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Amos 3:10

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3:10“They do not know how to do what is right.” (The Lord is speaking.)

“They store up18 the spoils of destructive violence19 in their fortresses.

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Footnotes

  1. 18 Heb “those who.”
  2. 19 Heb “violence and destruction.” The expression “violence and destruction” stand metonymically for the goods the oppressors have accumulated by their unjust actions.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“They do not know how to do right,” declares the Lord,

“those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds.”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“They do not know how to do right,” declares the Lord,

“who store up in their fortresses

what they have plundered and looted.”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

The people are incapable of doing right—

this is the Lord’s declaration—

those who store up violence and destruction

in their citadels.

NLTNew Living Translation

“My people have forgotten how to do right,”

says the Lord.

“Their fortresses are filled with wealth

taken by theft and violence.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

“They do not know how to do right,” declares Yahweh, “those who store up violence and destruction in their citadel fortresses.”

KJV 1900King James Version

For they know not to do right, saith the Lord,

Who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.