Amos 3:10

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Jer 4:22 : 22 For my people are foolish, they have not known me; they are senseless children, and they have no understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
  • Zeph 1:9 : 9 In the same day also will I punish all those that leap over the threshold, who fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.
  • Zech 5:3-4 : 3 Then he said to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole earth: for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on this side; and everyone who swears shall be cut off according to it on that side. 4 I will bring it forth, says the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, with its timber and its stones.
  • Ps 14:4 : 4 Do all the workers of iniquity have no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon the LORD?
  • Jas 5:3-4 : 3 Your gold and silver are corroded; and their corrosion shall be a witness against you, and shall consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded treasure for the last days. 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.
  • 2 Pet 3:5 : 5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens existed of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
  • Jer 5:4 : 4 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they do not know the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.
  • Amos 5:7 : 7 You who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
  • Amos 6:12 : 12 Shall horses run on the rock? Will one plow there with oxen? For you have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
  • Hab 2:8-9 : 8 Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the people shall plunder you; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all who dwell therein. 9 Woe to him who covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil! 10 You have consulted shame to your house by cutting off many people, and have sinned against your soul. 11 For the stone shall cry out from the wall, and the beam from the timber shall answer it.

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  • 9Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say: Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in its midst, and the oppressed within it.

  • 11Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: An adversary shall be all around the land; he shall bring down your strength from you, and your palaces shall be plundered.

  • 13Therefore their goods shall become plunder, and their houses a desolation: they shall build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine from them.

  • Mic 2:1-3
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    74%

    1Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it because it is in the power of their hand.

    2They covet fields and take them by violence, and houses, and take them away; so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

    3Therefore thus says the LORD; Behold, against this family I devise an evil from which you shall not remove your necks; neither shall you go haughtily, for this time is evil.

  • 7The robbery of the wicked will destroy them, because they refuse to do justice.

  • Mic 3:9-12
    4 verses
    74%

    9Hear this, I pray you, you leaders of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.

    10They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

    11The leaders judge for reward, and the priests teach for hire, and the prophets divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? No harm can come upon us.

    12Therefore for your sake Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

  • 2To turn aside the needy from justice and to take away the rights from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

  • 6Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD.

  • Jer 5:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10Go up upon her walls, and destroy; but do not make a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD'S.

    11For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, says the LORD.

  • 8The way of peace they do not know; and there is no justice in their paths: they have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever walks therein shall not know peace.

  • Rom 3:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16'Destruction and misery are in their ways:'

    17'And the way of peace they have not known:'

  • 3Thus says the LORD; Execute judgment and righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

  • Jer 5:28-29
    2 verses
    73%

    28They have grown fat, they shine: yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked: they do not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy they do not judge.

    29Shall I not visit for these things? says the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

  • 17But your eyes and your heart are set only on your covetousness, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression, and on violence, to do it.

  • Amos 5:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11Since you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.

    12For I know your many transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

  • Isa 3:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen, because their speech and their actions are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of His glory.

    9The look on their faces testifies against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they do not hide it. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

  • 4Her prophets are light and treacherous people: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.

  • 4Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they do not know the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.

  • 3And they bend their tongues like a bow for lies; but they are not valiant for the truth on the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the LORD.

  • 14For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and builds temples; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities, but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces there.

  • 9In the same day also will I punish all those that leap over the threshold, who fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.

  • 12But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD, nor do they understand His counsel; for He shall gather them as sheaves into the threshing floor.

  • 14The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of His people, and their princes: for you have eaten up the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.

  • 3You who put far away the evil day, and bring near the seat of violence;

  • 3That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a reward; and the great man utters his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

  • 15And I will strike the winter house with the summer house; the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall come to an end, says the LORD.

  • 4They will not direct their deeds to turn to their God: for the spirit of prostitution is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.

  • 5They do not know, nor do they understand; they walk in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

  • 37And the peaceful habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

  • 10Day and night they go about it upon its walls; mischief and sorrow are in the midst of it.

  • 22For my people are foolish, they have not known me; they are senseless children, and they have no understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

  • 2Yet He also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back His words: but will rise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who practice iniquity.

  • 2And they do not consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own actions have surrounded them; they are before my face.

  • 1And I said, Hear, I pray you, O leaders of Jacob, and you rulers of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know justice?

  • 29The people of the land have used oppression, and committed robbery, and have wronged the poor and needy: yes, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

  • 4They have set up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, and I did not acknowledge it. From their silver and their gold, they have made idols for themselves, that they may be cut off.

  • 12For the rich men there are full of violence, the inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

  • 15And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, says the LORD.

  • 25Pour out your fury upon the heathen that do not know you, and upon the families that do not call on your name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.

  • 9In my ears said the LORD of hosts, Truly many houses shall be desolate, even great and beautiful, without inhabitant.