Amos 9:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² Though they dig into Sheol, from there shall my hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Though they dig into Sheol (Hades, the dark abode of the gathered dead), from there shall My hand take them; though they climb up to heaven [the abode of light], from there will I bring them down;

American Standard Version (1901)

² Though they dig into Sheol, thence shall my hand take them; and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down.

Common English Bible

² If they dig through into the underworld, from there my hand will take them. If they climb up to the heavens, from there I will bring them down.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² If they descend even to the underworld, from there my hand will draw them out; and if they ascend even to the sky, from there will I pull them down.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² Though they go down even to hell, thence shall my hand bring them out: and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down.

Amos 9:2 Cross References

Job 20:6

Even though they mount up high as the heavens and their head reaches to the clouds,

Job 22:13

Therefore you say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness?

Job 24:23

He gives them security, and they are supported; his eyes are upon their ways.

Job 26:6

Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

Job 34:22

There is no gloom or deep darkness where evildoers may hide themselves.

Isaiah 2:19

Enter the caves of the rocks and the holes of the ground, from the terror of the Lord and from the glory of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.

Jeremiah 49:16

The terror you inspire and the pride of your heart have deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Although you make your nest as high as the eagle’s, from there I will bring you down, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:53

Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify her strong height, from me destroyers would come upon her, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 26:20

then I will thrust you down with those who descend into the Pit, to the people of long ago, and I will make you live in the world below, among primeval ruins, with those who go down to the Pit, so that you will not be inhabited or have a place in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 31:14

All this is in order that no trees by the waters may grow to lofty height or set their tops among the clouds and that no trees that drink water may reach up to them in height. For all of them are handed over to death, to the world below; along with mortals, with those who go down to the Pit.

Obadiah 1:4

Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, from there I will bring you down, says the Lord.

Luke 10:18

He said to them, “I watched Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning.