Amos 6:11
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11 For the Lord commands,
and he will shatter the great house to bits
and the little house to pieces.(A)
Amos 3:15
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15 I will tear down the winter house as well as the summer house,
and the houses of ivory shall perish,
and the great houses[a] shall come to an end,
says the Lord.(A)
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- 3.15 Or many houses
Isaiah 55:11
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11 so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;
it shall not return to me empty,
but it shall accomplish that which I purpose
and succeed in the thing for which I sent it.(A)
2 Kings 25:9
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9 He burned the house of the Lord, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.(A)
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Luke 19:44
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44 They will crush you to the ground, you and your children within you, and they will not leave within you one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”[a](A)
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- 19.44 Gk lacks from God
Zechariah 14:2
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2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped; half the city shall go into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.(A)
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Nahum 1:14
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14 The Lord has commanded concerning you:
Your name shall be perpetuated no longer;
from the house of your gods I will cut off
the carved image and the cast image.
I will prepare your grave, for you are worthless.(A)
Amos 9:9
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9 For I will command
and shake the house of Israel among all the nations,
as one shakes with a sieve
but no pebble shall fall to the ground.(A)
Amos 9:1
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The Destruction of Israel
9 I saw the Lord standing beside[a] the altar, and he said:
Strike the capitals until the thresholds shake
and shatter them on the heads of all the people,[b]
and those who are left I will kill with the sword;
not one of them shall flee away,
not one of them shall escape.(A)
Amos 6:8
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8 The Lord God has sworn by himself
(says the Lord, the God of hosts):
I abhor the pride of Jacob
and hate his strongholds,
and I will deliver up the city and all that is in it.(A)
Amos 3:6-7
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6 Is a trumpet blown in a city,
and the people are not afraid?
Does disaster befall a city
unless the Lord has done it?(A)
7 Surely the Lord God does nothing
without revealing his secret
to his servants the prophets.(B)
Hosea 13:16
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16 [a]Samaria shall bear her guilt
because she has rebelled against her God;
they shall fall by the sword;
their little ones shall be dashed in pieces,
and their pregnant women ripped open.(A)
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- 13.16 14.1 in Heb
Ezekiel 29:18-20
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18 Mortal, King Nebuchadrezzar 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 expended against it.(A) 19 Therefore thus says the Lord God: I will give the land of Egypt to King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, and he shall carry off its wealth and despoil it and plunder it, and it shall be the wages for his army.(B) 20 I have given him the land of Egypt as his payment for which he labored, because they worked for me, says the Lord God.(C)
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Isaiah 46:10-11
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10 declaring the outcome from the beginning
and from ancient times things not yet done,
saying, “My purpose shall stand,
and I will fulfill my intention,”(A)
11 calling a bird of prey from the east,
the man for my purpose from a far country.
I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass;
I have planned, and I will do it.(B)
Isaiah 13:3
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3 I myself have commanded my consecrated ones,
have summoned my warriors, my proudly exulting ones,
to execute my anger.[a](A)
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- 13.3 Gk: Heb for my anger
Isaiah 10:5-6
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Arrogant Assyria Also Judged
5 Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger—
the club in their hands is my fury!(A)
6 Against a godless nation I send him,
and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take spoil and seize plunder,
and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.(B)
Ecclesiastes 10:18
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18 Through sloth the roof sinks in,
and through indolence the house leaks.(A)
Psalm 105:34
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34 He spoke, and the locusts came,
and young locusts without number;(A)
Psalm 105:31
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31 He spoke, and there came swarms of flies
and gnats throughout their country.(A)
Psalm 105:16
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- 105.16 Heb staff of bread
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