Amos 8:4
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
Hear this, O you that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
American King James Version (AKJV)
Hear this, O you that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
American Standard Version (ASV)
Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
Basic English Translation (BBE)
Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land,
Webster's Revision
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
World English Bible
Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
English Revised Version (ERV)
Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
Clarke's Amos 8:4 Bible Commentary
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy - Ye that bruise the poor; exact from them, and tread them under foot.
Barnes's Amos 8:4 Bible Commentary
Here ye this, ye that swallow - Or, better in the same sense, "that pant for the needy;" as Job says, "the hireling panteth for the evening" Job 7:2. They "panted for the poor," as the wild beast for its prey; and "that to make the poor" or (better, as the Hebrew text,) "the meek" , those not poor only, but who, through poverty and affliction, are "poor in spirit" also, "to fail." The land being divided among all the inhabitants, they, in order "to lay field to field" Isaiah 5:8, had to rid themselves of the poor. They did rid themselves of them by oppression of all sorts.
Wesley's Amos 8:4 Bible Commentary
8:4 To fail - Either to root them out, or to enslave them.