Parallel Verses

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 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.

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 Publish it in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt. Proclaim and assemble on the mountains of Samaria, and observe the great trouble and oppression there. 10 But they do not know how to do what is right,” declares the Lord, “these who hoard up violence and devastation in their citadels.” 11 The Lord Jehovah spoke these words: An adversary will surround the land. He will defeat and tear down your defenses. He will plunder your dwellings.

Cross References

Jeremiah 4:22

My people are fools. They do not know me. They are stupid people. They do not understand. They are experts in doing wrong, and they do not know how to do good.

Zephaniah 1:9

I will punish all who worship false gods and who steal and kill in order to fill their master's house with violence.

Psalm 14:4

Are all the workers of wickedness, those who devour my people as if they were devouring food, so ignorant that they do not call on Jehovah?

Zechariah 5:3-4

He continued: This is the curse that is upon the land. Every one who steals will be acquitted. Every one who swears falsely will be innocent.

Jeremiah 5:4

I thought: These are only the poor and ignorant. They are foolish. They do not know what their God requires, what Jehovah wants them to do.

Amos 5:7

You who turn justice to wormwood (a curse), and cast righteousness down to the earth

Amos 6:12

Do horses run upon the rock? Will one plow there with cattle? You have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood (bitterness)!

Habakkuk 2:8-11

The people who remain will plunder you because you have plundered many nations. It is because of the blood you shed and the violence you brought on the land, the city and all who dwell there.

James 5:3-4

Your gold and your silver are rusted. Their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You stored up your treasure in the last days.

2 Peter 3:5

For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth compacted out of water and amidst water, by the word of God,

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