Amos 6:8

New Century Version

The Lord God made this promise; the Lord God All-Powerful says: “I hate the pride of the Israelites, and I hate their strong buildings, so I will let the enemy take the city and everything in it.”

Cross References

Genesis 22:16

and said, “The Lord says, ‘Because you did not keep back your son, your only son, from me, I make you this promise by my own name:

Psalm 106:40

So the Lord became angry with his people and hated his own children.

Psalm 47:4

He chose the land we would inherit. We are the children of Jacob, whom he loved.Selah

Psalm 50:12

If I were hungry, I would not tell you, because the earth and everything in it are mine.

Psalm 78:59

When God heard them, he became very angry and rejected the people of Israel completely.

Proverbs 8:13

If you respect the Lord, you will also hate evil. I hate pride and bragging, evil ways and lies.

Isaiah 28:1

How terrible it will be for Samaria, the pride of Israel’s drunken people! That beautiful crown of flowers is just a dying plant set on a hill above a rich valley where drunkards live.

Jeremiah 12:8

My people have become to me like a lion in the forest. They roar at me, so I hate them.

Jeremiah 22:14

He says, ‘I will build a great palace for myself with large upper rooms.’ So he builds it with large windows and uses cedar wood for the walls, which he paints red.

Jeremiah 22:5

But if you don’t obey these commands, says the Lord, I swear by my own name that this king’s palace will become a ruin.’ ”

Jeremiah 44:26

But hear the word of the Lord. Listen, all you Jews living in Egypt. The Lord says, ‘I have sworn by my great name: The people of Judah now living in Egypt will never again use my name to make promises. They will never again say in Egypt, “As surely as the Lord God lives . . . ”

Jeremiah 49:13

The Lord says, “I swear by my own name that the city of Bozrah will become a pile of ruins! People will be shocked by what happened there. They will insult that city and speak evil of it. And all the towns around it will become ruins forever.”

Jeremiah 51:14

The Lord All-Powerful has promised in his own name: ‘Babylon, I will surely fill you with so many enemy soldiers they will be like a swarm of locusts. They will stand over you and shout their victory.’

Lamentations 2:5

The Lord was like an enemy; he swallowed up Israel. He swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed all her strongholds. He has caused more moaning and groaning for Judah.

Ezekiel 24:21

‘Say to the people of Israel, This is what the Lord God says: I am going to dishonor my Temple. You think it gives you strength. You are proud of it, and you look at it with love and tenderness. But your sons and daughters that you left behind in Jerusalem will fall dead by the sword.

Hosea 11:6

War will sweep through their cities and will destroy them and kill them because of their wicked plans.

Leviticus 26:11

Also I will place my Holy Tent among you, and I will not turn away from you.

Leviticus 26:30

I will destroy your places where gods are worshiped and cut down your incense altars. I will pile your dead bodies on the lifeless forms of your idols. I will hate you.

Amos 3:10

“The people don’t know how to do what is right,” says the Lord. “Their strong buildings are filled with treasures they took by force from others.”

Amos 3:11

So this is what the Lord God says: “An enemy will take over the land and pull down your strongholds; he will take the treasures out of your strong buildings.”

Amos 4:2

The Lord God has promised this: “Just as surely as I am a holy God, the time will come when you will be taken away by hooks, and what is left of you with fishhooks.

Amos 5:21

The Lord says, “I hate and reject your feasts; I cannot stand your religious meetings.

Amos 8:3

“On that day the palace songs will become funeral songs,” says the Lord God. “There will be dead bodies thrown everywhere! Silence!”

Amos 8:7

The Lord has sworn by his name, the Pride of Jacob, “I will never forget everything that these people did.

Zechariah 11:8

In one month I got rid of three shepherds. The flock did not pay attention to me, and I got impatient with them.

Deuteronomy 32:19

The Lord saw this and rejected them; his sons and daughters had made him angry.