Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
For, behold, LORD commands, and the great house shall be smitten with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
New American Standard Bible
For behold, the Lord is going to
King James Version
For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
Holman Bible
For the Lord commands:
and the small house to rubble.
International Standard Version
For indeed, the LORD is giving the command and he will smash the large house to rubble and the small house into bits.
American Standard Version
For, behold, Jehovah commandeth, and the great house shall be smitten with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
Amplified
For behold, the Lord is going to command that the great house be smashed to pieces and the small house to fragments.
Bible in Basic English
For see, at the order of the Lord the great house will be full of cracks and the little house will be broken.
Darby Translation
For behold, Jehovah commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
Julia Smith Translation
For behold, Jehovah commands, and he struck the great house with breaches, and the small house with clefts.
King James 2000
For, behold, the LORD commands, and he will strike the great house into pieces, and the little house into bits.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Look, Yahweh [is] going to command and the great house will be destroyed [to] bits and the little house [to] pieces.
Modern King James verseion
For, behold, Jehovah commands, and He will strike the great house into pieces, and the little house into cracks.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Behold, the LORD is minded to smite the great houses, so that they shall decay: and the little houses, that they shall cleave asunder.
NET Bible
Indeed, look! The Lord is giving the command. He will smash the large house to bits, and the small house into little pieces.
New Heart English Bible
"For, behold, the LORD commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, and the little house into bits.
The Emphasized Bible
For lo! Yahweh, is giving command, and will smite the great house into ruins, - and the little house with clefts.
Webster
For behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
World English Bible
"For, behold, Yahweh commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, and the little house into bits.
Youngs Literal Translation
For lo, Jehovah is commanding, And He hath smitten the great house with breaches, And the little house with clefts.
Interlinear
Tsavah
References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Amos 6:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh Abhors Israel's Pride
10 And when a man's uncle shall take him up, even he who burns him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say to him who is in the innermost parts of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No, then he sh 11 For, behold, LORD commands, and the great house shall be smitten with breaches, and the little house with clefts. 12 Shall horses run upon the rock? Will [a man] plow [there] with oxen? That ye have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,
Phrases
Cross References
Amos 3:15
And I will smite the winter house with the summer house, and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, says LORD.
Isaiah 55:11
so shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth. It shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please. And it shall prosper in the thing to which I sent it.
2 Kings 25:9
And he burnt the house of LORD, and the king's house. And all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burnt with fire.
Psalm 105:16
And he called for a famine upon the land. He broke the whole staff of bread.
Psalm 105:31
He spoke, and there came swarms of flies, and lice in all their borders.
Psalm 105:34
He spoke, and the locust came, and the grasshopper, and that without number,
Ecclesiastes 10:18
By slothfulness the roof sinks in, and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.
Isaiah 10:5-6
Ho, Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!
Isaiah 13:3
I have commanded my consecrated ones, yea, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.
Isaiah 46:10-11
declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not [yet] done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure,
Ezekiel 29:18-20
Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre. Every head was made bald, and every shoulder was worn, yet he had no wages, nor his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had serv
Hosea 13:16
Samaria shall bear her guilt, for she has rebelled against her God. They shall fall by the sword. Their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
Amos 3:6-7
Shall the trumpet be blown in a city, and the people not be afraid? Shall evil befall a city, and LORD has not done it?
Amos 6:8
Lord LORD has sworn by himself, says LORD, the God of hosts: I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces, therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is therein.
Amos 9:1
I saw LORD standing beside the altar. And he said, Smite the capitals, that the thresholds may shake, and break them in pieces on the head of all of them, and I will kill the last of them with the sword. There shall not one of them
Amos 9:9
For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, just as [grain] is sifted in a sieve, yet the least kernel shall not fall upon the earth.
Nahum 1:14
And LORD has given commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown. Out of the house of thy gods I will cut off the graven image and the molten image. I will make thy grave, for thou are vile.
Zechariah 14:2
For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle. And the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished, and half of the city shall go forth into captivity. And the residue of the people shall not be c
Luke 19:44
And they will raze thee and thy children within thee. And they will not leave in thee a stone upon a stone, because thou knew not the time of thy visitation.