Amos 9:4

Though they go into captivity, driven by their enemies before them, 1 there will I give orders to the sword, and it will kill them. 1 I will keep my eyes on them for harm and not for good.” 1

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And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.

In Context

3Though they hide on the top of Carmel, 1 there I will search and take them. 1 Though they are hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea, 1 there will I give orders to the serpent, and it will bite them. 1

5The Lord Yahweh of hosts 1 touches the land and it melts; 1 all who live in it mourn; 1 all of it will rise up like the River, 1 and sink again like the river of Egypt. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 44:21Then you said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me that I may see him.'

Leviticus 17:10If any person of the house of Israel, or any foreigner who lives among them consumes any blood, I will set my face against that person who consumes blood and I will cut him off from among his people.

Leviticus 26:36As for those of you who are left in your enemies' lands, I will send fear into your hearts so that even the sound of a leaf blowing in the wind will startle you, and you will flee as though you were fleeing from the sword. You will fall, even when no one is chasing you.

2 Chronicles 16:9For the eyes of Yahweh run everywhere throughout the whole earth, so that he might show himself strong on behalf of those whose hearts are perfect toward him. But you have acted foolishly in this matter. From now on, you will have war.”

Psalms 34:17The righteous cry out and Yahweh hears 1 and he rescues them from all their troubles. 1

Jeremiah 24:6I will set my eyes on them for good and restore them to this land. I will build them up, and not tear them down. I will plant them, and not uproot them.

Matthew Henry on Amos 9:2-11

The Certainty of the Sinner's Doom. ( b. c. 784.) 1 I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. 2 Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down: 3 And though they hide themselves in the top of… Read the whole commentary →

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