Arise, and let us go by night,
And let us destroy her palaces.”

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13 He burned the house of the Lord and the king’s house; all the houses of Jerusalem, that is, all the houses of the great, he burned with fire.

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14 (A)Because the palaces will be forsaken,
The bustling city will be deserted.
The forts and towers will become lairs forever,
A joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks—

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Desolation of Israel

11 Open (A)your doors, O Lebanon,
That fire may devour your cedars.

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10 For they (A)do not know to do right,’
Says the Lord,
‘Who store up violence and [a]robbery in their palaces.’ ”

11 Therefore thus says the Lord God:

“An adversary shall be all around the land;
He shall sap your strength from you,
And your palaces shall be plundered.”

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 3:10 Or devastation

(A)But I will send a fire upon Judah,
And it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.”

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14 “For(A) Israel has forgotten (B)his Maker,
And has built [a]temples;
Judah also has multiplied (C)fortified cities;
But (D)I will send fire upon his cities,
And it shall devour his [b]palaces.”

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 8:14 Or palaces
  2. Hosea 8:14 Or citadels

27 “But if you will not heed Me to hallow the Sabbath day, such as not carrying a burden when entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then (A)I will kindle a fire in its gates, (B)and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be (C)quenched.” ’ ”

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21 For death has come through our windows,
Has entered our palaces,
To kill off (A)the children—[a]no longer to be outside!
And the young men—[b]no longer on the streets!

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:21 Lit. from outside
  2. Jeremiah 9:21 Lit. from the square

God is in her palaces;
He is known as her refuge.

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19 (A)Then they burned the house of God, broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its precious possessions.

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