10 “I sent among you a pestilence (A)after the manner of Egypt;
    I killed your young men with the sword,
and (B)carried away your horses,[a]
    and (C)I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils;
(D)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 4:10 Hebrew along with the captivity of your horses

20 “I will remove the northerner far from you,
    and drive him into a parched and desolate land,
his vanguard[a] into (A)the eastern sea,
    and his rear guard[b] into (B)the western sea;
(C)the stench and foul smell of him will rise,
    for he has done great things.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 2:20 Hebrew face
  2. Joel 2:20 Hebrew his end

For there was not left to Jehoahaz an army of more than fifty horsemen and ten chariots and ten thousand footmen, for the king of Syria had destroyed them and made them like the dust (A)at threshing.

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25 And (A)I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, (B)I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

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60 And he will bring upon you again all (A)the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you.

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(A)The songs of the temple[a] (B)shall become wailings[b] in that day,”
declares the Lord God.
(C)“So many dead bodies!”
“They are thrown everywhere!”
(D)“Silence!”

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 8:3 Or palace
  2. Amos 8:3 Or The singing women of the palace shall wail

Israel Has Not Returned to the Lord

“I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,
    and (A)lack of bread in all your places,
(B)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

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15 The destroyer of (A)Moab and his cities has come up,
    and the choicest of his young men have (B)gone down to slaughter,
    declares (C)the King, (D)whose name is the Lord of hosts.

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21 Therefore (A)deliver up their children to famine;
    give them over to the power of the sword;
let their wives become childless (B)and widowed.
    May their men meet death by pestilence,
    their youths be struck down by the sword in battle.

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22 therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: “Behold, I will punish them. The young men shall die by the sword, their sons and their daughters shall die by famine,

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(A)And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he gave them continually into the hand of (B)Hazael king of Syria and into the hand of (C)Ben-hadad the son of Hazael.

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(A)They shall die of deadly diseases. (B)They shall not be lamented, nor shall they be buried. (C)They shall be as dung on the surface of the ground. (D)They shall perish by the sword and by famine, (E)and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth.

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(A)I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the Lord: the sword to kill, the dogs to tear, and (B)the birds of the air (C)and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.

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