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Amos 7:17

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Therefore, this is what the Lord says: Your wife will be a prostitute in the city, your sons and daughters will fall by the sword, and your land will be divided up with a measuring line. You yourself will die on pagan   soil, and Israel will certainly go into exile from its homeland.

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They will not stay in the land of the  Lord. Instead, Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food  in Assyria.


In the ninth year of Hoshea,  the king of Assyria captured Samaria. He deported  the Israelites to Assyria and settled them in Halah, along the Habor (Gozan’s river), and in the cities of the Medes.


The Lord said, ‘This is how the Israelites will eat their bread #– #ceremonially unclean #– #among the nations where I will banish them.’


Therefore, this is what the Lord says: “I am about to send you off the face of the earth. You will die this year because you have preached rebellion against the Lord.” ’


for Amos has said this: “Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will certainly go into exile from its homeland.” ’


This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says about Ahab son of Kolaiah and concerning Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, the ones prophesying a lie to you in my name:  ‘I am about to hand them over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, and he will kill them before your very eyes.


I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle.  The city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women raped. Half the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be removed from the city.


Women have been raped in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.


‘This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: You  in your own name have sent out letters to all the people of Jerusalem, to the priest Zephaniah  son of Maaseiah, and to all the priests, saying,


After the prophet Hananiah had broken the yoke bar from the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah:


As for you, Pashhur, and all who live in your house, you will go into captivity. You will go to Babylon.  There you will die, and there you will be buried, you and all your friends to whom you prophesied lies.” ’


Their children will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be looted, and their wives raped.


The people they are prophesying to will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword. There will be no one to bury them   #– #they, their wives, their sons, and their daughters. I will pour out their own evil on them.’


Therefore, they will now go into exile as the first of the captives, and the feasting  of those who sprawl out will come to an end.


The Lord God showed me this: a basket of summer fruit.


I saw the Lord standing beside the altar,  and he said: Strike the capitals of the pillars so that the thresholds shake; knock them down on the heads of all the people. Then I will kill the rest of them with the sword. None of those who flee will get away; none of the fugitives will escape.


Look, the eyes of the Lord God are on the sinful kingdom, and I will obliterate it from the face of the earth. However, I will not totally destroy the house of Jacob   – this is the  Lord’s declaration –


Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair in sorrow for your precious children; make yourselves as bald as an eagle, for they have been taken from you into exile.


wind you up into a ball, and sling you into a wide land.  There you will die, and there your glorious chariots will be #– #a disgrace to the house of your lord.





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