Isaiah 9:14
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14 So the Lord cut off from Israel (A)head and tail,
palm branch and reed in one day—
Isaiah 19:15
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15 And there will be nothing for Egypt
that (A)head or tail, palm branch or reed, may do.
Revelation 18:8
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8 For this reason her plagues will come (A)in a single day,
death and mourning and famine,
and (B)she will be burned up with fire;
for (C)mighty is the Lord God who has judged her.”
Revelation 18:17
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And (C)all shipmasters and seafaring men, sailors and all whose trade is on the sea, stood far off
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Revelation 18:10
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10 (A)They will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say,
“Alas! Alas! (B)You great city,
you mighty city, Babylon!
For (C)in a single hour your judgment has come.”
Micah 1:6-8
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6 Therefore I will make (A)Samaria (B)a heap in the open country,
a place for planting vineyards,
and I will pour down her stones (C)into the valley
and (D)uncover her foundations.
7 All (E)her carved images shall be beaten to pieces,
(F)all her wages shall be burned with fire,
and all her idols I will lay waste,
for from (G)the fee of a prostitute she gathered them,
and to the fee of a prostitute they shall return.
8 (H)For this I will lament and wail;
I will go (I)stripped and naked;
I will make lamentation (J)like the jackals,
and mourning (K)like the ostriches.
Amos 9:1-9
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The Destruction of Israel
9 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.
2 (F)“If they dig into Sheol,
from there shall my hand take them;
(G)if they climb up to heaven,
from there I will bring them down.
3 If they hide themselves on (H)the top of Carmel,
from there I will search them out and take them;
(I)and if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea,
there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
4 (J)And if they go into captivity before their enemies,
there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them;
(K)and I will fix my eyes upon them
for evil and not for good.”
5 The Lord God of hosts,
he who touches the earth and (L)it melts,
and all who dwell in it mourn,
(M)and all of it rises like the Nile,
(N)and sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt;
6 (O)who builds his upper chambers in the heavens
and founds his vault upon the earth;
(P)who calls for the waters of the sea
and pours them out upon the surface of the earth—
(Q)the Lord is his name.
7 “Are you not like (R)the Cushites to me,
O people of Israel?” declares the Lord.
(S)“Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,
and (T)the Philistines from (U)Caphtor and the Syrians from (V)Kir?
8 Behold, (W)the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom,
and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground,
(X)except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”
declares the Lord.
9 “For behold, I will command,
(Y)and shake the house of Israel among all the nations
as one shakes with a sieve,
but no pebble shall fall to the earth.
Amos 7:17
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17 (A)Therefore thus says the Lord:
“‘Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city,
and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword,
and your land (B)shall be divided up with a measuring line;
you yourself shall die in an unclean land,
and (C)Israel shall surely go into exile away from its land.’”
Amos 7:8-9
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8 And the Lord said to me, (A)“Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said,
“Behold, I am setting (B)a plumb line
in the midst of my people Israel;
(C)I will never again pass by them;
9 (D)the high places of Isaac shall be made desolate,
and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste,
and I will rise against (E)the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”
Amos 6:11
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11 For behold, the Lord commands,
and (A)the great house shall be struck down into fragments,
and the little house into bits.
Amos 5:2-3
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2 “Fallen, no more to rise,
is (A)the virgin Israel;
forsaken on her land,
with none to raise her up.”
3 For thus says the Lord God:
“The city that went out a thousand
shall have a hundred left,
and that which went out a hundred
shall have ten left
to the house of Israel.”
Amos 3:12
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12 Thus says the Lord: (A)“As the shepherd rescues from the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, (B)so shall the people of Israel (C)who dwell in Samaria be rescued, with the corner of a couch and part[a] of a bed.
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- Amos 3:12 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
Amos 2:14-16
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14 (A)Flight shall perish from the swift,
(B)and the strong shall not retain his strength,
(C)nor shall the mighty save his life;
15 he who handles the bow shall not stand,
and he who is (D)swift of foot shall not save himself,
(E)nor shall he who rides the horse save his life;
16 and he who is stout of heart among the mighty
shall flee away naked in that day,”
declares the Lord.
