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Amos 8:3–8

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And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord God: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.
¶ Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
The Lord hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
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From verse 3

  1. Amos 5:23Rank 1 from verse 3
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    23Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.

  2. Amos 6:9–10Rank 2 from verse 3
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    9And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.

    10And a man’s uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the Lord.

  3. Jeremiah 9:21–22Rank 3 from verse 3
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    21For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.

    22Speak, Thus saith the Lord, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.

  4. Amos 5:16Rank 4 from verse 3
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    16Therefore the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.

  5. Leviticus 10:3Rank 5 from verse 3
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    3Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the Lord spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.

  6. Amos 4:10Rank 6 from verse 3
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    10I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.

  7. Amos 8:10Rank 7 from verse 3
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    10And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

  8. Hosea 10:5–6Rank 8 from verse 3
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    5The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth-aven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.

    6It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.

  9. Isaiah 37:36Rank 9 from verse 3
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    36Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

  10. Jeremiah 22:18Rank 10 from verse 3
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    18Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!

  11. Joel 1:11Rank 11 from verse 3
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    11Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.

  12. Joel 1:13Rank 12 from verse 3
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    13Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.

  13. Joel 1:5Rank 13 from verse 3
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    5Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

  14. Nahum 3:3Rank 14 from verse 3
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    3The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:

  15. Psalms 39:9Rank 15 from verse 3
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    9I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.

  16. Zechariah 11:1–3Rank 16 from verse 3
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    1OPEN thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.

    2Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.

    3There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.

From verse 4

  1. Proverbs 30:14Rank 1 from verse 4
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    14There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

  2. Amos 5:11Rank 2 from verse 4
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    11Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

  3. Psalms 14:4Rank 3 from verse 4
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    4Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the Lord.

  4. Isaiah 32:6–7Rank 4 from verse 4
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    6For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the Lord, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

    7The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

  5. Psalms 12:5Rank 5 from verse 4
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    5For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.

  6. Amos 2:6–7Rank 6 from verse 4
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    6¶ Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;

    7That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:

  7. Psalms 140:12Rank 7 from verse 4
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    12I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.

  8. James 5:6Rank 8 from verse 4
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    6Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.

  9. Matthew 23:13Rank 9 from verse 4
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    13¶ But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

  10. 1 Kings 22:19Rank 10 from verse 4
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    19And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.

  11. Jeremiah 5:21Rank 11 from verse 4
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    21Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:

  12. Amos 7:16Rank 12 from verse 4
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    16¶ Now therefore hear thou the word of the Lord: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac.

  13. Isaiah 1:10Rank 13 from verse 4
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    10¶ Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

  14. Isaiah 28:14Rank 14 from verse 4
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    14¶ Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.

  15. Jeremiah 28:15Rank 15 from verse 4
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    15¶ Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The Lord hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie.

  16. Psalms 56:1Rank 16 from verse 4
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    1BE merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.

From verse 5

  1. Nehemiah 13:15–21Rank 1 from verse 5
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    15¶ In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.

    16There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.

    17Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?

    18Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.

    19And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day.

    20So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice.

    21Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the sabbath.

  2. Hosea 12:7Rank 2 from verse 5
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    7He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

  3. Micah 6:10–11Rank 3 from verse 5
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    10¶ Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?

    11Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

  4. Deuteronomy 25:13–16Rank 4 from verse 5
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    13¶ Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.

    14Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.

    15But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

    16For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the Lord thy God.

  5. Leviticus 19:36Rank 5 from verse 5
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    36Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.

  6. Exodus 20:8–10Rank 6 from verse 5
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    8Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

    9Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

    10But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

  7. Isaiah 1:13Rank 7 from verse 5
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    13Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.

  8. Proverbs 11:1Rank 8 from verse 5
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    1A FALSE balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.

  9. Proverbs 16:11Rank 9 from verse 5
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    11A just weight and balance are the Lord’s: all the weights of the bag are his work.

  10. Proverbs 20:23Rank 10 from verse 5
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    23Divers weights are an abomination unto the Lord; and a false balance is not good.

  11. 2 Kings 4:23Rank 11 from verse 5
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    23And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? it is neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.

  12. Ezekiel 45:10–12Rank 12 from verse 5
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    10Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.

    11The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.

    12And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.

  13. Numbers 10:10Rank 13 from verse 5
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    10Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the Lord your God.

