Amos 5:3

New Century Version

This is what the Lord God says: “If a thousand soldiers leave a city, only a hundred will return; if a hundred soldiers leave a city, only ten will return.”

Cross References

Psalm 144:14

Let our cattle be strong. Let no one break in. Let there be no war, no screams in our streets.

Isaiah 1:9

The Lord All-Powerful allowed a few of our people to live. Otherwise we would have been completely destroyed like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Isaiah 10:22

Israel, your people are many, like the grains of sand by the sea. But only a few of them will be left alive to return to the Lord. God has announced that he will destroy the land completely and fairly.

Isaiah 6:13

One-tenth of the people will be left in the land, but it will be destroyed again. These people will be like an oak tree whose stump is left when the tree is chopped down. The people who remain will be like a stump that will sprout again.”

Ezekiel 12:16

But I will save a few of them from the sword and from hunger and disease. Then they can tell about their hateful actions among the nations where they go. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

Amos 6:9

At that time there might be only ten people left alive in just one house, but they will also die.

Romans 9:27

And Isaiah cries out about Israel: “The people of Israel are many, like the grains of sand by the sea. But only a few of them will be saved,

Deuteronomy 28:62

You people may have outnumbered the stars, but only a few of you will be left, because you did not obey the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 28:63

Just as the Lord was once happy with you and gave you good things and made you grow in number, so then the Lord will be happy to ruin and destroy you, and you will be removed from the land you are entering to take as your own.

Deuteronomy 4:27

The Lord will scatter you among the other nations. Only a few of you will be left alive, and those few will be in other nations where the Lord will send you.