Amos 3:10

New American Bible - revised edition

They do not know how to do what is right— oracle of the Lord— Storing up in their strongholds violence and destruction.

Cross References

Job 20:21

None of his survivors will consume it, therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

Psalm 14:4

Will these evildoers never learn? They devour my people as they devour bread; they do not call upon the Lord.

Proverbs 1:13

All kinds of precious wealth shall we gain, we shall fill our houses with booty;

Proverbs 11:16

A gracious woman gains esteem, and ruthless men gain wealth.

Proverbs 28:5

The evil understand nothing of justice, but those who seek the Lord understand everything.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Again I saw all the oppressions that take place under the sun: the tears of the victims with none to comfort them! From the hand of their oppressors comes violence, and there is none to comfort them!

Jeremiah 4:22

My people are fools, they do not know me; They are senseless children, without understanding; They are wise at evil, but they do not know how to do good.

Jeremiah 5:4

I thought: These are only the lowly, they behave foolishly; For they do not know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God.

Ezekiel 18:7

if he oppresses no one, gives back the pledge received for a debt, commits no robbery; gives food to the hungry and clothes the naked;

Ezekiel 22:29

The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they wrong the poor and the needy, and oppress the resident alien without justice.

Ezekiel 8:17

He said: Do you see, son of man? Are the abominable things the house of Judah has done here so slight that they should also fill the land with violence, provoking me again and again? Now they are putting the branch to my nose!

Hosea 7:1

when I would have healed Israel, The guilt of Ephraim was revealed, the wickedness of Samaria: They practiced falsehood. Thieves break in, bandits roam outside.

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who live on the mount of Samaria: Who oppress the destitute and abuse the needy; Who say to your husbands, “Bring us a drink!”

Amos 5:7

Woe to those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground,

Amos 6:12

Can horses run over rock, or can one plow the sea with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

Amos 6:3

You who would put off the day of disaster, yet hasten the time of violence!

Amos 6:8

The Lord God has sworn by his very self— an oracle of the Lord, the God of hosts: I abhor the pride of Jacob, I hate his strongholds, and I will hand over the city with everything in it;

Micah 6:10

Am I to bear criminal hoarding and the accursed short ephah?

Zephaniah 1:9

I will punish, on that day, all who leap over the threshold, Who fill the house of their master with violence and deceit.

2 Peter 3:5

They deliberately ignore the fact that the heavens existed of old and earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God;