Misinterpretations often reduce this verse to a general prosperity promise, suggesting faithful obedience ensures enjoying one's possessions, as in prosperity theology, overlooking its specific context as a woe-oracle pronouncing doom on exploiters; others misapply it to condemn all wealth accumulation or modern taxes without grasping the prophetic emphasis on social justice and the consequences of unrepentant oppression leading to exile.
Amos 5:11
King James Version (1769)
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.
Amos 5:11 delivers a divine indictment against Israel's wealthy oppressors who trample the poor and extort burdensome wheat taxes from them, using the proceeds to build lavish houses of hewn stone and plant pleasant vineyards; yet God warns they will neither dwell in those houses nor drink the wine, highlighting the certainty of judgment that will deprive them of their ill-gotten luxuries as punishment for systemic injustice and covenant violation.