Amos 3:2

Good News Translation (US Version)

“Of all the nations on earth, you are the only one I have known and cared for. That is what makes your sins so terrible, and that is why I must punish you for them.”

Cross References

Deuteronomy 7:6

Do this because you belong to the Lord your God. From all the peoples on earth he chose you to be his own special people.

1 Peter 4:17

The time has come for judgment to begin, and God's own people are the first to be judged. If it starts with us, how will it end with those who do not believe the Good News from God?

Deuteronomy 10:15

But the Lord's love for your ancestors was so strong that he chose you instead of any other people, and you are still his chosen people.

Romans 2:9

There will be suffering and pain for all those who do what is evil, for the Jews first and also for the Gentiles.

Daniel 9:12

You did what you said you would do to us and our rulers. You punished Jerusalem more severely than any other city on earth,

Ezekiel 9:6

Kill the old men, young men, young women, mothers, and children. But don't touch anyone who has the mark on his forehead. Start here at my Temple.” So they began with the leaders who were standing there at the Temple.

Jeremiah 14:10

The Lord says about these people, “They love to run away from me, and they will not control themselves. So I am not pleased with them. I will remember the wrongs they have done and punish them because of their sins.”

Jeremiah 13:21

What will you say when people you thought were your friends conquer you and rule over you? You will be in pain like a woman giving birth.

Jeremiah 11:22

So the Lord Almighty said, “I will punish them! Their young men will be killed in war; their children will die of starvation.

Jeremiah 10:25

Turn your anger on the nations that do not worship you and on the people who reject you. They have killed your people; they have destroyed us completely and left our country in ruins.

Jeremiah 9:25

The Lord says, “The time is coming when I will punish the people of Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab, and the desert people, who have their hair cut short. All these people are circumcised, but have not kept the covenant it symbolizes. None of these people and none of the people of Israel have kept my covenant.”

Jeremiah 1:15

because I am calling all the nations in the north to come. Their kings will set up their thrones at the gates of Jerusalem and around its walls and also around the other cities of Judah.

Isaiah 63:19

You treat us as though you had never been our ruler, as though we had never been your people.

Psalm 147:19

He gives his message to his people, his instructions and laws to Israel.

Deuteronomy 26:18

Today the Lord has accepted you as his own people, as he promised you; and he commands you to obey all his laws.

Genesis 10:32

All these peoples are the descendants of Noah, nation by nation, according to their different lines of descent. After the flood all the nations of the earth were descended from the sons of Noah.

Acts 17:26

From one human being he created all races of people and made them live throughout the whole earth. He himself fixed beforehand the exact times and the limits of the places where they would live.

Nahum 3:4

Nineveh the whore is being punished. Attractive and full of deadly charms, she enchanted nations and enslaved them.

Hosea 9:9

They are hopelessly evil in what they do, just as they were at Gibeah. God will remember their sin and punish them for it.

Hosea 8:13

They offer sacrifices to me and eat the meat of the sacrifices. But I, the Lord, am not pleased with them, and now I will remember their sin and punish them for it; I will send them back to Egypt!

Hosea 2:13

I will punish her for the times that she forgot me, when she burned incense to Baal and put on her jewelry to go chasing after her lovers. The Lord has spoken.

Deuteronomy 32:9

but Jacob's descendants he chose for himself.

1 Corinthians 8:3

But the person who loves God is known by him.

Genesis 18:19

I have chosen him in order that he may command his sons and his descendants to obey me and to do what is right and just. If they do, I will do everything for him that I have promised.”

Deuteronomy 4:32

“Search the past, the time before you were born, all the way back to the time when God created human beings on the earth. Search the entire earth. Has anything as great as this ever happened before? Has anyone ever heard of anything like this?

Ezekiel 5:9

Because of all the things you do that I hate, I will punish Jerusalem as I have never done before and will never do again.

Hosea 5:3

I know what Israel is like—she cannot hide from me. She has been unfaithful, and her people are unfit to worship me.”

Amos 2:4

The Lord says, “The people of Judah have sinned again and again, and for this I will certainly punish them. They have despised my teachings and have not kept my commands. They have been led astray by the same false gods that their ancestors served.

Amos 3:3

Do two people start traveling together without arranging to meet?

Amos 6:1

How terrible it will be for you that have such an easy life in Zion and for you that feel safe in Samaria—you great leaders of this great nation Israel, you to whom the people go for help!

Micah 2:3

And so the Lord says, “I am planning to bring disaster on you, and you will not be able to escape it. You are going to find yourselves in trouble, and then you will not walk so proudly any more.

Exodus 32:34

Now go, lead the people to the place I told you about. Remember that my angel will guide you, but the time is coming when I will punish these people for their sin.”