10 “They do not know how to do right,” declares the Lord,
    (A)“those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds.”

Read full chapter

On that day I will punish
    everyone (A)who leaps over the threshold,
and those who fill their master's[a] house
    with violence and fraud.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 1:9 Or their Lord's

22 “For (A)my people are foolish;
    they know me not;
they are stupid children;
    they have no understanding.
(B)They are ‘wise’—in doing evil!
    But how to do good they know not.”

Read full chapter

Then he said to me, “This is (A)the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land. For everyone who (B)steals shall be cleaned out according to what is on one side, and everyone who (C)swears falsely[a] shall be cleaned out according to what is on the other side. I will send it out, declares the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief, and the house of (D)him who swears falsely by my name. And (E)it shall remain in his house and (F)consume it, both timber and stones.”

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 5:3 Hebrew lacks falsely (supplied from verse 4)

Have they no (A)knowledge, all the evildoers
    who (B)eat up my people as they eat bread
    and (C)do not call upon the Lord?

Read full chapter

For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth (A)was formed out of water and through water (B)by the word of God,

Read full chapter

Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. (A)You have laid up treasure (B)in the last days. Behold, (C)the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and (D)the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of (E)the Lord of hosts.

Read full chapter

(A)Because you have plundered many nations,
    all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you,
(B)for the blood of man and (C)violence to the earth,
    to cities and all who dwell in them.

(D)“Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house,
    (E)to (F)set his nest on high,
    to be safe from the reach of harm!
10 You have devised shame for your house
    (G)by cutting off many peoples;
    you have forfeited your life.
11 For (H)the stone will cry out from the wall,
    and the beam from the woodwork respond.

Read full chapter

12 Do horses run on rocks?
    Does one plow there[a] with oxen?
(A)But you have turned justice into (B)poison
    (C)and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood[b]

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Amos 6:12 Or the sea
  2. Amos 6:12 Or into bitter fruit

O (A)you who turn justice to wormwood[a]
    and cast down righteousness to the earth!

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Amos 5:7 Or to bitter fruit

Then I said, “These are only the poor;
    they have no sense;
(A)for they do not know the way of the Lord,
    the justice of their God.

Read full chapter

Bible Gateway Recommends

ESV Student Study Bible, Trutone, Green with Mosaic Cross Design
ESV Student Study Bible, Trutone, Green with Mosaic Cross Design
Retail: $44.99
Our Price: $19.99
Save: $25.00 (56%)
4.5 of 5.0 stars
ESV Spiral-Bound Journaling New Testament, hardcover
ESV Spiral-Bound Journaling New Testament, hardcover
Retail: $34.99
Our Price: $22.49
Save: $12.50 (36%)
5.0 of 5.0 stars
ESV Economy Bible, Giant Print Softcover
ESV Economy Bible, Giant Print Softcover
Retail: $11.99
Our Price: $7.49
Save: $4.50 (38%)
5.0 of 5.0 stars
ESV Student Study Bible, Trutone, Turquoise
ESV Student Study Bible, Trutone, Turquoise
Retail: $44.99
Our Price: $19.29
Save: $25.70 (57%)
4.5 of 5.0 stars
ESV Student Study Bible, Hardcover, Gray
ESV Student Study Bible, Hardcover, Gray
Retail: $34.99
Our Price: $17.99
Save: $17.00 (49%)
4.5 of 5.0 stars