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. 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

14 You have made mankind
like the fish of the sea,(A)
like marine creatures that have no ruler.
15 The Chaldeans pull them all up with a hook,
catch them in their dragnet,(B)
and gather them in their fishing net;
that is why they are glad and rejoice.

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14 You have made people like the fish in the sea,
    like the sea creatures that have no ruler.
15 The wicked(A) foe pulls all of them up with hooks,(B)
    he catches them in his net,(C)
he gathers them up in his dragnet;
    and so he rejoices and is glad.

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