Amos 3:10

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

“They do not know how to do what is right.”(The LORD is speaking.)“They store up the spoils of destructive violence in their fortresses.

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  • Jer 4:22 : 22 The LORD answered,“This will happen because my people are foolish. They do not know me. They are like children who have no sense. They have no understanding. They are skilled at doing evil. They do not know how to do good.”
  • Zeph 1:9 : 9 On that day I will punish all who leap over the threshold, who fill the house of their master with wealth taken by violence and deceit.
  • Zech 5:3-4 : 3 The speaker went on to say,“This is a curse traveling across the whole earth. For example, according to the curse whoever steals will be removed from the community; or on the other hand(according to the curse) whoever swears falsely will suffer the same fate.” 4 “I will send it out,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“and it will enter the house of the thief and of the person who swears falsely in my name. It will land in the middle of his house and destroy both timber and stones.”
  • Ps 14:4 : 4 All those who behave wickedly do not understand– those who devour my people as if they were eating bread, and do not call out to the LORD.
  • Jas 5:3-4 : 3 Your gold and silver have rusted and their rust will be a witness against you. It will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have hoarded treasure! 4 Look, the pay you have held back from the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
  • 2 Pet 3:5 : 5 For they deliberately suppress 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.
  • Jer 5:4 : 4 I thought,“Surely it is only the ignorant poor who act this way. They act like fools because they do not know what the LORD demands. They do not know what their God requires of them.
  • Amos 5:7 : 7 The Israelites turn justice into bitterness; they throw what is fair and right to the ground.
  • Amos 6:12 : 12 Can horses run on rocky cliffs? Can one plow the sea with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into a poisonous plant, and the fruit of righteous actions into a bitter plant.
  • Hab 2:8-9 : 8 Because you robbed many countries, all who are left among the nations will rob you. You have shed human blood and committed violent acts against lands, cities, and those who live in them. 9 The one who builds his house by unjust gain is as good as dead. He does this so he can build his nest way up high and escape the clutches of disaster. 10 Your schemes will bring shame to your house. Because you destroyed many nations, you will self-destruct. 11 For the stones in the walls will cry out, and the wooden rafters will answer back.

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    9Samaria Will Fall Make this announcement in the fortresses of Ashdod and in the fortresses in the land of Egypt. Say this:“Gather on the hills around Samaria! Observe the many acts of violence taking place within the city, the oppressive deeds occurring in it.”

  • Amos 3:11
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    11Therefore,” says the Sovereign LORD,“an enemy will encircle the land. He will take away your power; your fortresses will be looted.”

  • Zeph 1:13
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    13Their wealth will be stolen and their houses ruined! They will not live in the houses they have built, nor will they drink the wine from the vineyards they have planted.

  • Mic 2:1-3
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    1Land Robbers Will Lose Their Land Beware wicked schemers, those who devise calamity as they lie in bed. As soon as morning dawns they carry out their plans, because they have the power to do so.

    2They confiscate the fields they desire, and seize the houses they want. They defraud people of their homes, and deprive people of the land they have inherited.

    3Therefore the LORD says this:“Look, I am devising disaster for this nation! It will be like a yoke from which you cannot free your neck. You will no longer walk proudly, for it will be a time of catastrophe.

  • Prov 21:7
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    7The violence done by the wicked will drag them away because they have refused to do what is right.

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    9Listen to this, you leaders of the family of Jacob, you rulers of the nation of Israel! You hate justice and pervert all that is right.

    10You build Zion through bloody crimes, Jerusalem through unjust violence.

    11Her leaders take bribes when they decide legal cases, her priests proclaim rulings for profit, and her prophets read omens for pay. Yet they claim to trust the LORD and say,“The LORD is among us. Disaster will not overtake us!”

    12Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed up like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the Temple Mount will become a hill overgrown with brush!

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    2to keep the poor from getting fair treatment, and to deprive the oppressed among my people of justice, so they can steal what widows own, and loot what belongs to orphans.

  • Jer 9:6
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    6They do one act of violence after another, and one deceitful thing after another. They refuse to pay attention to me,” says the LORD.

