Amos 2:5

King James Version

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

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."

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

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 Thus saith the Lord ; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime: ² But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet: ³ And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the Lord . ⁴ Thus saith the Lord ; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the Lord , and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked: ⁵ But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem. ⁶ Thus saith the Lord ; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes; ⁷ That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name: ⁸ And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house 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
And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 2:11
The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

Genesis 2:12
And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

Genesis 3:23
Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

Genesis 4:2
And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

Genesis 4:12
When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

Job 5:10
Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:

Psalms 104:14
He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;

Psalms 135:7
He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries.

Jeremiah 14:22
Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O Lord our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.

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.