Amos 1:10
Good News Translation
So I will send fire upon the city walls of Tyre and burn down its fortresses."

New Revised Standard Version
So I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, fire that shall devour its strongholds.

Contemporary English Version
That's why I will send flames to burn down the city of Tyre along with its fortresses.

New American Bible
I will send fire upon the wall of Tyre, and it will devour its strongholds.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will send a fire upon the wall of Tyre, and it shall devour the houses thereof.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I will send a fire upon the wall of Tyre, and it shall devour the houses thereof.

Amos 1:4,7-2:16 And I will send a fire into the house of Azael, and it shall devour the houses of Benadad. . . .

Ezekiel 26:12 They shall waste thy riches, they shall make a spoil of thy merchandise: and they shall destroy thy walls, and pull down thy fine houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber, and thy dust in the midst of the waters.

Zechariah 9:4 Behold the Lord shall possess her, and shall strike her strength in the sea, and she shall be devoured with fire.

Context
Judgment on Israel's Neighbors
9Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Tyre, and for four I will not convert it: because they have shut up an entire captivity in Edom, and have not remembered the covenant of brethren. 10And I will send a fire upon the wall of Tyre, and it shall devour the houses thereof.11Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Edom, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath pursued his brother with the sword, and hath carried on his fury, and hath kept his wrath to the end.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 47:4
Because of the coming of the day, in which all the Philistines shall be laid waste, and Tyre and Sidon shall be destroyed, with all the rest of their helpers. For the Lord hath wasted the Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Cappadocia.

Ezekiel 26:4
And they shall break down the walls of Tyre, and destroy the towers thereof: and I will scrape her dust from her, and make her like a smooth rock.

Ezekiel 28:18
Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thy iniquities, and by the iniquity of thy traffic: therefore I will bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, to devour thee, and I will make thee as ashes upon the earth in the sight of all that see thee.

Joel 3:4
But what have you to do with me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all the coast of the Philistines? will you revenge yourselves on me? and if you revenge yourselves on me, I will very soon return you a recompense upon your own head.

Zechariah 9:4
Behold the Lord shall possess her, and shall strike her strength in the sea, and she shall be devoured with fire.

Amos 1:9
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