Amos 3:10

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

They do not know how to do right, says the Lord, those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds.

Cross References

Job 20:21

There was nothing left after they had eaten; therefore their prosperity will not endure.

Psalm 14:4

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

Proverbs 1:13

We shall find all kinds of costly things; we shall fill our houses with spoil.

Proverbs 11:16

A gracious woman gets honor, but she who hates virtue is covered with shame. The timid become destitute, but the aggressive gain riches.

Proverbs 28:5

The evil do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand it completely.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Again I saw all the oppressions that are practiced under the sun. Look, the tears of the oppressed—with no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power—with no one to comfort them.

Jeremiah 4:22

“For my people are foolish; they do not know me; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil but do not know how to do good.”

Jeremiah 5:4

Then I said, “These are only the poor; they have no sense, for they do not know the way of the Lord, the law of their God.

Ezekiel 18:7

does not oppress anyone but restores to the debtor his pledge, commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,

Ezekiel 22:29

The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery; they have oppressed the poor and needy and have extorted from the alien without justice.

Ezekiel 8:17

Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, O mortal? Is it not bad enough that the house of Judah commits the abominations done here? Must they fill the land with violence and provoke my anger still further? See, they are putting the branch to their nose!

Hosea 7:1

when I would heal Israel, the corruption of Ephraim is revealed, and the wicked deeds of Samaria, for they deal falsely; the thief breaks in, and the bandits raid outside.

Amos 4:1

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

Amos 5:7

Ah, you who turn justice to wormwood and bring righteousness to the ground!

Amos 6:12

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

Amos 6:3

you who put far away the evil day and bring near a reign of violence?

Amos 6:8

The Lord God has sworn by himself (says the Lord, the God of hosts): I abhor the pride of Jacob and hate his strongholds, and I will deliver up the city and all that is in it.

Micah 6:10

Can I forget the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked and the despicable false measure?

Zephaniah 1:9

On that day I will punish all who leap over the threshold, who fill their master’s house with violence and fraud.

2 Peter 3:5

They deliberately ignore this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed long ago and an earth was formed out of water and by means of water,