Amos 6:8

World English Bible (2000)

"The Lord Yahweh has sworn by himself," says Yahweh, the God of Armies: "I abhor the pride of Jacob, and detest his fortresses. Therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.

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  • Jer 51:14 : 14 Yahweh of Armies has sworn by himself, [saying], Surely I will fill you with men, as with the canker worm; and they shall lift up a shout against you.
  • Amos 4:2 : 2 The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness that behold, "The days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, and the last of you with fish hooks.
  • Amos 8:7 : 7 Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, "Surely I will never forget any of their works.
  • Amos 3:11 : 11 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "An adversary will overrun the land; and he will pull down your strongholds, and your fortresses will be plundered."
  • Ps 47:4 : 4 He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
  • Jer 22:5 : 5 But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself, says Yahweh, that this house shall become a desolation.
  • Ps 106:40 : 40 Therefore Yahweh burned with anger against his people. He abhorred his inheritance.
  • Ps 50:12 : 12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
  • Ps 78:59 : 59 When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel;
  • Gen 22:16 : 16 and said, "I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,
  • Lev 26:11 : 11 I will set my tent among you: and my soul won't abhor you.
  • Lev 26:30 : 30 I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.
  • Deut 32:19 : 19 Yahweh saw [it], and abhorred [them], because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
  • Lam 2:5 : 5 The Lord is become as an enemy, he has swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all her palaces, he has destroyed his strongholds; He has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
  • Ezek 24:21 : 21 Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind shall fall by the sword.
  • Mic 1:6-9 : 6 Therefore I will make Samaria like a rubble heap of the field, like places for planting vineyards; and I will pour down its stones into the valley, and I will uncover its foundations. 7 All her idols will be beaten to pieces, and all her temple gifts will be burned with fire, and all her images I will destroy; for of the hire of a prostitute has she gathered them, and to the hire of a prostitute shall they return." 8 For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will howl like the jackals, and moan like the daughters of owls. 9 For her wounds are incurable; for it has come even to Judah. It reaches to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
  • Zech 11:8 : 8 I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
  • Heb 6:13-17 : 13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he swore by himself, 14 saying, "Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you." 15 Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise. 16 For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation. 17 In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

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