Amos 3:10
What does Amos 3:10 mean?
A plain-English look at Amos 3:10 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000For they know not to do right, saith Jehovah, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
KJV
King James Version · 1611For they know not to do right, saith the Lord, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901For they know not to do right, saith Jehovah, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949For they have no knowledge of how to do what is right, says the Lord, who are storing up violent acts and destruction in their great houses.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And they have not known to act straightforwardly, An affirmation of Jehovah, Who are treasuring up violence and spoil in their palaces.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And they have not known to do the right thing, saith the Lord, storing up iniquity, and robberies in their houses.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890and they know not to do right, saith Jehovah, who store up violence and plunder in their palaces.
Context
v.9Publish ye 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 what great tumults are therein, and what oppressions in the midst thereof.
v.10This passage
v.11Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: An adversary there shall be, even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be plundered.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- James 5:3
Your gold and your silver are rusted; and their rust shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have laid up your treasure in the last days.
- Jeremiah 5:4
Then I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they know not the way of Jehovah, nor the law of their God:
- Jeremiah 4:22
For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
- Zephaniah 1:9
And in that day I will punish all those that leap over the threshold, that fill their master’s house with violence and deceit.
- 2 Peter 3:5
For this they wilfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth compacted out of water and amidst water, by the word of God;
- Amos 6:12
Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plowtherewith oxen? that ye have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood;
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