16 “Behold, I am going to send for many (A)fishermen,” declares the Lord, “and they will fish for them; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will (B)hunt them (C)from every mountain and every hill and from the clefts of the rocks.

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16 “But now I will send for many fishermen,” declares the Lord, “and they will catch them.(A) After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt(B) them down on every mountain and hill and from the crevices of the rocks.(C)

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16 Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

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The Lord [a]God has (A)sworn by His (B)holiness,
“For behold, the days are coming upon you
When [b]they will take you away with (C)meat hooks,
And the last of you with (D)fish hooks.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 4:2 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord, and so throughout the ch
  2. Amos 4:2 Lit he

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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  1. Amos 4:2 Or away in baskets, / the last of you in fish baskets

The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.

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