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.
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.
Note a bribe: or, a ransom
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.
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.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- I know
- Deuteronomy 31:21; Isaiah 66:18; Jeremiah 29:23; Hebrews 4:12, 13
- manifold
- 2 Kings 17:7–17; Isaiah 47:9
- they afflict
- Amos 2:6, 7, 16; Acts 3:13, 14; Acts 7:52; James 5:4, 6
- take
- 1 Samuel 8:3; Psalm 26:9, 10; Isaiah 1:23; Isaiah 33:15; Micah 3:11; Micah 7:3
- bribe
- or, ransom. and they.
- Amos 2:7; Isaiah 10:2; Isaiah 29:21; Lamentations 3:34; Malachi 3:5
- in the
- Amos 5:10; Deuteronomy 16:18; Ruth 4:1; Job 29:7–25; Job 31:21; Proverbs 22:22