Amos 5:13

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Therefore is the wise at that time silent, For an evil time it `is'.

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Referenced Verses

  • Mic 2:3 : 3 Therefore, thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am devising against this family evil, From which ye do not remove your necks, Nor walk loftily, for a time of evil it `is'.
  • Eccl 3:7 : 7 A time to rend, And a time to sew. A time to be silent, And a time to speak.
  • Hos 4:4 : 4 Only, let no one strive, nor reprove a man, And thy people `are' as those striving with a priest.
  • Amos 6:10 : 10 And lifted him up hath his loved one, even his burner, To bring forth the bones from the house, And he said to him who `is' in the sides of the house, `Is there yet with thee?' And he said, `None,' then he said, `Hush! Save to make mention of the name of Jehovah.'
  • Eccl 9:12 : 12 For even man knoweth not his time; as fish that are taken hold of by an evil net, and as birds that are taken hold of by a snare, like these `are' the sons of man snared at an evil time, when it falleth upon them suddenly.
  • Isa 36:21 : 21 And they keep silent, and have not answered him a word, for a command of the king is, saying, `Do not answer him.'
  • Isa 37:3 : 3 and they say unto him, `Thus said Hezekiah, A day of distress, and rebuke, and despising, `is' this day; for come have sons unto the birth, and power there is not to bear.
  • Mic 7:5-7 : 5 Believe not in a friend, trust not in a leader, From her who is lying in thy bosom keep the openings of thy mouth. 6 For a son is dishonouring a father, A daughter hath stood against her mother, A daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, The enemies of each `are' the men of his house. 7 And I -- in Jehovah I do watch, I do wait for the God of my salvation, Hear me doth my God.
  • Hab 3:16 : 16 I have heard, and my belly trembleth, At the noise have my lips quivered, Rottenness doth come into my bones, And in my place I do tremble, That I rest for a day of distress, At the coming up of the people, he overcometh it.
  • Zeph 2:2-3 : 2 Before the bringing forth of a statute, As chaff hath the day passed on, While yet not come in upon you doth the heat of the anger of Jehovah, While yet not come in upon you doth a day of the anger of Jehovah, 3 Seek Jehovah, all ye humble of the land, Who His judgment have done, Seek ye righteousness, seek humility, It may be ye are hidden in a day of the anger of Jehovah.
  • Matt 27:12-14 : 12 And in his being accused by the chief priests and the elders, he did not answer any thing, 13 then saith Pilate to him, `Dost thou not hear how many things they witness against thee?' 14 And he did not answer him, not even to one word, so that the governor did wonder greatly.
  • Eph 5:15-16 : 15 See, then, how exactly ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise, 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil;
  • Eph 6:13 : 13 because of this take ye up the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to resist in the day of the evil, and all things having done -- to stand.
  • 2 Tim 3:1 : 1 And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 5Whoso is keeping a command knoweth no evil thing, and time and judgment the heart of the wise knoweth.

  • 5O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom.

  • Amos 5:14-15
    2 verses
    74%

    14Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live, And it is so; Jehovah, God of Hosts, `is' with you, as ye said.

    15Hate evil, and love good, And set up judgment in the gate, It may be Jehovah, God of Hosts, doth pity the remnant of Joseph.

  • 12The prudent hath seen the evil, he is hidden, The simple have passed on, they are punished.

  • 3The prudent hath seen the evil, and is hidden, And the simple have passed on, and are punished.

  • 3Therefore, thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am devising against this family evil, From which ye do not remove your necks, Nor walk loftily, for a time of evil it `is'.

  • 7A time to rend, And a time to sew. A time to be silent, And a time to speak.

  • 12For I have known -- many `are' your transgressions, And mighty your sins, Adversaries of the righteous, taking ransoms, And the needy in the gate ye turned aside.

  • 13Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking deceit.

  • 33And whoso is hearkening to me dwelleth confidently, And `is' quiet from fear of evil!'

  • 2And He also `is' wise, and bringeth in evil, And His words He hath not turned aside, And He hath risen against a house of evil doers, And against the help of workers of iniquity.

