28 Because your raging against me
and your arrogance have reached my ears,
I will put my hook in your nose(A)
and my bit in your mouth;
I will make you go back
the way you came.

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28 Because you rage against me
    and because your insolence has reached my ears,
I will put my hook(A) in your nose
    and my bit(B) in your mouth,
and I will make you return(C)
    by the way you came.’

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11 So he brought against them the military commanders of the king of Assyria. They captured Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.(A)

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11 So the Lord brought against them the army commanders of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh prisoner,(A) put a hook(B) in his nose, bound him with bronze shackles(C) and took him to Babylon.

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29 Because your raging against me
and your arrogance have reached my ears,(A)
I will put my hook in your nose(B)
and my bit in your mouth;(C)
I will make you go back
the way you came.

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29 Because you rage against me
    and because your insolence(A) has reached my ears,
I will put my hook(B) in your nose(C)
    and my bit in your mouth,
and I will make you return
    by the way you came.(D)

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Punishment of Exile

16 “I am about to send for many fishermen”(A)—this is the Lord’s declaration—“and they will fish for them. Then I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill and out of the clefts of the rocks,

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16 “But now I will send for many fishermen,” declares the Lord, “and they will catch them.(A) After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt(B) them down on every mountain and hill and from the crevices of the rocks.(C)

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When the nations heard about him,
he was caught in their pit.
Then they led him away with hooks
to the land of Egypt.(A)

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The nations heard about him,
    and he was trapped in their pit.
They led him with hooks(A)
    to the land of Egypt.(B)

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They put a wooden yoke on him[a] with hooks(A)
and led him away to the king of Babylon.
They brought him into the fortresses
so his roar could no longer be heard
on the mountains of Israel.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 19:9 Or put him in a cage

With hooks(A) they pulled him into a cage
    and brought him to the king of Babylon.(B)
They put him in prison,
    so his roar(C) was heard no longer
    on the mountains of Israel.(D)

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I will put hooks in your jaws(A)
and make the fish of your streams
cling to your scales.
I will haul you up
from the middle of your Nile,
and all the fish of your streams
will cling to your scales.

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But I will put hooks(A) in your jaws
    and make the fish of your streams stick to your scales.
I will pull you out from among your streams,
    with all the fish sticking to your scales.(B)

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I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws,(A) and bring you out with all your army, including horses and riders,(B) who are all splendidly dressed, a huge assembly armed with large and small shields, all of them brandishing swords.

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I will turn you around, put hooks(A) in your jaws and bring you out with your whole army—your horses, your horsemen fully armed, and a great horde with large and small shields, all of them brandishing their swords.(B)

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The Lord God has sworn(A) by his holiness:(B)

Look, the days are coming[a]
when you will be taken away with hooks,(C)
every last one of you with fishhooks.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 4:2 Lit coming on you

The Sovereign Lord has sworn by his holiness:
    “The time(A) will surely come
when you will be taken away(B) with hooks,(C)
    the last of you with fishhooks.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 4:2 Or away in baskets, / the last of you in fish baskets