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Amos 4:10

New American Bible - revised edition

I sent upon you pestilence like that of Egypt; with the sword I killed your young men and your captured horses, and to your nostrils I brought the stench of your camps; Yet you did not return to me— oracle of the Lord.

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At that time the Lord began to dismember Israel. Hazael defeated the Israelites throughout their territory

The Lord was angry with Israel and for a long time gave them into the power of Hazael, king of Aram, and of Ben-hadad, son of Hazael.

No army was left to Jehoahaz, except fifty horses with ten chariots and ten thousand foot soldiers, since the king of Aram had destroyed them and trampled them like dust.

and Hazael asked, “Why are you weeping, my lord?” Elisha replied, “Because I know the evil that you will inflict upon the Israelites. You will burn their fortresses, you will slay their youth with the sword, you will dash their little children to pieces, you will rip open their pregnant women.”

But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he was unwilling to let them go.

So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: How long will you refuse to submit to me? Let my people go to serve me.

I will so harden Pharaoh’s heart that he will pursue them. Thus I will receive glory through Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord. This the Israelites did.

He said: If you listen closely to the voice of the Lord, your God, and do what is right in his eyes: if you heed his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will not afflict you with any of the diseases with which I afflicted the Egyptians; for I, the Lord, am your healer.

I will make a distinction between my people and your people. This sign will take place tomorrow.

But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not listen to them, just as the Lord had said to Moses. Seventh Plague: The Hail.

Will you continue to exalt yourself over my people and not let them go?

Their slain shall be cast out, their corpses shall send up a stench; the mountains shall run with their blood,

All you who kindle flames and set flares alight, Walk by the light of your own fire and by the flares you have burnt! This is your fate from my hand: you shall lie down in a place of torment.

The people do not turn back to the one who struck them, nor do they seek the Lord of hosts.

So the Lord cuts off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed in one day.

For wickedness burns like fire, devouring brier and thorn; It kindles the forest thickets, which go up in columns of smoke.

Therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: I am going to punish them. The young men shall die by the sword; their sons and daughters shall die by famine.

Four kinds of scourge I have decreed against them—oracle of the Lord—the sword to kill them; dogs to drag them off; the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy them.

Of deadly disease they shall die. Unlamented and unburied they will lie like dung on the ground. Sword and famine will make an end of them, and their corpses will become food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.

So now, give their children to famine, deliver them to the power of the sword. Let their wives be childless and widows; let their husbands die of pestilence, their youths be struck down by the sword in battle.

The one who ravages Moab and its cities comes up, the best of its youth go down to slaughter— oracle of the King, whose name is Lord of hosts.

But now its young men shall fall in its squares, all the warriors destroyed on that day— oracle of the Lord of hosts.

Lord, do your eyes not search for honesty? You struck them, but they did not flinch; you laid them low, but they refused correction; They set their faces harder than stone, and refused to return.

But the wrath of the Lord brims up within me, I am weary of holding it in. I will pour it out upon the child in the street, upon the young men gathered together. Yes, husband and wife will be taken, elder with ancient.

Thus says the Lord: Let not the wise boast of his wisdom, nor the strong boast of his strength, nor the rich man boast of his riches;

He shall return to the land of Egypt, Assyria shall be his king, because they have refused to repent.

The northerner I will remove far from you, driving them out into a dry and desolate land, Their vanguard to the eastern sea, their rearguard to the western sea, And their stench will rise, their stink will ascend, What great deeds the Lord has done!

then I, in turn, will do this to you: I will bring terror upon you—with consumption and fever to dim the eyes and sap the life. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will consume the crop.

I will bring against you the sword, the avenger of my covenant. Though you then huddle together in your cities, I will send pestilence among you, till you are delivered to the enemy.

Though I made your teeth clean of food in all your cities, and made bread scarce in all your dwellings, Yet you did not return to me— oracle of the Lord.

The temple singers will wail on that day— oracle of the Lord God. Many shall be the corpses, strewn everywhere—Silence!

I struck you, and all the work of your hands, with searing wind, blight, and hail, yet you did not return to me—oracle of the Lord.

The Lord will make disease cling to you until he has made an end of you from the land you are entering to possess.

The Lord will strike you with consumption, fever, and inflammation, with fiery heat and drought, with blight and mildew, that will pursue you until you perish.

He will bring back upon you all the diseases of Egypt which you dread, and they will cling to you.

The Lord will remove all sickness from you; he will not afflict you with any of the malignant diseases that you know from Egypt, but will leave them with all those who hate you.




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