Amos 6:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

You who put far away the evil day, and bring near the seat of violence;

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  • Amos 9:10 : 10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
  • Isa 56:12 : 12 Come, they say, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.
  • Ezek 12:27 : 27 Son of man, behold, the house of Israel says, The vision that he sees is for many days to come, and he prophesies of the times that are far off.
  • Amos 3:10 : 10 For they know not to do right, says the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
  • Amos 5:12 : 12 For I know your many transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
  • Amos 5:18 : 18 Woe to you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.
  • Amos 6:12 : 12 Shall horses run on the rock? Will one plow there with oxen? For you have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
  • Ezek 12:22 : 22 Son of man, what is that proverb that you have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision fails?
  • Ps 94:20 : 20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with you, which frames mischief by a law?
  • Eccl 8:11 : 11 Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed quickly, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
  • Isa 47:7 : 7 And you said, 'I shall be a lady forever,' so that you did not lay these things to heart, nor remember their end.
  • Matt 24:48 : 48 But if that evil servant says in his heart, My master is delaying his coming,
  • 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 For when they say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
  • 2 Pet 3:4 : 4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
  • Rev 18:17 : 17 For in one hour such great riches came to nothing. And every captain, and all who travel by ship, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood far off,

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    4Who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;

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    1Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, who are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!

    2Pass over to Calneh, and see; and from there go to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: are they better than these kingdoms? Or is their border greater than your border?

  • Mic 2:1-3
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    1Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it because it is in the power of their hand.

    2They covet fields and take them by violence, and houses, and take them away; so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

    3Therefore thus says the LORD; Behold, against this family I devise an evil from which you shall not remove your necks; neither shall you go haughtily, for this time is evil.

  • Isa 10:3
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    3And what will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation that shall come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? And where will you leave your glory?

  • Jer 6:4-5
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    4Prepare war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe to us, for the day goes away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.

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

  • Hab 2:9-10
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    9Woe to him who covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!

    10You have consulted shame to your house by cutting off many people, and have sinned against your soul.

  • Zeph 1:9
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    9In the same day also will I punish all those that leap over the threshold, who fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.

  • Ezek 7:7
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    7The morning has come upon you, O you that dwell in the land; the time has come, the day of trouble is near, and not the joyful shouting from the mountains.

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    13You should not have entered the gate of My people in the day of their calamity; indeed, you should not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity.

    14You should not have stood at the crossroads to cut off those among them who escaped; nor should you have delivered up those among them who remained in the day of distress.

    15For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations: as you have done, it shall be done to you; your recompense shall return upon your own head.

  • Amos 3:9-11
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    9Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say: Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in its midst, and the oppressed within it.

    10For they know not to do right, says the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

    11Therefore 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.

  • Joel 1:15
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    15Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as destruction from the Almighty it shall come.

  • Amos 5:11
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    11Since you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.

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    4Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land fail,

  • Job 11:14
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    14If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and do not let wickedness dwell in your tents.

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    7Therefore now they shall go captive with the first who go captive, and the banquet of those who stretch themselves shall be removed.

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    13Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe; come, get down, for the press is full, the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.

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    29While they see vanity to you, while they divine a lie to you, to bring you upon the necks of the slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end.

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    14The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hastens greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry out there bitterly.

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    18Woe to you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.

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    2Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks and feed on them.

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    2Yes, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

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    12Come, they say, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.

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    18Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as if with a cart rope:

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    3For the day is near, the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it will be the time of the nations.

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    3Who say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the cauldron, and we are the meat.

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    10Arise and depart, for this is not your rest; because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a severe destruction.

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    17But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on you.

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    14With kings and counselors of the earth, who built ruins for themselves;

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    12For the rich men there are full of violence, the inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

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    16Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil;

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    16For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

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