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10 So I will send fire upon the city walls of Tyre and burn down its fortresses.”

Edom

11 (A)The Lord says, “The people of Edom have sinned again and again, and for this I will certainly punish them. They hunted down their relatives,[a] the Israelites, and showed them no mercy. Their anger had no limits, and they never let it die. 12 So I will send fire upon the city of Teman and burn down the fortresses of Bozrah.”

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 1:11 The Israelites were descended from Jacob, who was the brother of Esau, the ancestor of the Edomites.

10 I will send fire on the walls of Tyre
    that will consume her fortresses.(A)

11 This is what the Lord says:

“For three sins of Edom,(B)
    even for four, I will not relent.
Because he pursued his brother with a sword(C)
    and slaughtered the women of the land,
because his anger raged continually
    and his fury flamed unchecked,(D)
12 I will send fire on Teman(E)
    that will consume the fortresses of Bozrah.(F)

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