KJV King James Version
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate [from their right].
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Amos 5:12
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate [from their right].
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.
WEB World English Bible
For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins—you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the courts.
ASV American Standard Version
For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins—ye that afflict the just, that take a bribe, and that turn aside the needy in the gate from their right.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
For I have known—many are your transgressions, And mighty your sins, Adversaries of the righteous, taking ransoms, And the needy in the gate ye turned aside.
Surrounding context — Amos 5
9 That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
10 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
11 Forasmuch 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.
12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate [from their right].
13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it [is] an evil time.
14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
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כִּ֤יH3588 · kiforיָדַ֙עְתִּי֙H3045 · ya.dato knowרַבִּ֣יםH7227 · ravmanyפִּשְׁעֵיכֶ֔םH6588 · pe.sahtransgressionוַעֲצֻמִ֖יםH6099 · a.tsummightyחַטֹּֽאתֵיכֶ֑םH2403 · chat.ta.ahsinצֹרְרֵ֤יH6887 · tsa.rarto confineצַדִּיק֙H6662 · tsad.diqrighteousלֹ֣קְחֵיH3947 · la.qachto take: takeכֹ֔פֶרH3724 · ko.pherransomוְאֶבְיוֹנִ֖יםH34 · ev.yonneedyבַּשַּׁ֥עַרH8179 · sha.argateהִטּֽוּ׃H5186 · na.tahto stretch
Cross-references
Amos 2:6-7Thus 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;Amos 5:10They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.Isaiah 1:23Thy princes [are] rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.Psalm 26:9-10Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:1 Samuel 8:3And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.Acts 7:52Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:Malachi 3:5And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in [his] wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger [from his right], and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.James 5:4Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.Micah 7:3That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge [asketh] for a reward; and the great [man], he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.Isaiah 66:18For I [know] their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.Isaiah 33:15He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;Isaiah 5:23Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!Jeremiah 29:23Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours’ wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and [am] a witness, saith the LORD.Proverbs 22:22Rob not the poor, because he [is] poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:James 5:6Ye have condemned [and] killed the just; [and] he doth not resist you.Micah 3:11The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, [Is] not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.Amos 2:16And [he that is] courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD.Job 31:21If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
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