Amos 2:5

The NET Bible®

So I will set Judah on fire, and it will consume Jerusalem's fortresses."

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Therefore, I will send fire against Judah,and it will consume the citadels of Jerusalem.

Hebrew Names Version
But I will send a fire on Yehudah, And it will devour the palaces of Yerushalayim."

King James Version
But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

English Standard Version
So I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem."

New American Standard Bible
"So I will send fire upon Judah, And it will consume the citadels of Jerusalem."

New Century Version
So I will send fire on Judah, and it will destroy the strong buildings of Jerusalem."

Amplified Bible
"So I will send a fire [of war, conquest, and destruction by the Babylonians] upon Judah And it will devour the strongholds of Jerusalem."

Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore will I send a fire vpon Iudah, and it shall deuoure the palaces of Ierusalem.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"So I will send fire upon Judah And it will consume the citadels of Jerusalem."

Legacy Standard Bible
So I will send fire upon Judah,And it will consume the citadels of Jerusalem."

Berean Standard Bible
So I will send fire upon Judah to consume the citadels of Jerusalem."

Contemporary English Version
Now I will send fire on Judah and destroy the fortresses of Jerusalem.

Complete Jewish Bible
I will send fire on Y'hudah, and it will consume the palaces of Yerushalayim.

Darby Translation
And I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

Easy-to-Read Version
So I will start a fire in Judah that will destroy the high towers of Jerusalem."

George Lamsa Translation
But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

Good News Translation
So I will send fire upon Judah and burn down the fortresses of Jerusalem."

Lexham English Bible
So I will send a fire against Judah and it will devour the citadel fortresses of Jerusalem.

Literal Translation
And I shall send a fire against Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

American Standard Version
But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

Bible in Basic English
And I will send a fire on Judah, burning up the great houses of Jerusalem.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
So will I send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

King James Version (1611)
But I will send a fire vpon Iudah, and it shall deuoure the palaces of Ierusalem.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Therfore will I send a fire into Iuda, which shall consume the palaces of Hierusalem:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I will send a fire on Juda, and it shall devour the foundations of Jerusalem.

English Revised Version
but I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

World English Bible
But I will send a fire on Judah, And it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y schal sende fier in to Juda, and it schal deuoure the housis of Jerusalem.

Update Bible Version
but I will send a fire on Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

Webster's Bible Translation
But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

New King James Version
But I will send a fire upon Judah, And it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem."

New Living Translation
So I will send down fire on Judah, and all the fortresses of Jerusalem will be destroyed."

New Life Bible
So I will send fire upon Judah, and it will destroy the strong-places of Jerusalem."

New Revised Standard
So I will send a fire on Judah, and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Therefore will I send a fire upon Judah, - which shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will send a fire into Juda, and it shall devour the houses of Jerusalem.

Revised Standard Version
So I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem."

Young's Literal Translation
And I have sent a fire against Judah, And it hath consumed palaces of Jerusalem.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Therfore will I sende a fyre in to Iuda, which shal consume the palaces of Ierusalem.

Contextual Overview

¹ This is what the Lord says: "Because Moab has committed three crimes— make that four!—I will not revoke my decree of judgment. They burned the bones of Edom's king into lime. ² So I will set Moab on fire, and it will consume Kerioth's fortresses. Moab will perish in the heat of battle amid war cries and the blaring of the ram's horn. ³ I will remove Moab's leader; I will kill all Moab's officials with him." The Lord has spoken! ⁴ This is what the Lord says: "Because Judah has committed three covenant transgressions— make that four!—I will not revoke my decree of judgment. They rejected the Lord 's law; they did not obey his commands. Their false gods, to which their fathers were loyal, led them astray. ⁵ So I will set Judah on fire, and it will consume Jerusalem's fortresses." ⁶ This is what the Lord says: "Because Israel has committed three covenant transgressions— make that four!—I will not revoke my decree of judgment. They sold the innocent for silver, the needy for a pair of sandals. ⁷ They trample on the dirt-covered heads of the poor; they push the destitute away. A man and his father go to the same girl; in this way they show disrespect for my moral purity. ⁸ They stretch out on clothing seized as collateral; they do so right beside every altar! They drink wine bought with the fines they have levied; they do so right in the temple of their God!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I will: Jeremiah 17:27, Jeremiah 21:10, Jeremiah 37:8-10, Jeremiah 39:8, Jeremiah 52:13, Hosea 8:14

Reciprocal: Numbers 21:28 - a fire 2 Kings 25:9 - the king's Isaiah 2:13 - General Jeremiah 6:5 - let us destroy Jeremiah 25:18 - Jerusalem Jeremiah 50:32 - kindle Lamentations 2:7 - given up Ezekiel 28:18 - therefore Ezekiel 30:8 - when I Hosea 5:5 - Judah Amos 1:4 - I will Amos 3:11 - and thy Micah 6:9 - Lord's

Cross-References

Genesis 2:9
The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow from the soil, every tree that was pleasing to look at and good for food. (Now the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil were in the middle of the orchard.)

Genesis 2:11
The name of the first is Pishon; it runs through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

Genesis 2:12
(The gold of that land is pure; pearls and lapis lazuli are also there).

Genesis 3:23
So the Lord God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.

Genesis 4:2
Then she gave birth to his brother Abel. Abel took care of the flocks, while Cain cultivated the ground.

Genesis 4:12
When you try to cultivate the ground it will no longer yield its best for you. You will be a homeless wanderer on the earth."

Job 5:10
he gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields;

Psalms 104:14
He provides grass for the cattle, and crops for people to cultivate, so they can produce food from the ground,

Psalms 135:7
He causes the clouds to arise from the end of the earth, makes lightning bolts accompany the rain, and brings the wind out of his storehouses.

Jeremiah 14:22
Do any of the worthless idols of the nations cause rain to fall? Do the skies themselves send showers? Is it not you, O Lord our God, who does this? So we put our hopes in you because you alone do all this."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But I will send a fire upon Judah,.... An enemy, Nebuchadnezzar, who should burn, waste, and destroy, all that were in his way:

and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem; the chief city of Judah, the royal city, where stood the temple, the palace of the most High, and the palaces of the king and his nobles; these were burnt with fire when it was taken by the Chaldean army, about two hundred years after this prophecy, Jeremiah 52:13.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will send a fire upon Judah - All know now, how Jerusalem, its temple, and its palaces perished by fire, first by Nebuchadnezzar, then by the Romans. Yet some two centuries passed, before that first destruction came. The ungodly Jews flattered themselves that it would never come. So we know that a “fiery stream” Daniel 7:10 will issue and come forth from Him; “a fire” that “consumeth to destruction” Job 31:12, all who, whether or no they are in the body of the Church, are not of the heavenly Jerusalem; dead members in the body which belongs to the Living Head. And it will not the less come, because it is not regarded. Rather, the very condition of all God’s judgments is, to be disregarded and to come, and then most to come, when they are most disregarded.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Amos 2:5. I will send a fire upon Judah — This fire was the war made upon the Jews by Nebuchadnezzar, which terminated with the sackage and burning of Jerusalem and its palace the temple.