Amos 3:10
They don't know how to do what is right, declares the Lord. They have stored up in their fortresses what they've taken by violence and robbery.
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In The King James Version
For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
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Psalms 14:4Won't these people who do evil ever learn? They consume my people as if they were eating bread, and refuse to pray to the Lord.
Proverbs 11:16A gracious woman holds on to her honor just as ruthless men hold on to their wealth.
Ecclesiastes 4:1Then I turned to consider all the ways people oppress others here on earth. Look at the tears of the oppressed—there's no one to comfort them! Powerful people oppress them, and there's no one to comfort them!
Jeremiah 5:4Then I said to myself, “These people are only the poor—they're just fools who don't know any better. They certainly don't know what the Lord wants, God's right way of living.
Amos 4:1Listen to this message, you well-fed cows of Bashan who live on Mount Samaria, who oppress the poor and crush the needy, and who order your husbands, “Bring us drinks!”
Amos 6:3You put out of your minds any thought of coming disaster, yet you are bringing closer the time when violence reigns.
Matthew Henry on Amos 3:10-15
Israel Convicted and Condemned. ( b. c. 790.) 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 thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof. 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 round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee,… Read the whole commentary →