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Amos 1:11

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The Lord says: I will not relent from punishing Edom for three crimes, even four, because he pursued his brother with the sword. He stifled his compassion, his anger tore at him   continually, and he harboured his rage incessantly.

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The Edomites came again, attacked Judah, and took captives.


Though Edom says, ‘We have been devastated, but we will rebuild  the ruins,’ the Lord of Armies says this: ‘They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called a wicked country  and the people the Lord has cursed  for ever.


Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah in whose land they shed innocent blood.


Who is a God like you, forgiving iniquity and passing over rebellion for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not hold on to his anger for ever because he delights in faithful love.


Don’t let your spirit rush to be angry, for anger abides in the heart of fools.


Do not despise an Edomite, because he is your brother. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you were a resident foreigner in his land.


Therefore, be imitators of God, as dearly loved children,


‘I have loved you,’  says the Lord. Yet you ask, ‘How have you loved us? ’ ‘Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother? ’  This is the Lord’s declaration. ‘Even so, I loved Jacob,


For I will not accuse you for ever, and I will not always be angry; for then the spirit would grow weak before me, even the breath, which I have made.


I am fiercely angry with the nations that are at ease,  for I was a little angry, but they made the destruction worse.


Now here are the Ammonites, Moabites, and the inhabitants of Mount Seir.  You did not let Israel invade them when Israel came out of the land of Egypt, but Israel turned away from them and did not destroy them.


Look how they repay us by coming to drive us out of your possession that you gave us as an inheritance.


Israel has rejected what is good; an enemy will pursue him.





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