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Amos 3:10

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They do not know how to do right, says the Lord, storing up violence and destruction in their fortresses.

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Nothing is left for him to eat; therefore his prosperity will not endure.

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

we will find all kinds of precious possessions, we will fill our houses with plunder;

A gracious woman retains honor, but ruthless men attain riches.

Evil men do not understand justice, But those who seek the Lord understand it fully.

Again I turned and observed all types of oppression that are done under the sun: Behold, the tears of the oppressed, and no one was there to comfort them. There was force from the hand of the oppressors, and no one was there to comfort them.

“For My people are foolish, they have not known Me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.”

Therefore I said, “Surely these are the poor. They are foolish; for they know not the way of the Lord or the judgment of their God.

and he has not oppressed anyone, but has restored to the debtor his pledge; has devastated no one by violence, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery and have vexed the poor and needy and have oppressed the sojourner wrongfully.

Then He said to me, “Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence and have continually provoked Me to anger. And behold, they put the branch to their nose.

When I would heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed, and the wickedness of Samaria. For they deal deceitfully; the thief breaks in; the robbers raid outside,

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to their husbands, “Bring us something to drink!”

You who turn justice into bitterness and cast righteousness down to the ground!

Can horses run on a rocky crag? Can one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

You who brush off the day of disaster, but bring on a session of lawlessness;

The Lord God hath sworn by Himself, an oracle of the Lord the God of Hosts: I abhor the pride of Jacob and hate his palaces, so I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.

Are there still in the house of the wicked treasures of wickedness? And the short ephah which is accursed?

On that day I will punish all who step over the threshold, who fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit.

For they willingly ignore that, by the word of God the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed standing out of the water and in the water,




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