Amos 5:3

New American Bible - revised edition

For thus says the Lord God to the house of Israel: The city that marched out with a thousand shall be left with a hundred, Another that marched out with a hundred shall be left with ten.

Cross References

Psalm 144:14

May there be no breach in the walls, no exile, no outcry in our streets.

Isaiah 1:9

If the Lord of hosts had not left us a small remnant, We would have become as Sodom, would have resembled Gomorrah.

Isaiah 10:22

Though your people, O Israel, were like the sand of the sea, Only a remnant of them will return; their destruction is decreed, as overflowing justice demands.

Isaiah 6:13

If there remain a tenth part in it, then this in turn shall be laid waste; As with a terebinth or an oak whose trunk remains when its leaves have fallen. Holy offspring is the trunk.

Ezekiel 12:16

But I will let a few of them escape the sword, starvation, and plague, so that they may recount all their abominations among the nations to which they go. Thus they may know that I am the Lord.

Amos 6:9

Should there remain ten people in a single house, these shall die.

Romans 9:27

And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “Though the number of the Israelites were like the sand of the sea, only a remnant will be saved;

Deuteronomy 28:62

You who were numerous as the stars of the heavens will be left few in number, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord, your God. Exile.

Deuteronomy 28:63

Just as the Lord once took delight in making you prosper and grow, so will the Lord now take delight in ruining and destroying you, and you will be plucked out of the land you are now entering to possess.

Deuteronomy 4:27

The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and there shall remain but a handful of you among the nations to which the Lord will drive you.