Amos 6:11

In 11 translations

BSB

For the LORD gives a command: “The great house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.”

KJV

For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.breaches: or, droppings

WEB

“For, behold, Yahweh commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, and the little house into bits.

ASV

For, behold, Jehovah commandeth, and the great house shall be smitten with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

LSV

For behold, YHWH is commanding, || And He has struck the great house [with] breaches, || And the little house [with] clefts.

YLT

For lo, Jehovah is commanding, And He hath smitten the great house [with] breaches, And the little house [with] clefts.

DBY

For behold, Jehovah commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

DRC6:12

For behold the Lord hath commanded, and he will strike the greater house with breaches, and the lesser house with clefts.

GNV

For behold, the Lord commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the litle house with clefts.

JPS

For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and the great house shall be smitten into splinters, and the little house into chips.

LXXE

For, behold, the Lord commands, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with rents.

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WLC

כִּֽי־הִנֵּ֤ה יְהוָה֙ מְצַוֶּ֔ה וְהִכָּ֛ה הַבַּ֥יִת הַגָּד֖וֹל רְסִיסִ֑ים וְהַבַּ֥יִת הַקָּטֹ֖ן בְּקִעִֽים׃

LXX-Br

Διότι ἰδοὺ Κύριος ἐντέλλεται, καὶ πατάξει τὸν οἶκον τὸν μέγαν θλάσμασι, καὶ τὸν οἶκον τὸν μικρὸν ῥάγμασιν.

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• Amos 3:15I will tear down the winter house along with the summer house; the houses of ivory will also perish, and the great houses will come to an end,” declares the LORD.
• Isaiah 55:11so My word that proceeds from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where I send it.
• 2 Kings 25:9He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.
• Amos 6:8The 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.”
• Nahum 1:14The LORD has issued a command concerning you, O Nineveh: “There will be no descendants to carry on your name. I will cut off the carved image and cast idol from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for…
• Zechariah 14:2For I will gather all the nations for battle against Jerusalem, and the city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be…
• Amos 9:9“For surely I will give the command, and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations as grain is sifted in a sieve; but not a pebble will reach the ground.
• Luke 19:44They will level you to the ground—you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”
• Psalms 105:16He called down famine on the land and cut off all their supplies of food.
• Hosea 13:16Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.
• Ezekiel 29:18–20“Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to labor strenuously against Tyre. Every head was made bald and every shoulder made raw. But he and his army received no wages from Tyre for the labor they…
• Ecclesiastes 10:18Through laziness the roof caves in, and in the hands of the idle, the house leaks.
• Isaiah 46:10–11I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’ I summon a bird of prey from the east, a man for My…
• Amos 3:6–7If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it? Surely the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets.
• Isaiah 10:5–6Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath. I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to…
• Amos 9:1I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said: “Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Topple them on the heads of all the people, and I will kill the rest with the sword. None of those…

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