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Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus, yea, for four, I will not [a]turn away [b]the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron. But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad. And I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off [c]the inhabitant from the valley of [d]Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from [e]the house of Eden; and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith Jehovah.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 1:3 Or, revoke my word
  2. Amos 1:3 Hebrew it (and so in verses 6, 9, etc.).
  3. Amos 1:5 Or, him that sitteth on the throne (and so in verse 8)
  4. Amos 1:5 That is, Vanity.
  5. Amos 1:5 Or, Beth-eden