Amos 3:2

New English Translation

“I have chosen you alone from all the clans of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all your sins.”

Cross References

Genesis 10:32

These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, by their nations, and from these the nations spread over the earth after the flood.

Genesis 18:19

I have chosen him so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just. Then the Lord will give to Abraham what he promised him.”

Psalm 147:19

He proclaims his word to Jacob, his statutes and regulations to Israel.

Exodus 32:34

So now go, lead the people to the place I have spoken to you about. See, my angel will go before you. But on the day that I punish, I will indeed punish them for their sin.”

Isaiah 63:19

We existed from ancient times, but you did not rule over them, they were not your subjects.

Jeremiah 1:15

For I will soon summon all the peoples of the kingdoms of the north,” says the Lord. “They will come and their kings will set up their thrones near the entrances of the gates of Jerusalem. They will attack all the walls surrounding it, and all the towns in Judah.

Jeremiah 10:25

Vent your anger on the nations that do not acknowledge you. Vent it on the peoples who do not worship you. For they have destroyed the people of Jacob. They have completely destroyed them and left their homeland in utter ruin.

Jeremiah 11:22

So the Lord who rules over all said, “I will surely punish them! Their young men will be killed in battle. Their sons and daughters will die of starvation.

Jeremiah 13:21

What will you say when the Lord appoints as rulers over you those allies that you, yourself, had actually prepared as such? Then anguish and agony will grip you like that of a woman giving birth to a baby.

Jeremiah 14:10

Then the Lord spoke about these people. “They truly love to go astray. They cannot keep from running away from me. So I am not pleased with them. I will now call to mind the wrongs they have done and punish them for their sins.”

Jeremiah 9:25

The Lord says, “Watch out! The time is soon coming when I will punish all those who are circumcised only in the flesh.

Ezekiel 5:9

I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again because of all your abominable practices.

Ezekiel 9:6

Old men, young men, young women, little children, and women – wipe them out! But do not touch anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary!” So they began with the elders who were at the front of the temple.

Daniel 9:12

He has carried out his threats against us and our rulers who were over us by bringing great calamity on us – what has happened to Jerusalem has never been equaled under all heaven!

Hosea 2:13

“I will punish her for the festival days when she burned incense to the Baal idols; she adorned herself with earrings and jewelry, and went after her lovers, but she forgot me!” says the Lord.

Hosea 5:3

I know Ephraim all too well; the evil of Israel is not hidden from me. For you have engaged in prostitution, O Ephraim; Israel has defiled itself.

Hosea 8:13

They offer up sacrificial gifts to me, and eat the meat, but the Lord does not accept their sacrifices. Soon he will remember their wrongdoing, he will punish their sins, and they will return to Egypt.

Hosea 9:9

They have sunk deep into corruption as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their wrongdoing. He will repay them for their sins.

Amos 2:4

This is what the Lord says: “Because Judah has committed three covenant transgressions – make that four! – I will not revoke my decree of judgment. They rejected the Lord’s law; they did not obey his commands. Their false gods, to which their fathers were loyal, led them astray.

Amos 3:3

Do two walk together without having met?

Amos 6:1

Woe to those who live in ease in Zion, to those who feel secure on Mount Samaria. They think of themselves as the elite class of the best nation. The family of Israel looks to them for leadership.

Micah 2:3

Therefore the Lord says this: “Look, I am devising disaster for this nation! It will be like a yoke from which you cannot free your neck. You will no longer walk proudly, for it will be a time of catastrophe.

Nahum 3:4

“Because you have acted like a wanton prostitute – a seductive mistress who practices sorcery, who enslaves nations by her harlotry, and entices peoples by her sorcery –

Acts 17:26

From one man he made every nation of the human race to inhabit the entire earth, determining their set times and the fixed limits of the places where they would live,

Romans 2:9

There will be affliction and distress on everyone who does evil, on the Jew first and also the Greek,

1 Corinthians 8:3

But if someone loves God, he is known by God.

Deuteronomy 10:15

However, only to your ancestors did he show his loving favor, and he chose you, their descendants, from all peoples – as is apparent today.

Deuteronomy 26:18

And today the Lord has declared you to be his special people (as he already promised you) so you may keep all his commandments.

Deuteronomy 32:9

For the Lord’s allotment is his people, Jacob is his special possession.

Deuteronomy 4:32

Indeed, ask about the distant past, starting from the day God created humankind on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether there has ever been such a great thing as this, or even a rumor of it.

Deuteronomy 7:6

For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.

1 Peter 4:17

For it is time for judgment to begin, starting with the house of God. And if it starts with us, what will be the fate of those who are disobedient to the gospel of God?