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# Will not the land quake for this, and everyone who lives in it mourn?
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Amos uses a question to emphasize that these things will certainly happen. Alternate translation: "Yahweh will cause the land to shake, and everyone who lives in it will mourn." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion]])
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# All of it will rise up like the Nile River ... like the river of Egypt
Amos compares the rising and sinking of the waters of the Nile River to how Yahweh will cause the land to shake when he judges the people. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-simile]])
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# river of Egypt
This is another name for the Nile River.