Amos 3:10

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Jer 4:22 : 22 "For my people are foolish, they don't know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge."
  • Zeph 1:9 : 9 In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master's house with violence and deceit.
  • Zech 5:3-4 : 3 Then he said to me, "This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land; for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side. 4 I will cause it to go out," says Yahweh of Armies, "and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the midst of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones."
  • Ps 14:4 : 4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don't call on Yahweh?
  • Jas 5:3-4 : 3 Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days. 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
  • 2 Pet 3:5 : 5 For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water, by the word of God;
  • Jer 5:4 : 4 Then I said, "Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don't know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God.
  • Amos 5:7 : 7 You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:
  • Amos 6:12 : 12 Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;
  • Hab 2:8-9 : 8 Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it. 9 Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil! 10 You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul. 11 For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.

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    9 Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, "Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, and see what unrest is in her, and what oppression is among them."

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    11 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "An adversary will overrun the land; and he will pull down your strongholds, and your fortresses will be plundered."

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    13 Their wealth will become a spoil, and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build houses, but won't inhabit them. They will plant vineyards, but won't drink their wine.

  • Mic 2:1-3
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    1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

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

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    9 Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity.

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

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    12 Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.

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    2 to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

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

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    10 "Go up on her walls, and destroy; but don't make a full end. Take away her branches; for they are not Yahweh's.

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    16 Destruction and misery are in their ways.

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    28 They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excell in deeds of wickedness. They don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don't judge the right of the needy.

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