16 You are to gather all the plunder of the town into the middle of the public square and completely burn the town(A) and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God.(B) That town is to remain a ruin(C) forever, never to be rebuilt,

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16 And you shall gather all its plunder into the middle of the street, and [a]completely (A)burn with fire the city and all its plunder, for the Lord your God. It shall be (B)a [b]heap forever; it shall not be built again.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 13:16 Or as a whole-offering
  2. Deuteronomy 13:16 Lit. mound or ruin

The fortified(A) city will disappear from Ephraim,
    and royal power from Damascus;
the remnant of Aram will be
    like the glory(B) of the Israelites,”(C)
declares the Lord Almighty.

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(A)The fortress also will cease from Ephraim,
The kingdom from Damascus,
And the remnant of Syria;
They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,”
Says the Lord of hosts.

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15 I will thrust you from my presence,(A) just as I did all your fellow Israelites, the people of Ephraim.’(B)

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15 And I will cast you out of My sight, (A)as I have cast out all your brethren—(B)the whole posterity of Ephraim.

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Ephraim will be laid waste(A)
    on the day of reckoning.(B)
Among the tribes of Israel
    I proclaim what is certain.(C)

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Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke;
Among the tribes of Israel I make known what is sure.

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13 “When Ephraim(A) saw his sickness,
    and Judah his sores,
then Ephraim turned to Assyria,(B)
    and sent to the great king for help.(C)
But he is not able to cure(D) you,
    not able to heal your sores.(E)

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13 “When Ephraim saw his sickness,
And Judah saw his (A)wound,
Then Ephraim went (B)to Assyria
And sent to King Jareb;
Yet he cannot cure you,
Nor heal you of your wound.

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Judgment on Israel’s Neighbors

This is what the Lord says:

“For three sins of Damascus,(A)
    even for four, I will not relent.(B)
Because she threshed Gilead
    with sledges having iron teeth,
I will send fire(C) on the house of Hazael(D)
    that will consume the fortresses(E) of Ben-Hadad.(F)
I will break down the gate(G) of Damascus;
    I will destroy the king who is in[a] the Valley of Aven[b]
and the one who holds the scepter in Beth Eden.(H)
    The people of Aram will go into exile to Kir,(I)
says the Lord.(J)

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 1:5 Or the inhabitants of
  2. Amos 1:5 Aven means wickedness.

Judgment on the Nations

Thus says the Lord:

“For three transgressions of (A)Damascus, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
Because they have (B)threshed Gilead with implements of iron.
(C)But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael,
Which shall devour the palaces of (D)Ben-Hadad.
I will also break the gate (E)bar of Damascus,
And cut off the inhabitant from the Valley of Aven,
And the one who [a]holds the scepter from [b]Beth Eden.
The people of Syria shall go captive to Kir,”
Says the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 1:5 Rules
  2. Amos 1:5 Lit. House of Eden