KJV King James Version
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;
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Amos 2:6
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Israel, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they sell the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals.
WEB World English Bible
Thus says Yahweh: “For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes;
ASV American Standard Version
Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes—
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, And for four, I do not reverse it, Because of their selling for silver the righteous, And the needy for a pair of sandals.
Surrounding context — Amos 2
3 And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.
4 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:
5 But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
6 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;
7 That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the [same] maid, to profane my holy name:
8 And they lay [themselves] down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned [in] the house of their god.
9 Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height [was] like the height of the cedars, and he [was] strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
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כֹּ֚הH3541 · kohthusאָמַ֣רH559 · a.marto sayיְהוָ֔הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDעַל־H5921 · aluponשְׁלֹשָׁה֙H7969 · sha.loshthreeפִּשְׁעֵ֣יH6588 · pe.sahtransgressionיִשְׂרָאֵ֔לH3478 · yis.ra.elIsraelוְעַל־H5921 · aluponאַרְבָּעָ֖הH702 · ar.bafourלֹ֣אH3808 · lonotאֲשִׁיבֶ֑נּוּH7725 · shuvto return: returnעַל־H5921 · aluponמִכְרָ֤םH4376 · ma.kharto sellבַּכֶּ֙סֶף֙H3701 · ke.sephsilver: moneyצַדִּ֔יקH6662 · tsad.diqrighteousוְאֶבְי֖וֹןH34 · ev.yonneedyבַּעֲב֥וּרH5668 · a.vurfor the sake ofנַעֲלָֽיִם׃H5275 · na.alsandal
Cross-references
Joel 3:3And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.Micah 3:2-3Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;Amos 5:11-12Forasmuch therefore as your treading [is] upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.Isaiah 5:22-23Woe unto [them that are] mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:Hosea 13:2-3And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, [and] idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.Isaiah 29:21That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.Ezekiel 23:5-9And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbours,Micah 6:10-16Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure [that is] abominable?2 Kings 18:12Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, [and] all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear [them], nor do [them].2 Kings 17:7-18For [so] it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,Amos 6:3-7Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;Hosea 8:4-6They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew [it] not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.Hosea 7:7-10They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: [there is] none among them that calleth unto me.Amos 8:4-6Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,Hosea 4:11-14Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.Hosea 4:1-2Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because [there is] no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.Joel 3:6The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.
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