Amos 4:2
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2 (A)The Lord God has sworn by His holiness:
“Behold, the days shall come upon you
When He will take you away (B)with fishhooks,
And your posterity with fishhooks.
Jeremiah 16:16
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16 “Behold, I will send for many (A)fishermen,” says the Lord, “and they shall fish them; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
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Psalm 89:35
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35 Once I have sworn (A)by My holiness;
I will not lie to David:
Habakkuk 1:15-16
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15 They take up all of them with a hook,
They catch them in their net,
And gather them in their dragnet.
Therefore they rejoice and are glad.
16 Therefore (A)they sacrifice to their net,
And burn incense to their dragnet;
Because by them their share is [a]sumptuous
And their food plentiful.
Footnotes
- Habakkuk 1:16 Lit. fat
Amos 6:8
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8 (A)The Lord God has sworn by Himself,
The Lord God of hosts says:
“I abhor (B)the pride of Jacob,
And hate his palaces;
Therefore I will deliver up the city
And all that is in it.”
Isaiah 37:29
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29 Because your rage against Me and your tumult
Have come up to My ears,
Therefore (A)I will put My hook in your nose
And My bridle in your lips,
And I will (B)turn you back
By the way which you came.” ’
Ezekiel 39:4-5
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4 (A)You shall [a]fall upon the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the peoples who are with you; (B)I will give you to birds of prey of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured. 5 You shall [b]fall on [c]the open field; for I have spoken,” says the Lord God.
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- Ezekiel 39:4 Be slain
- Ezekiel 39:5 Be slain
- Ezekiel 39:5 Lit. the face of the field
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