Amos 5:3 - The Scriptures 1998

³ For thus said the Master יהוה, “The city that goes out by a thousand has a hundred left, and that which goes out by a hundred has ten left to the house of Yisra’ĕ

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ For thus says the Lord God: The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth a hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth a hundred shall have ten left, to the house of Israel.

Common English Bible

³ The LORD God proclaims: The city that marched out one thousand people will have one hundred left, and the city that marched out one hundred will have ten left in the house of Israel.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ For thus says the Lord God: In the city from which a thousand departed, a hundred will remain, and in that from which a hundred departed, ten will remain, in the house of Israel.

Amos 5:3 Cross References

Psalm 144:14

Our cattle well-laden; No breaking in, no going out; And no crying in our streets.

Isaiah 1:9

Unless יהוה  of hosts had left to us a small remnant, we would have become like Seḏ

Isaiah 10:22

For though your people, O Yisra’ĕ

Isaiah 6:13

“But still, there is a tenth part in it, and it shall again be for a burning, like a terebinth tree and like an oak, whose stump remains when it is cut down. The set-apart seed is its stump!”

Ezekiel 12:16

“But I shall let a few of their men escape from the sword, from scarcity of food, and from pestilence, so that they recount all their abominations among the gentiles wherever they go. And they shall know that I am יהוה.”

Amos 6:9

And it shall be, that if ten men remain in one house, they shall die.

Romans 9:27

And Yeshayahu cries out on behalf of Yisra’ĕ

Deuteronomy 28:62

“And you shall be left with few men, although you had become as numerous as the stars of the heavens, because you did not obey the voice of יהוה  your Elohim.

Deuteronomy 28:63

“And it shall be, that as יהוה  rejoiced over you to do you good and increase you, so יהוה  does rejoice over you to destroy you and lay you waste. And you shall be plucked from off the land which you go to possess.

Deuteronomy 4:27

“And יהוה  shall scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the gentiles where יהוה  drives you.