  14. Psalms 81:3–4Rank 14 from verse 5
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    3Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.

    4For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.

  15. Isaiah 58:13Rank 15 from verse 5
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    13¶ If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:

  16. Numbers 28:11–15Rank 16 from verse 5
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    11¶ And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the Lord; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot;

    12And three tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, for one bullock; and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, for one ram;

    13And a several tenth deal of flour mingled with oil for a meat offering unto one lamb; for a burnt offering of a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord.

    14And their drink offerings shall be half an hin of wine unto a bullock, and the third part of an hin unto a ram, and a fourth part of an hin unto a lamb: this is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year.

    15And one kid of the goats for a sin offering unto the Lord shall be offered, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.

  17. Colossians 2:16Rank 17 from verse 5
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    16Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

  18. Malachi 1:13Rank 18 from verse 5
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    13Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the Lord of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the Lord.

  19. Romans 8:6–7Rank 19 from verse 5
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    6For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

    7Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

From verse 6

  1. Amos 2:6Rank 1 from verse 6
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    6¶ Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;

  2. Amos 8:4Rank 2 from verse 6
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    4¶ Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

  3. Joel 3:3Rank 3 from verse 6
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    3And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.

  4. Joel 3:6Rank 4 from verse 6
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    6The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.

  5. Leviticus 25:39–42Rank 5 from verse 6
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    39¶ And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:

    40But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:

    41And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.

    42For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.

  6. Nehemiah 5:1–5Rank 6 from verse 6
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    1AND there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.

    2For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live.

    3Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.

    4There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.

    5Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.

  7. Nehemiah 5:8Rank 7 from verse 6
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    8And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer.

From verse 7

  1. Amos 6:8Rank 1 from verse 7
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    8The Lord God hath sworn by himself, saith the Lord the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.

  2. Hosea 9:9Rank 2 from verse 7
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    9They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

  3. Hosea 8:13Rank 3 from verse 7
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    13They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the Lord accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

  4. Hosea 7:2Rank 4 from verse 7
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    2And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.

  5. Psalms 10:11Rank 5 from verse 7
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    11He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.

  6. Deuteronomy 33:26–29Rank 6 from verse 7
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    26There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.

    27The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.

    28Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew.

    29Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.

  7. Isaiah 43:25Rank 7 from verse 7
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    25I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.

  8. Jeremiah 17:1Rank 8 from verse 7
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    1THE sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;

  9. Jeremiah 31:34Rank 9 from verse 7
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    34And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

  10. Psalms 47:4Rank 10 from verse 7
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    4He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

  11. Luke 2:32Rank 11 from verse 7
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    32A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.

  12. Psalms 68:34Rank 12 from verse 7
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    34Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.

  13. 1 Samuel 15:2–3Rank 13 from verse 7
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    2Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.

    3Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

  14. Exodus 17:16Rank 14 from verse 7
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    16For he said, Because the Lord hath sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.

From verse 8

  1. Amos 9:5Rank 1 from verse 8
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    5And the Lord God of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.

  2. Hosea 4:3Rank 2 from verse 8
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    3Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.

  3. Jeremiah 46:8Rank 3 from verse 8
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    8Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.

  4. Psalms 18:7Rank 4 from verse 8
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    7Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.

  5. Isaiah 5:25Rank 5 from verse 8
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    25Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

  6. Amos 8:10Rank 6 from verse 8
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    10And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

  7. Daniel 9:26Rank 7 from verse 8
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    26And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

  8. Haggai 2:6–7Rank 8 from verse 8
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    6For thus saith the Lord of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;

    7And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts.

  9. Hosea 10:5Rank 9 from verse 8
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    5The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth-aven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.

  10. Isaiah 24:19–20Rank 10 from verse 8
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    19The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.

    20The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.

  11. Isaiah 8:7–8Rank 11 from verse 8
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    7Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:

    8And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.

  12. Jeremiah 12:4Rank 12 from verse 8
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    4How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.

  13. Jeremiah 4:24–26Rank 13 from verse 8
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    24I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.

    25I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.

    26I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the Lord, and by his fierce anger.

  14. Matthew 24:30Rank 14 from verse 8
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    30And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

  15. Micah 1:3–5Rank 15 from verse 8
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    3For, behold, the Lord cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.

    4And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.

    5For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?

  16. Nahum 1:5–6Rank 16 from verse 8
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    5The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.

