Amos 3:11

New American Bible - revised edition

Therefore thus says the Lord God: An enemy shall surround the land, tear down your fortresses, and pillage your strongholds.

Cross References

Genesis 34:27

Then the other sons of Jacob followed up the slaughter and sacked the city because their sister had been defiled.

2 Kings 15:19

Pul, king of Assyria, came against the land. But Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver to have his help in holding onto his kingdom.

2 Kings 15:29

In the days of Pekah, king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, came and took Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee—all the land of Naphtali—deporting the inhabitants to Assyria.

2 Chronicles 36:19

They burnt the house of God, tore down the walls of Jerusalem, burnt down all its palaces, and destroyed all its precious objects.

Job 20:21

None of his survivors will consume it, therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

Amos 2:5

I will send fire upon Judah, and it will devour the strongholds of Jerusalem.

Amos 3:10

They do not know how to do what is right— oracle of the Lord— Storing up in their strongholds violence and destruction.

Amos 3:15

I will strike the winter house and the summer house; The houses of ivory shall lie in ruin, and their many rooms shall be no more— oracle of the Lord.

Amos 6:14

Look, I am raising up against you, house of Israel— oracle of the Lord, the God of hosts— A nation that shall oppress you from Lebo-hamath even to the Wadi Arabah.

Amos 6:8

The Lord God has sworn by his very self— an oracle of the Lord, the God of hosts: I abhor the pride of Jacob, I hate his strongholds, and I will hand over the city with everything in it;