For the (A)vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel
And the men of Judah His delightful plant.
Thus He looked for justice, but behold, (B)bloodshed;
For righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.

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Then He said to me, “The iniquity 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 forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see!’

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They have (A)treated father and mother lightly within you. The (B)alien they have oppressed in your midst; the (C)fatherless and the widow they have wronged in you.

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

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 3:10 I.e. the booty from violence