Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
"They do not know [how] to do right," {declares Yahweh}, "those who store up violence and destruction in their citadel fortresses."
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.
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 citadel fortresses in Ashdod and the citadel fortresses in the land of Egypt and say: "Gather on the mountains of Samaria and see the great panic in her midst and the oppression in her midst!" 10 "They do not know [how] to do right," {declares Yahweh}, "those who store up violence and destruction in their citadel fortresses." 11 Therefore, thus says my Lord Yahweh, "A foe shall surround the land and bring down your strongholds, and your citadel fortresses shall be plundered."
Cross References
Jeremiah 4:22
"For my people [are] foolish, they have not known me. They [are] foolish children, and they do not have insight. They [are] skillful at doing evil, and they do not know [how] to do good."
Zephaniah 1:9
And on that day I will punish all who leap over the threshold, who fill up the house of their master [with] violence and deceit.
Psalm 14:4
All who do evil--do they not know, [they] who eat my people [as though] they were eating bread? They do not call on Yahweh.
Zechariah 5:3-4
And he said to me, "This [is] the curse going out over the surface of the whole earth. For everyone who steals has gone unpunished according to it, and [likewise] everyone who swears [falsely] has gone unpunished according to it.
Jeremiah 5:4
Then I said, "[They are] just simple people, they are foolish, for they know not the way of Yahweh, the law of their God.
Amos 5:7
[Ah,] you who turn justice into wormwood and hurl righteousness to the ground!
Amos 6:12
Do horses run on rocks, or does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and [the] fruit of righteousness into wormwood!
Habakkuk 2:8-11
Because you plundered many nations, all the remaining nations will plunder you on account of the blood of humanity and violence [against the] land, [and against] cities and all who live in them.
James 5:3-4
Your gold and silver have become corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you, and it will consume your flesh like fire. You have stored up treasure in the last days.
2 Peter 3:5
For [when] they maintain this, it escapes [their] notice that the heavens existed long ago and the earth held together out of water and through water by the word of God,