Amos 1:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have threshed Gilead with instruments of iron:

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    Thus says the LORD: 'For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke punishment, because they threshed Gilead with sharp implements of iron.'

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Dascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Thus saith{H559} Jehovah:{H3068} For three{H7969} transgressions{H6588} of Damascus,{H1834} yea, for four,{H702} I will not turn away{H7725} the punishment thereof; because they have threshed{H1758} Gilead{H1568} with threshing instruments{H2742} of iron:{H1270}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Thus saith{H559}{(H8804)} the LORD{H3068}; For three{H7969} transgressions{H6588} of Damascus{H1834}, and for four{H702}, I will not turn away{H7725}{(H8686)} the punishment thereof; because they have threshed{H1758}{(H8800)} Gilead{H1568} with threshing instruments{H2742} of iron{H1270}:

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Thus sayeth the LORDE: for thre & foure wickednesses of Damascus, I will not spare her: because they haue thro?hed Galaad wt yro flales:

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Thus saith the Lord, For three transgressions of Damascus, and for foure I will not turne to it, because they haue threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of yron.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Thus sayth the Lord, For three wickednesses of Damascus, and for foure I will not spare her: because they haue threshed Gilead with iron flales.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    ¶ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; Because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron;

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus, And for four, I do not reverse it, Because of their threshing Gilead with sharp-pointed irons,

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Damascus, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have been crushing Gilead with iron grain-crushing instruments.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron;

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    This is what the LORD says:“Because Damascus has committed three crimes– make that four!– I will not revoke my decree of judgment. They ripped through Gilead like threshing sledges with iron teeth.

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 8:4 : 4 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.
  • Amos 1:9 : 9 Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and did not remember the brotherly covenant:
  • Amos 2:6 : 6 Thus says the LORD: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes:
  • Amos 1:13 : 13 Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they ripped up the pregnant women of Gilead to enlarge their border:
  • Amos 2:1 : 1 Thus says the LORD: For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
  • Amos 2:4 : 4 Thus says the LORD: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept His commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after which their fathers walked:
  • Jer 49:23-27 : 23 Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded and Arpad, for they have heard bad news: they are fainthearted; there is anxiety on the sea; it cannot be still. 24 Damascus has become feeble, and turns herself to flee, and fear has seized her: anguish and sorrows have taken her like a woman in labor. 25 How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy! 26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, says the LORD of hosts. 27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Ben-Hadad.
  • Amos 1:6 : 6 Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:
  • Isa 17:1-3 : 1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a heap of ruins. 2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and no one shall make them afraid. 3 The fortress shall also cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria; they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, says the LORD of hosts.
  • Amos 1:11 : 11 Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity, and his anger tore perpetually, and he kept his wrath forever:
  • 2 Kgs 8:12 : 12 And Hazael said, "Why does my lord weep?" And he answered, "Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel: their strongholds you will set on fire, and their young men you will slay with the sword, and will dash their children, and rip up their women with child."
  • 2 Kgs 10:32-33 : 32 In those days the LORD began to reduce the size of Israel: and Hazael defeated them throughout the territory of Israel; 33 From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.
  • Zech 9:1 : 1 The burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be its resting place: when the eyes of humanity, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the LORD.
  • 1 Kgs 19:17 : 17 And it shall come to pass, that whoever escapes the sword of Hazael, Jehu shall slay; and whoever escapes the sword of Jehu, Elisha shall slay.
  • 2 Kgs 13:3 : 3 The anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad, the son of Hazael, all their days.
  • 2 Kgs 13:7 : 7 He left to Jehoahaz of the people only fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers; for the king of Syria had destroyed them and made them like the dust by threshing.
  • Job 5:19 : 19 He shall deliver you in six troubles: yes, in seven no evil shall touch you.
  • Job 19:3 : 3 These ten times you have reproached me; you are not ashamed that you make yourselves strange to me.
  • Prov 6:16 : 16 These six things the LORD hates: yes, seven are an abomination to him:
  • Eccl 11:2 : 2 Give a portion to seven, and also to eight, for you do not know what evil will be on the earth.
  • Isa 7:8 : 8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken, that it will not be a people.
  • Isa 41:15 : 15 Behold, I will make you a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: you shall thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shall make the hills as chaff.

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    9 Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and did not remember the brotherly covenant:

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