There shall none of his food be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
Amos 3:10 - King James 2000 For they know not to do right, says the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces. 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. |
There shall none of his food be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
We shall find all kinds of precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
Evil men understand not justice: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.
So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
For my people are foolish, they have not known me; they are stupid children, and they have no understanding: they are wise to do evil, but how to do good they have no knowledge.
Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the law of their God.
And has not oppressed any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has robbed none 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 committed robbery, and have oppressed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
Then he said unto 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 returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, 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 commit falsehood; and the thief comes in, and bands of robbers plunder outside.
Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
You who turn justice to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for you have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
You that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
The Lord GOD has sworn by himself, says the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is in it.
Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the short measure that is abominable?
In the same day also will I punish all those that leap over the threshold, who fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.
For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: