Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Therefore because you robbed the poor, and took the choice prey from him: you shall build houses with square stone, and shall not dwell in them: you shall plant most delightful vineyards, and shall not drink the wine of them. treading. Amos 4:1 Hear this word, ye fat kine that are in the mountains of Samaria: you that oppress the needy, and crush the poor: that say to your masters: Bring, and we will drink. Isaiah 5:7,8 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel: and the man of Juda, his pleasant plant: and I looked that he should do judgment, and behold iniquity: and do justice, and behold a cry. . . . Isaiah 59:13,14 In sinning and lying against the Lord: and we have turned away so that we went not after our God, but spoke calumny and transgression: we have conceived, and uttered from the heart, words of falsehood. . . . Micah 2:2 Woe to you that devise that which is unprofitable, and work evil in your beds: in the morning light they execute it, because their hand is against God. Micah 3:1-3 For he shall go up that shall open the way before them: they shall divide and pass through the gate, and shall come in by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the Lord at the head of them. . . . James 2:6 But you have dishonoured the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you by might? And do not they draw you before the judgment seats? Revelation 11:8-10 And their bodies shall lie in the streets of the great city which is called spiritually, Sodom and Egypt: where their Lord also was crucified. . . . ye have built. Deuteronomy 28:30,38,39 Mayst thou take a wife, and another sleep with her. Mayst thou build a house, and not dwell therein. Mayest thou plant a vineyard and not gather the vintage thereof. . . . Isaiah 65:21,22 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruits of them. . . . Micah 6:15 Thou shalt sow, but shalt not reap: thou shalt tread the olives, but shalt not be anointed with oil: and the new wine, but shalt not drink the wine. Zephaniah 1:13 And their strength shall become a booty, and their houses as a desert: and they shall build houses, and shall not dwell in them: and they shall plant vineyards, and shall not drink the wine of them. Haggai 1:6 You have sowed much, and brought in little: you have eaten, but have not had enough: you have drunk, but have not been filled with drink: you have clothed yourselves, but have not been warmed: and he that hath earned wages, put them into a bag with holes. pleasant vineyards. Context A Call to Repentance…10They have hated him that rebuketh in the gate: and have abhorred him that speaketh perfectly. 11Therefore because you robbed the poor, and took the choice prey from him: you shall build houses with square stone, and shall not dwell in them: you shall plant most delightful vineyards, and shall not drink the wine of them.12Because I know your manifold crimes, and your grievous sins: enemies of the just, taking bribes, and oppressing the poor in the gate.… Cross References Deuteronomy 28:30 Mayst thou take a wife, and another sleep with her. Mayst thou build a house, and not dwell therein. Mayest thou plant a vineyard and not gather the vintage thereof. Isaiah 16:10 And gladness and joy shall be taken away from Carmel, and there shall be no rejoicing nor shouting in the vineyards. He shall not tread out wine in the press that was wont to tread it out: the voice of the treaders I have taken away. Ezekiel 26:12 They shall waste thy riches, they shall make a spoil of thy merchandise: and they shall destroy thy walls, and pull down thy fine houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber, and thy dust in the midst of the waters. Amos 2:6 Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath sold the just man for silver, and the poor man for a pair of shoes. Amos 3:9 Publish it in the houses of Azotus, and in the houses of the land of Egypt, and say: Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the many follies in the midst thereof, and them that suffer oppression in the inner rooms thereof. Amos 3:15 And I will strike the winter house with the summer house: and the houses of ivory shall perish, and many houses shall be destroyed, saith the Lord. Amos 4:1 Hear this word, ye fat kine that are in the mountains of Samaria: you that oppress the needy, and crush the poor: that say to your masters: Bring, and we will drink. Amos 6:11 And he shall answer: There is an end. And he shall say to him: Hold thy peace, and mention not the name of the Lord. Amos 6:12 For behold the Lord hath commanded, and he will strike the greater house with breaches, and the lesser house with clefts. Amos 8:4 And the hinges of the temple shall screak in that day, saith the Lord God: many shall die: silence shall be cast in every place. Micah 1:6 For the wickedness of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the wickedness of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Juda? are they not Jerusalem? Micah 6:15 Thou shalt sow, but shalt not reap: thou