Amos 3:10

"For they know not to do right, saith Jehovah, who store up robbery and violence in their palaces.

"Know not to do right ..." Butler paraphrased this, "Israel does not even know how to do right."[23] This charge is perhaps the worst of all:

"It speaks of a state of depravity in which the conscience ceases to function properly and the sinner is unable to distinguish between right and wrong ... When people do not do right, the time comes when they cannot do right."[24]

"Store up robbery and violence ..." The most of the commentators interpret this to mean that the gains of those who lived in palaces were stored in their strongholds; but it could very well mean that the people trusting in their wealth were merely storing up plunder for the forthcoming invader. Smith agreed that, "Society was only storing up or postponing the day of violence ... a foreign invasion or internal disruption."[25] However interpreted, it simply means that the day of judgment upon their wickedness is promptly coming.