Amos 5:11

Overview - Amos 5
A lamentation for Israel.
An exhortation to repentance.
21 God rejects their hypocritical service.
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Amos 5:11  (King James Version)
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.
 


treading
4:1 Isaiah 5:7 Isaiah 5:8 ; Isaiah 59:13 Isaiah 59:14 Micah 2:2 ; 3:1-3 James 2:6 ; Revelation 11:8-10

ye have built
Deuteronomy 28:30 Deuteronomy 28:38 Deuteronomy 28:39 ; Isaiah 65:21 Isaiah 65:22 ; Micah 6:15 ; Zephaniah 1:13 ; Haggai 1:6

pleasant vineyards
Hebrew vineyards of desire.