 | Tjebbe A. Westendorp, Jane Mallinson - English literature - 1995 - 220 pages
...their oppression of the poor. For example, we are told that the Lord is displeased with his people "because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;" (2:6) And he adds: Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens... | |
 | Lionel Fanthorpe, Patricia Fanthorpe - Religion - 1999 - 252 pages
...disasters because they have turned away from God's laws. In Amos's own inimitable prose: "They have sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes." The morality and social responsibility of prophecy is nowhere expressed more clearly than in the Book... | |
 | Anthony Campolo, Bruce Main - Social Science - 2000 - 304 pages
...lived in luxury at the expense of the exploited poor. They read the prophets like Amos, who wrote: ... I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because...righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes; That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek .... | |
 | Walter L. Wilson - Religion - 2000 - 132 pages
...of peace." Would you think that a pair of shoes would be worth more than a man? We read in Amos 2:6, 'They sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes." Human life is not very Let us trust ourselves, our souls and our sins to Christ Jesus the Lord, that... | |
 | James Shane - Religion - 2002 - 710 pages
...he would do unto them; and he did it not. Jonah. 3:5, 6, 10 The "Northern Kingdom" of Israel to Fall 6 Thus saith the Lord; for three transgressions of...righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes. Amos 2:6 14 Therefore the night shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his... | |
 | John Phillips - Religion - 2002 - 366 pages
...intolerance were Israel's crowning sins that called for God's wrath. Amos spelled them out one after another. "They sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes," he charged (2:6b). In Israel the insolvent were sold for a song. So great was the oppression of the... | |
 | Henry E. Meredith - Religion - 2003 - 674 pages
...fathers have walked: But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel,...righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes" (Amos 2:46). And so it is with Rome. God has been patient and longsuffering with her, desiring that... | |
 | Bible - 2003 - 322 pages
...HONESTY.) 12 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress. Hosea 12:7. 13 They sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes. Amos 2:6. 1 Be not overwise in doing thy business. Ecclesiasticus 10:26. 2 Deliver all things in number... | |
 | Walter Curtis Lichfield - Bible - 2005 - 626 pages
...walked: 2:5 "But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem." 2:6 Thus saith the Lord; "For three transgressions of...righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes; 2:7 "That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek:... | |
 | F. Ivez Sawyer - Poetry - 2005 - 192 pages
...describes people who contemptuously disregard holiness. "Thus saith the Lord; For three trangessions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the...righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes; That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek:... | |
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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... 
