Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
"You only have I {chosen} of all the clans of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for 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.'"
A Conservative Version
You only I have known of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will visit upon you 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.
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 Yahweh has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole clan that I brought up from the land of Egypt: 2 "You only have I {chosen} of all the clans of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities. 3 Do two walk together unless they have met?
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 7:6
For you [are] a holy people for Yahweh your God; Yahweh your God has chosen you to be for him a people, a treasured possession from [among] all the peoples that [are] on the face of the earth.
Romans 2:9
[There will be] affliction and distress for every {human being} who does evil, of the Jew first and of the Greek,
Exodus 19:5-6
And now if you will carefully listen to my voice and keep my covenant, you will be a treasured possession for me out of all the peoples, {for all the earth is mine},
Deuteronomy 10:15
{Yet} to your ancestors Yahweh was very attached, [so as to] love them, and [so] he chose their offspring after them, [namely] you, from all the peoples, as it is {today}.
Psalm 147:19
[He] declares his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.
Daniel 9:12
And [so] he [has] carried out his words which he spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled us, to bring upon us great calamity which was not done under all [of] heaven as it was done in Jerusalem.
Genesis 10:32
These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations [and] in their nations. And from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood.
Deuteronomy 26:18
And Yahweh [has] declared you {today} to be for him as a people, a treasured possession, as he {promised} to you, and [that you are] to observe all his commandments,
Deuteronomy 32:9
For Yahweh's portion [was] his people, Jacob the share of his inheritance.
Isaiah 63:19
We have been since antiquity; you did not rule them; {they were not called by your name}.
Jeremiah 1:15
For, look, I [am] calling to all [the] clans of [the] kingdoms of [the] north," {declares} Yahweh, "and they will come and set each one his throne [at] the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its surrounding walls, and against all the cities of Judah.
Jeremiah 9:25
"Look, days [are] coming," {declares} Yahweh, "and I will call into account all those who are circumcised in [the] foreskin:
Jeremiah 10:25
Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not know you, and on [the] peoples that do not call on your name, for they have devoured Jacob, they have devoured and consumed him, and they have caused his settlement to be desolate.
Jeremiah 11:22
{Therefore} thus says Yahweh of hosts: "Look, I [am about to] punish them. The young men will die by the sword. Their sons and their daughters will die by the famine.
Jeremiah 13:21
What will you say when he sets over you-- and you have taught them--allies as head over you? Will not labor pains take hold of you, like a woman giving birth?
Jeremiah 14:10
Thus says Yahweh concerning this people: "They have loved so much to wander, they have not spared their feet. Therefore Yahweh is not favorable to them, now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins."
Ezekiel 9:6
You must kill {totally} old man, young man and young woman, and little children and women, but {concerning} every man {with the mark on him} you must not approach; and from my sanctuary you must begin." And they began with the old men who {were before} the house.
Ezekiel 20:36-38
{Just as} I executed justice on your ancestors in the desert of the land of Egypt, likewise I will execute justice on you!" {declares} the Lord Yahweh.
Hosea 2:13
{I will punish her} [for] the days of the Baals, to whom she burns incense, and she decked herself [with] her ornamental ring and jewelry, and she went after her lovers, and forgot me --a declaration of Yahweh.
Hosea 8:13
They offer sacrifices of my choice and they eat flesh; Yahweh does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins; they will return [to] Egypt.
Hosea 9:9
{They deeply corrupted themselves} as [in] the days of Gibeah; he will remember their sin, he will punish their sins.
Nahum 3:4
"Because of the many idolatries of [the] prostitute, the beautiful charm [of] a mistress of witchcraft, she who enslaves nations by her harlotries, and peoples by her sorceries,
Zechariah 14:17-18
{And then} whoever of the clans of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the king, Yahweh of hosts, it will not rain on them.
Matthew 11:20-24
Then he began to reproach the towns in which the majority of his miracles had been done, because they did not repent:
Luke 12:47-48
And that slave who knew the will of his master and did not prepare or do according to his will {will be given a severe beating}.
Acts 17:26
And he made from one [man] every nation of humanity to live on all the face of the earth, determining [their] fixed times and the fixed boundaries of their habitation,
1 Peter 4:17
For [it is] the time for the judgment to begin out from the household of God. But if [it begins] out from us first, what will be the outcome for those who are disobedient to the gospel of God?