Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
But they
King James Version
For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
Holman Bible
this is the Lord’s declaration—
those who store up violence and destruction
in their citadels.
International Standard Version
Because they do not know how to act right," declares the LORD, "they are filling their strongholds with treasures that they took from others by violence into their fortified citadels."
A Conservative Version
For they do not know to do right, says LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
American Standard Version
For they know not to do right, saith Jehovah, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
Amplified
For they do not know how to do right,” says the Lord, “these who store up violence and devastation [like treasures] in their strongholds.”
Bible in Basic English
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.
Darby Translation
and they know not to do right, saith Jehovah, who store up violence and plunder in their palaces.
Julia Smith Translation
And they knew not to do the straight, says Jehovah, storing up violence and oppression in their palaces.
King James 2000
For they know not to do right, says the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"They do not know [how] to do right," {declares Yahweh}, "those who store up violence and destruction in their citadel fortresses."
Modern King James verseion
For they do not know to do right, says Jehovah, those who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
sayeth the LORD: they gather together evil gotten goods, and lay up robbery in their houses.'
NET Bible
"They do not know how to do what is right." (The Lord is speaking.) "They store up the spoils of destructive violence in their fortresses.
New Heart English Bible
"Indeed they do not know to do right," says the LORD, "Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces."
The Emphasized Bible
Therefore do they not know how to do right, Declareth Yahweh, who are treasuring up violence and spoil in their palaces.
Webster
For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
World English Bible
"Indeed they don't know to do right," says Yahweh, "Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces."
Youngs Literal Translation
And they have not known to act straightforwardly, An affirmation of Jehovah, Who are treasuring up violence and spoil in their palaces.
Themes
Corruption » In politics in the church » The prevalence of violence
Ignorance » Spiritual » General references to
Palaces » Often the storehouses of rapine
Spiritual » Ignorance » General references to
The Nation » Appointed by God corrupt » The prevalence of violence
Theft » The wicked » Store up the fruits of
The world » Conformity to forbidden creation of » Filled with violence
Topics
Interlinear
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References
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Amos 3:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Guilt And Punishment
9
Proclaim to the strongholds in Ashdod and to the strongholds in the land of Egypt, and say, "Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, and see the great tumults within her, and the oppressed in her midst."
10 But they
Cross References
Jeremiah 4:22
"For my people are foolish; they know me not; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are 'wise'--in doing evil! But how to do good they know not."
Zephaniah 1:9
On that day I will punish everyone who leaps over the threshold, and those who fill their master's house with violence and fraud.
Psalm 14:4
Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the LORD?
Zechariah 5:3-4
Then he said to me, "This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land. For everyone who steals shall be cleaned out according to what is on one side, and everyone who swears falsely shall be cleaned out according to what is on the other side.
Jeremiah 5:4
Then I said, "These are only the poor; they have no sense; for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.
Amos 5:7
O you who turn justice to wormwood and cast down righteousness to the earth!
Amos 6:12
Do horses run on rocks? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood--
Habakkuk 2:8-11
Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you, for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them.
James 5:3-4
Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days.
2 Peter 3:5
For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God,