As for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.
Amos 3:6 - Revised Standard Version Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does evil befall a city, unless the Lord has done it? Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Shall a trumpet be blown in the city and the people not be alarmed and afraid? Shall misfortune or evil occur [as punishment] and the Lord has not caused it? American Standard Version (1901) Shall the trumpet be blown in a city, and the people not be afraid? shall evil befall a city, and Jehovah hath not done it? Common English Bible If a ram’s horn is blown in a city, won’t people tremble? If disaster falls on a city, is it the LORD who has done it? Catholic Public Domain Version Will the trumpet sound in a city, and the people not become frightened? Will there be disaster in a city, which the Lord has not done? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Shall the trumpet sound in a city, and the people not be afraid? Shall there be evil in a city, which the Lord hath not done? |
As for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.
And while he was still speaking with them, the king came down to him and said, “This trouble is from the Lord! Why should I wait for the Lord any longer?”
I form light and create darkness, I make weal and create woe, I am the Lord, who do all these things.
Who would not fear thee, O King of the nations? For this is thy due; for among all the wise ones of the nations and in all their kingdoms there is none like thee.
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.
Declare in Judah, and proclaim in Jerusalem, and say, “Blow the trumpet through the land; cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble, and let us go into the fortified cities!’
Do you not fear me? says the Lord; Do you not tremble before me? I placed the sand as the bound for the sea, a perpetual barrier which it cannot pass; though the waves toss, they cannot prevail, though they roar, they cannot pass over it.
Flee for safety, O people of Benjamin, from the midst of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise a signal on Beth-haccherem; for evil looms out of the north, and great destruction.
and if he sees the sword coming upon the land and blows the trumpet and warns the people;
Blow the horn in Gibe-ah, the trumpet in Ramah. Sound the alarm at Beth-aven; tremble, O Benjamin!
Does a bird fall in a snare on the earth, when there is no trap for it? Does a snare spring up from the ground, when it has taken nothing?
a day of trumpet blast and battle cry against the fortified cities and against the lofty battlements.
For before those days there was no wage for man or any wage for beast, neither was there any safety from the foe for him who went out or came in; for I set every man against his fellow.
this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.
to do whatever thy hand and thy plan had predestined to take place.
Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men; but what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience.