Amos 4:2

Modern English Version

The Lord God has sworn by His holiness: Behold, the days are coming upon you when they will take you away with hooks, the last one of you with fishhooks.

Cross References

Psalm 89:35

Once and for all have I sworn by My holiness; I will not lie to David.

Psalm 89:36

His descendants shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before Me.

Isaiah 37:29

Because your rage against Me and your tumult have come up into My ears, therefore I will put My hook in your nose, and My bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back on the way by which you came.

Jeremiah 16:16

Behold, I will send for many fishermen, says the Lord, and they shall fish for them; and afterwards I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain and from every hill and out of the holes of the rocks.

Ezekiel 29:4

But I will put hooks in your jaws, and will cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales, and will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers, and all the fish of your rivers shall stick to your scales.

Ezekiel 34:16

I will seek that which was lost and bring back that which was driven away and bind up that which was broken and will strengthen that which was sick. But I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them with judgment.

Ezekiel 38:4

And I will turn you back and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, and all your army, horses, and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armor, even a great company with small and large shields, all of them handling swords.

Amos 6:8

The Lord God hath sworn by Himself, an oracle of the Lord the God of Hosts: I abhor the pride of Jacob and hate his palaces, so I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.

Amos 8:7

The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob: Surely I will never forget any of their deeds.