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Amos 5:3

World English Bible

For the Lord Yahweh says:
“The city that went out a thousand shall have a hundred left,
and that which went out one hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel.”

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Amos 5:3 in other translations

For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth a hundred shall have ten left, to the house of Israel.

Amos 5:3 · American Standard Version

Amos 5:3 in context

  1. 1Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.
  2. 2“The virgin of Israel has fallen;
    She shall rise no more.
    She is cast down on her land;
    there is no one to raise her up.”
  3. 3For the Lord Yahweh says:
    “The city that went out a thousand shall have a hundred left,
    and that which went out one hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel.”
  4. 4For Yahweh says to the house of Israel:
    “Seek me, and you will live;
  5. 5but don’t seek Bethel,
    nor enter into Gilgal,
    and don’t pass to Beersheba:
    for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity,
    and Bethel shall come to nothing.