17 (A)Therefore thus says the Lord:

“‘Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city,
    and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword,
    and your land (B)shall be divided up with a measuring line;
you yourself shall die in an unclean land,
    and (C)Israel shall surely go into exile away from its land.’”

Read full chapter

17 “Therefore this is what the Lord says:

“‘Your wife will become a prostitute(A) in the city,
    and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword.
Your land will be measured and divided up,
    and you yourself will die in a pagan[a] country.
And Israel will surely go into exile,(B)
    away from their native land.(C)’”

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Amos 7:17 Hebrew an unclean

They shall not remain in (A)the land of the Lord,
    but (B)Ephraim shall return to Egypt,
    and (C)they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.

Read full chapter

They will not remain(A) in the Lord’s land;
    Ephraim will return to Egypt(B)
    and eat unclean food in Assyria.(C)

Read full chapter

The Fall of Israel

In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria (A)captured Samaria, (B)and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria (C)and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of (D)Gozan, and in the cities of (E)the Medes.

Read full chapter

In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria(A) captured Samaria(B) and deported(C) the Israelites to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, in Gozan(D) on the Habor River and in the towns of the Medes.

Read full chapter

13 (A)They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains
    and burn offerings on the hills,
(B)under oak, poplar, and terebinth,
    because their shade is good.
Therefore your daughters play the whore,
    and your brides commit adultery.
14 I will not punish your daughters when they play the whore,
    nor your brides when they commit adultery;
for (C)the men themselves go aside with prostitutes
    and sacrifice with (D)cult prostitutes,
and a people (E)without understanding shall come to ruin.

Read full chapter

13 They sacrifice on the mountaintops
    and burn offerings on the hills,
under oak,(A) poplar and terebinth,
    where the shade is pleasant.(B)
Therefore your daughters turn to prostitution(C)
    and your daughters-in-law to adultery.(D)

14 “I will not punish your daughters
    when they turn to prostitution,
nor your daughters-in-law
    when they commit adultery,
because the men themselves consort with harlots(E)
    and sacrifice with shrine prostitutes(F)
    a people without understanding(G) will come to ruin!(H)

Read full chapter

13 And the Lord said, “Thus shall the people of Israel eat (A)their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.”

Read full chapter

13 The Lord said, “In this way the people of Israel will eat defiled food among the nations where I will drive them.”(A)

Read full chapter

16 Therefore thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, I will remove you from the face of the earth. This year you shall die, (A)because you have uttered rebellion against the Lord.’”

Read full chapter

16 Therefore this is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to remove you from the face of the earth.(A) This very year you are going to die,(B) because you have preached rebellion(C) against the Lord.’”

Read full chapter

11 For thus Amos has said,

“‘Jeroboam shall die by the sword,
    and (A)Israel must go into exile
    away from his land.’”

Read full chapter

11 For this is what Amos is saying:

“‘Jeroboam will die by the sword,
    and Israel will surely go into exile,(A)
    away from their native land.’”(B)

Read full chapter

31 “Send to all the exiles, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord concerning (A)Shemaiah of Nehelam: Because (B)Shemaiah had prophesied to you (C)when I did not send him, and has made you trust in a lie, 32 therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I will punish (D)Shemaiah of Nehelam and his descendants. He shall not have anyone living among this people, (E)and he shall not see the good that I will do to my people, declares the Lord, (F)for he has spoken rebellion against the Lord.’”

Read full chapter

31 “Send this message to all the exiles: ‘This is what the Lord says about Shemaiah(A) the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, even though I did not send(B) him, and has persuaded you to trust in lies, 32 this is what the Lord says: I will surely punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants.(C) He will have no one left among this people, nor will he see the good(D) things I will do for my people, declares the Lord, because he has preached rebellion(E) against me.’”

Read full chapter

21 ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, (A)who are prophesying a lie to you in my name: Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall strike them down before your eyes.

Read full chapter

21 This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says about Ahab son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying lies(A) to you in my name: “I will deliver them into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will put them to death before your very eyes.

Read full chapter

For (A)I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and (B)the city shall be taken (C)and the houses plundered (D)and the women raped. (E)Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

Read full chapter

I will gather all the nations(A) to Jerusalem to fight against it;(B) the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped.(C) Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city.(D)

Read full chapter

11 Women are raped in Zion,
    young women in the towns of Judah.

Read full chapter

11 Women have been violated(A) in Zion,
    and virgins in the towns of Judah.

Read full chapter

27 Now after the king had burned the scroll with the words that Baruch wrote at Jeremiah's dictation, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: 28 “Take another scroll and write on it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned. 29 And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘Thus says the Lord, You have burned this scroll, saying, (A)“Why have you written in it that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will cut off from it man and beast?” 30 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: (B)He shall have none (C)to sit on the throne of David, (D)and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat by day and the frost by night. 31 (E)And I will punish him and his offspring and his servants for their iniquity. I will bring upon them and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem and upon the people of Judah all the disaster that I have pronounced against them, but they would not hear.’”

32 Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to (F)Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who (G)wrote on it at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many similar words were added to them.

Read full chapter

27 After the king burned the scroll containing the words that Baruch had written at Jeremiah’s dictation,(A) the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: 28 “Take another scroll(B) and write on it all the words that were on the first scroll, which Jehoiakim king of Judah burned up. 29 Also tell Jehoiakim king of Judah, ‘This is what the Lord says: You burned that scroll and said, “Why did you write on it that the king of Babylon would certainly come and destroy this land and wipe from it(C) both man and beast?”(D) 30 Therefore this is what the Lord says about Jehoiakim(E) king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on the throne of David; his body will be thrown out(F) and exposed(G) to the heat by day and the frost by night.(H) 31 I will punish him and his children(I) and his attendants for their wickedness; I will bring on them and those living in Jerusalem and the people of Judah every disaster(J) I pronounced against them, because they have not listened.(K)’”

32 So Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah, and as Jeremiah dictated,(L) Baruch wrote(M) on it all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned(N) in the fire. And many similar words were added to them.

Read full chapter

25 “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: You have sent letters in your name to all the people who are in Jerusalem, and to (A)Zephaniah the son of (B)Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,

Read full chapter

25 “This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: You sent letters in your own name to all the people in Jerusalem, to the priest Zephaniah(A) son of Maaseiah, and to all the other priests. You said to Zephaniah,

Read full chapter