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Amos 1:11

The Scriptures 2009

Thus said יהוה, “For three transgressions of Eḏom, and for four, I do not turn it back, because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all compassion. And his displeasure tore incessantly, and he kept his wrath forever.

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For the Eḏomites had come again, and struck Yehuḏah, and took away captives.


If Eḏom says, “We have been beaten down, let us return and build the ruins,” יהוה of hosts said thus: “Let them build, but I tear down. And they shall be called ‘Border of Wrongness’, and the people against whom יהוה is enraged forever.


“Mitsrayim shall become a ruin, and Eḏom a ruin, a wilderness, because of violence done to the people of Yehuḏah, whose innocent blood they shed in their land.


Remember, O יהוה, against the sons of Eḏom The day of Yerushalayim, Who said, “Lay it bare, lay it bare, To its foundation!”


Who is an Ěl like You – taking away crookedness and passing over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance? He shall not retain His wrath forever, for He Himself delights in loving-commitment.


Do not be hasty in your spirit to be vexed, for vexation rests in the bosom of fools.


“Do not loathe an Eḏomite, for he is your brother. Do not loathe a Mitsrian, because you were a stranger in his land.


Become, then, imitators of Elohim as beloved children.


“I have loved you,” said יהוה. “But you asked, ‘In what way have You loved us?’ ”Was not Ěsaw Ya‛aqoḇ’s brother?” declares יהוה. “And I love Ya‛aqoḇ,


“For I would not strive forever, nor am I wroth forever, for the spirit would grow faint before Me, even the beings I have made.


Would You be enraged with us forever? Would You draw out Your displeasure From generation to generation?


“And I am very wroth with the nations who are at ease, for when I was a little wroth, they furthered the evil!”


“And now, see, the children of Ammon and Mo’aḇ, and Mount Sĕ‛ir, whom You would not let Yisra’ĕl invade when they came out of the land of Mitsrayim, for they turned from them and did not destroy them,


and see, they are repaying us by coming in to drive us out of Your possession which You have given us to inherit.


“Yisra’ĕl has rejected what is good, an enemy pursues him.





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