I form the light and create darkness,(A)
    I bring prosperity and create disaster;(B)
    I, the Lord, do all these things.

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I form the light and create darkness,
I make peace and (A)create calamity;
I, the Lord, do all these things.

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11 Disaster(A) will come upon you,
    and you will not know how to conjure it away.
A calamity will fall upon you
    that you cannot ward off with a ransom;
a catastrophe you cannot foresee
    will suddenly(B) come upon you.

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11 Therefore evil shall come upon you;
You shall not know from where it arises.
And trouble shall fall upon you;
You will not be able [a]to put it off.
And (A)desolation shall come upon you (B)suddenly,
Which you shall not know.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 47:11 Lit. to cover it or atone for it

When a trumpet(A) sounds in a city,
    do not the people tremble?
When disaster(B) comes to a city,
    has not the Lord caused it?(C)

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If a [a]trumpet is blown in a city, will not the people be afraid?
(A)If there is calamity in a city, will not the Lord have done it?

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 3:6 ram’s horn