The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Amos 9:5 (WEB)

For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, is he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like the River, and will sink again, like the River of Egypt.

 

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Amos 9:6 (WEB)

It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; Yahweh is his name.

 

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Amos 9:7 (WEB)

Are you not like the children of the Ethiopians to me, children of Israel?” says Yahweh. “Haven’t I brought up Israel out of the land
of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?

 

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Amos 9:8 (WEB)

Behold, the eyes of the Lord Yahweh are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the surface of the earth;
except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” says Yahweh.

 

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Amos 9:9 (WEB)

“For, behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve,
yet not the least kernel will fall on the earth.

 

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Amos 9:10 (WEB)

All the sinners of my people will die by the sword, who say, ‘Evil won’t overtake nor meet us.’

 

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Amos 9:11 (WEB)

In that day I will raise up the tent of David who is fallen, and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins,
and I will build it as in the days of old;

 

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Amos 9:12 (WEB)

that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations who are called by my name,” says Yahweh who does this.

 

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Amos 9:13 (WEB)

“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh,
“that the plowman shall overtake the reaper,
and the one treading grapes him who sows seed;
and sweet wine will drip from the mountains,
and flow from the hills.

 

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Amos 9:14 (WEB)

I will bring my people Israel back from captivity,
and they will rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them;
and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine from them.
They shall also make gardens,
and eat their fruit.

 

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Amos 9:15 (WEB)

I will plant them on their land,
and they will no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them,”
says Yahweh your God.

 

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Obadiah (NIV)

1 The vision of Obadiah.

This is what the Sovereign Lord says about Edom –

We have heard a message from the Lord:
an envoy was sent to the nations to say,
‘Rise, let us go against her for battle’–

 

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Obadiah (NIV)

2 ‘See, I will make you small among the nations;
you will be utterly despised.

 

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Obadiah (NIV)

3 The pride of your heart has deceived you,
you who live in the clefts of the rocks
and make your home on the heights,
you who say to yourself,
“Who can bring me down to the ground?”

 

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Obadiah (NIV)

4 Though you soar like the eagle
and make your nest among the stars,
from there I will bring you down,’
declares the Lord.

 

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Obadiah (NIV)

5 ‘If thieves came to you,
if robbers in the night –
oh, what a disaster awaits you –
would they not steal only as much as they wanted?
If grape pickers came to you,
would they not leave a few grapes?

 

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Obadiah (NIV)

6 But how Esau will be ransacked,
his hidden treasures pillaged!

 

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Obadiah (NIV)

7 All your allies will force you to the border;
your friends will deceive and overpower you;
those who eat your bread will set a trap for you,
but you will not detect it.

 

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Obadiah (NIV)

8 ‘In that day,’ declares the Lord,
‘will I not destroy the wise men of Edom,
those of understanding in the mountains of Esau?

 

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Obadiah (NIV)

9 Your warriors, Teman, will be terrified,
and everyone in Esau’s mountains
will be cut down in the slaughter.