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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.

KJV

Quia cognovi multa scelera vestra, et fortia peccata vestra : hostes justi, accipientes munus, et pauperes deprimentes in porta.

Vulgate

ὅτι ἔγνων πολλὰς ἀσεβείας ὑμῶν, καὶ ἰσχυραὶ αἱ ἁμαρτίαι ὑμῶν καταπατοῦσαι δίκαιον, λαμβάνοντες ἀνταλλάγματα καὶ πένητας ἐν πύλαις ἐκκλίνοντες.

LXX

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.

ASV

כִּ֤י יָדַ֨עְתִּי֙ רַבִּ֣ים פִּשְׁעֵי/כֶ֔ם וַ/עֲצֻמִ֖ים חַטֹּֽאתֵי/כֶ֑ם צֹרְרֵ֤י צַדִּיק֙ לֹ֣קְחֵי כֹ֔פֶר וְ/אֶבְיוֹנִ֖ים בַּ/שַּׁ֥עַר הִטּֽוּ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

13 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶבְי֑וֹן
'byvn
adjective · 59×
חַטָּ֖את
cht't
noun · 298×
י
y
noun · 93×
י
y
verb · 53×
יָדְע֖וּ
yd'v
verb · 944×
יִּקַּ֣ח
yqch
verb · 963×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
כֹּ֣פֶר
kpr
noun · 17×
נָטִ֤יתִי
ntyty
verb · 216×
עָצ֖וּם
'tsvm
adjective · 31×
צַדִּ֑יק
tsdyq
adjective · 199×
רַב
rb
verb · 458×
שַׁ֣עַר
sh'r
noun · 375×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Sam 8:3 — And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
  • Acts 7:52 — Which 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:
  • 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;
  • Amos 2:7 — 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:
  • Amos 5:10 — They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
  • Exod 23:8 — And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
  • Hab 1:4 — Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
  • Isa 1:23 — Thy 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.
  • Jas 5:4 — Behold, 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
  • Mal 3:5 — And 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
  • Mic 7:3 — That 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.
  • Prov 17:8 — A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.
  • Prov 17:15 — He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.
  • Ps 26:9 — Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men: