Amos 5:9

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Who is brightening up the spoiled against the strong, And the spoiled against a fortress cometh.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 13:17 : 17 and saith, `Open the window eastward;' and he openeth, and Elisha saith, `Shoot,' and he shooteth; and he saith, `An arrow of salvation to Jehovah, and an arrow of salvation against Aram, and thou hast smitten Aram, in Aphek, till consuming.'
  • 2 Kgs 13:25 : 25 and Jehoash son of Jehoahaz turneth and taketh the cities out of the hand of Ben-Hadad son of Hazael that he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father in war; three times hath Joash smitten him, and he bringeth back the cities of Israel.
  • Jer 37:10 : 10 for though ye had smitten all the force of the Chaldeans who are fighting with you, and there were left of them wounded men -- each in his tent -- they rise, and have burnt this city with fire.'
  • Mic 5:11 : 11 And I have cut off the cities of thy land, And I have thrown down all thy fortresses,
  • Heb 11:34 : 34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the mouth of the sword, were made powerful out of infirmities, became strong in battle, caused to give way camps of the aliens.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1Come up hath a scatterer to thy face, Keep the bulwark, watch the way, Strengthen the loins, strengthen power mightily.

  • 11Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: An adversary -- and surrounding the land, And he hath brought down from thee thy strength, And spoiled have been thy palaces.

  • 21Pouring contempt upon princes, And the girdle of the mighty He made feeble.

  • 5Spoiled themselves have the mighty of heart, They have slept their sleep, And none of the men of might found their hands.

  • 23For Jehovah pleadeth their cause, And hath spoiled the soul of their spoilers.

  • 8The maker of Kimah and Kesil, And the turner to morning of death-shade, And day `as' night He hath made dark, Who is calling to the waters of the sea, And poureth them on the face of the earth, Jehovah `is' His name;

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    21`When the strong man armed may keep his hall, in peace are his goods;

    22but when the stronger than he, having come upon `him', may overcome him, his whole-armour he doth take away in which he had trusted, and his spoils he distributeth;

  • 19Causing ministers to go away a spoil And strong ones He overthroweth.

  • 12And the fortress of the high place of thy walls He hath bowed down -- He hath made low, He hath caused `it' to come to the earth, -- unto dust.

  • 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.

  • Ps 89:40-41
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    40Thou hast broken down all his hedges, Thou hast made his fenced places a ruin.

    41Spoiled him have all passing by the way, He hath been a reproach to his neighbours,

  • Nah 1:8-9
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    8And with a flood passing over, An end He maketh of its place, And His enemies doth darkness pursue.

    9What do we devise against Jehovah? An end He is making, arise not twice doth distress.

  • 25Therefore He knoweth their works, And He hath overturned by night, And they are bruised.

  • 2Lo, a mighty and strong one `is' to the Lord, As a storm of hail -- a destructive shower, As an inundation of mighty waters overflowing, He cast down to the earth with the hand.

  • 4Bows of the mighty are broken, And the stumbling have girded on strength.

  • 29The way of Jehovah `is' strength to the perfect, And ruin to workers of iniquity.

  • 5`Rise, and we go up by night, And we destroy her palaces.'

  • 6And for a spirit of judgment To him who is sitting in the judgment, And for might `to' those turning back the battle to the gate.

  • 9And a battering-ram before him he placeth against thy walls, And thy towers he breaketh by his weapons.

  • 10And at kings it doth scoff, And princes `are' a laughter to it, At every fenced place it doth laugh, And it heapeth up dust, and captureth it.

  • 17Jehovah hath done that which He devised, He hath fulfilled His saying That He commanded from the days of old, He hath broken down and hath not pitied, And causeth an enemy to rejoice over thee, He lifted up the horn of thine adversaries.

  • 4For Thou hast been a stronghold for the poor, A stronghold for the needy in his distress, A refuge from storm, a shadow from heat, When the spirit of the terrible `is' as a storm -- a wall.

  • 14At even-time, lo, terror, before morning it is not, This `is' the portion of our spoilers, And the lot of our plunderers!

  • 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!

  • 5He doth remember his honourable ones, They stumble in their goings, They hasten `to' its wall, and prepared is the covering.

  • Job 9:5-6
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    5Who is removing mountains, And they have not known, Who hath overturned them in His anger.

    6Who is shaking earth from its place, And its pillars move themselves.

  • 17Gather from the land thy merchandise, O dweller in the bulwark,

  • 10Beat your ploughshares to swords, And your pruning-hooks to javelins, Let the weak say, `I `am' mighty.'

  • 10He is bruised -- he boweth down, Fallen by his mighty ones hath the afflicted.

  • 23Left have been thy ropes, They strengthen not rightly their mast, They have not spread out a sail, Then apportioned hath been a prey of much spoil, The lame have taken spoil.

  • 7Straitened are the steps of his strength, And cast him down doth his own counsel.

  • 27`No one is able the vessels of the strong man -- having entered into his house -- to spoil, if first he may not bind the strong man, and then his house he will spoil.

  • 37And the peaceable habitations have been cut down, Because of the fierceness of the anger of Jehovah.

  • 10They have hated a reprover in the gate, And a plain speaker they abominate.

  • 16Its quiver `is' as an open sepulchre, All of them -- mighty ones.

  • 9The feet of His saints He keepeth, And the wicked in darkness are silent, For not by power doth man become mighty.

  • 15And withheld from the wicked is their light, And the arm lifted up is broken.

  • 1Wo, spoiler! and thou not spoiled, And treacherous! and they dealt not treacherously with thee, When thou dost finish, O spoiler, thou art spoiled, When thou dost finish dealing treacherously, They deal treacherously with thee.

  • 22A city of the mighty hath the wise gone up, And bringeth down the strength of its confidence.

  • 2To turn aside from judgment the poor, And to take violently away the judgment Of the afflicted of My people, That widows may be their prey, That the fatherless they may spoil.

  • 14And perished hath refuge from the swift, And the strong strengtheneth not his power, And the mighty delivereth not his soul.

  • 12To take a spoil, and to take a prey, To turn back thy hand on inhabited wastes, And on a people gathered out of nations, Making cattle and substance, Dwelling on a high part of the land.

  • 3When the foundations are destroyed, The righteous -- what hath he done?

  • 5If thieves have come in to thee, If spoilers of the night, How hast thou been cut off! Do they not steal their sufficiency? If gatherers have come in to thee, Do they not leave gleanings?

  • 5The Lord hath been as an enemy, He hath swallowed up Israel, He hath swallowed up all her palaces, He hath destroyed His fortresses, And He multiplieth in the daughter of Judah Mourning and moaning.

  • 29`Or how is one able to go into the house of the strong man, and to plunder his goods, if first he may not bind the strong man? and then his house he will plunder.