For thus said the Lord of hosts, after his glory sent me[a] to the nations who plundered you, (A)for he who touches you touches (B)the apple of his eye:

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  1. Zechariah 2:8 Or he sent me after glory

10 “He found him (A)in a desert land,
    and in the howling waste of the wilderness;
he (B)encircled him, he cared for him,
    he (C)kept him as the apple of his eye.

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Keep me as (A)the apple of your eye;
    hide me in (B)the shadow of your wings,

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since indeed God considers it (A)just (B)to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

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21 But (A)all these things they will do to you (B)on account of my name, (C)because they do not know him who sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, (D)they would not have been guilty of sin,[a] but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 (E)Whoever hates me hates my Father also.

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  1. John 15:22 Greek they would not have sin; also verse 24

26 But the (A)Helper, the Holy Spirit, (B)whom the Father will send in my name, (C)he will teach you all things and (D)bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

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40 And (A)the King will answer them, (B)‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these (C)my brothers,[a] you did it to me.’

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  1. Matthew 25:40 Or brothers and sisters

Edom's Violence Against Jacob

10 (A)Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob,
    shame shall cover you,
    (B)and you shall be cut off forever.
11 (C)On the day that you stood aloof,
    (D)on the day that strangers carried off his wealth
and foreigners entered his gates
    (E)and cast lots for Jerusalem,
    you were like one of them.
12 (F)But do not gloat over the day of your brother
    in the day of his misfortune;
(G)do not rejoice over the people of Judah
    in the day of their ruin;
(H)do not boast[a]
    in the day of distress.
13 (I)Do not enter the gate of my people
    in the day of their calamity;
(J)do not gloat over his disaster
    in the day of his calamity;
(K)do not loot his wealth
    in the day of his calamity.
14 (L)Do not stand at the crossroads
    to cut off his fugitives;
do not hand over his survivors
    in the day of distress.

The Day of the Lord Is Near

15 For (M)the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations.
(N)As you have done, it shall be done to you;
    your deeds shall return on your own head.
16 (O)For as you have drunk on (P)my holy mountain,
    so all the nations shall drink continually;
they shall drink and swallow,
    and shall be as though they had never been.

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  1. Obadiah 1:12 Hebrew do not enlarge your mouth

(A)I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And (B)I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land, and (C)have cast lots for my people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it.

“What are you to me, (D)O Tyre and Sidon, and all (E)the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, (F)I will return your payment on your own head swiftly and speedily. For (G)you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples.[a] You have sold (H)the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border. Behold, I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and (I)I will return your payment on your own head. I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the (J)Sabeans, to a nation far away, for the Lord has spoken.”

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  1. Joel 3:5 Or palaces

14 And (A)we have seen and testify that (B)the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of (C)the world.

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In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that (A)God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, (B)not that we have loved God (C)but that he loved us and sent his Son to be (D)the propitiation for our sins.

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(A)“Behold, I send (B)my messenger, and (C)he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord (D)whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and (E)the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.

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(A)Because you have plundered many nations,
    all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you,
(B)for the blood of man and (C)violence to the earth,
    to cities and all who dwell in them.

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10 Then (A)my enemy will see,
    and shame will cover her who (B)said to me,
    “Where is the Lord your God?”
(C)My eyes will look upon her;
    now she will be trampled down
    (D)like the mire of the streets.

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they shall shepherd the land of Assyria with the sword,
    and the land of (A)Nimrod at its entrances;
and he shall deliver us from the Assyrian
    (B)when he comes into our land
    and treads within our border.

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11 Now (A)many nations
    are assembled against you,
saying, “Let her be defiled,
    and (B)let our eyes gaze upon Zion.”

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13 Thus says the Lord:

(A)“For three transgressions of the (B)Ammonites,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because (C)they have ripped open pregnant women in (D)Gilead,
    that they might enlarge their border.

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11 Thus says the Lord:

(A)“For three transgressions of (B)Edom,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
(C)because he pursued his brother with the sword
    (D)and cast off all pity,
(E)and his anger tore perpetually,
    (F)and he kept his wrath forever.

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Thus says the Lord:

(A)“For three transgressions of (B)Tyre,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because they delivered up a whole people to Edom,
    and did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.

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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

Because (A)you cherished perpetual enmity and gave over the people of Israel to the power of the sword (B)at the time of their calamity, (C)at the time of their final punishment,

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(A)“Son of man, because (B)Tyre said concerning Jerusalem, (C)‘Aha, the gate of the peoples is broken; it has swung open to me. I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste,’

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Prophecy Against Philistia

15 “Thus says the Lord God: Because (A)the Philistines (B)acted revengefully and took vengeance (C)with malice of soul to destroy in never-ending enmity,

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Prophecy Against Edom

12 “Thus says the Lord God: Because (A)Edom acted revengefully against the house of Judah and has grievously offended (B)in taking vengeance on them,

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For thus says the Lord God: Because (A)you have clapped your hands (B)and stamped your feet and (C)rejoiced with all the (D)malice within your soul against the land of Israel, therefore, behold, (E)I have stretched out my hand against you, and (F)will hand you over as plunder to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples and will make you perish out of the countries; I will destroy you. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

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