Our oxen will pull heavy loads. There is no breaking in, and no going away, and no outcry in our streets.
Amos 5:3 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) For thus says the Lord GOD: *The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth one hundred shall have ten left to the house of Yisra'el.* Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For thus says the Lord God: The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth a hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel. American Standard Version (1901) For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth a hundred shall have ten left, to the house of Israel. Common English Bible The LORD God proclaims: The city that marched out one thousand people will have one hundred left, and the city that marched out one hundred will have ten left in the house of Israel. Catholic Public Domain Version For thus says the Lord God: In the city from which a thousand departed, a hundred will remain, and in that from which a hundred departed, ten will remain, in the house of Israel. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For thus saith the Lord God: The city, out of which came forth a thousand, there shall be left in it a hundred: and out of which there came a hundred, there shall be left in it ten, in the house of Israel. |
Our oxen will pull heavy loads. There is no breaking in, and no going away, and no outcry in our streets.
Unless the LORD of Armies had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sedom; we would have been like `Amorah.
For though your people, Yisra'el, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.
If there are yet a tenth in it, it also shall in turn be eaten up: as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remains, when they are felled; so the holy seed is its stock.*
But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they come; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
It will happen, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.
Yeshaiyahu cries concerning Yisra'el, *If the number of the children of Yisra'el are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;
You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of the sky for multitude; because you didn't listen to the voice of the LORD your God.
It shall happen that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so the LORD will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and you shall be plucked from off the land where you go in to possess it.
The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the nations, where the LORD shall lead you away.