Holy Scripture

Amos 1:11

A church father on this verse
“(Ver. 11 and following) Thus says the Lord: For three crimes of Edom, and for four, I will not revoke my judgment; Because he pursued his brother with the sword, and violated all pity, and his anger tore at them constantly, and he kept his wrath to the end. I will send fire into Teman, and it will consume the fortress…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Amos

Source: Septuagint

Original

11Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away from them; because they pursued their brother with the sword, and destroyed the mother upon the earth, and summoned up his anger for a testimony, and kept up his fury to the end.

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9Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not turn away from it; because they shut up the prisoners of Solomon into Edom, and remembered not the covenant of brethren.

10And I will send forth a fire on the walls of Tyre, and it shall devour the foundations of it.

— Amos 1:11 —

12And I will send forth a fire upon Teman, and it shall devour the foundations of her walls.

13Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away from him; because they ripped up the women with child of the Gileadites, that they might widen their coasts.

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