Amos 3:10 Meaning and Explanation
“For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.”
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Read Full Chapter →Israel's leaders have lost the very capacity to do right, hoarding in their palaces the plunder of violence and robbery.
What Does Amos 3:10 Mean?
The indictment is devastating: they no longer even know how to do right. So accustomed have they become to injustice that righteousness has grown foreign to them, and their palaces are filled with the spoils of violence and robbery, treasures built on cruelty.
Sin practiced long enough dulls the conscience until wrong feels normal and right feels strange. This is the gravest danger of persistent injustice, that it reshapes the heart until it can no longer recognize itself. The verse is a sober warning about the corrupting power of habit. It calls the reader to guard the conscience while it is still tender, and to remember that the Lord sees what is stored up behind closed doors, and weighs how it was gained.
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What does Amos 3:10 mean?
Israel's leaders have lost the very capacity to do right, hoarding in their palaces the plunder of violence and robbery.