For the (A)vineyard of the Lord of armies is the house of Israel,
And the people of Judah are His delightful plant.
So He waited for justice, but behold, there was (B)bloodshed;
For righteousness, but behold, a cry for help.

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The vineyard(A) of the Lord Almighty
    is the nation of Israel,
and the people of Judah
    are the vines he delighted in.
And he looked for justice,(B) but saw bloodshed;
    for righteousness,(C) but heard cries of distress.(D)

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Then He said to me, “The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is (A)filled with blood, and the city is (B)full of perversion; for (C)they say, ‘The Lord has abandoned the land, and the Lord does not see!’

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He answered me, “The sin of the people of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great; the land is full of bloodshed and the city is full of injustice.(A) They say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land; the Lord does not see.’(B)

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They have (A)treated father and mother with contempt among you. They have oppressed the (B)stranger in your midst; they have oppressed the (C)orphan and the widow among you.

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In you they have treated father and mother with contempt;(A) in you they have oppressed the foreigner(B) and mistreated the fatherless and the widow.(C)

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10 But they (A)do not know how to do what is right,” declares the Lord, “these who (B)store up [a]violence and devastation in their citadels.”

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 3:10 I.e., the plunder from violence

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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