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Amos 3:10
For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
Amos 3:10 · Webster Bible
Amos 3:10 in other translations
For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
“For they know not how to do right,” declares the LORD. “They store up violence and destruction in their citadels.”
“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says the LORD, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”
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In context
7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret to his servants the prophets.
8 The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?
9 Publish 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 the midst of it, and the oppressed in the midst of it.
10 For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
11 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversary [there shall be] even around the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be plundered.
12 Thus saith the LORD: As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus [in] a couch.
13 Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,
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