Amos 4:2
"The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks."
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- Jeremiah 16:16
"Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 89:35
"Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David."
Read in chapter → - Habakkuk 1:15
"They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad."
Read in chapter → - Amos 6:8
"The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein."
Read in chapter → - Isaiah 37:29
"Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest."
Read in chapter → - Ezekiel 39:4
"Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured."
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