Amos 5:3

Good News Translation

The Sovereign Lord says, “A city in Israel sends out a thousand soldiers, but only a hundred return; another city sends out a hundred, but only ten come back.”

Cross References

Psalm 144:14

May our cattle reproduce plentifully without miscarriage or loss. May there be no cries of distress in our streets.

Isaiah 1:9

If the Lord Almighty had not let some of the people survive, Jerusalem would have been totally destroyed, just as Sodom and Gomorrah were.

Isaiah 10:22

Even though now there are as many people of Israel as there are grains of sand by the sea, only a few will come back. Destruction is in store for the people, and it is fully deserved.

Isaiah 6:13

Even if one person out of ten remains in the land, he too will be destroyed; he will be like the stump of an oak tree that has been cut down.” (The stump represents a new beginning for God's people.)

Ezekiel 12:16

I will let a few of them survive the war, the famine, and the diseases, so that there among the nations they will realize how disgusting their actions have been and will acknowledge that I am the Lord.”

Amos 6:9

If there are ten men left in a family, they will die.

Romans 9:27

And Isaiah exclaims about Israel: “Even if the people of Israel are as many as the grains of sand by the sea, yet only a few of them will be saved;

Deuteronomy 28:62

Although you become as numerous as the stars in the sky, only a few of you will survive, because you did not obey the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 28:63

Just as the Lord took delight in making you prosper and in making you increase in number, so he will take delight in destroying you and in bringing ruin on you. You will be uprooted from the land that you are about to occupy.

Deuteronomy 4:27

The Lord will scatter you among other nations, where only a few of you will survive.