Amos 9:4

New American Bible - revised edition

Though they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword to slay them. I will fix my gaze upon them for evil and not for good.

Cross References

Genesis 44:21

Then you told your servants, ‘Bring him down to me that I might see him.’

2 Chronicles 16:9

The eyes of the Lord roam over the whole earth, to encourage those who are devoted to him wholeheartedly. You have acted foolishly in this matter, for from now on you will have wars.”

Psalm 34:17

The Lord’s face is against evildoers to wipe out their memory from the earth.

Exodus 14:24

But during the watch just before dawn, the Lord looked down from a column of fiery cloud upon the Egyptian army and threw it into a panic;

Jeremiah 12:12

Upon every height in the wilderness marauders have appeared. The Lord has a sword that consumes the land from end to end: no peace for any living thing.

Jeremiah 21:10

I have set my face against this city, for evil and not for good—oracle of the Lord. It shall be given into the power of the king of Babylon who shall set it on fire.

Jeremiah 24:6

I will look after them for good and bring them back to this land, to build them up, not tear them down; to plant them, not uproot them.

Jeremiah 39:12

“Take him and look after him; do not let anything happen to him. Whatever he may ask, you must do for him.”

Jeremiah 39:16

Go, tell this to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian: Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: See, I am now carrying out my words against this city, for evil and not for good; this will happen in your presence on that day.

Jeremiah 44:11

Therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I have set my face against you for evil, to cut off all Judah.

Ezekiel 5:12

A third of your people shall die of disease or starve to death within you; another third shall fall by the sword all around you; a third I will scatter to the winds and pursue them with the sword.

Ezekiel 5:2

Set a third on fire within the city, when the days of your siege are completed; place another third around the city and strike it with the sword; the final third scatter to the wind and then unsheathe the sword after it.

Leviticus 17:10

As for anyone, whether of the house of Israel or of the aliens residing among them, who consumes any blood, I will set myself against that individual and will cut that person off from among the people,

Leviticus 26:33

And you I will scatter among the nations at the point of my drawn sword, leaving your countryside desolate and your cities deserted.

Amos 9:8

See, the eyes of the Lord God are on this sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth— But I will not destroy the house of Jacob completely— oracle of the Lord.

Zechariah 8:10

For before those days, there were no wages for people, nor hire for animals. Those who came and went were not safe from the enemy, for I set neighbor against neighbor.