Parallel Verses
Amplified
For behold, the Lord is going to command that the great house be smashed to pieces and the small house to fragments.
New American Standard Bible
For behold, the Lord is going to
King James Version
For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
Holman Bible
For the Lord commands:
and the small house to rubble.
International Standard Version
For indeed, the LORD is giving the command and he will smash the large house to rubble and the small house into bits.
A Conservative Version
For, behold, LORD commands, and the great house shall be smitten with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
American Standard Version
For, behold, Jehovah commandeth, and the great house shall be smitten with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
Bible in Basic English
For see, at the order of the Lord the great house will be full of cracks and the little house will be broken.
Darby Translation
For behold, Jehovah commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
Julia Smith Translation
For behold, Jehovah commands, and he struck the great house with breaches, and the small house with clefts.
King James 2000
For, behold, the LORD commands, and he will strike the great house into pieces, and the little house into bits.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Look, Yahweh [is] going to command and the great house will be destroyed [to] bits and the little house [to] pieces.
Modern King James verseion
For, behold, Jehovah commands, and He will strike the great house into pieces, and the little house into cracks.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Behold, the LORD is minded to smite the great houses, so that they shall decay: and the little houses, that they shall cleave asunder.
NET Bible
Indeed, look! The Lord is giving the command. He will smash the large house to bits, and the small house into little pieces.
New Heart English Bible
"For, behold, the LORD commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, and the little house into bits.
The Emphasized Bible
For lo! Yahweh, is giving command, and will smite the great house into ruins, - and the little house with clefts.
Webster
For behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
World English Bible
"For, behold, Yahweh commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, and the little house into bits.
Youngs Literal Translation
For lo, Jehovah is commanding, And He hath smitten the great house with breaches, And the little house with clefts.
Interlinear
Tsavah
References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Amos 6:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh Abhors Israel's Pride
10
Then one’s uncle, or his undertaker, shall come to bring the [disease-infected] body out of the house, [to cremate it], and he will say to another in the farthest part of the house, “Is there anyone else with you?” And that one will say, “No one.” Then he will respond, “Hush! Keep quiet! For the name of the Lord is not to be mentioned [even casually, for fear that we might invoke even more punishment].”
Do horses run on rocks?
Do men plow rocks with oxen? [Of course not!]
Yet you have turned justice into poison
And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood (bitterness),
Phrases
Cross References
Amos 3:15
“And I shall tear down the winter house with the summer house;
And the houses of ivory shall also perish
And the great houses shall come to an end,”
Says the Lord.
Isaiah 55:11
So will My word be which goes out of My mouth;
It will not return to Me void (useless, without result),
Without accomplishing what I desire,
And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.
2 Kings 25:9
He burned the house (temple) of the Lord, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.
Psalm 105:16
And He called for a famine upon the land [of Egypt];
He
Psalm 105:31
He spoke, and there came swarms of flies
And gnats in all their territory.
Psalm 105:34
He spoke, and the [migratory] locusts came,
And the young locusts, even without number,
Ecclesiastes 10:18
Through laziness the rafters [of state affairs] decay and the roof sags, and through idleness [the roof of] the house leaks.
Isaiah 10:5-6
Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger [against Israel],
The staff in whose hand is My indignation and fury [against Israel’s disobedience]!
Isaiah 13:3
I [the Lord] have commanded My consecrated ones,
I have even called My great warriors,
My proudly exulting ones [the Medes and the Persians who triumph for My honor]—
To execute My anger.
Isaiah 46:10-11
Declaring the end and the result from the beginning,
And from ancient times the things which have not [yet] been done,
Saying, ‘My purpose will be established,
And I will do all that pleases Me and fulfills My purpose,’
Ezekiel 29:18-20
“Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army
Hosea 13:16
Samaria will be found guilty [and become desolate],
Because she rebelled against her God;
They will fall by the sword,
Their infants will be dashed in pieces,
And their pregnant women will be ripped open.
Amos 3:6-7
If a trumpet is blown in a city [warning of danger] will not the people tremble?
If a disaster or misfortune occurs in a city has not the Lord caused it?
Amos 6:8
The Lord
“I loathe and reject the [self-centered] arrogance of Jacob (Israel),
And I hate his palaces and citadels;
Therefore, I shall hand over the [idolatrous] city [of Samaria] with all that it contains [to the Assyrian invaders].”
Amos 9:1
I saw [in a vision] the Lord standing at the altar, and He said,
And break them on the heads of all of the people!
Then I will kill the rest of them with the sword;
They will not have a fugitive who will get away,
Or a survivor who will escape.
Amos 9:9
“For behold, I am commanding,
And I shall shake and sift the house of Israel among all nations [and cause it to tremble]
Like grain is shaken in a sieve [removing the chaff],
But not a kernel [of the faithful remnant] shall fall to the ground and be lost [from My sight].
Nahum 1:14
The Lord has given a command concerning you [O king of Nineveh]:
“Your name will no longer be perpetuated.
I will cut off the carved idols and cast images
From the temple of your gods;
I will prepare your grave,
For you are vile and unworthy.”
Zechariah 14:2
For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city will be captured and the houses plundered and the women ravished; and half of the city will be exiled, but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.
Luke 19:44