Amos 3:10

In 11 translations

BSB

“For they know not how to do right,” declares the LORD. “They store up violence and destruction in their citadels.”

KJV

For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.robbery: or, spoil

WEB

“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”

ASV

For they know not to do right, saith Jehovah, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

LSV

And they have not known to act straightforwardly,” || A declaration of YHWH, || “Who are treasuring up violence and spoil in their palaces.”

YLT

And they have not known to act straightforwardly, An affirmation of Jehovah, Who are treasuring up violence and spoil in their palaces.

DBY

and they know not to do right, saith Jehovah, who store up violence and plunder in their palaces.

DRC

And they have not known to do the right thing, saith the Lord, storing up iniquity, and robberies in their houses.

GNV

For they knowe not to doe right, sayth the Lord: they store vp violence, and robbery in their palaces.

JPS

For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

LXXE

And she knew not what things would come against her, saith the Lord, even those that store up wrong and misery in their countries.

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WLC

וְלֹֽא־יָדְע֥וּ עֲשׂוֹת־נְכֹחָ֖ה נְאֻם־יְהוָ֑ה הָאֽוֹצְרִ֛ים חָמָ֥ס וָשֹׁ֖ד בְּאַרְמְנֽוֹתֵיהֶֽם׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ οὐκ ἔγνω ἃ ἔσται ἐναντίον αὐτῆς, λέγει Κύριος, οἱ θησαυρίζοντες ἀδικίαν καὶ ταλαιπωρίαν ἐν ταῖς χώραις αὐτῶν.

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• Jeremiah 4:22“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”
• Zephaniah 1:9On that day I will punish all who leap over the threshold, who fill the house of their master with violence and deceit.
• Psalms 14:4Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.
• Zechariah 5:3–4Then he told me, “This is the curse that is going out over the face of all the land, for according to one side of the scroll, every thief will be removed; and according to the other side, every perjurer will be…
• Amos 6:12“Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—
• 2 Peter 3:5But they deliberately overlook the fact that long ago by God’s word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water,
• Amos 5:7There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.
• Habakkuk 2:8–11Because you have plundered many nations, the remnant of the people will plunder you— because of your bloodshed against man and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers. Woe to him who builds his…
• Jeremiah 5:4Then I said, “They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.
• James 5:3–4Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded treasure in the last days. Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your…

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