Amos 6:8 Cross References
Amos 6:8
8: The Sovereign LORD has sworn by his own name, and this is what he, the LORD God Almighty, says: "I despise the pride and false glory of Israel, and I hate their beautiful homes. I will give this city and everything in it to their enemies."
Jeremiah 51:14
- The LORD Almighty has taken this vow and has sworn to it by his own name: "Your cities will be filled with enemies, like fields filled with locusts, and they will lift their shouts of triumph over you."
Amos 8:7
- Now the LORD has sworn this oath by his own name, the Pride of Israel: "I will never forget the wicked things you have done!
Psalms 47:4
- He chose the Promised Land as our inheritance, the proud possession of Jacob's descendants, whom he loves.
Amos 4:2
- The Sovereign LORD has sworn this by his holiness: "The time will come when you will be led away with hooks in your noses. Every last one of you will be dragged away like a fish on a hook!
Amos 3:11
- Therefore," says the Sovereign LORD, "an enemy is coming! He will surround them and shatter their defenses. Then he will plunder all their fortresses."
Jeremiah 22:5
- But if you refuse to pay attention to this warning, I swear by my own name, says the LORD, that this palace will become a pile of rubble.'"
Psalms 106:40
- That is why the LORD's anger burned against his people, and he abhorred his own special possession.
Zechariah 11:8
- I got rid of their three evil shepherds in a single month. But I became impatient with these sheep--this nation--and they hated me, too.
Deuteronomy 32:19
- "The LORD saw this and was filled with loathing. He was provoked to anger by his own sons and daughters.
Leviticus 26:30
- I will destroy your pagan shrines and cut down your incense altars. I will leave your corpses piled up beside your lifeless idols, and I will despise you.
Leviticus 26:11
- I will live among you, and I will not despise you.
Psalms 50:12
- If I were hungry, I would not mention it to you, for all the world is mine and everything in it.
Ezekiel 24:21
- and I was told to give this message to the people of Israel. This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will desecrate my Temple, the source of your security and pride. Your sons and daughters in Judea will be slaughtered by the sword.
Hebrews 6:13
- For example, there was God's promise to Abraham. Since there was no one greater to swear by, God took an oath in his own name, saying:
- "I will certainly bless you richly, and I will multiply your descendants into countless millions."
- Then Abraham waited patiently, and he received what God had promised.
- When people take an oath, they call on someone greater than themselves to hold them to it. And without any question that oath is binding.
- God also bound himself with an oath, so that those who received the promise could be perfectly sure that he would never change his mind.
Psalms 78:59
- When God heard them, he was very angry, and he rejected Israel completely.
Genesis 22:16
- "This is what the LORD says: Because you have obeyed me and have not withheld even your beloved son, I swear by my own self that
Micah 1:6
- "So I, the LORD, will make the city of Samaria a heap of rubble. Her streets will be plowed up for planting vineyards. I will roll the stones of her walls down into the valley below, exposing all her foundations.
- All her carved images will be smashed to pieces. All her sacred treasures will be burned up. These things were bought with the money earned by her prostitution, and they will now be carried away to pay prostitutes elsewhere."
- Because of all this, I will mourn and lament. I will walk around naked and barefoot in sorrow and shame. I will howl like a jackal and wail like an ostrich.
- For my people's wound is far too deep to heal. It has reached into Judah, even to the gates of Jerusalem.
Lamentations 2:5
- Yes, the Lord has vanquished Israel like an enemy. He has destroyed her forts and palaces. He has brought unending sorrow and tears to Jerusalem.