  • Jer 5:10-11
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    10The LORD commanded the enemy,“March through the vineyards of Israel and Judah and ruin them. But do not destroy them completely. Strip off their branches for these people do not belong to the LORD.

    11For the nations of Israel and Judah have been very unfaithful to me,”says the LORD.

  • Isa 59:8
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    8They are unfamiliar with peace; their deeds are unjust. They use deceitful methods, and whoever deals with them is unfamiliar with peace.

  • Rom 3:16-17
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    16ruin and misery are in their paths,

    17and the way of peace they have not known.”

  • Jer 22:3
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    3The LORD says,“Do what is just and right. Deliver those who have been robbed from those who oppress them. Do not exploit or mistreat resident foreigners who live in your land, children who have no fathers, or widows. Do not kill innocent people in this land.

  • Jer 5:28-29
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    28That is how they have grown fat and sleek. There is no limit to the evil things they do. They do not plead the cause of the fatherless in such a way as to win it. They do not defend the rights of the poor.

    29I will certainly punish them for doing such things!” says the LORD.“I will certainly bring retribution on such a nation as this!

  • Jer 22:17
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    17But you are always thinking and looking for ways to increase your wealth by dishonest means. Your eyes and your heart are set on killing some innocent person and committing fraud and oppression.

  • Amos 5:11-12
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    11Therefore, because you make the poor pay taxes on their crops and exact a grain tax from them, you will not live in the houses you built with chiseled stone, nor will you drink the wine from the fine vineyards you planted.

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    8Jerusalem certainly stumbles, Judah falls, for their words and their actions offend the LORD; they rebel against his royal authority.

    9The look on their faces testifies to their guilt; like the people of Sodom they openly boast of their sin. Woe to them! For they bring disaster on themselves.

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    4Her prophets are proud; they are deceitful men. Her priests have defiled what is holy; they have broken God’s laws.

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    14Israel has forgotten his Maker and built royal palaces, and Judah has built many fortified cities. But I will send fire on their cities; it will consume their royal citadels.

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    9On that day I will punish all who leap over the threshold, who fill the house of their master with wealth taken by violence and deceit.

  • Mic 4:12
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    12But they do not know what the LORD is planning; they do not understand his strategy. He has gathered them like stalks of grain to be threshed at the threshing floor.

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    14The LORD comes to pronounce judgment on the leaders of his people and their officials. He says,“It is you who have ruined the vineyard! You have stashed in your houses what you have stolen from the poor.

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    3You refuse to believe a day of disaster will come, but you establish a reign of violence.

  • Mic 7:3
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    3They are experts at doing evil; government officials and judges take bribes, prominent men announce what they wish and then they plan it out.

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    15I will destroy both the winter and summer houses. The houses filled with ivory will be ruined, the great houses will be swept away.” The LORD is speaking!

  • Hos 5:4
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    4Their wicked deeds do not allow them to return to their God; for a spirit of idolatry is in them, and they do not acknowledge the LORD.

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    5They neither know nor understand. They stumble around in the dark, while all the foundations of the earth crumble.

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    37Their peaceful dwelling places will be laid waste by the fierce anger of the LORD.

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    10Day and night they walk around on its walls, while wickedness and destruction are within it.

  • Jer 4:22
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    22The LORD answered,“This will happen because my people are foolish. They do not know me. They are like children who have no sense. They have no understanding. They are skilled at doing evil. They do not know how to do good.”

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    2Yet he too is wise and he will bring disaster; he does not retract his decree. He will attack the wicked nation, and the nation that helps those who commit sin.

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    2They do not realize that I remember all of their wicked deeds. Their evil deeds have now surrounded them; their sinful deeds are always before me.

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    12The city’s wealthy people readily resort to violence; her inhabitants tell lies, their tongues speak deceptive words.

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    15Ammon’s king will be deported; he and his officials will be carried off together.” The LORD has spoken!

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    25Vent your anger on the nations that do not acknowledge you. Vent it on the peoples who do not worship you. For they have destroyed the people of Jacob. They have completely destroyed them and left their homeland in utter ruin.

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    9The LORD of Heaven’s Armies told me this:“Many houses will certainly become desolate, large, impressive houses will have no one living in them.