14 Therefore the Lord will cut off head and tail from Israel,
Palm branch and bulrush (A)in one day.

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15 Neither will there be any work for Egypt,
Which (A)the head or tail,
Palm branch or bulrush, may do.

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Therefore her plagues will come (A)in one day—death and mourning and famine. And (B)she will be utterly burned with fire, (C)for strong is the Lord God who [a]judges her.

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  1. Revelation 18:8 NU, M has judged

17 (A)For in one hour such great riches [a]came to nothing.’ (B)Every shipmaster, all who travel by ship, sailors, and as many as trade on the sea, stood at a distance

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  1. Revelation 18:17 have been laid waste

10 standing at a distance for fear of her torment, saying, (A)‘Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! (B)For in one hour your judgment has come.’

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“Therefore I will make Samaria (A)a heap of ruins in the field,
Places for planting a vineyard;
I will pour down her stones into the valley,
And I will (B)uncover her foundations.
All her carved images shall be beaten to pieces,
And all her (C)pay as a harlot shall be burned with the fire;
All her idols I will lay desolate,
For she gathered it from the pay of a harlot,
And they shall return to the (D)pay of a harlot.”

Mourning for Israel and Judah

Therefore I will wail and howl,
I will go stripped and naked;
(E)I will make a wailing like the jackals
And a mourning like the ostriches,

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The Destruction of Israel

I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and He said:

“Strike the [a]doorposts, that the thresholds may shake,
And (A)break them on the heads of them all.
I will slay the last of them with the sword.
(B)He who flees from them shall not get away,
And he who escapes from them shall not be delivered.

“Though(C) they dig into [b]hell,
From there My hand shall take them;
(D)Though they climb up to heaven,
From there I will bring them down;
And though they (E)hide themselves on top of Carmel,
From there I will search and take them;
Though they hide from My sight at the bottom of the sea,
From there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them;
Though they go into captivity before their enemies,
From there (F)I will command the sword,
And it shall slay them.
(G)I will set My eyes on them for harm and not for good.”

The Lord God of hosts,
He who touches the earth and it (H)melts,
(I)And all who dwell there mourn;
All of it shall swell like [c]the River,
And subside like the River of Egypt.
He who builds His (J)layers[d] in the sky,
And has founded His strata in the earth;
Who (K)calls for the waters of the sea,
And pours them out on the face of the earth—
(L)The Lord is His name.

Are you not like the [e]people of Ethiopia to Me,
O children of Israel?” says the Lord.
“Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,
The (M)Philistines from (N)Caphtor,[f]
And the Syrians from (O)Kir?

“Behold, (P)the eyes of the Lord God are on the sinful kingdom,
And I (Q)will destroy it from the face of the earth;
Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”
Says the Lord.

“For surely I will command,
And will [g]sift the house of Israel among all nations,
As grain is sifted in a sieve;
(R)Yet not the smallest [h]grain shall fall to the ground.

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  1. Amos 9:1 Capitals of the pillars
  2. Amos 9:2 Or Sheol
  3. Amos 9:5 The Nile
  4. Amos 9:6 Or stairs
  5. Amos 9:7 Lit. sons of the Ethiopians
  6. Amos 9:7 Crete
  7. Amos 9:9 shake
  8. Amos 9:9 Lit. pebble

17 “Therefore(A) thus says the Lord:

(B)‘Your wife shall be a harlot in the city;
Your sons and daughters shall fall by the sword;
Your land shall be divided by survey line;
You shall die in a (C)defiled land;
And Israel shall surely be led away captive
From his own land.’ ”

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And the Lord said to me, “Amos, what do you see?”

And I said, “A plumb line.”

Then the Lord said:

“Behold, (A)I am setting a plumb line
In the midst of My people Israel;
(B)I will not pass by them anymore.
(C)The [a]high places of Isaac shall be desolate,
And the [b]sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste.
(D)I will rise with the sword against the house of Jeroboam.”

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  1. Amos 7:9 Places of pagan worship
  2. Amos 7:9 Or holy places

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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The virgin of Israel has fallen;
She will rise no more.
She lies forsaken on her land;
There is no one to raise her up.

For thus says the Lord God:

“The city that goes out by a thousand
Shall have a hundred left,
And that which goes out by a hundred
Shall have ten left to the house of Israel.”

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12 Thus says the Lord:

“As a shepherd [a]takes from the mouth of a lion
Two legs or a piece of an ear,
So shall the children of Israel be taken out
Who dwell in Samaria—
In the corner of a bed and [b]on the edge of a couch!

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  1. Amos 3:12 Or snatches
  2. Amos 3:12 Heb. uncertain, possibly on the cover

14 (A)Therefore [a]flight shall perish from the swift,
The strong shall not strengthen his power,
(B)Nor shall the mighty [b]deliver himself;
15 He shall not stand who handles the bow,
The swift of foot shall not [c]escape,
Nor shall he who rides a horse deliver himself.
16 The most [d]courageous men of might
Shall flee naked in that day,”
Says the Lord.

