"For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces."
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Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.
Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.
For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.
For they have no knowledge of how to do what is right, says the Lord, who are storing up violent acts and destruction in their great houses.
and they know not to do right, saith Jehovah, who store up violence and plunder in their palaces.
For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
"Indeed they don't know to do right," says Yahweh, "Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces."
And they have not known to act straightforwardly, An affirmation of Jehovah, Who are treasuring up violence and spoil in their palaces.