Amos 3:10

¹⁰ "They do not know how to do right," declares the Lord, "who store up in their fortresses what they have plundered and looted."

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Other Translations of Amos 3:10

King James Version

¹⁰ For they know not to do right, saith the Lord, who store up violence and robbery robbery: or, spoil in their palaces.

English Standard Version

¹⁰ "They do not know how to do right," declares the Lord, "those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds."

The Message

¹⁰ They can't - or won't - do one thing right." God said so. "They stockpile violence and blight.

New King James Version

¹⁰ For they do not know to do right,' Says the Lord, 'Who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.' "

New Living Translation

¹⁰ "My people have forgotten how to do right," says the Lord . "Their fortresses are filled with wealth taken by theft and violence.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Amos 3:10

Commentary on Amos 3:9-15

(Read Amos 3:9-15)

That power which is an instrument of unrighteousness, will justly be brought down and broken. What is got and kept wrongfully, will not be kept long. Some are at ease, but there will come a day of visitation, and in that day, all they are proud of, and put confidence in, shall fail them. God will inquire into the sins of which they have been guilty in their houses, the robbery they have stored up, and the luxury in which they lived. The pomp and pleasantness of men's houses, do not fortify against God's judgments, but make sufferings the more grievous and vexatious. Yet a remnant, according to the election of grace, will be secured by our great and good Shepherd, as from the jaws of destruction, in the worst times.