  • 18Let lips of falsehood become dumb, That are speaking against the righteous, Ancient sayings, in pride and contempt.

  • 1Keep thy feet when thou goest unto a house of God, and draw near to hear rather than to give of fools the sacrifice, for they do not know they do evil.

  • Ps 39:1-2
    2 verses
    69%

    1To the Overseer, to Jeduthun. -- A Psalm of David. I have said, `I observe my ways, Against sinning with my tongue, I keep for my mouth a curb, while the wicked `is' before me.'

    2I was dumb `with' silence, I kept silent from good, and my pain is excited.

  • 20And Jehovah `is' in His holy temple, Be silent before Him, all the earth!

  • 23A prudent man is concealing knowledge, And the heart of fools proclaimeth folly.

  • 16redeeming the time, because the days are evil;

  • 11Mischiefs `are' in its midst. Fraud and deceit depart not from its street.

  • 13Whoso is shutting his ear from the cry of the poor, He also doth cry, and is not answered.

  • 15Whoso is walking righteously, And is speaking uprightly, Kicking against gain of oppressions, Shaking his hands from taking hold on a bribe, Stopping his ear from hearing of blood, And shutting his eyes from looking on evil,

  • 28Even a fool keeping silence is reckoned wise, He who is shutting his lips intelligent!

  • 30Consulting his eyes to devise froward things, Moving his lips he hath accomplished evil.

  • 14By day they meet darkness, And as night -- they grope at noon.

  • 16And there is hope to the poor, And perverseness hath shut her mouth.

  • 12For stayed for good hath the inhabitant of Maroth, For evil hath come down from Jehovah to the gate of Jerusalem.

  • 13There is a painful evil I have seen under the sun: wealth kept for its possessor, for his evil.

  • 10for `he who is willing to love life, and to see good days, let him guard his tongue from evil, and his lips -- not to speak guile;

  • 42The upright do see and rejoice, And all perversity hath shut her mouth.

  • 21Causing men to sin in word, And for a reprover in the gate lay a snare, And turn aside into emptiness the righteous.

  • 14Nor stand by the breach to cut off its escaped, Nor deliver up its remnant in a day of distress.

  • 3Who are putting away the day of evil, And ye bring nigh the seat of violence,

  • 15Lay not wait, O wicked one, At the habitation of the righteous. Do not spoil his resting-place.

  • 11A fool bringeth out all his mind, And the wise till afterwards restraineth it.

  • 28He sitteth alone, and is silent, For He hath laid `it' upon him.

  • 7Hush! because of the Lord Jehovah, For near `is' a day of Jehovah, For prepared hath Jehovah a sacrifice, He hath sanctified His invited ones.

  • 13Purer of eyes than to behold evil, To look on perverseness Thou art not able, Why dost Thou behold the treacherous? Thou keepest silent when the wicked Doth swallow the more righteous than he,

  • 4Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land,

  • 1Keep silent towards Me, O isles, And the peoples pass on `to' power, They come nigh, then they speak, `Together -- to judgment we draw near.'

  • 30And it howleth against it in that day as the howling of a sea, And it hath looked attentively to the land, And lo, darkness -- distress, And light hath been darkened by its abundance!

  • 12Whoso is despising his neighbour lacketh heart, And a man of understanding keepeth silence.

  • 25Your iniquities have turned these away, And your sins have kept the good from you.

  • 5There is an evil I have seen under the sun, As an error that goeth out from the ruler,

  • 15Hear, and give ear -- be not haughty, For Jehovah hath spoken.

  • 19The evil have bowed down before the good, And the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

  • 15And the truth is lacking, And whoso is turning aside from evil, Is making himself a spoil. And Jehovah seeth, and it is evil in His eyes, That there is no judgment.

  • 20Come, My people, enter into thy inner chambers, And shut thy doors behind thee, Hide thyself shortly a moment till the indignation pass over.

  • 18Lest Jehovah see, and `it be' evil in His eyes, And He hath turned from off him His anger.

  • 4Then do they cry unto Jehovah, And He doth not answer them, And hideth His face from them at that time, As they have made evil their doings.