Nothing is left for him to consume; therefore, his prosperity will not last.
Amos 3:10 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised The people are incapable of doing right – this is the Lord’s declaration – those who store up violence and destruction in their citadels. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For they know not how to do right, says the Lord, they who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds. American Standard Version (1901) For they know not to do right, saith Jehovah, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces. Common English Bible They don’t know how to do right, says the LORD— those who store up violence and robbery in their palaces. Catholic Public Domain Version And they do not know how to make it right, says the Lord, storing up iniquity and plunder in their buildings. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they have not known to do the right thing, saith the Lord, storing up iniquity, and robberies in their houses. |
Nothing is left for him to consume; therefore, his prosperity will not last.
We’ll find all kinds of valuable property and fill our houses with plunder.
The evil do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand everything.
Again, I observed all the acts of oppression being done under the sun. Look at the tears of those who are oppressed; they have no one to comfort them. Power is with those who oppress them; they have no one to comfort them.
‘For my people are fools; they do not know me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing what is evil, but they do not know how to do what is good.’
Then I thought: They are just the poor; they have been foolish. For they don’t understand the way of the Lord, the justice of their God.
He doesn’t oppress anyone but returns his collateral to the debtor. He does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.
The people of the land have practised extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and unlawfully exploited the resident foreigner.
And he said to me, ‘Do you see this, son of man? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the detestable acts they are doing here, that they must also fill the land with violence and repeatedly anger me, even putting the branch to their nose?
when I heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim and the crimes of Samaria will be exposed. For they practise fraud; a thief breaks in; a raiding party pillages outside.
Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan who are on the hill of Samaria, women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to their husbands, ‘Bring us something to drink.’
Those who turn justice into wormwood also throw righteousness to the ground.
Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does anyone plough there with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood –
You dismiss any thought of the evil day and bring in a reign of violence.
The Lord God has sworn by himself #– #this is the declaration of the Lord, the God of Armies: I loathe Jacob’s pride and hate his citadels, so I will hand over the city and everything in it.
Are there still the treasures of wickedness and the accursed short measure in the house of the wicked?
On that day I will punish all who skip over the threshold, , who fill their master’s house with violence and deceit.
They deliberately overlook this: By the word of God the heavens came into being long ago and the earth was brought about from water and through water.