Amos 5:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Who sends sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the walled town.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 13:17 : 17 Then he said; Let the window be open to the east: and he got it open. Then Elisha said, Let the arrow go; and he let it go. And he said, The Lord's arrow of salvation, of salvation over Aram; for you will overcome the Aramaeans in Aphek and put an end to them.
  • 2 Kgs 13:25 : 25 And Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz, took again from Ben-hadad, the son of Hazael, the towns which he had taken from Jehoahaz his father in war. Three times Jehoash overcame him and got back the towns of Israel.
  • Jer 37:10 : 10 For even if you had overcome all the army of the Chaldaeans fighting against you, and there were only wounded men among them, still they would get up, every man in his tent, and put this town on fire.
  • Mic 5:11 : 11 I will put an end to your use of secret arts, and you will have no more readers of signs:
  • Heb 11:34 : 34 Put out the power of fire, got safely away from the edge of the sword, were made strong when they had been feeble, became full of power in war, and put to flight the armies of the nations.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 See on the mountains the feet of him who comes with good news, giving word of peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah, give effect to your oaths: for the good-for-nothing man will never again go through you; he is completely cut off.

  • 11 For this reason, says the Lord, an attacker will come, shutting in the land on every side; and your strength will come down and your great houses will be made waste.

  • 21 He puts shame on chiefs, and takes away the power of the strong;

  • 5 Gone is the wealth of the strong, their last sleep has overcome them; the men of war have become feeble.

  • 23 For the Lord will give support to their cause, and take the life of those who take their goods.

  • 8 Go for help to him who makes Orion and the Pleiades, by whom the deep dark is turned into morning, who makes the day black with night; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, sending them out over the face of the earth: the Lord is his name;

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    21 When the strong man armed keeps watch over his house, then his goods are safe:

    22 But when one who is stronger makes an attack on him and overcomes him, he takes away his instruments of war, in which he had put his faith, and makes division of his goods.

  • 19 He makes priests prisoners, overturning those in safe positions;

  • 12 And the strong tower of your walls has been broken by him, made low, and crushed even to the dust.

  • 2 Though he is wise, and able to send evil, and his purpose will not be changed; but he will go against the house of the evil-doers, and against those to whom they are looking for help.

  • Ps 89:40-41
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    40 All his walls are broken down; you have given his strong towers to destruction.

    41 All those who come by take away his goods; he is laughed at by his neighbours.

  • Nah 1:8-9
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    8 But like water overflowing he will take them away; he will put an end to those who come up against him, driving his haters into the dark.

    9 What are you designing against the Lord? he will put an end to it: his haters will not come up again a second time.

  • 25 For he has knowledge of their works, overturning them in the night, so that they are crushed.

  • 2 See, the Lord has a strong and cruel one; like a rain of ice, a storm of destruction, like the overflowing of a strong river, he will violently overcome them.

  • 4 The bows of the men of war are broken, and the feeble are clothed with strength.

  • 29 The way of the Lord is a strong tower for the upright man, but destruction to the workers of evil.

  • 5 Up! let us go up by night, and send destruction on her great houses.

  • 6 And a spirit of wisdom to the judge, and strength to those who keep back the attackers at the door of the town.

  • 9 He will put up his engines of war against your walls, and your towers will be broken down by his axes.

  • 10 He makes little of kings, rulers are a sport to him; all the strong places are to be laughed at; for he makes earthworks and takes them.

  • 17 The Lord has done that which was his purpose; he has put into force the orders which he gave in the days which are past; pulling down without pity, he has made your hater glad over you, lifting up the horn of those who were against you.

  • 4 For you have been a strong place for the poor and the crushed in their trouble, a safe place from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the wrath of the cruel ones is like a winter storm.

  • 14 In the evening there is fear, and in the morning they are gone. This is the fate of those who take our goods, and the reward of those who violently take our property for themselves.

  • 30 And his voice will be loud over him in that day like the sounding of the sea: and if a man's eyes are turned to the earth, it is all dark and full of trouble; and the light is made dark by thick clouds.

  • 5 The war-carriages are rushing through the streets, pushing against one another in the wide ways, looking like burning lights, running like thunder-flames.

  • Job 9:5-6
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    5 It is he who takes away the mountains without their knowledge, overturning them in his wrath:

    6 Who is moving the earth out of its place, so that its pillars are shaking:

  • 17 Get your goods together and go out of the land, O you who are shut up in the walled town.

  • 10 For you have taken my silver and my gold, putting in the houses of your gods my beautiful and pleasing things.

  • 10 The upright are crushed and made low, and the feeble are overcome by his strong ones.

  • 23 Your cords have become loose; they were not able to make strong the support of their sails, the sail was not stretched out: then the blind will take much property, the feeble-footed will make division of the goods of war.

  • 7 The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him.

  • 27 But no one is able to go into the house of the strong man and take his goods, without first putting cords round the strong man, and then he will take his goods.

  • 37 And there is no sound in the fields of peace, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.

  • 10 They have hate for him who makes protest against evil in the public place, and he whose words are upright is disgusting to them.

  • 16 Their arrows give certain death, they are all men of war.

  • 9 He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the evil-doers will come to their end in the dark night, for by strength no man will overcome.

  • 15 And from the evil-doers their light is kept back, and the arm of pride is broken.

  • 1 Ho! you who make waste those who did not make you waste; acting falsely to those who were not false to you. When you have come to an end of wasting, you will be made waste, and after your false acts, they will do the same to you.

  • 22 A wise man goes up into the town of the strong ones, and overcomes its strength in which they put their faith.

  • 2 Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.

  • 14 And flight will be impossible for the quick-footed, and the force of the strong will become feeble, and the man of war will not get away safely:

  • 12 To take their property by force and go off with their goods; turning your hand against the waste places which now are peopled, and against the people who have been got together out of the nations, who have got cattle and goods for themselves, who are living in the middle of the earth.

  • 3 If the bases are broken down, what is the upright man to do?

  • 5 If thieves came, attacking you by night, (how are you cut off!) would they not go on taking till they had enough? if men came cutting your grapes would they take them all?

  • 5 The Lord has become like one fighting against her, sending destruction on Israel; he has sent destruction on all her great houses, making waste his strong places: increasing the grief and the sorrow of the daughter of Judah.

  • 29 Or how may one go into a strong man's house and take his goods, if he does not first put cords round the strong man? and then he may take his goods.