And (A)Elam bore the quiver
    with chariots and horsemen,
    and (B)Kir uncovered the shield.

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(A)And the king of Assyria listened to him. The king of Assyria marched up against Damascus (B)and took it, carrying its people captive to (C)Kir, and he killed Rezin.

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A stern vision is told to me;
    (A)the traitor betrays,
    and the destroyer destroys.
Go up, O (B)Elam;
    lay siege, O (C)Media;
all the (D)sighing she has caused
    I bring to an end.

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“Are you not like (A)the Cushites to me,
    O people of Israel?” declares the Lord.
(B)“Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,
    and (C)the Philistines from (D)Caphtor and the Syrians from (E)Kir?

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I will (A)break the gate-bar of (B)Damascus,
    and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of (C)Aven,[a]
and him who holds the scepter from (D)Beth-eden;
    and the people of (E)Syria shall go into exile to (F)Kir,”
says the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 1:5 Or On

35 Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Behold, I will break (A)the bow of (B)Elam, the mainstay of their might. 36 And I will bring upon (C)Elam the four winds from the four quarters of heaven. And I will scatter them to all those winds, and there shall be no nation to which those driven out of (D)Elam shall not come. 37 I will (E)terrify (F)Elam before their enemies and before those who seek their life. I will bring disaster upon them, (G)my fierce anger, declares the Lord. (H)I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them, 38 and I will set my throne in (I)Elam and destroy their king and officials, declares the Lord.

39 “But in the latter days (J)I will restore the fortunes of (K)Elam, declares the Lord.”

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An Oracle Concerning Moab

15 An (A)oracle concerning (B)Moab.

Because (C)Ar of Moab is laid waste in a night,
    Moab is undone;
because (D)Kir of Moab is laid waste in a night,
    Moab is undone.

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22 The (A)sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.

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