Punishment of Exile

16 “I am about to send for many fishermen”(A)—this is the Lord’s declaration—“and they will fish for them. Then I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill and out of the clefts of the rocks,

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16 “But now I will send for many fishermen,” declares the Lord, “and they will catch them.(A) After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt(B) them down on every mountain and hill and from the crevices of the rocks.(C)

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The Lord God has sworn(A) by His holiness:(B)

Look, the days are coming[a]
when you will be taken away with hooks,(C)
every last one of you with fishhooks.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 4:2 Lit coming on you

The Sovereign Lord has sworn by his holiness:
    “The time(A) will surely come
when you will be taken away(B) with hooks,(C)
    the last of you with fishhooks.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 4:2 Or away in baskets, / the last of you in fish baskets