12 Therefore, their way will seem
like slippery paths in the gloom.(A)
They will be driven away and fall down there,
for I will bring disaster on them,
the year of their punishment.(B)
This is the Lord’s declaration.

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12 “Therefore their path will become slippery;(A)
    they will be banished to darkness
    and there they will fall.
I will bring disaster on them
    in the year they are punished,(B)
declares the Lord.

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You will go through breaches in the wall,(A)
each woman straight ahead,
and you will be driven along toward Harmon.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

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You will each go straight out
    through breaches in the wall,(A)
    and you will be cast out toward Harmon,[a]
declares the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 4:3 Masoretic Text; with a different word division of the Hebrew (see Septuagint) out, you mountain of oppression

And if they are driven
by their enemies into captivity,(A)
from there I will command
the sword to kill them.(B)
I will keep my eye on them
for harm and not for good.(C)

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Though they are driven into exile by their enemies,
    there I will command the sword(A) to slay them.

“I will keep my eye on them
    for harm(B) and not for good.(C)(D)

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18 I will gather those who have been driven(A)
from the appointed festivals;
they will be a tribute from you[a]
and a reproach on her.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 3:18 = Jerusalem
  2. 3:18 Hb obscure

18 “I will remove from you
    all who mourn over the loss of your appointed festivals,
    which is a burden and reproach for you.

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