Amos 6:8

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The Lord God hath sworne by himselfe, saith the Lord God of hostes, I abhorre the excellencie of Iaakob, & hate his palaces: therefore wil I deliuer vp the citie with all that is therein.

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  • Jer 51:14 : 14 The Lord of hostes hath sworne by him selfe, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers, and they shall cry and shoute against thee.
  • Amos 4:2 : 2 The Lord God hath sworne by his holines, that loe, the dayes shal come vpon you, that hee wil take you away with thornes, & your posteritie with fish hookes.
  • Amos 8:7 : 7 The Lorde hath sworne by the excellencie of Iaakob, Surely I will neuer forget any of their workes.
  • Amos 3:11 : 11 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, An aduersary shall come euen rounde about the countrey, and shall bring downe thy strength fro thee, and thy palaces shalbe spoyled.
  • Ps 47:4 : 4 Hee hath chosen our inheritance for vs: euen the glory of Iaakob whom he loued. Selah.
  • Jer 22:5 : 5 But if ye will not heare these wordes, I sweare by my selfe, saith the Lorde, that this House shalbe waste.
  • Ps 106:40 : 40 Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, and he abhorred his owne inheritance.
  • Ps 50:12 : 12 If I bee hungry, I will not tell thee: for the world is mine, and all that therein is.
  • Ps 78:59 : 59 God heard this and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel,
  • Gen 22:16 : 16 And saide, By my selfe haue I sworne (saith ye Lord) because thou hast done this thing, and hast not spared thine onely sonne,
  • Lev 26:11 : 11 And I will set my Tabernacle among you, and my soule shall not lothe you.
  • Lev 26:30 : 30 I will also destroy your hye places, & cut away your images, and cast your carkeises vpon the bodies of your idoles, and my soule shall abhorre you.
  • Deut 32:19 : 19 The Lorde then sawe it, and was angrie, for the prouocation of his sonnes and of his daughters.
  • Lam 2:5 : 5 The Lord was as an enemie: he hath deuoured Israel, and consumed all his palaces: hee hath destroyed his strong holdes, and hath increased in the daughter of Iudah lamentation and mourning.
  • Ezek 24:21 : 21 Speake vnto the house of Israel, Thus sayth the Lord God, Behold, I will pollute my Sanctuarie, euen the pride of your power, the pleasure of your eyes, and your hearts desire, and your sonnes, and your daughters whom ye haue left, shall fall by the sworde.
  • Mic 1:6-9 : 6 Therefore I wil make Samaria as an heape of the fielde, and for the planting of a vineyard, and I will cause the stones thereof to tumble downe into the valley, and I will discouer the foundations thereof. 7 And all the grauen images thereof shalbe broken, and all the giftes thereof shalbe burnt with the fire, and all the idoles thereof will I destroy: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shal returne to the wages of an harlot. 8 Therefore I will mourne and howle: I wil goe without clothes, and naked: I will make lamentation like the dragons, and mourning as the ostriches. 9 For her plagues are grieuous: for it is come into Iudah: the enemie is come vnto the gate of my people, vnto Ierusalem.
  • Zech 11:8 : 8 Three shepherdes also I cut off in one moneth, and my soule lothed them, and their soule abhorred me.
  • Heb 6:13-17 : 13 For when God made the promise to Abraham, because he had no greater to sweare by, he sware by himselfe, 14 Saying, Surely I wil aboundantly blesse thee and multiplie thee marueilously. 15 And so after that he had taried patiently, he enioyed the promes. 16 For men verely sweare by him that is greater then themselues, and an othe for confirmation is among them an ende of all strife. 17 So God, willing more aboundantly to shew vnto the heires of promes the stablenes of his counsell, bound himselfe by an othe,

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    2The Lord hath destroyed al the habitations of Iaakob, & not spared: he hath throwen downe in his wrath ye strong holds of the daughter of Iudah: he hath cast the downe to ye ground: he hath polluted the kingdome and the princes thereof.

    3Hee hath cut off in his fierce wrath all the horne of Israel: he hath drawen backe his right hand from before the enemie, & there was kindled in Iaakob like a flame of fire, which deuoured rounde about.

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    8Beholde, the eyes of the Lord God are vpon the sinfull kingdome, and I will destroy it cleane out of the earth. Neuerthelesse I will not vtterly destroy the house of Iaakob, saith the Lord.

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