Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Amos 3:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Guilt And Punishment
1 Hear, what the LORD speaketh unto you, O ye children of Israel: namely, unto all the tribes, whom I brought out of Egypt, and said, 2 'You only have I accepted from all the generations of the earth: therefore will I visit you in all your wickednesses. 3 May twain walk together except they be agreed among themselves?
Names
Cross References
Deuteronomy 7:6
For thou art a holy nation unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a several people unto himself of all nations that are upon the earth.
Romans 2:9
tribulation and anguish, upon the soul of every man that doth evil. Of the Jew first: And also of the gentile.
Exodus 19:5-6
Now therefore if ye will hear my voice and keep mine covenant: ye shall be mine own above all nations, for all the earth is mine.
Deuteronomy 10:15
only the LORD had a lust unto thy fathers to love them, and therefore chose you their seed after them of all nations, as it is come to pass this day.
Psalm 147:19
He showeth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and ordinances unto Israel.
Daniel 9:12
And he hath performed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us: to bring upon us such a great plague, as never was under heaven, like as it is now come to pass in Jerusalem.
Genesis 10:32
These are the kindreds of the sons of Noah, in their generations and nations. And of these came the people that were in the world after the flood.
Deuteronomy 26:18
And the LORD hath set thee up this day, to be a several people unto him - as he hath promised thee - and that thou keep his commandments,
Deuteronomy 32:9
For the LORD's part is his folk, and Israel is the portion of his inheritance.
Isaiah 63:19
And we are become even as we were from the beginning: but thou art not their LORD, for they have not called upon thy name.
Jeremiah 1:15
For lo, I will call all the officers of the kingdoms of the north, sayeth the LORD. And they shall come, and every one shall set his seat in the gates of Jerusalem, and in all their walls round about and through all the cities of Judah.
Jeremiah 9:25
"Behold, the time cometh," sayeth the LORD, "that I will visit all them whose foreskin is uncircumcised.
Jeremiah 10:25
Pour out thine indignation rather upon the Gentiles, that know thee not, and upon the people that call not on thy name: And that because they have consumed, devoured and destroyed Jacob, and have rooted out his glory.
Jeremiah 11:22
Thus, I say, spake the LORD of Hosts, "Behold, I will visit you. Your young men shall perish with the sword; your sons and your daughters shall utterly die of hunger,
Jeremiah 13:21
To whom will thou make thy moan, when they come upon thee? For thou hast taught them thyself, and made them masters over thee. Shall not sorrow come upon thee, as on a woman travailing with child?
Jeremiah 14:10
Then spake the LORD, concerning this people that have pleasure to go so nimbly with their feet, and leave not off, and therefore displease the LORD; insomuch that he will now bring again to remembrance all their misdeeds, and punish all their sins.
Ezekiel 9:6
kill and destroy both old man and young, maidens, children and wives. But as for those, that have the mark upon them: see that ye touch them not. And begin at my Sanctuary." Then they began at the elders, which were in the temple,
Ezekiel 20:36-38
Like as I punished your forefathers in the wilderness, so will I punish you also, sayeth the LORD God.
Hosea 2:13
I will punish her also for the days of Baal, wherein she censed him, decking him with her earrings and chains: when she followed her lovers, and forgat me, sayeth the LORD.
Hosea 8:13
Whereas they do sacrifice, offering the flesh and eating it, the LORD will have no pleasure therein: but will remember their wickedness, and punish their sins. Israel turneth again into Egypt:
Hosea 9:9
They be gone too far, and have destroyed themselves, like as they did afore time at Gibeah. Therefore their wickedness shall be remembered, and their sins punished.
Nahum 3:4
And that for the great and manifold whoredom of the fair and beautiful harlot: which is a mistress of witchcraft, yea and selleth the people through her whoredom, and the nations through her witchcraft.
Zechariah 14:17-18
And look: what generation upon earth goeth not up to Jerusalem for to worship the King, even the LORD of Hosts: upon the same shall come no rain.
Matthew 11:20-24
Then began he to upbraid the cities, in which most of his miracles were done, because they repented not:
Luke 12:47-48
The servant that knew his master's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.
Acts 17:26
and hath made of one blood all nations of men, for to dwell on all the face of the earth; and hath assigned before: how long time, and also the ends of their inhabitation.
1 Peter 4:17
For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God. If it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them which believe not the gospel of God?