Amos 4:2
Sworn hath My Lord, Yahweh, by his own holiness, That lo! days, are coming upon you,—when he will take you away with hooks, and your followers with fishhooks;
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Psalms 89:36His seed, age-abidingly, shall remain, And, his throne, be like the sun before me;
Jeremiah 16:16Behold me! sending for many fishers Declareth Yahweh, And they shall catch them,—and thereafter will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from off every mountain and from off every hill, and out of the clefts of the crags.
Ezekiel 39:4Upon the mountains of Israel, shalt thou fall, Thou and all thy hordes, and the peoples who are with thee,— To birds of prey of every wing. and the wild beast of the field, will I give thee for food:
Habakkuk 1:15All of which, with a hook, one bringeth up, raketh together with his drag, and hath gathered with his net,—
Matthew Henry on Amos 4:2-6
Threatenings against Oppressors; Punishment of Proud Oppressors. ( b. c. 790.) 1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink. 2 The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fish-hooks. 3 And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into… Read the whole commentary →