KJV King James Version
You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Amos 3:2
You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
“Only you have I known from all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”
WEB World English Bible
“You only have I chosen of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins.”
ASV American Standard Version
You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will visit upon you all your iniquities.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Only you I have known of all families of the land, Therefore I charge on you all your iniquities.
Surrounding context — Amos 3
1 Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,
2 You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
3 Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
4 Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?
5 Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin [is] for him? shall [one] take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?
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Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
רַ֚קH7535 · raqexceptאֶתְכֶ֣םH853 · et[Obj.]יָדַ֔עְתִּיH3045 · ya.dato knowמִכֹּ֖לH3605 · kolallמִשְׁפְּח֣וֹתH4940 · mish.pa.chahfamilyהָאֲדָמָ֑הH127 · a.da.mahland: soilעַל־H5921 · aluponכֵּן֙H3651 · kenrightאֶפְקֹ֣דH6485 · pa.qadto reckon: listעֲלֵיכֶ֔םH5921 · aluponאֵ֖תH853 · et[Obj.]כָּל־H3605 · kolallעֲוֹנֹֽתֵיכֶֽם׃H5771 · a.vaniniquity: crime
Cross-references
Deuteronomy 7:6For thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that [are] upon the face of the earth.Exodus 19:5-6Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth [is] mine:Deuteronomy 10:15Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, [even] you above all people, as [it is] this day.1 Peter 4:17For the time [is come] that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if [it] first [begin] at us, what shall the end [be] of them that obey not the gospel of God?Zechariah 14:17-18And it shall be, [that] whoso will not come up of [all] the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.Jeremiah 14:10Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.Deuteronomy 32:9For the LORD’S portion [is] his people; Jacob [is] the lot of his inheritance.Daniel 9:12And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem.Jeremiah 13:21What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them [to be] captains, [and] as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?Ezekiel 9:6Slay utterly old [and] young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom [is] the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which [were] before the house.Jeremiah 10:25Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.Deuteronomy 26:18And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that [thou] shouldest keep all his commandments;Ezekiel 20:36-38Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord GOD.Jeremiah 9:25Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all [them which are] circumcised with the uncircumcised;Jeremiah 1:15For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah.Jeremiah 11:22Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:Psalm 147:19He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.Genesis 10:32These [are] the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
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