Amos 3:10
For they know not to do right, saith the Lord, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
Amos 3:10 in other translations
| BSB | “For they know not how to do right,” declares the LORD. “They store up violence and destruction in their citadels.” |
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| WEB | “Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says the LORD, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.” |
| ASV | For they know not to do right, saith Jehovah, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces. |
| YLT | And they have not known to act straightforwardly, An affirmation of Jehovah, Who are treasuring up violence and spoil in their palaces. |
| DARBY | and they know not to do right, saith Jehovah, who store up violence and plunder in their palaces. |
| BBE | For they have no knowledge of how to do what is right, says the Lord, who are storing up violent acts and destruction in their great houses. |
| Webster | For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces. |
What does Amos 3:10 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Amos 3:9-15
That power which is an instrument of unrighteousness, will justly be brought down and broken. What is got and kept wrongfully, will not be kept long. Some are at ease, but there will come a day of visitation, and in that day, all they are proud of, and put confidence in, shall fail them. God will inquire into the sins of which they have been guilty in their houses, the robbery they have stored up, and the luxury in…
Amos 3:10 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Amos 3:10
- Zephaniah 1:9
In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit.
- Jeremiah 4:22
For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
- Psalms 14:4
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the Lord.
- Zechariah 5:3-4
Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it. I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
- Habakkuk 2:8-11
Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men’s blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein. Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil! Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul. For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
- 2 Peter 3:5
For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
- Amos 5:7
Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
- Jeremiah 5:4
Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the Lord, nor the judgment of their God.
- Amos 6:12
Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
- James 5:3-4
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
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Context
- Amos 3:9
Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.
- Amos 3:10
For they know not to do right, saith the Lord, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
- Amos 3:11
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; An adversary there shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled.
Amos 3:10 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y no saben hacer lo recto, dice Jehová, atesorando rapiñas y despojos en sus palacios. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | et ils ne savent pas faire ce qui est droit, dit l’ Éternel, eux qui amassent la violence et la rapine dans leurs palais. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und sie wissen nicht zu tun, was recht ist, spricht Jehova, sie, welche Gewalttat und Zerstörung häufen in ihren Palästen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et nescierunt facere rectum, dicit Dominus, thesaurizantes iniquitatem et rapinas in ædibus suis. |