Amos 1:11
Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Edom, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath pursued his brother with the sword, and hath cast off all pity, and hath carried on his fury, and hath kept his wrath to the end.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
10And I will send a fire upon the wall of Tyre, and it shall devour the houses thereof.
12I will send a fire into Theman: and it shall devour the houses of Bosra.
Cross References
Genesis 27:41Esau therefore always hated Jacob for the blessing wherewith his father had blessed him: and he said in his heart: The days will come of the mourning of my father, and I will kill my brother Jacob.
Numbers 20:20But he answered: Thou shalt not pass. And immediately he came forth to meet them with an infinite multitude, and a strong hand,
Deuteronomy 23:7Thou shalt not abhor the Edomite, because he is thy brother: nor the Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land.
2 Chronicles 20:11Do the contrary, and endeavour to cast us out of the possession which thou hast delivered to us.
Psalms 83:3For lo, thy enemies have made a noise: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
Psalms 137:7Who made the great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Matthew Henry on Amos 1:4-15
Threatenings of Judgment. ( b. c. 790.) 3 Thus saith the Lord ; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron: 4 But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad. 5 I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into… Read the whole commentary →