Amos 5:12
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.Amos 5:12 · WEB
This verse in other languages
- ગુજરાતી — આમોસ ૫:૧૨
- કેમ કે હું જાણું છું કે તમારા ગુના પુષ્કળ છે અને તમારાં પાપ ઘણાં છે, કેમ કે તમે ન્યાયીઓને દુઃખ આપો છો, તમે લાંચ લો છો, અને દરવાજામાં બેસીને ગરીબ માણસનો હક ડુબાવો છો.
- हिन्दी — आमोस ५:१२
- क्योंकि मैं जानता हूँ कि तुम्हारे पाप भारी हैं। तुम धर्मी को सताते और घूस लेते, और फाटक में दरिद्रों का न्याय बिगाड़ते हो।
In context
10They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.
11Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take taxes from him of wheat, you have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.
12For 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.
13Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.
14Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the LORD, the God of Armies, will be with you, as you say.
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