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Amos 4:10

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

I did terrible things to you, just as I did to Egypt— I killed your young men in war; I let your horses be stolen, and I made your camp stink with dead bodies. Even then you rejected me. I, the LORD, have spoken!

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In those days the LORD began to reduce the size of Israel's territory. King Hazael of Syria defeated the Israelites and took control

The LORD was angry with the Israelites, so he let King Hazael of Syria and his son Benhadad rule over them for a long time.

“Sir, why are you crying?” Hazael asked. Elisha answered, “Because I know the terrible things you will do to the people of Israel. You will burn down their walled cities and slaughter their young men. You will even crush the heads of their babies and rip open their pregnant women.”

This time the LORD made the king so stubborn

Moses and Aaron went to the king and told him that the LORD God of the Hebrews had said: How long will you stubbornly refuse to obey? Release my people so they can worship me.

I will make the king stubborn again, and he will try to catch you. Then I will destroy him and his army. People everywhere will praise me for my victory, and the Egyptians will know that I really am the LORD. The Israelites obeyed the LORD and camped where he told them.

Then he said, “I am the LORD your God, and I cure your diseases. If you obey me by doing right and by following my laws and teachings, I won't punish you with the diseases I sent on the Egyptians.”

The magicians told the king, “God has done this.” But, as the LORD had said, the king was too stubborn to listen.

Everything happened just as the LORD had told Moses—he made the king too stubborn to listen to Moses and Aaron.

You are still determined not to let the LORD's people go.

Their dead bodies will be left to rot and stink; their blood will flow down the mountains.

Go ahead and walk in the light of the fires you have lit. But with his own hand, the LORD will punish you and make you suffer.

He sent the Arameans from the east and the Philistines from the west, and they swallowed up Israel. But even this did not stop him from being angry, so he kept on punishing them.

The people of Israel still did not turn back to the LORD All-Powerful and worship him.

The Lord was angry with his people and kept punishing them, because they had turned against him. They were evil and spoke foolishly. That's why he did not have pity on their young people or on their widows and orphans.

But I will punish them. Their young men will die in battle, and their children will starve to death.

I will punish you in four different ways: You will be killed in war and your bodies dragged off by dogs, your flesh will be eaten by birds, and your bones will be chewed on by wild animals.

They will die of horrible diseases and of war and starvation. No one will give them a funeral or bury them, and their bodies will be food for the birds and wild animals. And what's left will lie on the ground like manure.

But now I am asking you to let their children starve or be killed in war. Let women lose their husbands and sons to disease and violence.

But I am the LORD, the all-powerful King, and I promise that enemies will overpower your towns. Even your best warriors will die in the battle.

Soon, even your best soldiers will lie dead in your streets. I, the LORD All-Powerful, have spoken.

I answered, “I know that you look for truth. You punished your people for their lies, but in spite of the pain, they became more stubborn and refused to turn back to you.”

Your anger against Judah flames up inside me, and I can't hold it in much longer. Don't hold back my anger! Let it sweep away everyone— the children at play and all adults, young and old alike.

“The LORD has told us the ground will be covered with dead bodies, like stalks of ungathered grain or like manure.”

But they trusted Egypt instead of returning to me; now Assyria will rule them.

An army attacked from the north, but I will chase it into a scorching desert. There it will rot and stink from the Dead Sea to the Mediterranean.” The LORD works wonders

I will punish you terribly, and you will be ruined. You will be struck with incurable diseases and with fever that leads to blindness and depression. Your enemies will eat the crops you plant,

War will break out because you broke our agreement, and if you escape to your walled cities, I'll punish you with horrible diseases, and you will be captured by your enemies.

I, the LORD, took away the food from every town and village, but still you rejected me.

Instead of singing in the temple, they will cry and weep. Dead bodies will be everywhere. So keep silent! I, the LORD, have spoken!”

I made all your hard work useless by sending mildew, mould, and hail—but you still did not return to me, your LORD.

The LORD will send terrible diseases to attack you, and you will never be well again. You will suffer with burning fever and swelling and pain until you die somewhere in the land that you captured. The LORD will make the sky overhead seem like a bronze roof that keeps out the rain, and the ground under your feet will become as hard as iron. Your crops will be scorched by the hot east wind or ruined by mildew.

like those you were so afraid of in Egypt.

You will no longer suffer with the same horrible diseases that you sometimes had in Egypt. You will be healthy, but the LORD will make your enemies suffer from those diseases.




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