10 “On that day,” declares the Lord,
    “a cry will be heard from (A)the Fish Gate,
(B)a wail from (C)the Second Quarter,
    a loud crash from the hills.

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14 Afterward he built an outer wall for the city of David west of (A)Gihon, in the valley, and for the entrance into (B)the Fish Gate, and carried it around (C)Ophel, and raised it to a very great height. He also put commanders of the army in all the fortified cities in Judah.

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(A)The songs of the temple[a] (B)shall become wailings[b] in that day,”
declares the Lord God.
(C)“So many dead bodies!”
“They are thrown everywhere!”
(D)“Silence!”

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 8:3 Or palace
  2. Amos 8:3 Or The singing women of the palace shall wail

14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of (A)Tikvah, son of (B)Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in (C)the Second Quarter), and they talked with her.

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Anguish over Judah's Desolation

19 (A)My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain!
    Oh the walls of my heart!
My heart is beating wildly;
    I cannot keep silent,
for I hear the sound of the trumpet,
    the alarm of war.
20 (B)Crash follows hard on crash;
    the whole land is laid waste.
(C)Suddenly my tents are laid waste,
    my curtains in a moment.
21 How long must I see the standard
    and hear the sound of the trumpet?

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The sons of Hassenaah built (A)the Fish Gate. (B)They laid its beams and (C)set its doors, its bolts, and its bars.

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15 (A)A day of wrath is that day,
    a day of distress and anguish,
a day of (B)ruin and devastation,
    (C)a day of darkness and gloom,
(D)a day of clouds and thick darkness,

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The Day of the Lord Is Near

(A)Be silent before the Lord God!
    For (B)the day of the Lord is near;
(C)the Lord has prepared a sacrifice
    and (D)consecrated his guests.

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In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city.

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31 For I heard (A)a cry as of a woman in labor,
    anguish as of one giving birth to her first child,
the cry of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath,
    (B)stretching out her hands,
“Woe is me! I am fainting before murderers.”

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11 We all growl like bears;
    (A)we moan and moan like doves;
(B)we hope for justice, but there is none;
    for salvation, but it is far from us.

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Therefore I said:
“Look away from me;
    (A)let me weep bitter tears;
do not labor to comfort me
    concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

(B)For the Lord God of hosts has (C)a day
    of tumult and (D)trampling and (E)confusion
    in (F)the valley of vision,
a battering down of walls
    and a shouting to the mountains.

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22 So the Lord saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib king of Assyria and from the hand of all his enemies, and he provided for them on every side.

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Solomon Builds the Temple

(A)Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem (B)on Mount Moriah, where the Lord[a] had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, (C)on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 3:1 Septuagint; Hebrew lacks the Lord

And David lived in the stronghold and called it (A)the city of David. And David built the city all around from the (B)Millo inward.

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Nevertheless, David took the stronghold of Zion, (A)that is, the city of David.

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