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English Standard Version

Amos about injustice in Israel:

The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob: Surely I will never forget any of their deeds.

Amos 8:7

O Lord, be gracious to me; heal me, for I have sinned against you!

Psalm 41:4 (ESV)

Amos 8 (English Standard Version)

4 Hear this, you who trample on the needy
and bring the poor of the land to an end,
5 saying, “When will the new moon be over,
that we may sell grain?
And the Sabbath,
that we may offer wheat for sale,
that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great
and deal deceitfully with false balances,
6 that we may buy the poor for silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals
and sell the chaff of the wheat?”
7 The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob:
“Surely I will never forget any of their deeds.
8 Shall not the land tremble on this account,
and everyone mourn who dwells in it,
and all of it rise like the Nile,
and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?”
9 “And on that day,” declares the Lord God,
“I will make the sun go down at noon
and darken the earth in broad daylight.
10 I will turn your feasts into mourning
and all your songs into lamentation;
I will bring sackcloth on every waist
and baldness on every head;
I will make it like the mourning for an only son
and the end of it like a bitter day.

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Psalm 41 (English Standard Version)

1 Blessed is the one who considers the poor!
In the day of trouble the Lord delivers him;
2 the Lord protects him and keeps him alive;
he is called blessed in the land;
you do not give him up to the will of his enemies.
3 The Lord sustains him on his sickbed;
in his illness you restore him to full health.
4 As for me, I said, “O Lord, be gracious to me;
heal me, for I have sinned against you!”
5 My enemies say of me in malice,
“When will he die, and his name perish?”
6 And when one comes to see me, he utters empty words,
while his heart gathers iniquity;
when he goes out, he tells it abroad.
7 All who hate me whisper together about me;
they imagine the worst for me.

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Amos about injustice in Israel:

The Lord God, of whom the descendants of Jacob are so proud, has sworn an oath: I will never forget the evil you have done.

Amos 8:7

Lord, please be gracious to me, I asked. Please heal me, for I have sinned against you.

Psalm 41:4

Amos 8 (Free Bible Version)

4 Listen to this, you who trample down the needy, and wipe out the poor of the land.
5 You who ask, “When will the holy day be over so we can get back to selling grain? When will the Sabbath be over so we can open our storehouses, and cheat people with short measures and unfair scales?”
6 You buy the poor for silver, the needy for a pair of sandals, and you sell grain mixed with chaff.
7 The Lord God, of whom the descendants of Jacob are so proud, has sworn an oath: I will never forget the evil you have done.
8 Shall not the land tremble because of this, and everyone who lives there mourn? The earth will rise up like the Nile river in flood, be tossed around, and then fall again.
9 On that day, declares the Lord God, I will make the sun go down at noon, and darken the land during the daytime.
10 I will turn your festivals into times of mourning, your happy songs into laments. I will make you wear sackcloth and shave your heads. I will make your mourning like that for an only son. At the end of it all it will be a bitter day.

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Psalm 41 (Free Bible Version)

1 How happy are those who take care of the poor! When they are in trouble the Lord will save them.
2 The Lord protects them and keeps them alive. They will live happily in the land, and they will not be handed over to their enemies.
3 The Lord looks after them when they're sick; he makes them well from their illness.
4 “Lord, please be gracious to me,” I asked. “Please heal me, for I have sinned against you.”
5 Those who hate me only say evil things about me. “When is he going to die, and people forget all about him?” they ask.
6 They come to visit me, but their sympathy is not sincere. They're only interested in the bad news, which they spread around as soon as they leave.
7 All who hate me talk in whispers about my condition, hoping for the worst.

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