16 (A)For before the boy knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you dread will be (B)deserted.

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(A)for before the boy knows how to cry ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the (B)wealth of (C)Damascus and the spoil of (D)Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria.”

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39 And as for (A)your little ones, who you said would become a prey, and your children, who today (B)have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there. And to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.

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11 And should not I pity (A)Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much (B)cattle?”

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Thus says the Lord:

(A)“For three transgressions of (B)Damascus,
    and for four, (C)I will not revoke the punishment,[a]
because they have threshed (D)Gilead
    with threshing sledges of iron.
(E)So I will send a fire upon the house of (F)Hazael,
    and it shall devour the strongholds of (G)Ben-hadad.
I will (H)break the gate-bar of (I)Damascus,
    and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of (J)Aven,[b]
and him who holds the scepter from (K)Beth-eden;
    and the people of (L)Syria shall go into exile to (M)Kir,”
says the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 1:3 Hebrew I will not turn it back; also verses 6, 9, 11, 13
  2. Amos 1:5 Or On

Ephraim shall become a desolation
    in the day of punishment;
among the tribes of Israel
    I make known what is sure.

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An Oracle Concerning Damascus

17 An (A)oracle concerning (B)Damascus.

Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city
    and will become a heap of ruins.
The cities of (C)Aroer are deserted;
    they will be for flocks,
    which will lie down, and (D)none will make them afraid.
The fortress will disappear from (E)Ephraim,
    and the kingdom from (F)Damascus;
and the remnant of Syria will be
    like (G)the glory of the children of Israel,
declares the Lord of hosts.

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11 But the Lord raises the adversaries of Rezin against him,
    and stirs up his enemies.

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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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29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel, (A)Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured (B)Ijon, (C)Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, (D)Kedesh, (E)Hazor, Gilead, and (F)Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried the people captive to Assyria. 30 Then Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah and struck him down and put him to death and reigned in his place, (G)in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.

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