Amos 3:2 Parallel Translations

Out of all the families on earth, I have known no one else but you. That is why I am going to punish you for all your sins.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

ASV:

You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will visit upon you all your iniquities.

BBE:

You only of all the families of the earth have I taken care of: for this reason I will send punishment on you for all your sins.

DBY:

You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore will I visit upon you all your iniquities.

ERV:

You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will visit upon you all your iniquities.

JPS:

You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will visit upon you all your iniquities.

WBS:

You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

WEB:

"You only have I chosen of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins."

YLT:

Only you I have known of all families of the land, Therefore I charge on you all your iniquities.

Amos 3:2 Cross References

XREF:

Genesis 18:19 "For I have chosen him, so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice, so that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has spoken about him."

Exodus 19:5 'Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine;

Exodus 19:6 and you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words that you shall speak to the sons of Israel."

Deuteronomy 4:32 "Indeed, ask now concerning the former days which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and inquire from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything been done like this great thing, or has anything been heard like it?

Deuteronomy 7:6 "For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Jeremiah 14:10 Thus says the LORD to this people, "Even so they have loved to wander; they have not kept their feet in check. Therefore the LORD does not accept them; now He will remember their iniquity and call their sins to account."

Ezekiel 20:36 "As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you," declares the Lord GOD.

Daniel 9:12 "Thus He has confirmed His words which He had spoken against us and against our rulers who ruled us, to bring on us great calamity; for under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what was done to Jerusalem.

Romans 2:9 There will be tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek, (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

3:2 You {a} only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
(a) I have only chosen you to be mine among all other people, and yet you have forsaken me.

WES:

3:2 Know - Chosen, adopted to be my peculiar ones. Therefore - Because you have all these obligations and abused all these mercies.

MHC:

3:1-8 The distinguishing favours of God to us, if they do not restrain from sin, shall not exempt from punishment. They could not expect communion with God, unless they first sought peace with him. Where there is not friendship, there can be no fellowship. God and man cannot walk together, except they are agreed. Unless we seek his glory, we cannot walk with him. Let us not presume on outward privileges, without special, sanctifying grace. The threatenings of the word and providence of God against the sin of man are certain, and certainly show that the judgments of God are at hand. Nor will God remove the affliction he has sent, till it has done its work. The evil of sin is from ourselves, it is our own doing; but the evil of trouble is from God, and is his doing, whoever are the instruments. This should engage us patiently to bear public troubles, and to study to answer God's meaning in them. The whole of the passage shows that natural evil, or troubles, and not moral evil, or sin, is here meant. The warning given to a careless world will increase its condemnation another day. Oh the amazing stupidity of an unbelieving world, that will not be wrought upon by the terrors of the Lord, and that despise his mercies!

CONC:

Care Charge Chosen Families Iniquities Punish Punishment Reason Sins Visit

Care Charge Chosen Earth Families Iniquities Punish Punishment Reason Sins Visit

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