For, behold, the LORD commands, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts. Treasury of Scripture the Lord. Amos 3:6,7 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD has not done it... Amos 9:1,9 I saw the LORD standing on the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head... Psalm 105:16,31,34 Moreover he called for a famine on the land: he broke the whole staff of bread... Isaiah 10:5,6 O Assyrian, the rod of my anger, and the staff in their hand is my indignation... Isaiah 13:3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for my anger, even them that rejoice in my highness. Isaiah 46:10,11 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand... Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please... Ezekiel 29:18-20 Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was made bald... Nahum 1:14 And the LORD has given a commandment concerning you, that no more of your name be sown... he will. Amos 6:8 The Lord GOD has sworn by himself, said the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces... Amos 3:15 And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end... 2 Kings 25:9 And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem... Hosea 13:16 Samaria shall become desolate; for she has rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword... Zechariah 14:2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished... Luke 19:44 And shall lay you even with the ground, and your children within you; and they shall not leave in you one stone on another... breaches. or, droppings. Ecclesiastes 10:18 By much slothfulness the building decays; and through idleness of the hands the house drops through.
Context The Pride of Israel
8The Lord GOD has sworn by himself, said the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein. 9And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die. 10And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burns him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say to him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with you? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold your tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD. 11For, behold, the LORD commands, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts. 12Shall horses run on the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for you have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock: 13You which rejoice in a thing of nothing, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength? 14But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, said the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath to the river of the wilderness. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
For, behold, Jehovah commandeth, and the great house shall be smitten with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For behold the Lord hath commanded, and he will strike the greater house with breaches, and the lesser house with clefts.
Darby Bible Translation
For behold, Jehovah commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
King James Bible
For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
Young's Literal Translation
For lo, Jehovah is commanding, And He hath smitten the great house with breaches, And the little house with clefts.
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