Parallel Verses
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.
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.
A Conservative Version
For, behold, LORD commands, and the great house shall be smitten with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
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.
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
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Amos 6:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh Abhors Israel's Pride
10 So their next kinfolks and the dead buriers shall take them, and carry away their bones, and say unto him that is in the innermore house, 'Is there yet any more by thee?' And he shall answer, 'They are all gone. Hold thy tongue,' shall he say. For they would not remember the name of the LORD. 11 Behold, the LORD is minded to smite the great houses, so that they shall decay: and the little houses, that they shall cleave asunder. 12 Who can run with horses, or plow with oxen upon the hard rocks of stone? For why? Ye have turned true judgment into bitterness, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood.
Phrases
Cross References
Amos 3:15
As for the winter house and summer house, I will smite them down: and the houses of Ivory, yea and many other houses shall perish, and be destroyed,' sayeth the LORD."
Isaiah 55:11
So the word also that cometh out of my mouth shall not turn again void unto me, but shall accomplish my will and prosper in the thing, whereto I sent it.
2 Kings 25:9
and burnt the house of the LORD and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the great houses burnt he with fire.
Psalm 105:16
Moreover he called for a dearth upon the land, and destroyed all the provision of bread.
Psalm 105:31
He spake the word, and there came all manner of flies and lice in all their quarters.
Psalm 105:34
He spake the word, and the grasshoppers came, and caterpillars innumerable,
Ecclesiastes 10:18
Through slothfulness the balks fall down, and through idle hands it raineth in at the house.
Isaiah 10:5-6
Woe be also unto Assyria, which is a staff of my wrath, in whose hand is the rod of my punishment.
Isaiah 13:3
For I will send for my deputies and my giants, sayeth the LORD, and in my wrath I will call for such as triumph in my glory.
Isaiah 46:10-11
In the beginning of a thing, I show the end thereof: and I tell before, things that are not yet come to pass. With one word is my device accomplished, and fulfilleth all my pleasure.
Ezekiel 29:18-20
"O thou son of man, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon hath made his host, with great travail and labour to come before Tyre: that every head may be bald, and every shoulder bare. Yet hath Tyre given neither him nor his host any reward, for the great travail that he hath taken there.
Hosea 13:16
As for Samaria, they shall be made waste. And why? They are disobedient unto their God. They shall perish with the sword, their children shall be slain, and their women great with child shall be ripped up.
Amos 3:6-7
Cry they out Alarum with the trumpet in the city, and the people not afraid? Cometh there any plague in a city without it be the LORD's doing?
Amos 6:8
"'The LORD God hath sworn even by himself,' sayeth the LORD God of hosts, 'I hate the pride of Jacob, and I abhor his palaces: and I will give over the city, with all that is therein:
Amos 9:1
I saw the LORD standing upon the altar, and he said, "Smite the door check, that the posts may shake withal. For their covetousness shall fall upon all their heads, and their posterity shall be slain with the sword. They shall not flee away, there shall not one of them escape, nor be delivered.
Amos 9:9
For lo, this I promise: though I sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as they use to sift in a sieve: yet shall not the smallest gravel stone fall upon the earth.
Nahum 1:14
But the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that there shall come no more seed of thy name. The carved and casten Images will I root out of the house of thy God. Thy grave shall I prepare for thee, and thou shalt be confounded.
Zechariah 14:2
For I will gather together all the Heathen, to fight against Jerusalem: so that the city shall be won, the houses spoiled, and the women defiled. The half of the city shall go away into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be carried out of the city.
Luke 19:44
And make thee even with the ground, with thy children which are in thee. And they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another, because thou knowest not the time of thy visitation."