Amos 5:3 “This is what the Lord GOD says: “The city that marches out a thousand…”

Amos 5:3

This is what the Lord GOD says: “The city that marches out a thousand strong will have but a hundred left, and the one that marches out a hundred strong will have but ten left in the house of Israel.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.

World English Bible

For the Lord GOD says: “The city that went out a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went out one hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel.”

American Standard Version

For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth a hundred shall have ten left, to the house of Israel.

Geneva Bible 1599

For thus saith ye Lord God, The citie which went out by a thousand, shall leaue an hundreth: and that which went forth by an hundreth, shall leaue ten to the house of Israel.

Darby Translation

For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth a hundred shall have ten left, for the house of Israel.

Young's Literal Translation

For thus said the Lord Jehovah: The city that is going out a thousand, Doth leave an hundred, And that which is going out an hundred, Doth leave ten to the house of Israel.

Bible in Basic English

For these are the words of the Lord God: The town which was able to send out a thousand, will have only a hundred; and that which sent out a hundred, will have only ten, in Israel.

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Cross references

“The city”

Isaiah 10:22 Ezekiel 12:16 Romans 9:27 Deuteronomy 4:27 Deuteronomy 28:62 Isaiah 1:9

Isaiah 10:22 · BSB

Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand of the sea, only a remnant will return. Destruction has been decreed, overflowing with righteousness.

Ezekiel 12:16 · BSB

But I will spare a few of them from sword and famine and plague, so that in the nations to which they go, they can recount all their abominations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”

Romans 9:27 · BSB

Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.

Deuteronomy 4:27 · BSB

Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.

Deuteronomy 28:62 · BSB

You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left few in number, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.

Isaiah 1:9 · BSB

Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.

Also

Isaiah 6:13 Amos 6:9

Isaiah 6:13 · BSB

And though a tenth remains in the land, it will be burned again. As the terebinth and oak leave stumps when felled, so the holy seed will be a stump in the land.”

Amos 6:9 · BSB

And if there are ten men left in one house, they too will die.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2“Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.”

4For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!

Read Amos 5