Parallel Verses

Webster

For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, 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 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.

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 in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst of it, and the oppressed in the midst of it. 10 For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces. 11 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversary there shall be even around the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be plundered.

Cross References

Jeremiah 4:22

For my people are foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Zephaniah 1:9

In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshhold, who fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.

Psalm 14:4

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.

Zechariah 5:3-4

Then said he to me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.

Jeremiah 5:4

Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.

Amos 5:7

Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness on the earth,

Amos 6:12

Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:

Habakkuk 2:8-11

Because thou hast laid waste many nations, all the remnant of the people shall lay thee waste; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.

James 5:3-4

Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have amassed treasure for the last days.

2 Peter 3:5

For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

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