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10 “They do not know how to do what is right,” the Lord says.

“They store up[a] the spoils of destructive violence[b] in their fortresses.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 3:10 tn Heb “those who.”
  2. Amos 3:10 tn Heb “violence and destruction.” The expression “violence and destruction” stand metonymically for the goods the oppressors have accumulated by their unjust actions.

10 “They do not know how to do right,(A)” declares the Lord,
    “who store up in their fortresses(B)
    what they have plundered(C) and looted.”

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