Amos 5:3
For thus saith the Lord God: The city, out of which came forth a thousand, there shall be left in it a hundred: and out of which there came a hundred, there shall be left in it ten, in the house of Israel.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
2The virgin of Israel is cast down upon her land, there is none to raise her up.
4For thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek ye me, and you shall live.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:62And you shall remain few in number, who before were as the stars of heaven for multitude, because thou heardst not the voice of the Lord thy God.
Isaiah 1:9Except the Lord of hosts had left us seed, we had been as Sodom, and we should have been like to Gomorrha.
Isaiah 10:22For if thy people, O Israel, shall be as the sand of the sea, a remnant of them shall be converted, the consumption abridged shall overflow with justice.
Amos 6:9And if there remain ten men in one house, they also shall die.
Matthew Henry on Amos 5:2-4
Invitations and Warnings. ( b. c. 790.) 1 Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel. 2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up. 3 For thus saith the Lord God ; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave a hundred, and that which went forth by a hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel. This chapter begins, as those two next foregoing began, with, Hear this word. Where God has a mouth… Read the whole commentary →