Parallel Verses
World English Bible
"For, behold, Yahweh commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, and the little house into bits.
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.
Amplified
For behold, the Lord is going to command that the great house be smashed to pieces and the small house to fragments.
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.
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 "When a man's relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, 'Is there yet any with you?' And he says, 'No;' then he will say, 'Hush! Indeed we must not mention the name of Yahweh.' 11 "For, behold, Yahweh commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, and the little house into bits. 12 Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;
Phrases
Cross References
Amos 3:15
I will strike the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory will perish, and the great houses will have an end," says Yahweh.
Isaiah 55:11
so shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing I sent it to do.
2 Kings 25:9
He burnt the house of Yahweh, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire.
Psalm 105:16
He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies.
Psalm 105:31
He spoke, and swarms of flies came, and lice in all their borders.
Psalm 105:34
He spoke, and the locusts came, and the grasshoppers, without number,
Ecclesiastes 10:18
By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.
Isaiah 10:5-6
Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!
Isaiah 13:3
I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.
Isaiah 46:10-11
declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not [yet] done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;
Ezekiel 29:18-20
Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was worn; yet had he no wages, nor his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it.
Hosea 13:16
Samaria will bear her guilt; for she has 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
Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and Yahweh hasn't done it?
Amos 6:8
"The Lord Yahweh has sworn by himself," says Yahweh, the God of Armies: "I abhor the pride of Jacob, and detest his fortresses. Therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.
Amos 9:1
I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, "Strike the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will kill the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape.
Amos 9:9
"For, behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel will fall on the earth.
Nahum 1:14
Yahweh has commanded concerning you: "No more descendants will bear your name. Out of the house of your gods, will I cut off the engraved image and the molten image. I will make your grave, for you are vile."
Zechariah 14:2
For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.
Luke 19:44
and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn't know the time of your visitation."