Amos 5:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

That strengthens the plundered against the strong, so that the plundered shall come against the fortress.

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  • 2 Kgs 13:17 : 17 He said, "Open the window eastward." And he opened it. Then Elisha said, "Shoot." And he shot. He said, "The arrow of the LORD'S deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria; for you shall smite the Syrians in Aphek, until you have destroyed them."
  • 2 Kgs 13:25 : 25 Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took back from Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities which he had taken from Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times Joash defeated him and recovered the cities of Israel.
  • Jer 37:10 : 10 For though you had struck the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and there remain only wounded men among them, yet they shall rise up, every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.
  • Mic 5:11 : 11 And I will cut off the cities of your land and throw down all your strongholds.
  • Heb 11:34 : 34 quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 The one who dashes in pieces is coming up before you: keep the fortress, watch the road, make your loins strong, fortify your power mightily.

  • 11 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: An adversary shall be all around the land; he shall bring down your strength from you, and your palaces shall be plundered.

  • 21 He pours contempt on princes, and weakens the strength of the mighty.

  • 5 The stouthearted have been plundered, they have slept their sleep; and none of the mighty men have found their hands.

  • 23 For the LORD will plead their cause and plunder the soul of those who plunder them.

  • 8 Seek him that makes the seven stars and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; that calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:

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    21 When a strong man, armed, guards his palace, his goods are in peace:

    22 But when a stronger than he comes upon him and overcomes him, he takes from him all his armor in which he trusted, and divides his spoils.

  • 19 He leads princes away plundered, and overthrows the mighty.

  • 12 And the fortress of the high fort of your walls will He bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

  • 2 Yet He also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back His words: but will rise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who practice iniquity.

  • Ps 89:40-41
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    40 You have broken down all his hedges; you have brought his strongholds to ruin.

    41 All who pass by the way plunder him; he is a reproach to his neighbors.

  • Nah 1:8-9
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    8 But with an overflowing flood he will make an utter end of its place, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

    9 What do you imagine against the LORD? He will make an utter end; affliction shall not rise up a second time.

  • 25 Therefore He knows their works, and He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

  • 2 Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one, like a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, like a flood of mighty waters overflowing, who shall cast down to the earth with the hand.

  • 4 The bows of the mighty men are broken, and those who stumbled are girded with strength.

  • 29 The way of the LORD is strength to the upright, but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

  • 5 Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.

  • 6 And for a spirit of judgment to him who sits in judgment, and for strength to those who turn the battle to the gate.

  • 9 And he shall set up engines of war against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.

  • 10 They scoff at kings, and the princes are scorned by them; they deride every stronghold, for they heap up dust and take it.

  • 17 The Lord has done what He had planned; He has fulfilled His word that He commanded in the days of old: He has thrown down, and has not pitied: and He has caused your enemy to rejoice over you, He has exalted the strength of your adversaries.

  • 4 For You have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is like a storm against the wall.

  • 14 And behold, at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of those who spoil us, and the lot of those who rob us.

  • 30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one looks to the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened by the clouds of the heavens.

  • 5 He shall recount his nobles: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defense shall be prepared.

  • Job 9:5-6
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    5 He removes the mountains, and they know it not: He overturns them in His anger.

    6 He shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble.

  • 17 Gather up your wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.

  • 10 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, I am strong.

  • 10 He crouches and humbles himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

  • 23 Your tackle is loosed; they could not strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail; then the prey of great plunder is divided, the lame take the prey.

  • 7 The steps of his strength shall be shortened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

  • 27 No man can enter into a strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man; and then he will plunder his house.

  • 37 And the peaceful habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

  • 10 They hate him that rebukes in the gate, and they abhor him that speaks uprightly.

  • 16 Their quiver is like an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.

  • 9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no one prevail.

  • 15 And from the wicked their light is withheld, and the upraised arm is broken.

  • 1 Woe to you who plunder, though you were not plundered; and who deal treacherously, though they did not deal treacherously with you! When you cease to plunder, you will be plundered; when you stop dealing treacherously, they will deal treacherously with you.

  • 22 A wise man scales the city of the mighty and casts down the strength of its confidence.

  • 2 To turn aside the needy from justice and to take away the rights from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

  • 14 Therefore flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not reinforce his strength, neither shall the mighty save himself:

  • 12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn your hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, who have acquired cattle and goods, who dwell in the midst of the land.

  • 3 If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?

  • 5 If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, how you are cut off!—would they not have stolen till they had enough? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some grapes?

  • 5 The Lord was like an enemy: He has swallowed up Israel, He has swallowed up all her palaces: He has destroyed His strongholds, and has increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

  • 29 Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house and plunder his goods, except he first bind the strong man? And then he will plunder his house.