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Amos 3:10

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For they do not know to do right,’ Says the Lord, ‘Who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.’ ”

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Nothing is left for him to eat; Therefore his well-being will not last.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And do not call on the Lord?

We shall find all kinds of precious possessions, We shall fill our houses with spoil;

A gracious woman retains honor, But ruthless men retain riches.

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

Then I returned and considered all the oppression that is done under the sun: And look! The tears of the oppressed, But they have no comforter— On the side of their oppressors there is power, But they have no comforter.

“For My people are foolish, They have not known Me. They are silly 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 poor. They are foolish; For they do not know the way of the Lord, The judgment of their God.

If he has not oppressed anyone, But has restored to the debtor his pledge; Has robbed no one by violence, But has given his bread to the hungry And covered the naked with clothing;

The people of the land have used oppressions, committed robbery, and mistreated the poor and needy; and they wrongfully oppress the stranger.

And He said to me, “Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it a trivial thing to the house of Judah to commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence; then they have returned to provoke Me to anger. Indeed they put the branch to their nose.

“When I would have healed Israel, Then the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, And the wickedness of Samaria. For they have committed fraud; A thief comes in; A band of robbers takes spoil outside.

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, Who oppress the poor, Who crush the needy, Who say to your husbands, “Bring wine, let us drink!”

You who turn justice to wormwood, And lay righteousness to rest in the earth!”

Do horses run on rocks? Does one plow there with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into gall, And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

Woe to you who put far off the day of doom, Who cause the seat of violence to come near;

The Lord God has sworn by Himself, The Lord God of hosts says: “I abhor the pride of Jacob, And hate his palaces; Therefore I will deliver up the city And all that is in it.”

Are there yet the treasures of wickedness In the house of the wicked, And the short measure that is an abomination?

In the same day I will punish All those who leap over the threshold, Who fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit.

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




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