American Standard Version
"For they know not to do right, saith Jehovah, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces. "
— Amos 3:10, American Standard Version
“For they know not to do right, saith the Lord, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.”
“"Indeed they don't know to do right," says Yahweh, "Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces."”
““They do not know how to do what is right.”(The LORD is speaking.)“They store up the spoils of destructive violence in their fortresses.”
“And they have not known to do the right thing, saith the Lord, storing up iniquity, and robberies in their houses.”
“For 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.”
“For they know not to do right, saith the Lord, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.”
Surely the Lord Jehovah will do nothing, except he reveal his secret unto his servants the prophets.
The lion hath roared; who will not fear? The Lord Jehovah hath spoken; who can but prophesy?
Publish 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.
For they know not to do right, saith Jehovah, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
Therefore 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.
Thus saith Jehovah: As the shepherd rescueth out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so shall the children of Israel be rescued that sit in Samaria in the corner of a couch, and on the silken cushions of a bed.
Hear ye, and testify against the house of Jacob, saith the Lord Jehovah, the God of hosts.