Amos 2:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ I will cut off the ruler from its midst and will kill all its officials with him, says the Lord.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ and I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ And I will cut off the ruler from its midst and will slay all its princes with him, says the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ and I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith Jehovah.

Common English Bible

³ I will remove their judge from them and slay all their officials with him, says the LORD.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And I will destroy the judge in their midst, and I will execute all his leaders with him, says the Lord.

Amos 2:3 Cross References

Jeremiah 48:7

Surely, because you trusted in your strongholds and your treasures, you also shall be taken; Chemosh shall go out into exile, with his priests and his attendants.

Numbers 24:17

I see him but not now; I behold him but not near— a star shall come out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel; it shall crush the foreheads of Moab and the heads of all the Shethites.

Jeremiah 48:25

The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, says the Lord.

Isaiah 40:23

who brings princes to naught and makes the rulers of the earth as nothing.

Psalm 2:10

Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth.

Job 12:21

He pours contempt on princes and looses the belt of the strong.

Psalm 141:6

When they are given over to those who shall condemn them, then they shall learn that my words were pleasant.

Amos 5:7

Ah, you who turn justice to wormwood and bring righteousness to the ground!

Amos 5:12

For I know how many are your transgressions and how great are your sins— you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe and push aside the needy in the gate.

Amos 6:12

Do horses run on rocky crags? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,