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Amos 4:10

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

I sent plagues like those of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I caused the stench of your camp to fill your nostrils, yet you did not return to me. This is the  Lord’s declaration.

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He will afflict you again with all the diseases of Egypt,  which you dreaded, and they will cling to you.


I will drive the northerner far from you and banish him to a dry and desolate land, his front ranks into the Dead Sea, and his rear guard into the Mediterranean Sea. His stench will rise; yes, his rotten smell will rise, for he has done astonishing things.


Jehoahaz did not have an army left, except for fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers, because the king of Aram had destroyed them,  making them like dust at threshing.


I will bring a sword against you  to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a pestilence among you, and you will be delivered into enemy hands.


The Lord will remove all disease from you; he will not put on you  all the terrible diseases of Egypt that you know about, but he will inflict them on all who hate you.


In that day the temple  songs  will become wailing’   #– #this is the Lord God’s declaration. ‘Many dead bodies, thrown everywhere!  Silence! ’


I gave you absolutely nothing to eat  , in all your cities, a shortage of food in all your communities, yet you did not return to me. This is the  Lord’s declaration.


Therefore, hand their children over to famine, and give them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widowed, their husbands slain by deadly disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.


Therefore, this is what the Lord of Armies says: ‘I am about to punish them. The young men will die by the sword; their sons and daughters will die by famine.


So the Lord’s anger burned against Israel,  and he handed them over to King Hazael  of Aram and to his son Ben-hadad  during their reigns.


The Lord will afflict you with wasting disease, fever, inflammation, burning heat, drought,  blight, and mildew;  these will pursue you until you perish.


then I will do this to you: I will bring terror  on you #– #wasting disease and fever that will cause your eyes to fail and your life to ebb away. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.


‘This is the finger of God,’  the magicians said to Pharaoh. But Pharaoh’s heart was hard, and he would not listen to them, as the Lord had said.


The destroyer of Moab and its towns has come up, and the best of its young men have gone down to slaughter. This is the King’s declaration; the Lord of Armies is his name.


They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried but will be like manure on the soil’s surface.  They will be finished off by sword and famine. Their corpses will become food for the birds of the sky and for the wild animals of the land.


‘I will ordain four kinds  of judgement for them’ #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #‘the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away,  and the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the land  to devour and destroy.


‘Speak as follows: “This is what the Lord declares: Human corpses will fall like manure on the surface of the field,  like newly cut corn  after the reaper with no one to gather it.


But I am full of the  Lord’s wrath; I am tired of holding it back. Pour it out on the children in the street, on the gathering of young men as well. For both husband and wife will be captured, the old with the very old.


The people did not turn to him who struck them; they did not seek the  Lord of Armies.


In those days the Lord began to reduce the size of Israel.  Hazael  defeated the Israelites throughout their territory


and Hazael asked, ‘Why is my lord weeping? ’ He replied, ‘Because I know the evil you will do to the people of Israel. You will set their fortresses on fire. You will kill their young men with the sword. You will dash their children to pieces. You will rip open their pregnant women.’


He said, ‘If you will carefully obey the Lord your God, do what is right in his sight, pay attention to his commands, and keep all his statutes, I will not inflict any illnesses on you that I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you.’


I will harden Pharaoh’s heart so that he will pursue them. Then I will receive glory by means of Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord.’ So the Israelites did this.


But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart,  and he was unwilling to let them go.


So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and told him, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may worship me.


You are still acting arrogantly against  my people by not letting them go.


But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart  and he did not listen to them, as the Lord had told Moses.


The Lord will make pestilence cling to you until he has exterminated you from the land you are entering to possess.


Therefore the Lord does not rejoice over  Israel’s young men and has no compassion on its fatherless and widows, for everyone is a godless evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. In all this, his anger has not turned away, and his hand is still raised to strike.


Their slain will be thrown out, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow  with their blood.


Look, all you who kindle a fire, who encircle yourselves with   torches; walk in the light of your fire and of the torches you have lit! This is what you’ll get from my hand: you will lie down in a place of torment.


Therefore, her young men will fall in her public squares; all the warriors will perish in that day. This is the declaration of the  Lord of Armies.


Aram from the east and Philistia from the west have consumed Israel with open mouths. In all this, his anger has not turned away, and his hand is still raised to strike.


Lord, don’t your eyes look for faithfulness? You have struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They made their faces harder than rock, and they refused to return.


Israel will not return to the land of Egypt and Assyria will be his king, because they refused to repent.


I struck you #– #all the work of your hands #– #with blight, mildew,  and hail,  but you didn’t turn to me #– #this is the Lord’s declaration.





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