Āmósīshū 8:4

4 Nǐmen zhèxie yào tūn chī qióngfá rén , shǐ kùnkǔ rén shuāi baì de , dāng tīng wǒde huà .

Āmósīshū 8:4 Meaning and Commentary

Amos 8:4

Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy
Like a man that pants after a draught of water when thirsty; and, when he has got it, greedily swallows it down at one gulp; so these rich men swallowed up the poor, their labours, gains, and profits, and persons too; got all into their own hands, and made them bondsmen and slaves to them; see ( Amos 2:7 ) ; these are called upon to hear this dreadful calamity threatened, and to consider what then would become of them and their ill gotten riches; and suggesting, that their oppression of the needy was one cause of this destruction of the land: even to make the poor of the land to fail;
or "cease" ^F1; to die for want of the necessaries of life, being obliged to such hard labour; so unmercifully used, their faces ground, and pinched with necessity; and so sadly paid for their work, that they could not live by it.

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 (twbvl) "ad cessare faciendum", Mercerus; "et facitis cessare", Munster, Drusius.

Āmósīshū 8:4 In-Context

2 Tā shuō , a mó sī a , nǐ kànjian shénme . wǒ shuō , kànjian yī kuāng xiàtiān de guǒzi . Yēhéhuá shuō , wǒ mín Yǐsèliè de jiéjú dào le . wǒ bì bù zaì kuānshù tāmen .

3 Zhǔ Yēhéhuá shuō , nà rì , diàn zhōng de shīgē biàn wèi āi hào . bì yǒu xǔduō shī shǒu zaì gè chù pāo qì , wú rén zuò shēng .

4 Nǐmen zhèxie yào tūn chī qióngfá rén , shǐ kùnkǔ rén shuāi baì de , dāng tīng wǒde huà .

5 Nǐmen shuō , yuè shuò jǐshí guō qù , wǒmen hǎo maì liáng . ānxīrì jǐshí guō qù , wǒmen hǎo bǎi kāi maìzi , maì chū yòng xiǎo shēngdǒu , shōu yín yòng dà dĕng zǐ , yòng guǐzhà de tiān píng qī hǒng rén .

6 Hǎo yòng yínzi mǎi pín Hán rén , yòng yī shuāng xié huàn qióngfá rén , jiāng huaì le de maìzi maì gĕi rén .