11 For behold, the Lord commands,
    and (A)the great house shall be struck down into fragments,
    and the little house into bits.

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15 (A)I will strike (B)the winter house along with (C)the summer house,
    and (D)the houses of ivory shall perish,
and the great houses[a] shall come to an end,”
declares the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 3:15 Or and many houses

11 so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;
    it shall not return to me empty,
but (A)it shall accomplish that which I purpose,
    and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

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(A)And he burned the house of the Lord (B)and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.

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44 (A)and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And (B)they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know (C)the time of your (D)visitation.”

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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.

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14 The Lord has given commandment about you:
    (A)“No more shall your name be perpetuated;
from (B)the house of your gods I will cut off
    the carved image and the metal image.
(C)I will make your grave, (D)for you are vile.”

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“For behold, I will command,
    (A)and shake the house of Israel among all the nations
as one shakes with a sieve,
    but no pebble shall fall to the earth.

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The Destruction of Israel

I saw the Lord standing beside[a] the altar, and he said:

(A)“Strike the capitals until (B)the thresholds (C)shake,
    (D)and shatter them on the heads of all the people;[b]
and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword;
    (E)not one of them shall flee away;
    not one of them shall escape.

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  1. Amos 9:1 Or on
  2. Amos 9:1 Hebrew all of them

(A)The Lord God has sworn by himself, declares the Lord, the God of hosts:

“I abhor (B)the pride of Jacob
    and hate his strongholds,
    (C)and I will deliver up the city and all that is in it.”

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(A)Is a trumpet blown in a city,
    and the people are not afraid?
(B)Does disaster come to a city,
    unless the Lord has done it?

“For the Lord God does nothing
    (C)without revealing his secret
    to his servants the prophets.

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16 [a] Samaria (A)shall bear her guilt,
    because (B)she has rebelled against her God;
they shall fall by the sword;
    (C)their little ones shall be dashed in pieces,
    and their (D)pregnant women ripped open.

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  1. Hosea 13:16 Ch 14:1 in Hebrew

18 (A)“Son of man, (B)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre. Every head was made bald, and every shoulder was rubbed bare, yet neither he nor his army got anything from Tyre to pay for the labor that he had performed against her. 19 Therefore thus says the Lord God: (C)Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; (D)and he shall carry off its wealth[a] (E)and despoil it and plunder it; and it shall be the wages for his army. 20 (F)I have given him the land of Egypt as his payment for which he labored, because they worked for me, declares the Lord God.

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  1. Ezekiel 29:19 Or multitude

10 (A)declaring the end from the beginning
    and from ancient times things not yet done,
saying, (B)‘My counsel shall stand,
    and I will accomplish all my purpose,’
11 (C)calling a bird of prey from the east,
    the man of my counsel from a far country.
(D)I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass;
    I have purposed, and I will do it.

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I myself have commanded my consecrated ones,
    and have summoned my mighty men to execute my anger,
    my proudly exulting ones.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 13:3 Or those who exult in my majesty

Judgment on Arrogant Assyria

Woe to Assyria, (A)the rod of my anger;
    the staff in their hands is my fury!
Against a (B)godless nation I send him,
    and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take (C)spoil and seize plunder,
    and to (D)tread them down like the mire of the streets.

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18 Through sloth the roof sinks in,
    and through indolence the house leaks.

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34 He spoke, and the (A)locusts came,
    young locusts without number,

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31 He spoke, and there came (A)swarms of flies,
    (B)and gnats throughout their country.

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16 When he (A)summoned a famine on the land
    and (B)broke all supply[a] of bread,

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 105:16 Hebrew staff

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