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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 · King James Version

In other versions

  • For they know not to do right, saith Jehovah, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

    ASV

  • 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.

    BBE

  • and they know not to do right, saith Jehovah, who store up violence and plunder in their palaces.

    DBY

  • "Indeed they don't know to do right," says Yahweh, "Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces."

    WEB

  • And they have not known to act straightforwardly, An affirmation of Jehovah, Who are treasuring up violence and spoil in their palaces.

    YLT

  • For they know not to do right, says the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

    ENG

  • For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

    WBT

  • “For they know not how to do right,” declares the LORD. “They store up violence and destruction in their citadels.”

    BSB

In context

8The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?

9Publish 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.

10For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

11Therefore 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.

12Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.

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