Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
sayeth the LORD: they gather together evil gotten goods, and lay up robbery in their houses.'
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.
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
Yada`
References
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Amos 3:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Guilt And Punishment
9 "'Preach in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces of the land of Egypt, and say, 'Gather you together upon the mountains of Samaria, so shall ye see great murder and violent oppression among them.' For why? They regard not the thing that is right, 10 sayeth the LORD: they gather together evil gotten goods, and lay up robbery in their houses.' 11 Therefore, thus sayeth the LORD God, 'This land shall be troubled and besieged round about, thy strength shall be plucked from thee, and thy palaces robbed.'
Cross References
Jeremiah 4:22
"Nevertheless this shall come upon them because my people is become foolish, and hath utterly no understanding. They are the children of foolishness, and without any discretion. To do evil, they have wit enough: but to do well, they have no wisdom."
Zephaniah 1:9
In the same day also will I visit all those that tread over the threshold so proudly, which fill their lords' house with robbery and falsity.
Psalm 14:4
Have they no knowledge, that they are all such workers of mischief, eating up my people as it were 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 whole earth: for all thieves shall be judged after this book, and all swearers shall be judged according to the same.
Jeremiah 5:4
Therefore thought I in myself, "Peradventure they are so simple and foolish, that they understand nothing of the LORD's way, and judgments of our God.
Amos 5:7
Ye turn the law to wormwood, and cast down righteousness into the ground.
Amos 6:12
Who can run with horses, or plow with oxen upon the hard rocks of stone? For why? Ye have turned true judgment into bitterness, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood.
Habakkuk 2:8-11
Seeing thou hast spoiled many Heathen, therefore shall the remnant of the people spoil thee: because of men's blood, and for the wrong done in the land, in the city and unto all them that dwell therein.
James 5:3-4
Your gold and your silver are cankered, and the rust of them shall be a witness unto you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together in your last days.
2 Peter 3:5
This they know not - and that willingly: how that the heavens a great while ago were, and the earth that was in the water appeared up out of the water by the word of God: