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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
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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
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This is another name for the Nile River.
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