Amos 4:3 - Easy To Read Version \{Your city will be destroyed.\} The women will rush out through cracks in the wall and throw themselves onto the pile \{of dead bodies\}. {\cf2\super [50]} Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the LORD. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And you shall go out through the breaches [made in the city's wall], every [woman] straight before her, and you shall be cast forth into Harmon [an unknown place of exile], says the Lord. American Standard Version (1901) And ye shall go out at the breaches, every one straight before her; and ye shall cast yourselves into Harmon, saith Jehovah. Common English Bible You will go out through the broken wall, each one after another; and you will be flung out into Harmon, says the LORD. Catholic Public Domain Version And you will go out through the breaches, one over another, and you will be cast out into Harmon, says the Lord. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And you shall go out at the breaches one over against the other, and you shall be cast forth into Armon, saith the Lord. |
Nebuchadnezzar’s army finally broke through the city wall. That night King Zedekiah and all his soldiers ran away. They used the {secret} gate that went through the double walls. It was by the king’s garden. The enemy soldiers were all around the city, but Zedekiah and his men escaped on the road to the desert.
The men went after the Aramean army as far as the Jordan River. All along the road there were clothes and weapons. The Arameans had thrown these things down when they hurried away. The messengers went back to Samaria and told the king.
At that time, people will throw away their gold and silver idols. (The people made those statues so the people could worship them.) The people will throw those statues into holes in the ground where bats and moles {\cf2\super [26]} live.
Then people would stop worshiping the gold and silver idols you made. You truly sinned when you made those idols.
On that day, the army of Babylon broke into Jerusalem. The soldiers of Jerusalem ran away. They left the city at night. They went through the gate between the two walls. That gate was near the king’s garden. Even though the army of Babylon had surrounded the city, the soldiers of Jerusalem still ran away. They ran away toward the desert.
And your leader will make a hole in the wall and sneak out at night. He will cover his face \{so people won’t recognize him\}. His eyes won’t be able to see where he is going.
While the people are watching, make a hole in the wall and go out through that hole in the wall.
Those people are stretched out on their couches now. But their good times will end. They will be taken away like prisoners to a foreign country. And they will be some of the first people taken.
Their gold and silver won’t help them! At that time, the Lord will become very upset and angry. The Lord will destroy the whole world! {\cf2\super [8]} The Lord will completely destroy everyone on earth! {\cf2\super [9]} ”
It is worth nothing for a person to have the whole world, if he loses his soul. A person could never pay enough to buy back his soul.
The people of Gilead [48] stayed in their camps on the other side of the Jordan River. As for you, people of Dan, why did you stay by your ships? The people of Asher remained by the sea, camped near their safe harbors.