Amos 9:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Even if they go deep into the underworld, my hand will take them up from there; if they go up to heaven, I will get them down:

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  • Jer 51:53 : 53 Even if Babylon was lifted up to heaven, even if she had the high places of her strength shut in with walls, still I would send against her those who will make her waste, says the Lord.
  • Obad 1:4 : 4 Though you go up on high like an eagle, though your house is placed among the stars, I will make you come down from there, says the Lord.
  • Ps 139:7-9 : 7 Where may I go from your spirit? how may I go in flight from you? 8 If I go up to heaven, you are there: or if I make my bed in the underworld, you are there. 9 If I take the wings of the morning, and go to the farthest parts of the sea; 10 Even there will I be guided by your hand, and your right hand will keep me.
  • Isa 2:19 : 19 And men will go into cracks of the rocks, and into holes of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.
  • Isa 14:13-16 : 13 For you said in your heart, I will go up to heaven, I will make my seat higher than the stars of God; I will take my place on the mountain of the meeting-place of the gods, in the inmost parts of the north. 14 I will go higher than the clouds; I will be like the Most High. 15 But you will come down to the underworld, even to its inmost parts. 16 Those who see you will be looking on you with care, they will be in deep thought, saying, Is this the troubler of the earth, the shaker of kingdoms?
  • Jer 49:16 : 16 ... the pride of your heart has been a false hope, O you who are living in the cracks of the rock, keeping your place on the top of the hill: even if you made your living-place as high as the eagle, I would make you come down, says the Lord.
  • Ezek 28:13-16 : 13 You were in Eden, the garden of God; every stone of great price was your clothing, the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the emerald and the carbuncle: your store-houses were full of gold, and things of great price were in you; in the day when you were made they were got ready. 14 I gave you your place with the winged one; I put you on the mountain of God; you went up and down among the stones of fire. 15 There has been no evil in your ways from the day when you were made, till sin was seen in you. 16 Through all your trading you have become full of violent ways, and have done evil: so I sent you out shamed from the mountain of God; the winged one put an end to you from among the stones of fire.
  • Job 20:6 : 6 Though he is lifted up to the heavens, and his head goes up to the clouds;
  • Job 26:6 : 6 The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil.
  • Luke 10:18 : 18 And he said, I was watching for Satan, falling from heaven like a star.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Amos 9:3-5
    3 verses
    84%

    3 Though they take cover on the top of Carmel, I will go in search of them and get them out; though they keep themselves from my eyes in the bed of the sea, I will give orders to the great snake there and he will give them a bite:

    4 And though they are taken away as prisoners by their attackers, even there will I give orders to the sword to put them to death: my eyes will be fixed on them for evil and not for good.

    5 For the Lord, the God of armies, is he at whose touch the land is turned to water, and everyone in it will be given up to sorrow; all of it will be overflowing like the River, and will go down again like the River of Egypt;

  • Ps 63:9
    78%

    9 But those whose desire is my soul's destruction will go down to the lower parts of the earth.

  • Amos 9:1
    75%

    1 I saw the Lord stationed by the side of the altar, giving blows to the tops of the pillars so that the doorsteps were shaking: and he said, I will let all of them be broken with earth-shocks; I will put the last of them to the sword: if any one of them goes in flight he will not get away, not one of them will be safe.

  • Ps 139:8-10
    3 verses
    74%

    8 If I go up to heaven, you are there: or if I make my bed in the underworld, you are there.

    9 If I take the wings of the morning, and go to the farthest parts of the sea;

    10 Even there will I be guided by your hand, and your right hand will keep me.

  • Isa 14:15
    74%

    15 But you will come down to the underworld, even to its inmost parts.

  • Isa 14:9
    74%

    9 The underworld is moved at your coming: the shades of the dead are awake before you, even the strong ones of the earth; all the kings of the world have got up from their seats.

  • Obad 1:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3 You have been tricked by the pride of your heart, O you whose living-place is in the cracks of the rock, whose house is high up; who has said in his heart, Who will make me come down to earth?

    4 Though you go up on high like an eagle, though your house is placed among the stars, I will make you come down from there, says the Lord.

  • Prov 1:12
    73%

    12 Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;

  • Hos 13:14
    73%

    14 I will give the price to make them free from the power of the underworld, I will be their saviour from death: O death! where are your pains? O underworld! where is your destruction? my eyes will have no pity.

  • Isa 10:4
    73%

    4 ... For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

  • Ezek 26:20
    73%

    20 Then I will make you go down with those who go down into the underworld, to the people of the past, causing your living-place to be in the deepest parts of the earth, in places long unpeopled, with those who go down into the deep, so that there will be no one living in you; and you will have no glory in the land of the living.

