Amos 4:2

New International Version

²The Sovereign Lord has sworn by his holiness:
“The time^(A) will surely come
when you will be taken away^(B) with hooks,^(C)
the last of you with fishhooks.^[a]

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Footnotes

Amos 4:2 Or away in baskets, / the last of you in fish baskets

Amos 4:2 in all English translations

Jeremiah 16:16

New International Version

¹⁶“But now I will send for many fishermen,” declares the Lord, “and they will catch them.^(A) After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt^(B) them down on every mountain and hill and from the crevices of the rocks.^(C)

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Habakkuk 1:15-16

New International Version

¹⁵The wicked^(A) foe pulls all of them up with hooks,^(B)
    he catches them in his net,^(C)
he gathers them up in his dragnet;
    and so he rejoices and is glad.
¹⁶Therefore he sacrifices to his net
    and burns incense^(D) to his dragnet,
for by his net he lives in luxury
    and enjoys the choicest food.

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Psalm 89:35

New International Version

³⁵Once for all, I have sworn by my holiness—
and I will not lie to David—

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Psalm 89:35 in all English translations

Amos 6:8

New International Version

The Lord Abhors the Pride of Israel

⁸The Sovereign Lord has sworn by himself^(A)—the Lord God Almighty declares:

“I abhor^(B) the pride of Jacob^(C)
and detest his fortresses;^(D)
I will deliver up^(E) the city
and everything in it.^(F)”

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Amos 6:8 in all English translations

Isaiah 37:29

New International Version

²⁹Because you rage against me
    and because your insolence^(A) has reached my ears,
I will put my hook^(B) in your nose^(C)
    and my bit in your mouth,
and I will make you return
    by the way you came.^(D)

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Ezekiel 39:4-5

New International Version

⁴On the mountains of Israel you will fall, you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to all kinds of carrion birds^(A) and to the wild animals.^(B) ⁵You will fall in the open field, for I have spoken, declares the Sovereign Lord.^(C)

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