Amos 8

Amos · Chapter 8

Amos 8:6

1Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.2And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.3And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.4Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,5Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?6That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?7The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.8Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.9And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:10And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.11Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:12And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.13In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.14They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.

King James Version (1769)

Other translations

VerseKJVBSBASV
6That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

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Original Hebrew words

EnglishHebrewSay itStrong'sMeaning
to buyלִקְנ֤וֹתlik-NOTH7069
to buy

קְנָא (qe.na) (P'al) to acquire, buy, purchase Aramaic of qa.nah (קָנָה "to buy" H7069)

for the silverבַּכֶּ֙סֶף֙ba-KE-sefH3701G
silver: money

כֶּ֫סֶף (ke.seph) : money/payment/silver 1) silver, money 1a) silver 1a1) as metal 1a2) as ornament 1a3) as colour 1b) money, shekels, talents

poor [people]דַּלִּ֔יםda-LIMH1800
poor

דַּל (dal) low, poor, weak, thin, one who is low

and [the] needyוְאֶבְי֖וֹןve-'ev-YONH0034
needy

אֶבְיוֹן (ev.yon) 1) in want, needy, chiefly poor, needy person 2) subject to oppression and abuse 3) needing help, deliverance from trouble, especially as delivered by God 4) general reference to lowest class

for sake ofבַּעֲב֣וּרba-'a-VURH5668
for the sake of

עָבוּר (a.vur) prep 1) for the sake of, on account of, because of, in order to conj 2) in order that

a pair of sandalsנַעֲלָ֑יִםna-'a-LA-yimH5275
sandal

נַ֫עַל (na.al) sandal, shoe

and refuse ofוּמַפַּ֥לu-ma-PALH4651
refuse

מַפָּל (map.pal) 1) refuse, hanging parts 1a) fallings, refuse 1b) hanging parts (of a crocodile)

grainבַּ֖רbarH1250A
grain

בַּר (bar) corn, grain

we will sell grainנַשְׁבִּֽיר׃nash-BIRH7666
to buy

זְבַן (ze.van) 1) to buy, gain 1a) (P'al) gain (participle)

Words and meanings from STEPBible data (Tyndale House, Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). The capitalized syllable is the stressed one.