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Amos 9:8

Surely the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth. Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” declares the LORD.

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ASV

Behold, the eyes of the Lord Jehovah are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; save that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith Jehovah.

KJV

Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the Lord.

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21 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
הִנֵּ֞הhi.Nehhere!H2009 →
עֵינֵ֣י׀'ei.Nei[the] eyes ofH5869 →
אֲדֹנָ֣י'a.do.Nai[the] LordH136 →
יְהוִ֗הYah.wehYahwehH3069 →
בַּמַּמְלָכָה֙ba.mam.la.Khah[are] on the kingdomH4467 →
הַֽחַטָּאָ֔הha.cha.ta.'Ah<the> sinfulH2400 →
וְהִשְׁמַדְתִּ֣יve.hish.mad.Tiand I will destroyH8045 →
אֹתָ֔הּ'o.Tah<obj.> itH853 →
מֵעַ֖לme.'Alfrom onH5921 →
פְּנֵ֣יpe.Nei[the] surface ofH6440 →
הָאֲדָמָ֑הha.'a.da.Mahthe groundH127 →
אֶ֗פֶס'E.fesneverthelessH657 →
כִּ֠יkiforH3588 →
לֹ֣אlo'notH3808 →
הַשְׁמֵ֥ידhash.Meidcertainly <to be destroying>H8045 →
אַשְׁמִ֛יד'ash.MidI will destroyH8045 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
בֵּ֥יתbeit[the] house ofH1004 →
יַעֲקֹ֖בya.'a.KoJacobH3290 →
נְאֻם־ne.'um-[the] utterance ofH5002 →
יְהוָֽה׃Yah.wehYahwehH3068 →

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Obadiah 1:17But on Mount Zion there will be deliverance, and it will be holy, and the house of Jacob will reclaim their possession.Jeremiah 30:11For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have scattered you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”Amos 9:4Though they are driven by their enemies into captivity, there I will command the sword to slay them. I will fix My eyes upon them for harm and not for good.”Jeremiah 44:27I am watching over them for harm and not for good, and every man of Judah who is in the land of Egypt will meet his end by sword or famine, until they are finished off.Jeremiah 5:10Go up through her vineyards and ravage them, but do not finish them off. Strip off her branches, for they do not belong to the LORD.Proverbs 5:21For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.Deuteronomy 4:31For the LORD your God is a merciful God; He will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers, which He swore to them by oath.Deuteronomy 6:15For the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God. Otherwise the anger of the LORD your God will be kindled against you, and He will wipe you off the face of the earth.Joel 2:32And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has promised, among the remnant called by the LORD.Proverbs 15:3The eyes of the LORD are in every place, observing the evil and the good.Genesis 6:7So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.”Psalms 11:4–6The LORD is in His holy temple; the LORD is on His heavenly throne. His eyes are watching closely; they examine the sons of men.Isaiah 27:7–8Has the LORD struck Israel as He struck her oppressors? Was she killed like those who slayed her?Jeremiah 33:24–26“Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.1 Kings 13:34And this was the sin of the house of Jeroboam that led to its extermination and destruction from the face of the earth.Hosea 1:6Gomer again conceived and gave birth to a daughter, and the LORD said to Hosea, “Name her Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have compassion on the house of Israel, that I should ever forgive them.Jeremiah 31:35–36Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name:Genesis 7:4For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”

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The Prophet Amos — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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