10 “I sent plagues(A) among you
    as I did to Egypt.(B)
I killed your young men(C) with the sword,
    along with your captured horses.
I filled your nostrils with the stench(D) of your camps,
    yet you have not returned to me,”(E)
declares the Lord.(F)

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20 “I will drive the northern horde(A) far from you,
    pushing it into a parched and barren land;
its eastern ranks will drown in the Dead Sea
    and its western ranks in the Mediterranean Sea.
And its stench(B) will go up;
    its smell will rise.”

Surely he has done great things!

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Nothing had been left(A) of the army of Jehoahaz except fifty horsemen, ten chariots and ten thousand foot soldiers, for the king of Aram had destroyed the rest and made them like the dust(B) at threshing time.

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25 And I will bring the sword(A) on you to avenge(B) the breaking of the covenant. When you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague(C) among you, and you will be given into enemy hands.

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60 He will bring on you all the diseases of Egypt(A) that you dreaded, and they will cling to you.

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“In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord, “the songs in the temple will turn to wailing.[a](A) Many, many bodies—flung everywhere! Silence!(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 8:3 Or “the temple singers will wail

“I gave you empty stomachs in every city
    and lack of bread in every town,
    yet you have not returned to me,”
declares the Lord.(A)

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15 Moab will be destroyed and her towns invaded;
    her finest young men(A) will go down in the slaughter,(B)
    declares the King,(C) whose name is the Lord Almighty.(D)

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21 So give their children over to famine;(A)
    hand them over to the power of the sword.(B)
Let their wives be made childless and widows;(C)
    let their men be put to death,
    their young men(D) slain by the sword in battle.

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22 therefore this is what the Lord Almighty says: “I will punish them. Their young men(A) will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine.

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So the Lord’s anger(A) burned against Israel, and for a long time he kept them under the power(B) of Hazael king of Aram and Ben-Hadad(C) his son.

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“They will die of deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried(A) but will be like dung lying on the ground.(B) They will perish by sword and famine,(C) and their dead bodies will become food for the birds and the wild animals.”(D)

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“I will send four kinds of destroyers(A) against them,” declares the Lord, “the sword(B) to kill and the dogs(C) to drag away and the birds(D) and the wild animals to devour and destroy.(E)

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22 Say, “This is what the Lord declares:

“‘Dead bodies will lie
    like dung(A) on the open field,
like cut grain behind the reaper,
    with no one to gather them.’”

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“‘At that time, declares the Lord, the bones of the kings and officials of Judah, the bones of the priests and prophets, and the bones(A) of the people of Jerusalem will be removed(B) from their graves. They will be exposed to the sun and the moon and all the stars of the heavens, which they have loved and served(C) and which they have followed and consulted and worshiped.(D) They will not be gathered up or buried,(E) but will be like dung lying on the ground.(F)

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11 But I am full of the wrath(A) of the Lord,
    and I cannot hold it in.(B)

“Pour it out on the children in the street
    and on the young men(C) gathered together;
both husband and wife will be caught in it,
    and the old, those weighed down with years.(D)

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49 He unleashed against them his hot anger,(A)
    his wrath, indignation and hostility—
    a band of destroying angels.(B)
50 He prepared a path for his anger;
    he did not spare them from death
    but gave them over to the plague.

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32 In those days the Lord began to reduce(A) the size of Israel. Hazael(B) overpowered the Israelites throughout their territory

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12 “Why is my lord weeping?” asked Hazael.

“Because I know the harm(A) you will do to the Israelites,” he answered. “You will set fire to their fortified places, kill their young men with the sword, dash(B) their little children(C) to the ground, and rip open(D) their pregnant women.”

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26 Your carcasses will be food for all the birds(A) and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away.(B) 27 The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt(C) and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured.

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22 The Lord will strike you with wasting disease,(A) with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought,(B) with blight(C) and mildew, which will plague(D) you until you perish.(E)

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15 The Lord will keep you free from every disease.(A) He will not inflict on you the horrible diseases you knew in Egypt,(B) but he will inflict them on all who hate you.(C)

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16 then I will do this to you: I will bring on you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever(A) that will destroy your sight and sap your strength.(B) You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.(C)

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26 He said, “If you listen carefully to the Lord your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep(A) all his decrees,(B) I will not bring on you any of the diseases(C) I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, who heals(D) you.”

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