Old Testament · VERSE 11

Amos 5:11

King James Version

Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

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Amos 5:11 in context

Amos 5:9

That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.

Amos 5:10

They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

Amos 5:11SELECTED VERSE

Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

Amos 5:12

For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

Amos 5:13

Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.

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