Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

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

New American Standard Bible

But they do not know how to do what is right,” declares the Lord, “these who hoard up violence and devastation in their citadels.”

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

The people are incapable of doing right
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 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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
not to do

Usage: 0

נכחה 
N@kochah 
Usage: 4

נאם 
N@'um 
Usage: 376

the Lord

Usage: 0

אצר 
'atsar 
Usage: 5

and robbery
שׁוד שׁד 
Shod 
Usage: 25

References

Context Readings

Israel's Guilt And Punishment

9 Make it heard at the palaces of Ashdod, and the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say: Gather yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great uproars in its midst, and the oppressed in its midst. 10 For they do not know to do right, says Jehovah, those who store up violence and robbery in their palaces. 11 So the Lord Jehovah says this: An enemy! And he shall be all around the land; and he shall bring you down from your strength, and your palaces shall be plundered.

Cross References

Jeremiah 4:22

For My people are foolish; they have not known Me; they are stupid sons, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Zephaniah 1:9

And I will punish all those who leap on the threshold in that day, who fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.

Psalm 14:4

Have all the workers of iniquity not known, eating up My people as they eat bread? They have not called on Jehovah.

Zechariah 5:3-4

And he said to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole earth; for from now on everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it; and everyone who swears from now on shall be cut off according to it.

Jeremiah 5:4

So I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they do not know the way of Jehovah, nor the judgment of their God.

Amos 5:7

You who turn judgment to wormwood and leave off righteousness in the earth,

Amos 6:12

Shall horses run on the rock? Will one plow there with oxen? For you have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock;

Habakkuk 2:8-11

Because you have stripped many nations, all the rest of the people shall strip you; because of men's blood, and the violence of the land, of the city, and of all who dwell in it.

James 5:3-4

Your gold and silver have corroded, and their poison will be a witness against you, and will eat your flesh as fire. You heaped treasure in the last days.

2 Peter 3:5

For this is hidden from them by their willing it, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of the water, and through water, being held together by the Word of God,

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