Amos 5:12 “For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerou…”

Amos 5:12

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

For I know how many are your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts.

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

For I know your manifold transgressions, and your mightie sinnes: they afflict the iust, they take rewards, and they oppresse the poore in ye gate.

Darby Translation

For I know how manifold are your transgressions and your sins mighty: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside [the right of] the needy in the gate.

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.

Bible in Basic English

For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place.

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Cross references

“I know”

Deuteronomy 31:21 Isaiah 66:18 Jeremiah 29:23 Hebrews 4:12 Hebrews 4:13

Deuteronomy 31:21 · BSB

And when many troubles and afflictions have come upon them, this song will testify against them, because it will not be forgotten from the lips of their descendants. For I know their inclination, even before I bring them…

Isaiah 66:18 · BSB

“And I, knowing their deeds and thoughts, am coming to gather all nations and tongues, and they will come and see My glory.

Jeremiah 29:23 · BSB

For they have committed an outrage in Israel by committing adultery with the wives of their neighbors and speaking lies in My name, which I did not command them to do. I am He who knows, and I am a witness, declares the…

Hebrews 4:12 · BSB

For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Hebrews 4:13 · BSB

Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

“manifold”

2 Kings 17:7–17 Isaiah 47:9

2 Kings 17:7–17 · BSB

All this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other gods

Isaiah 47:9 · BSB

These two things will overtake you in a moment, in a single day: loss of children, and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the potency of your spells.

“they afflict”

Acts 7:52 James 5:4 Amos 2:16 James 5:6 Amos 2:6 Amos 2:7

Acts 7:52 · BSB

Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—

James 5:4 · BSB

Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

Amos 2:16 · BSB

Even the bravest of mighty men will flee naked on that day,” declares the LORD.

James 5:6 · BSB

You have condemned and murdered the righteous, who did not resist you.

Amos 2:6 · BSB

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.

Amos 2:7 · BSB

They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.

“take”

Isaiah 1:23 1 Samuel 8:3 Isaiah 33:15 Micah 3:11 Micah 7:3 Psalm 26:9

Isaiah 1:23 · BSB

Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.

1 Samuel 8:3 · BSB

But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside toward dishonest gain, accepting bribes and perverting justice.

Isaiah 33:15 · BSB

He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against evil—

Micah 3:11 · BSB

Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster can come upon us.”

Micah 7:3 · BSB

Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.

Psalm 26:9 · BSB

Do not take my soul away with sinners, or my life with men of bloodshed,

“and they”

Malachi 3:5 Isaiah 10:2 Isaiah 29:21 Lamentations 3:34

Malachi 3:5 · BSB

“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their…

Isaiah 10:2 · BSB

to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.

Isaiah 29:21 · BSB

those who indict a man with a word, who ensnare the mediator at the gate, and who with false charges deprive the innocent of justice.

Lamentations 3:34 · BSB

To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,

“in the”

Amos 5:10 Deuteronomy 16:18 Ruth 4:1 Job 29:7–25 Job 31:21 Proverbs 22:22

Amos 5:10 · BSB

There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.

Deuteronomy 16:18 · BSB

You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.

Ruth 4:1 · BSB

Meanwhile, Boaz went to the gate and sat down there. Soon the kinsman-redeemer of whom he had spoken came along, and Boaz said, “Come over here, my friend, and sit down.” So he went over and sat down.

Job 29:7–25 · BSB

When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the public square,

Job 31:21 · BSB

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,

Proverbs 22:22 · BSB

Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate,

Also

Isaiah 5:23

Isaiah 5:23 · BSB

who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

11Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.

13Therefore, the prudent keep silent in such times, for the days are evil.

Read Amos 5