariah 7:10

  1. Do not oppress widows, orphans, foreigners, and poor people. And do not make evil plans to harm each other.
  2. "Your ancestors would not listen to this message. They turned stubbornly away and put their fingers in their ears to keep from hearing.

Ezekiel 22:12

  1. There are hired murderers, loan racketeers, and extortioners everywhere! They never even think of me and my commands, says the Sovereign LORD.

Proverbs 22:22

  1. Do not rob the poor because they are poor or exploit the needy in court.
  2. For the LORD is their defender. He will injure anyone who injures them.

Amos 2:6

  1. This is what the LORD says: "The people of Israel have sinned again and again, and I will not forget it. I will not let them go unpunished any longer! They have perverted justice by selling honest people for silver and poor people for a pair of sandals.
  2. They trample helpless people in the dust and deny justice to those who are oppressed. Both father and son sleep with the same woman, corrupting my holy name.
  3. At their religious festivals, they lounge around in clothing stolen from their debtors. In the house of their god, they present offerings of wine purchased with stolen money.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

  1. If you see a poor person being oppressed by the powerful and justice being miscarried throughout the land, don't be surprised! For every official is under orders from higher up, and matters of justice only get lost in red tape and bureaucracy.

Ezekiel 22:29

  1. Even common people oppress the poor, rob the needy, and deprive foreigners of justice.

Jeremiah 5:26

  1. "Among my people are wicked men who lie in wait for victims like a hunter hiding in a blind. They are continually setting traps for other people.
  2. Like a cage filled with birds, their homes are filled with evil plots. And the result? Now they are great and rich.
  3. They are well fed and well groomed, and there is no limit to their wicked deeds. They refuse justice to orphans and deny the rights of the poor.
  4. Should I not punish them for this?" asks the LORD. "Should I not avenge myself against a nation such as this?

Isaiah 58:6

  1. "No, the kind of fasting I want calls you to free those who are wrongly imprisoned and to stop oppressing those who work for you. Treat them fairly and give them what they earn.

Jeremiah 50:11

  1. "You rejoice and are glad, you plunderers of my chosen people. You frisk about like a calf in a meadow and neigh like a stallion.

Jeremiah 6:6

  1. This is what the LORD Almighty says: "Cut down the trees for battering rams. Build ramps against the walls of Jerusalem. This is the city to be punished, for she is wicked through and through.

Deuteronomy 15:9

  1. Do not be mean-spirited and refuse someone a loan because the year of release is close at hand. If you refuse to make the loan and the needy person cries out to the LORD, you will be considered guilty of sin.
  2. Give freely without begrudging it, and the LORD your God will bless you in everything you do.
  3. There will always be some among you who are poor. That is why I am commanding you to share your resources freely with the poor and with other Israelites in need.

Isaiah 1:17

  1. Learn to do good. Seek justice. Help the oppressed. Defend the orphan. Fight for the rights of widows.
  2. "Come now, let us argue this out," says the LORD. "No matter how deep the stain of your sins, I can remove it. I can make you as clean as freshly fallen snow. Even if you are stained as red as crimson, I can make you as white as wool.
  3. If you will only obey me and let me help you, then you will have plenty to eat.
  4. But if you keep turning away and refusing to listen, you will be destroyed by your enemies. I, the LORD, have spoken!"
  5. See how Jerusalem, once so faithful, has become a prostitute. Once the home of justice and righteousness, she is now filled with murderers.

Job 20:19

  1. For he oppressed the poor and left them destitute. He foreclosed on their homes.

Deuteronomy 28:33

  1. A foreign nation you have never heard about will eat the crops you worked so hard to grow. You will suffer under constant oppression and harsh treatment.

Jeremiah 51:34

  1. "King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has eaten and crushed us and emptied out our strength. He has swallowed us like a great monster and filled his belly with our riches. He has thrown us out of our own country.

Jeremiah 7:6

  1. and if you stop exploiting foreigners, orphans, and widows; and if you stop your murdering; and if you stop worshiping idols as you now do to your own harm.

Isaiah 5:8

  1. Destruction is certain for you who buy up property so others have no place to live. Your homes are built on great estates so you can be alone in the land.

Psalms 12:5

  1. The LORD replies, "I have seen violence done to the helpless, and I have heard the groans of the poor. Now I will rise up to rescue them, as they have longed for me to do."

Exodus 22:21

  1. "Do not oppress foreigners in any way. Remember, you yourselves were once foreigners in the land of Egypt.
  2. "Do not exploit widows or orphans.
  3. If you do and they cry out to me, then I will surely help them.
  4. My anger will blaze forth against you, and I will kill you with the sword. Your wives will become widows, and your children will become fatherless.
  5. "If you lend money to a fellow Hebrew in need, do not be like a money lender, charging interest.

James 5:1

  1. Look here, you rich people, weep and groan with anguish because of all the terrible troubles ahead of you.
  2. Your wealth is rotting away, and your fine clothes are moth-eaten rags.
  3. Your gold and silver have become worthless. The very wealth you were counting on will eat away your flesh in hell. This treasure you have accumulated will stand as evidence against you on the day of judgment.
  4. For listen! Hear the cries of the field workers whom you have cheated of their pay. The wages you held back cry out against you. The cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.
  5. You have spent your years on earth in luxury, satisfying your every whim. Now your hearts are nice and fat, ready for the slaughter.

Ezekiel 22:7

  1. Fathers and mothers are contemptuously ignored. Resident foreigners are forced to pay for protection. Orphans and widows are wronged and oppressed.

Micah 3:1

  1. Listen, you leaders of Israel! You are supposed to know right from wrong,
  2. but you are the very ones who hate good and love evil. You skin my people alive and tear the flesh off their bones.
  3. You eat my people's flesh, cut away their skin, and break their bones. You chop them up like meat for the cooking pot.

Amos 3:9

  1. Announce this to the leaders of Philistia and Egypt: "Take your seats now on the hills around Samaria, and witness the scandalous spectacle of all Israel's crimes."
  2. "My people have forgotten what it means to do right," says the LORD. "Their fortresses are filled with wealth taken by theft and violence.

Psalms 140:12

  1. But I know the LORD will surely help those they persecute; he will maintain the rights of the poor.

Deuteronomy 32:14

  1. He fed them curds from the herd and milk from the flock, together with the fat of lambs and goats. He gave them choice rams and goats from Bashan, together with the choicest wheat. You drank the finest wine, made from the juice of grapes.
  2. But Israel soon became fat and unruly; the people grew heavy, plump, and stuffed! Then they abandoned the God who had made them; they made light of the Rock of their salvation.

Jeremiah 50:27

  1. Even destroy her cattle--it will be terrible for them, too! Slaughter them all! For the time has come for Babylon to be devastated.

1 Kings 16:24

  1. Then Omri bought the hill now known as Samaria from its owner, Shemer, for 150 pounds of silver. He built a city on it and called the city Samaria in honor of Shemer.

Ezekiel 22:27

  1. Your leaders are like wolves, who tear apart their victims. They actually destroy people's lives for profit!

Amos 8:4

  1. Listen to this, you who rob the poor and trample the needy!
  2. You can't wait for the Sabbath day to be over and the religious festivals to end so you can get back to cheating the helpless. You measure out your grain in false measures and weigh it out on dishonest scales.
  3. And you mix the wheat you sell with chaff swept from the floor! Then you enslave poor people for a debt of one piece of silver or a pair of sandals.

Proverbs 23:10

  1. Don't steal the land of defenseless orphans by moving the ancient boundary markers,
  2. for their Redeemer is strong. He himself will bring their charges against you.
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