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  1. Amos 2:14 Or the place of refuge
  2. Amos 2:14 Lit. save his soul or life
  3. Amos 2:15 Or save
  4. Amos 2:16 Lit. strong of his heart among the mighty

Therefore they shall be like the morning cloud
And like the early dew that passes away,
(A)Like chaff blown off from a threshing floor
And like smoke from a chimney.

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15 Thus it shall be done to you, O Bethel,
Because of your great wickedness.
At dawn the king of Israel
Shall be cut off utterly.

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11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird—
No birth, no pregnancy, and no conception!
12 Though they bring up their children,
Yet I will bereave them to the last man.
Yes, (A)woe to them when I depart from them!
13 Just (B)as I saw Ephraim like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place,
So Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.”

14 Give them, O Lord
What will You give?
Give them (C)a miscarrying womb
And dry breasts!

15 “All their wickedness is in (D)Gilgal,
For there I hated them.
Because of the evil of their deeds
I will drive them from My house;
I will love them no more.
(E)All their princes are rebellious.
16 Ephraim is (F)stricken,
Their root is dried up;
They shall bear no fruit.
Yes, were they to bear children,
I would kill the darlings of their womb.”

17 My God will (G)cast them away,
Because they did not obey Him;
And they shall be (H)wanderers among the nations.

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(A)Israel is swallowed up;
Now they are among the Gentiles
(B)Like a vessel in which is no pleasure.

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12 Therefore I will be to Ephraim like a moth,
And to the house of Judah (A)like rottenness.

13 “When Ephraim saw his sickness,
And Judah saw his (B)wound,
Then Ephraim went (C)to Assyria
And sent to King Jareb;
Yet he cannot cure you,
Nor heal you of your wound.
14 For (D)I will be like a lion to Ephraim,
And like a young lion to the house of Judah.
(E)I, even I, will tear them and go away;
I will take them away, and no one shall rescue.

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Therefore you shall stumble (A)in the day;
The prophet also shall stumble with you in the night;
And I will destroy your mother.

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Then God said:

“Call his name [a]Lo-Ammi,
For you are not My people,
And I will not be your God.

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  1. Hosea 1:9 Lit. Not-My-People

And she conceived again and bore a daughter. Then God said to him:

“Call her name [a]Lo-Ruhamah,
(A)For I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel,
[b]But I will utterly take them away.

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  1. Hosea 1:6 Lit. No-Mercy
  2. Hosea 1:6 Or That I may forgive them at all

Then the Lord said to him:

“Call his name Jezreel,
For in a little while
(A)I will avenge the bloodshed of Jezreel on the house of Jehu,
(B)And bring an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.

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13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you
(A)Like a breach ready to fall,
A bulge in a high wall,
Whose breaking (B)comes suddenly, in an instant.

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(A)The mighty man and the man of war,
The judge and the prophet,
And the diviner and the elder;
The captain of fifty and the [a]honorable man,
The counselor and the skillful artisan,
And the expert enchanter.

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  1. Isaiah 3:3 Eminent looking men

(A)In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria and (B)carried Israel away to Assyria, (C)and placed them in Halah and by the Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

For (D)so it was that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and they had (E)feared other gods, and (F)had walked in the statutes of the nations whom the Lord had cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made. Also the children of Israel secretly did against the Lord their God things that were not right, and they built for themselves [a]high places in all their cities, (G)from watchtower to fortified city. 10 (H)They set up for themselves sacred pillars and (I)wooden images[b] (J)on every high hill and under every green tree. 11 There they burned incense on all the high places, like the nations whom the Lord had carried away before them; and they did wicked things to provoke the Lord to anger, 12 for they served idols, (K)of which the Lord had said to them, (L)“You shall not do this thing.”

13 Yet the Lord testified against Israel and against Judah, by all of His (M)prophets, (N)every seer, saying, (O)“Turn from your evil ways, and keep My commandments and My statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by My servants the prophets.” 14 Nevertheless they would not hear, but (P)stiffened their necks, like the necks of their fathers, who (Q)did not believe in the Lord their God. 15 And they (R)rejected His statutes (S)and His covenant that He had made with their fathers, and His testimonies which He had testified against them; they followed (T)idols, (U)became idolaters, and went after the nations who were all around them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them that they should (V)not do like them. 16 So they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, (W)made for themselves a molded image and two calves, (X)made a wooden image and worshiped all the (Y)host of heaven, (Z)and served Baal. 17 (AA)And they caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, (AB)practiced witchcraft and soothsaying, and (AC)sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger. 18 Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them from His sight; there was none left (AD)but the tribe of Judah alone.

19 Also (AE)Judah did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. 20 And the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel, afflicted them, and (AF)delivered them into the hand of plunderers, until He had cast them from His (AG)sight.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 17:9 Places for pagan worship
  2. 2 Kings 17:10 Heb. Asherim, Canaanite deities

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