Amos 3:11

"“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says the LORD, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”"

Key Reflection

This verse highlights God's condemnation of those who amass wealth unrighteously while ignoring justice. It suggests that such practices are not just economically corrupt but spiritually vacant, as they demonstrate a fundamental lack of understanding and commitment to doing what is right in God’s eyes.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Therefore thus saith the Lord God -There was no human redress. The oppressor was mighty, but mightier the Avenger of the poor. Man would not help; therefore God would. “An adversary” there shall be, “even round about the land;” literally, “An enemy, and around the land!” The prophets speaks, as seeing him. The abruptness tells how suddenly that enemy should come, and hem in the whole land on all sides. What an unity in their destruction! He sees one “enemy, and” him everywhere, all “around,” encircling, encompassing, as with a net, their whole land, narrowing in, as he advanced, until it closed around and upon them. The corruption was universal, so should be the requital.

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