Hosea 13:3
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3 Therefore they shall be (A)like the morning mist
or (B)like the dew that goes early away,
(C)like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor
or (D)like smoke from a window.
Hosea 10:15
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15 Thus it shall be done to you, O (A)Bethel,
because of your great evil.
At dawn (B)the king of Israel
shall be utterly cut off.
Hosea 9:11-17
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11 Ephraim's (A)glory shall fly away like a bird—
(B)no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
12 (C)Even if they bring up children,
I will bereave them till none is left.
(D)Woe to them
when (E)I depart from them!
13 Ephraim, (F)as I have seen, was like a young palm[a] planted in a meadow;
but (G)Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter.[b]
14 Give them, O Lord—
what will you give?
Give them (H)a miscarrying womb
and dry breasts.
15 Every evil of theirs is in (I)Gilgal;
there I began to hate them.
Because of the wickedness of their deeds
I will drive them out of my house.
I will love them no more;
all (J)their princes are (K)rebels.
16 Ephraim is stricken;
(L)their root is dried up;
they shall bear no fruit.
Even (M)though they give birth,
(N)I will put their beloved children to death.
17 (O)My God will reject them
because they have not listened to him;
(P)they shall be wanderers among the nations.
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- Hosea 9:13 Or like Tyre
- Hosea 9:13 Hebrew to him who slaughters
Hosea 8:8
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Hosea 5:12-14
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13 When Ephraim saw his sickness,
and Judah (C)his wound,
then Ephraim went (D)to Assyria,
and sent to the great king.[a]
(E)But he is not able to cure you
or heal (F)your wound.
14 For I will be (G)like a lion to (H)Ephraim,
and like a young lion to the house of (I)Judah.
(J)I, even I, will tear and go away;
I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.
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- Hosea 5:13 Or to King Jareb
Hosea 4:5
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5 You shall stumble by day;
the prophet also shall stumble with you by night;
and I will destroy (A)your mother.
Hosea 1:9
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9 And the Lord said, (A)“Call his name Not My People,[a] for (B)you are not my people, and I am not your God.”[b]
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Hosea 1:6
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6 She conceived again and bore a daughter. And the Lord said to him, (A)“Call her name No Mercy,[a] for (B)I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all.
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- Hosea 1:6 Hebrew Lo-ruhama, which means she has not received mercy
Hosea 1:4
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4 And the Lord said to him, “Call his name Jezreel, for in just a little while (A)I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and (B)I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.
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Isaiah 30:13
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13 therefore this iniquity shall be to you
(A)like a breach in a high wall, bulging out and about to collapse,
whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant;
Isaiah 3:2-3
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2 (A)the mighty man and the soldier,
the judge and the prophet,
the diviner and the elder,
3 the captain of fifty
and the man of rank,
the counselor and the skillful magician
and the expert in charms.
2 Kings 17:6-20
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The Fall of Israel
6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria (A)captured Samaria, (B)and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria (C)and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of (D)Gozan, and in the cities of (E)the Medes.
Exile Because of Idolatry
7 And this occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, (F)who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods 8 (G)and walked in the customs of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel, (H)and in the customs that the kings of Israel had practiced. 9 And the people of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things that were not right. They built for themselves high places in all their towns, (I)from watchtower to fortified city. 10 They set up for themselves (J)pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree, 11 and there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the Lord carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the Lord to anger, 12 and they served idols, (K)of which the Lord had said to them, “You shall not do this.” 13 Yet the Lord (L)warned Israel and Judah (M)by every prophet (N)and every seer, saying, (O)“Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the Law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”
14 But they would not listen, (P)but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God. 15 They despised his statutes (Q)and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after (R)false idols (S)and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the (T)Lord had commanded them that they should not do like them. 16 And they abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made for themselves metal images of (U)two calves; and they (V)made an Asherah and (W)worshiped all the host of heaven and served (X)Baal. 17 (Y)And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings[a] and used (Z)divination and (AA)omens and (AB)sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. 18 Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but (AC)the tribe of Judah only.
19 (AD)Judah also did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the customs that Israel had introduced. 20 And the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them (AE)and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
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- 2 Kings 17:17 Or made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire
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