    6Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.

  17. Psalms 114:3–7Rank 17 from verse 8
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    3The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.

    4The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.

    5What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?

    6Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?

    7Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;

  18. Habakkuk 3:5–8Rank 18 from verse 8
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    5Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.

    6He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.

    7I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.

    8Was the Lord displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation?

  19. Psalms 60:2–3Rank 19 from verse 8
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    2Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.

    3Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

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Amos 8:3

COMBINED MEANING

temple

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Sense 1: A sacred house, building, or place devoted to the worship or presence of God or an idol. Sense 2: Christ's body, expressly called the temple of his body. Sense 3: A believer's body, or believers collectively, called the temple of God or of the Holy Ghost. Sense 4: The Lord God Almighty and the Lamb, expressly called the temple of the city.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

day

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Sense 1: Light or the period of light between morning and evening, as distinguished from night. Sense 2: A complete daily cycle. Sense 3: A specified time, occasion, period, age, or season.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

Lord

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1. A title of God or Jesus Christ acknowledging authority and rule. 2. A respectful title or address for one in authority.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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GOD

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The divine name of the living God, used chiefly in the title Lord GOD.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

dead

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Sense 1: Without life; deprived of life. Sense 2: Lifeless, inactive, insensible, or separated from a former state by figure.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

every

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Each individual or member of the class, group, place, time, side, or kind named; all distributively.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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place

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Sense 1: A physical location or room. Sense 2: A position or office. Sense 3: An occasion, circumstance, or passage. Sense 4: To set, fix, locate, or establish.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

cast

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1. To throw, send, put, lay, or direct a person or thing into, upon, around, toward, or away from a place, or into a stated condition. 2. To put away, reject, expel, remove, overthrow, or bring down. 3. To put forth or use a lot for choosing, dividing, or assigning. 4. To form an object by pouring molten material into a mould. 5. To shed, drop, or bring forth young, fruit, leaves, or flowers. 6. To raise, form, or prepare a bank, mount, trench, or way. 7. In "cast ... in his teeth," to reproach or charge something against him. 8. As a noun, the distance something may be thrown.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

forth

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1. Outward, away, or forward from a place, person, possession, or former position. 2. In constructions of bearing or producing, into birth, growth, fruit, or another stated result. 3. With verbs such as put, stretch, spread, or reach, outward by extension or exertion. 4. In constructions of showing, speaking, issuing, or displaying, into view, expression, publication, or effect. 5. Onward from a stated time or point, as in from that time forth.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

silence

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Absence or cessation of sound or speech; quietness, stillness, restraint from speaking, or the condition of being made unable or unwilling to answer.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Amos 8:4

COMBINED MEANING

hear

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Sense 1: To perceive sound or spoken words. Sense 2: To receive or learn by report. Sense 3: To listen to, regard, or heed. Sense 4: To attend favourably to a request.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

ye

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The second-person plural subject pronoun, referring to the persons being addressed as those who are, do, or receive the stated predicate.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

swallow

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Sense 1: A small bird. Sense 2: To take into the mouth and pass inward, consume, engulf, devour, or overwhelm.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

even

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1. Used to emphasize, include, or precisely identify what is meant: indeed, precisely, or namely. 2. Used to mark a boundary, endpoint, or full reach in place, time, or degree: up to, as far as, or through. 3. In ‘even as,’ ‘even so,’ and like constructions, just as, exactly so, or in the same manner. 4. The evening, or close of day. 5. Equal, level, identical, balanced, or uniform.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

make

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To form, create, produce, cause, appoint, perform, or render into a stated condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

COMBINED MEANING

land

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Sense 1: The ground or earth; a country, territory, or region. Sense 2: To set or come on shore.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

fail

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Sense 1: To become deficient; to be insufficient; to cease to be abundant for supply. Sense 2: To be entirely wanting.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Amos 8:5

COMBINED MEANING

new

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Recently made, begun, known, or received; fresh, different, or not old.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

gone

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Departed, went away, passed, or advanced to another place or condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

sell

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1. To transfer for a price. 2. To betray or surrender into another's power.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

corn

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1. Grain or cereal produce, whether growing or gathered, and the plants bearing it. 2. A single grain or seed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

