Amos 1:11-13

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Judgment on Edom

¹¹^(A) The Lord said:

I will punish Edom
for countless crimes,
    and I won't change my mind.
They killed their own relatives^[a]
and were so terribly furious
    that they showed no mercy.
¹²Now I will send fire to wipe out
the fortresses of Teman
    and Bozrah.^[b]

Judgment on Ammon

¹³^(B) The Lord said:

I will punish Ammon
for countless crimes,
and I won't change my mind.
In Gilead they ripped open
pregnant women,
just to take the land.

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Footnotes

1.11 their own relatives: The Edomites were descendants of Esau, the brother of Jacob, the ancestor of the Israelites.
1.12 Teman and Bozrah: These stand for all of Edom; Teman may have been a city or a district. Bozrah, the chief city of northern Edom, was 48 kilometers southeast of the Dead Sea.