Amos 5:11
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.
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.
Note pleasant…: Heb. vineyards of desire
Therefore, because 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.
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.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- treading
- Amos 4:1; Isaiah 5:7, 8; Isaiah 59:13, 14; Micah 2:2; Micah 3:1–3; James 2:6; Revelation 11:8–10
- ye have built
- Deuteronomy 28:30, 38, 39; Isaiah 65:21, 22; Micah 6:15; Zephaniah 1:13; Haggai 1:6