Amos 6:11

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Summary

Amos 6:11

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

The lord

He will

Breaches

Ecclesiastes 10:18

General references

Jeremiah 9:21

Bible References

The lord

If a trumpet is blown in a city will not the people tremble?
If a calamity occurs in a city has not the Lord done it?

I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said,
“Smite the capitals so that the thresholds will shake,
And break them on the heads of them all!
Then I will slay the rest of them with the sword;
They will not have a fugitive who will flee,
Or a refugee who will escape.

And He called for a famine upon the land;
He broke the whole staff of bread.

Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger
And the staff in whose hands is My indignation,

I have commanded My consecrated ones,
I have even called My mighty warriors,
My proudly exulting ones,
To execute My anger.

Declaring the end from the beginning,
And from ancient times things which have not been done,
Saying, ‘My purpose will be established,
And I will accomplish all My good pleasure’;

So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth;
It will not return to Me empty,
Without accomplishing what I desire,
And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.

“Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre; every head was made bald and every shoulder was rubbed bare. But he and his army had no wages from Tyre for the labor that he had performed against it.”

The Lord has issued a command concerning you:
“Your name will no longer be perpetuated.
I will cut off

idol and image

From the house of your gods.
I will prepare your grave,
For you are contemptible.”

He will

The Lord God has sworn by Himself, the Lord God of hosts has declared:
“I loathe the arrogance of Jacob,
And detest his citadels;
Therefore I will deliver up the city and all it contains.”

“I will also smite the

winter house together with the summer house;

The houses of

ivory will also perish

And the great houses will come to an end,”
Declares the Lord.

He burned the house of the Lord, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every great house he burned with fire.

Samaria will be held guilty,

For she has rebelled against her God.

They will fall by the sword,

Their little ones will be dashed in pieces,
And their pregnant women will be ripped open.

For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city will be captured, the houses plundered, the women ravished and half of the city exiled, but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.

and they will level you to the ground and your children within you, and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.”

Breaches

Through indolence the rafters sag, and through slackness the house leaks.

General references

For death has come up through our windows;
It has entered our palaces
To cut off the children from the streets,
The young men from the town squares.