A moment in scripture
Amos 5:11
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.
The surrounding passage
- Amos 5:9
That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
- Amos 5:10
They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
- Amos 5:12
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
- Amos 5:13
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.