Amos 8:4

8:4 Listen to this, you who trample ¹  the needy,

and do away with ²  the destitute in the land.

Mikha 2:2

2:2 They confiscate the fields they desire,

and seize the houses they want. ³ 

They defraud people of their homes, ⁴ 

and deprive people of the land they have inherited. ⁵ 

[8:4]  ¹ tn See the note on the word “trample” in 2:7.

[8:4]  ² tn Or “put an end to”; or “exterminate.”

[2:2]  ³ tn Heb “they desire fields and rob [them], and houses and take [them] away.”

[2:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “and they oppress a man and his home.”

[2:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “and a man and his inheritance.” The verb עָשַׁק (’ashaq, “to oppress”; “to wrong”) does double duty in the parallel structure and is understood by ellipsis in the second line.