8 The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself—the LORD, the God of Hosts, has declared: “I abhor Jacob’s pride and detest his citadels, so I will deliver up the city and everything in it.”
Amos 6:8
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Amos 9:7–9
7 “Are you not like the Cushites to Me, O children of Israel?” declares the LORD. “Did I not bring Israel up from the land of Egypt, the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Arameans from Kir? 8 Surely the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom, and I will de…
Isaiah 43:27–28
27 Your first father sinned, and your spokesmen rebelled against Me. 28 So I will disgrace the princes of your sanctuary, and I will devote Jacob to destruction and Israel to reproach.”
Jeremiah 50:30–32
30 Therefore, her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD. 31 “Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts, “for your day has come, the time when I will punish you. 32 The ar…
Amos 3:12–14
12 This is what the LORD says: “As the shepherd snatches from the mouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so the Israelites dwelling in Samaria will be rescued having just the corner of a bed or the cushion of a couch. 13 Hear and testify against the house… 14 …
Amos 8:6–8
6 Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!” 7 The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds. 8 Will not the land quake for this, and all its dwellers mourn? All of…
Jeremiah 13:8–10
8 Then the word of the LORD came to me: 9 “This is what the LORD says: In the same way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem. 10 These evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go…
Amos 8:13–14
13 In that day the lovely young women— the young men as well— will faint from thirst. 14 Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, ‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’ or, ‘As surely as the way of Beersheba lives’— they will fall, never to rise again.”
Ezekiel 23:27–29
27 So I will put an end to your indecency and prostitution, which began in the land of Egypt, and you will not lift your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.’ 28 For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Surely I will deliver you into the hands of those you hate, from…
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