Amos 6:8

American King James Version (1999)

The Lord GOD has sworn by himself, said the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.

Cross References

Genesis 22:16

And said, By myself have I sworn, said the LORD, for because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son:

Psalm 106:40

Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, so that he abhorred his own inheritance.

Psalm 47:4

He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

Psalm 50:12

If I were hungry, I would not tell you: for the world is mine, and the fullness thereof.

Psalm 78:59

When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

Proverbs 8:13

The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the fraudulent mouth, do I hate.

Isaiah 28:1

Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!

Jeremiah 12:8

My heritage is to me as a lion in the forest; it cries out against me: therefore have I hated it.

Jeremiah 22:14

That said, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cuts him out windows; and it is paneled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

Jeremiah 22:5

But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself, said the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.

Jeremiah 44:26

Therefore hear you the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, said the LORD, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord GOD lives.

Jeremiah 49:13

For I have sworn by myself, said the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.

Jeremiah 51:14

The LORD of hosts has sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill you with men, as with caterpillars; and they shall lift up a shout against you.

Lamentations 2:5

The LORD was as an enemy: he has swallowed up Israel, he has swallowed up all her palaces: he has destroyed his strong holds, and has increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

Ezekiel 24:21

Speak to the house of Israel, Thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left shall fall by the sword.

Hosea 11:6

And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.

Leviticus 26:11

And I set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.

Leviticus 26:30

And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

Amos 3:10

For they know not to do right, said the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

Amos 3:11

Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; An adversary there shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring down your strength from you, and your palaces shall be spoiled.

Amos 4:2

The Lord GOD has sworn by his holiness, that, see, the days shall come on you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.

Amos 5:21

I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

Amos 8:3

And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, said the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.

Amos 8:7

The LORD has sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.

Zechariah 11:8

Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me.

Deuteronomy 32:19

And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.