Amos 6:7
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Therefore, you will now go into exile as the first of the captives, and your feasting and lounging will come to an end.”
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“Therefore, you will now go into exile as the first of the captives, and your feasting and lounging will come to an end.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Therefore shall they now go captive with the first that go captive; and the revelry of them that stretched themselves shall pass away.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Therefore now they remove at the head of the captives, And turned aside is the mourning-feast of stretched-out ones.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Amos 6:7 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 28:41You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity.
- 1 Kings 20:16They marched out at noon while Ben-hadad and the 32 kings allied with him were in their tents getting drunk.
- Esther 5:8If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and fulfill my request, may the king and Haman come tomorrow to the banquet I will prepare for them. Then I will answer the king’s question.”
- Esther 5:12“What is more,” Haman added, “Queen Esther invited no one but me to join the king at the banquet she prepared, and I am invited back tomorrow along with the king.
- Esther 7:1So the king and Haman went to dine with Esther the queen,
- Esther 7:8Just as the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was reclining. The king exclaimed, “Would he actually assault the queen while I am in the palace?” As soon as the words had left the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.
- Isaiah 21:4My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight of my desire has turned to horror.
- Isaiah 24:8The joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent.
- Daniel 5:4As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.
- Amos 4:3You will go out through broken walls, each one straight ahead of her, and you will be cast out toward Harmon,” declares the LORD.
- Amos 5:5Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.
- Amos 5:27Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.
- Amos 7:11for this is what Amos has said: ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.’”
- Amos 7:17Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be divided by a measuring line, and you yourself will die on pagan soil. And Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.’”
- Nahum 1:10For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard— like stubble that is fully dry.
- Luke 21:24They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
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