Amos 2:7

5 So I will send fire upon Judah to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.”

6 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.

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.

8 They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.

9 Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, though his height was like that of the cedars, and he was as strong as the oaks. Yet I destroyed his fruit above and his roots below.

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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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.
KJV
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:
WEB
They trample the heads of the poor into the dust of the earth and deny justice to the oppressed. A man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name.
ASV
they 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 go unto the [same] maiden, to profane my holy name:
DARBY
panting after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turning aside the way of the meek; and a man and his father will go in unto the [same] maid, to profane my holy name.
BLB
They pant after the dust of the earth on the heads of the poor, out of their way they stretch aside the humble, and a man and his father go into the [same] girl, in order to defile the name of My holiness.
ÅB
de som higer etter å se støv på de ringes hode og bøyer retten for de saktmodige. En mann og hans far går til samme pike, så de vanhelliger mitt hellige navn.
OTB
De som tramper hodet til de fattige
ned i jordens støv
og skyver de nødlidende ut av veien;
en mann og hans far har seksuelle relasjoner med den samme jenta,
så mitt hellige navn blir vanæret.
B1930
de som higer efter å se støv på de ringes hode og bøier retten for de saktmodige. En mann og hans far går til samme pike, så de vanhelliger mitt hellige navn.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • 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.

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  • Ezekiel 22:11

    One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another wickedly defiles his daughter-in-law; and yet another violates his sister, his own father’s daughter.

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  • Isaiah 10:2

    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.

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  • Micah 2:9

    You drive the women of My people from their pleasant homes. You take away My blessing from their children forever.

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  • Micah 2:2

    They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.

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  • 1 Corinthians 5:1

    It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.

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  • Romans 2:24

    As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”

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  • Ezekiel 36:20

    And wherever they went among the nations, they profaned My holy name, because it was said of them, ‘These are the people of the LORD, yet they had to leave His land.’

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