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Amos 1:3 (Listen)

Thus says the Lord:

k“For three transgressions of lDamascus,

and for four, lI will not revoke the punishment,1

because they have threshed mGilead

with threshing sledges of iron.

Footnotes

[1] 1:3 Hebrew I will not turn it back; also verses 6, 9, 11, 13

Amos 1:11 (Listen)

11 Thus says the Lord:

k“For three transgressions of yEdom,

and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,

ybecause he pursued his brother with the sword

zand cast off all pity,

aand his anger tore perpetually,

aand he kept his wrath forever.

Amos 1:13 (Listen)

13 Thus says the Lord:

k“For three transgressions of the dAmmonites,

and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,

because ethey have ripped open pregnant women in fGilead,

that they might enlarge their border.