shalt tread the olives, but shalt not be anointed with oil: and the new wine, but shalt not drink the wine. Zephaniah 1:13 And their strength shall become a booty, and their houses as a desert: and they shall build houses, and shall not dwell in them: and they shall plant vineyards, and shall not drink the wine of them. Malachi 1:4 But if Edom shall say: We are destroyed, but we will return and build up what hath been destroyed: thus saith the Lord of hosts: They shall build up, and I will throw down: and they shall be called the borders of wickedness, and the people with whom the Lord is angry for ever. Lexicon Therefore,לָ֠כֵן (lā·ḵên) Adverb Strong's Hebrew 3651: So -- thus because יַ֣עַן (ya·‘an) Adverb Strong's Hebrew 3282: Heed, purpose, to indicate the reason, cause you trample בּוֹשַׁסְכֶ֞ם (bō·wō·šas·ḵem) Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct | second person masculine plural Strong's Hebrew 1318: To trample down on עַל־ (‘al-) Preposition Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against the poor דָּ֗ל (dāl) Adjective - masculine singular construct Strong's Hebrew 1800: Dangling, weak, thin and exact תִּקְח֣וּ (tiq·ḥū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural Strong's Hebrew 3947: To take from him מִמֶּ֔נּוּ (mim·men·nū) Preposition | third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 4480: A part of, from, out of a tax וּמַשְׂאַת־ (ū·maś·’aṯ-) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct Strong's Hebrew 4864: A raising, rising, an utterance, a beacon, a present of grain, בַּר֙ (bar) Noun - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 1250: Grain, the open country you will never וְלֹא־ (wə·lō-) Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no live תֵ֣שְׁבוּ (ṯê·šə·ḇū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural Strong's Hebrew 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry in the stone houses בָּתֵּ֥י (bāt·tê) Noun - masculine plural construct Strong's Hebrew 1004: A house you have built; בְּנִיתֶ֖ם (bə·nî·ṯem) Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine plural Strong's Hebrew 1129: To build you will never וְלֹ֥א (wə·lō) Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no drink תִשְׁתּ֖וּ (ṯiš·tū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural Strong's Hebrew 8354: To imbibe the wine יֵינָֽם׃ (yê·nām) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural Strong's Hebrew 3196: Wine, intoxication from the lush חֶ֣מֶד (ḥe·meḏ) Noun - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 2531: Desire, delight vineyards כַּרְמֵי־ (kar·mê-) Noun - masculine plural construct Strong's Hebrew 3754: A garden, vineyard you have planted. נְטַעְתֶּ֔ם (nə·ṭa‘·tem) Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine plural Strong's Hebrew 5193: To strike in, fix, to plant Additional Translations Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.For as much therefore as your treading is on the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them. Forasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions from him of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof. Therefore because they have smitten the poor with their fists, and ye have received of them choice gifts; ye have built polished houses, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted desirable vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine of them. Forasmuch, therefore, as ye trample upon the poor, and take from him presents of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, and ye shall not drink the wine of them. Forasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions from him of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof. Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them. Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine. Therefore, because of your trampling on the poor, And the tribute of corn ye take from him, Houses of hewn work ye have built, And ye do not dwell in them, Desirable vineyards ye have planted, And ye do not drink their wine. Jump to Previous Built Burdens Cut Drink Dwell Exact Exactions Forasmuch Grain Heavy Hewn Houses Impose Live Planted Pleasant Poor Rent Stone Taxes Thereof Trample Treading Tribute Vineyards Wheat WineJump to Next Built Burdens Cut Drink Dwell Exact Exactions Forasmuch Grain Heavy Hewn Houses Impose Live Planted Pleasant Poor Rent Stone Taxes Thereof Trample Treading Tribute Vineyards Wheat WineExternal Links Amos 5:11 NIVAmos 5:11 NLT Amos 5:11 ESV Amos 5:11 NASB Amos 5:11 ASV Amos 5:11 Bible Apps Amos 5:11 Biblia Paralela Amos 5:11 Chinese Bible Amos 5:11 French Bible Amos 5:11 German Bible Alphabetical: a and because built drink exact force from give grain have heavy him houses impose in live lush mansions not of on planted pleasant poor rent stone the their them Therefore though to trample tribute vineyards well-hewn will wine Yet You OT Prophets: Amos 5:11 Forasmuch therefore as you trample (Amo. Am) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools |
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