COMBINED MEANING

sabbath

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An appointed holy rest or cessation from ordinary labour; especially the seventh-day rest, or a sabbatical rest for the land.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

set

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1. To put or place a person or thing in a position, relation, or condition; when passive, to be so placed, fixed, or adorned. 2. To establish, fix, appoint, assign, prescribe, or determine. 3. To arrange, prepare, present, display, or put in order or array. 4. To direct, turn, or firmly apply the face, heart, eyes, mind, affection, or action toward something. 5. To start, advance, send out, proceed on a course or work, or make an attack, as in set forward, set forth, or set upon where those meanings apply. 6. To value or esteem; or, in set at nought or set light by, to despise. 7. Of the sun, to go down.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

forth

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1. Outward, away, or forward from a place, person, possession, or former position. 2. In constructions of bearing or producing, into birth, growth, fruit, or another stated result. 3. With verbs such as put, stretch, spread, or reach, outward by extension or exertion. 4. In constructions of showing, speaking, issuing, or displaying, into view, expression, publication, or effect. 5. Onward from a stated time or point, as in from that time forth.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

wheat

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A grain-bearing plant and its seed, commonly ground into flour for bread.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

ephah

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1. A dry measure equal to the tenth part of a homer. 2. A vessel or representation bearing that measure.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

small

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1. Little or limited in size, amount, number, extent, strength, power, rank, or importance. 2. Fine or minute; broken or ground into small particles. 3. In “no small,” considerable or great. 4. In “small cattle,” sheep and goats, as distinguished from oxen or larger cattle.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

balances

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1. An instrument with opposing scales for weighing. 2. By figure, the weighing or judging of a person or matter.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

deceit

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Falsehood, guile, fraud, trickery, or a purpose, word, or act intended to mislead.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Amos 8:6

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

silver

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A precious white metal used for money, vessels, ornaments, images, trade, valuation, and refining; by extension, money or wealth reckoned in that metal.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

yea

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1. Indeed, marking confirmation, emphasis, addition, continuation, or heightening of what is said; it may also emphasize a question. 2. Yes, expressing an affirmative answer or declaration.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

sell

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1. To transfer for a price. 2. To betray or surrender into another's power.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

wheat

↗

A grain-bearing plant and its seed, commonly ground into flour for bread.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Amos 8:7

COMBINED MEANING

sworn

↗

Bound, promised, affirmed, testified, or covenanted by a solemn oath; or caused another to enter such an obligation.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

excellency

↗

Surpassing greatness, dignity, superiority, or an eminent and highly valued quality.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

never

↗

Sense 1: Not ever; at no time or in no case. Sense 2: In never so constructions, however or no matter how much.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

forget

↗

To fail or cease to remember; to lose from mind; to neglect or disregard.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

works

↗

Plural of work: acts, deeds, labours, operations, products, or things made.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Amos 8:8

COMBINED MEANING

shall

↗

An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

land

↗

Sense 1: The ground or earth; a country, territory, or region. Sense 2: To set or come on shore.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

for

↗

1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

every

↗

Each individual or member of the class, group, place, time, side, or kind named; all distributively.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

mourn

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Sense 1: To grieve, sorrow, lament, weep, or express distress. Sense 2: To show the effects of ruin and sorrow.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

therein

↗

In, within, during, or concerning that place, person, thing, condition, time, or matter previously mentioned.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

rise

↗

To get up, stand, ascend, increase, begin, appear, come forth, awaken, proceed to act or oppose, attain authority, or return from the dead.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

cast

↗

1. To throw, send, put, lay, or direct a person or thing into, upon, around, toward, or away from a place, or into a stated condition. 2. To put away, reject, expel, remove, overthrow, or bring down. 3. To put forth or use a lot for choosing, dividing, or assigning. 4. To form an object by pouring molten material into a mould. 5. To shed, drop, or bring forth young, fruit, leaves, or flowers. 6. To raise, form, or prepare a bank, mount, trench, or way. 7. In "cast ... in his teeth," to reproach or charge something against him. 8. As a noun, the distance something may be thrown.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

out

↗

Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

drowned

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Sense 1: Submerged or overwhelmed in water; killed by drowning. Sense 2: Inundated as by a flood.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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8:1THUS hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.

8:2And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the Lord unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.

8:3And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord God: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.

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8:4¶ Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

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8:5Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?

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8:6That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

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8:7The Lord hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.

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8:8Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.

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8:9And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:

8:10And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

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