“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.

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14 So I will break down the wall you have plastered with untempered mortar, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation will be uncovered; it will fall, and you shall be consumed in the midst of it. (A)Then you shall know that I am the Lord.

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12 Therefore because of you
Zion shall be (A)plowed like a field,
(B)Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins,
And (C)the mountain of the [a]temple
Like the bare hills of the forest.

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 3:12 Lit. house

The Degradation of Zion

How the gold has become dim!
How changed the fine gold!
The stones of the sanctuary are [a]scattered
At the head of every street.

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  1. Lamentations 4:1 Lit. poured out

25 ‘Did you not hear long ago
How (A)I made it,
From ancient times that I formed it?
Now I have brought it to pass,
That (B)you should be
For crushing fortified cities into heaps of ruins.

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And Jesus said to them, “Do you not see all these things? Assuredly, I say to you, (A)not one stone shall be left here upon another, that shall not be thrown down.”

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13 You went forth for the salvation of Your people,
For salvation with Your Anointed.
You struck the head from the house of the wicked,
By laying bare from foundation to neck. Selah

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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

16 Samaria [a]is held guilty,
For she has (A)rebelled against her God.
They shall fall by the sword,
Their infants shall be dashed in pieces,
And their women with child (B)ripped open.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 13:16 LXX shall be disfigured

37 (A)Babylon shall become a heap,
A dwelling place for jackals,
(B)An astonishment and a hissing,
Without an inhabitant.

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25 “Behold, I am against you, (A)O destroying mountain,
Who destroys all the earth,” says the Lord.
“And I will stretch out My hand against you,
Roll you down from the rocks,
(B)And make you a burnt mountain.

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11 “I will make Jerusalem (A)a heap of ruins, (B)a den of jackals.
I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.”

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12 The (A)fortress of the high fort of your walls
He will bring down, lay low,
And bring to the ground, down to the dust.

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For You have made (A)a city a ruin,
A fortified city a ruin,
A palace of foreigners to be a city no more;
It will never be rebuilt.

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