Devine Scripture

Amos 6:11

Amos chapter 6 · verse 11 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

For, behold, Jehovah commandeth, and the great house shall be smitten with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

For, behold, the Lord commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

For, behold, Jehovah commandeth, and the great house shall be smitten with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

Context

v.10And when a man’s uncle shall take him up, even he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is in the innermost parts of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No; then shall he say, Hold thy peace; for we may not make mention of the name of Jehovah.

v.11This passage

v.12Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plowtherewith oxen? that ye have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood;

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Amos 9:9

    For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, like as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least kernel fall upon the earth.

  • Amos 6:8

    The Lord Jehovah hath sworn by himself, saith Jehovah, the God of hosts: I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces; therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.

  • Nahum 1:14

    And Jehovah hath given commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image; I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.

  • Luke 19:44

    and shall dash thee to the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.

  • Ecclesiastes 10:18

    By slothfulness the roof sinketh in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaketh.

  • Zechariah 14:2

    For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.