(A)In my hearing the Lord of hosts said,
“Truly, many houses shall be desolate,
Great and beautiful ones, without inhabitant.

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38 See! Your house is left to you desolate;

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11 (A)Therefore, because you [a]tread down the poor
And take grain [b]taxes from him,
Though (B)you have built houses of hewn stone,
Yet you shall not dwell in them;
You have planted [c]pleasant vineyards,
But you shall not drink wine from them.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 5:11 trample
  2. Amos 5:11 Or tribute
  3. Amos 5:11 desirable

Surely the Lord God does nothing,
Unless (A)He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.

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14 (A)Then it was revealed in my hearing by the Lord of hosts,
“Surely for this iniquity there (B)will be no atonement for you,
Even to your death,” says the Lord God of hosts.

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But when the king heard about it, he was furious. And he sent out (A)his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.

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11 For behold, (A)the Lord gives a command:
(B)He will break the great house into bits,
And the little house into pieces.

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10 Yet the fortified city will be (A)desolate,
The habitation forsaken and left like a wilderness;
There the calf will feed, and there it will lie down
And consume its branches.

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11 Then I said, “Lord, how long?”

And He answered:

(A)“Until the cities are laid waste and without inhabitant,
The houses are without a man,
The land is utterly desolate,
12 (B)The Lord has removed men far away,
And the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.

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I will lay it (A)waste;
It shall not be pruned or [a]dug,
But there shall come up briers and (B)thorns.
I will also command the clouds
That they rain no rain on it.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 5:6 hoed

21 to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of (A)Jeremiah, until the land (B)had enjoyed her Sabbaths. As long as she lay desolate (C)she kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

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