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Amos 9:4

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9:4Even when their enemies drive them into captivity,12

from there13 I will command the sword to kill them.

I will not let them out of my sight;

they will experience disaster, not prosperity.”14

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Footnotes

  1. 12 Heb “Even if they go into captivity before their enemies.”
  2. 13 Or perhaps simply, “there,” if the ם (mem) prefixed to the adverb is dittographic (note the preceding word ends in mem).
  3. 14 Heb “I will set my eye on them for disaster, not good.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

And if they go into captivity before their enemies,

there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them;

and I will fix my eyes upon them

for evil and not for good.”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Though they are driven into exile by their enemies,

there I will command the sword to slay them.

“I will keep my eye on them

for harm and not for good.”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

And if they are driven

by their enemies into captivity,

from there I will command

the sword to kill them.

I will keep my eye on them

for harm and not for good.

NLTNew Living Translation

Even if their enemies drive them into exile,

I will command the sword to kill them there.

I am determined to bring disaster upon them

and not to help them.”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And even if they go into captivity before their enemies, from there I will command the sword and it will kill them, and I will fix my eyes on them for harm and not for good.”

KJV 1900King James Version

And though they go into captivity before their enemies,

Thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them:

And I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.