Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
You only I have known of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will visit upon you all your iniquities.
New American Standard Bible
Therefore I will
King James Version
You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
Holman Bible
out of all the clans of the earth;
therefore, I will punish you for all your iniquities.
International Standard Version
"You alone have I known from among all of the families of mankind; therefore I will hold you accountable for all your iniquities.'"
American Standard Version
You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will visit upon you all your iniquities.
Amplified
“I have known [chosen, cared for, and loved] only you of all the families of the earth;
Therefore I shall punish you for all your wickedness.”
Bible in Basic English
You only of all the families of the earth have I taken care of: for this reason I will send punishment on you for all your sins.
Darby Translation
You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore will I visit upon you all your iniquities.
Julia Smith Translation
You only did I know from all the families of the earth: for this I will review over you all your iniquities.
King James 2000
You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"You only have I {chosen} of all the clans of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
Modern King James verseion
You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
'You only have I accepted from all the generations of the earth: therefore will I visit you in all your wickednesses.
NET Bible
"I have chosen you alone from all the clans of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all your sins."
New Heart English Bible
"You only have I chosen of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins."
The Emphasized Bible
Only you, have I acknowledged, of all the families of the ground, For this cause, will I visit upon you all your iniquities.
Webster
You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
World English Bible
"You only have I chosen of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins."
Youngs Literal Translation
Only you I have known of all families of the land, Therefore I charge on you all your iniquities.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Amos 3:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Guilt And Punishment
1 Hear this word that LORD has spoken against you, O sons of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying, 2 You only I have known of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will visit upon you all your iniquities. 3 Shall two walk together unless they have agreed?
Names
Cross References
Deuteronomy 7:6
For thou are a holy people to LORD thy God. LORD thy God has chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.
Romans 2:9
pressure and restriction, upon every soul of man who produces evil, both of the Jew first, and of the Greek,
Exodus 19:5-6
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be my own possession from among all peoples, for all the earth is mine,
Deuteronomy 10:15
Only LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples as at this day.
Psalm 147:19
He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.
Daniel 9:12
And he has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil, for under the whole heaven has not been done as has been done upon Jerusalem.
Genesis 10:32
These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations. And from these the nations were divided on the earth after the flood.
Deuteronomy 26:18
And LORD has avouched thee this day to be a people for his own possession, as he has promised thee, and that thou should keep all his commandments,
Deuteronomy 32:9
For LORD's portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
Isaiah 63:19
We have become as those over whom thou never bore rule, as those who were not called by thy name.
Jeremiah 1:15
For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, says LORD. And they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls of it round about, and
Jeremiah 9:25
Behold, the days come, says LORD, that I will punish all those who are circumcised in [their] uncircumcision:
Jeremiah 10:25
Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name. For they have devoured Jacob. Yea, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
Jeremiah 11:22
Therefore thus says LORD of hosts: Behold, I will punish them. The young men shall die by the sword. Their sons and their daughters shall die by famine,
Jeremiah 13:21
What will thou say when he shall set over thee as head those whom thou thyself have taught to be friends to thee? Shall not sorrows take hold of thee as of a woman in travail?
Jeremiah 14:10
Thus says LORD to this people: Even so they have loved to wander. They have not restrained their feet. Therefore LORD does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.
Ezekiel 9:6
Kill utterly the old man, the young man, and the virgin, and little sons, and women, but come not near any man upon whom is the mark. And begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men who were before the house.
Ezekiel 20:36-38
Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, says lord LORD.
Hosea 2:13
And I will visit upon her the days of the Baalim, to which she burned incense when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, says LORD.
Hosea 8:13
As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it, but LORD does not accept them. He will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins. They shall return to Egypt.
Hosea 9:9
They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will visit their sins.
Nahum 3:4
because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, who sells nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
Zechariah 14:17-18
And it shall be, that of the families of the earth he who does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, LORD of hosts, upon them there shall be no rain.
Matthew 11:20-24
Then he began to upbraid the cities in which most of his mighty works occurred, because they did not repent.
Luke 12:47-48
And that bondman who knew his lord's will, and who did not prepare, nor do according to his will, will be beaten much,
Acts 17:26
And he made from one blood every nation of men to dwell upon all the face of the earth, having determined prescribed times, and the limits of their occupancy,
1 Peter 4:17
Because the time to begin judgment is from the house of God, and if first from us, what is the end of those who disobey the good-news of God?