11 Forasmuch then as your treading is upon the poor, and [a]ye take from him burdens of wheat, ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them: ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

12 For I know your manifold transgressions, and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take rewards, and they oppress the poor in the gate.

13 Therefore [b]the prudent shall keep silence in that time, for it is an evil time.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 5:11 Ye take both his money and also his food, wherewith he should live.
  2. Amos 5:13 God will so plague them that they shall not suffer the godly once to open their mouths to admonish them of their faults.

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