  • Ps 9:15
    73%

    15 The nations have gone down into the hole which they made: in their secret net is their foot taken.

  • Hos 7:12-13
    2 verses
    73%

    12 When they go, my net will be stretched out over them; I will take them like the birds of heaven, I will give them punishment, I will take them away in the net for their sin.

    13 May trouble be theirs! for they have gone far away from me; and destruction, for they have been sinning against me; I was ready to be their saviour, but they said false words against me.

  • Ps 55:15
    73%

    15 Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.

  • Ps 140:10
    73%

    10 Let burning flames come down on them: let them be put into the fire, and into deep waters, so that they may not get up again.

  • Jonah 2:6
    73%

    6 The waters were circling round me, even to the neck; the deep was about me; the sea-grass was twisted round my head.

  • Jer 9:9
    72%

    9 Am I not to send punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?

  • Ezek 31:17
    72%

    17 And they will go down with him to the underworld, to those who have been put to the sword; even those who were his helpers, living under his shade among the nations

  • 1 Sam 2:6
    72%

    6 The Lord is the giver of death and life: sending men down to the underworld and lifting them up.

  • Jer 11:11
    72%

    11 So the Lord has said, I will send evil on them, which they will not be able to get away from; and they will send up a cry for help to me, but I will not give ear to them.

  • Amos 9:8-10
    3 verses
    72%

    8 See, the eyes of the Lord are on the evil kingdom, and I will put an end to it in all the earth; but I will not send complete destruction on Jacob, says the Lord.

    9 For see, I will give orders, and I will have Israel moved about among all the nations, as grain is moved about by the shaking of the tray, but not the smallest seed will be dropped on the earth.

    10 All those sinners among my people will be put to the sword who say, Evil will not overtake us or come face to face with us.

  • Job 28:9
    72%

    9 Man puts out his hand on the hard rock, overturning mountains by the roots.

  • Jer 18:22
    72%

    22 Let a cry for help go up from their houses, when you send an armed band on them suddenly: for they have made a hole in which to take me, and have put nets for my feet secretly.

  • Ps 21:9
    72%

    9 You will make them like a flaming oven before you; the Lord in his wrath will put an end to them, and they will be burned up in the fire.

  • Ezek 28:8
    72%

    8 They will send you down to the underworld, and your death will be the death of those who are put to the sword in the heart of the seas.

  • Deut 32:22
    72%

    22 For my wrath is a flaming fire, burning to the deep parts of the underworld, burning up the earth with her increase, and firing the deep roots of the mountains.

  • Hos 9:6
    71%

    6 For see, they are going away into Assyria; Egypt will get them together, Memphis will be their last resting-place; their fair silver vessels will be covered over with field plants, and thorns will come up in their tents.

  • Isa 25:12
    71%

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

  • Ps 57:6
    71%

    6 They have made ready a net for my steps; my soul is bent down; they have made a great hole before me, and have gone down into it themselves. (Selah.)

  • Isa 5:14
    71%

    14 For this cause the underworld has made wide its throat, opening its mouth without limit: and her glory, and the noise of her masses, and her loud-voiced feasters, will go down into it.

  • Jer 49:16
    71%

    16 ... the pride of your heart has been a false hope, O you who are living in the cracks of the rock, keeping your place on the top of the hill: even if you made your living-place as high as the eagle, I would make you come down, says the Lord.

  • Ps 18:38
    71%

    38 I will give them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.

  • Isa 31:2
    71%

    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.

  • 2 Sam 22:39
    71%

    39 I have sent destruction on them and given them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.

  • Ezek 12:13
    71%

    13 And my net will be stretched out on him, and he will be taken in my cords: and I will take him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldaeans; but he will not see it, and there death will come to him.

  • Jer 9:16
    71%

    16 And I will send them wandering among the nations, among people strange to them and to their fathers: and I will send the sword after them till I have put an end to them.

  • Ps 73:9
    71%

    9 Their mouth goes up to heaven; their tongues go walking through the earth.

  • Neh 1:9
    70%

    9 But if you come back to me and keep my orders and do them, even if those of you who have been forced out are living in the farthest parts of heaven, I will get them from there, and take them back to the place marked out by me for the resting-place of my name.

  • 1 Sam 24:13
    70%

    13 May the Lord be judge between me and you, and may the Lord give me my rights against you, but my hand will never be lifted up against you.

  • Ezek 21:31
    70%

    31 And I will let loose my burning passion on you, breathing out on you the fire of my wrath: and I will give you up into the hands of men like beasts, trained to destruction.

  • Ezek 31:11
    70%

    11 I have given him up into the hands of a strong one of the nations; he will certainly give him the reward of his sin, driving him out.

  • Lam 3:66
    70%

    66 You will go after them in wrath, and put an end to them from under the heavens of the Lord.