11|For, behold, Yahweh commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, and the little house into bits.


In Context

8 |The Lord Yahweh has sworn by himself,| says Yahweh, the God of Armies: |I abhor the pride of Jacob, and detest his fortresses. Therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.

9 It will happen, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.

10 |When a man's relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, 'Is there yet any with you?' And he says, 'No;' then he will say, 'Hush! Indeed we must not mention the name of Yahweh.'

11 |For, behold, Yahweh commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, and the little house into bits.

12 Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;

13 you who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say, 'Haven't we taken for ourselves horns by our own strength?'

Amos 6:11 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:11For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

6:11For the Lord has given the command, and he will smash the great house into pieces and the small house into bits.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

6:11For behold the Lord hath commanded, and he will strike the greater house with breaches, and the lesser house with clefts.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

6:11For, behold, Jehovah commandeth, and the great house shall be smitten with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:11For behold, Jehovah commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

6:11For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and the great house shall be smitten with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:11For behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

6:11For lo, Jehovah is commanding, And He hath smitten the great house with breaches, And the little house with clefts.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:11For, behold, the LORD commands, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.