Amos 9

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The Destruction of Israel

9 I saw the Lord standing beside^[a] the altar, and he said:

^(A)“Strike the capitals until ^(B)the thresholds ^(C)shake,
    ^(D)and shatter them on the heads of all the people;^[b]
and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword;
    ^(E)not one of them shall flee away;
    not one of them shall escape.

²^(F)“If they dig into Sheol,
    from there shall my hand take them;
^(G)if they climb up to heaven,
    from there I will bring them down.
³If they hide themselves on ^(H)the top of Carmel,
    from there I will search them out and take them;
^(I)and if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea,
    there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
⁴^(J)And if they go into captivity before their enemies,
    there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them;
^(K)and I will fix my eyes upon them
    for evil and not for good.”

⁵The Lord God of hosts,
he who touches the earth and ^(L)it melts,
    and all who dwell in it mourn,
^(M)and all of it rises like the Nile,
    ^(N)and sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt;
⁶^(O)who builds his upper chambers in the heavens
    and founds his vault upon the earth;
^(P)who calls for the waters of the sea
    and pours them out upon the surface of the earth—
^(Q)the Lord is his name.

⁷“Are you not like ^(R)the Cushites to me,
    O people of Israel?” declares the Lord.
^(S)“Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,
    and ^(T)the Philistines from ^(U)Caphtor and the Syrians from ^(V)Kir?
⁸Behold, ^(W)the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom,
    and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground,
    ^(X)except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”
declares the Lord.

⁹“For behold, I will command,
    ^(Y)and shake the house of Israel among all the nations
as one shakes with a sieve,
    but no pebble shall fall to the earth.
¹⁰All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword,
    who say, ^(Z)‘Disaster shall not overtake or meet us.’

The Restoration of Israel

¹¹“In that day ^(AA)I will raise up
    the booth of David that is fallen
and repair its breaches,
    and raise up its ruins
    and rebuild it as in the days of old,
¹²^(AB)that they may possess the remnant of Edom
    and ^(AC)all the nations who are called by my name,”^[c]
    declares the Lord who does this.

¹³“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord,
    ^(AD)“when the plowman shall overtake the reaper
    and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed;
^(AE)the mountains shall drip sweet wine,
    and all the hills shall flow with it.
¹⁴^(AF)I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel,
    and ^(AG)they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them;
^(AH)they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine,
    and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit.
¹⁵^(AI)I will plant them on their land,
    ^(AJ)and they shall never again be uprooted
    out of the land ^(AK)that I have given them,”
says the Lord your God.

Footnotes

Amos 9:1 Or on
Amos 9:1 Hebrew all of them
Amos 9:12 Hebrew; Septuagint (compare Acts 15:17) that the remnant of mankind and all the nations who are called by my name may seek the Lord

Matthew 8:1-17

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Jesus Cleanses a Leper

8 When he came down from the mountain, ^(A)great crowds followed him. ²^(B)And behold, a leper^[a] came to him and ^(C)knelt before him, saying, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.” ³And Jesus^[b] stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I will; be clean.” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. ⁴And Jesus said to him, ^(D)“See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, ^(E)show yourself to the priest and ^(F)offer the gift that Moses commanded, ^(G)for a proof to them.”

The Faith of a Centurion

⁵^(H)When he had entered Capernaum, a centurion came forward to him, appealing to him, ⁶“Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, suffering terribly.” ⁷And he said to him, “I will come and heal him.” ⁸But the centurion replied, “Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof, but ^(I)only say the word, and my servant will be healed. ⁹For I too am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. And I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my servant,^[c] ‘Do this,’ and he does it.” ¹⁰When Jesus heard this, ^(J)he marveled and said to those who followed him, “Truly, I tell you, with ^(K)no one in Israel^[d] have I found such faith. ¹¹I tell you, ^(L)many will come from east and west and recline at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, ¹²^(M)while the sons of the kingdom ^(N)will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place ^(O)there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” ¹³And to the centurion Jesus said, “Go; let it be done for you ^(P)as you have believed.” ^(Q)And the servant was healed at that very moment.

Jesus Heals Many

¹⁴^(R)And when Jesus entered Peter's house, he saw ^(S)his mother-in-law lying sick with a fever. ¹⁵He ^(T)touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she rose and began to serve him. ¹⁶That evening they brought to him many who were ^(U)oppressed by demons, and he cast out the spirits ^(V)with a word and healed all who were sick. ¹⁷^(W)This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: ^(X)“He took our illnesses and bore our diseases.”

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Footnotes

Matthew 8:2 Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13
Matthew 8:3 Greek he
Matthew 8:9 Or bondservant
Matthew 8:10 Some manuscripts not even in Israel

Micah 1

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1 The word of the Lord that came to Micah ^(A)of Moresheth ^(B)in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw ^(C)concerning ^(D)Samaria and Jerusalem.

The Coming Destruction

²^(E)Hear, you peoples, all of you;^[a]
    ^(F)pay attention, O earth, and all that is in it,
and ^(G)let the Lord God be a witness against you,
    ^(H)the Lord from his holy temple.
³For behold, ^(I)the Lord is coming out of ^(J)his place,
    and will come down and ^(K)tread upon the high places of the earth.
⁴And ^(L)the mountains will melt under him,
    and the valleys will split open,
like wax before the fire,
    like waters poured down a steep place.
⁵All this is for ^(M)the transgression of Jacob
    and for the sins of the house of Israel.
^(N)What is the transgression of Jacob?
    Is it not ^(O)Samaria?
And what is ^(P)the high place of Judah?
    Is it not Jerusalem?
⁶Therefore I will make ^(Q)Samaria ^(R)a heap in the open country,
    a place for planting vineyards,
and I will pour down her stones ^(S)into the valley
    and ^(T)uncover her foundations.
⁷All ^(U)her carved images shall be beaten to pieces,
    ^(V)all her wages shall be burned with fire,
    and all her idols I will lay waste,
for from ^(W)the fee of a prostitute she gathered them,
    and to the fee of a prostitute they shall return.

⁸^(X)For this I will lament and wail;
    I will go ^(Y)stripped and naked;
I will make lamentation ^(Z)like the jackals,
    and mourning ^(AA)like the ostriches.
⁹^(AB)For her wound is incurable,
    and it has come to Judah;
it has reached to the gate of my people,
    to Jerusalem.

¹⁰^(AC)Tell it not in ^(AD)Gath;
    weep not at all;
in Beth-le-aphrah
    ^(AE)roll yourselves in the dust.
¹¹Pass on your way,
    inhabitants of Shaphir,
    ^(AF)in nakedness and shame;
the inhabitants of Zaanan
    do not come out;
the lamentation of Beth-ezel
    shall take away from you its standing place.
¹²For the inhabitants of Maroth
    wait anxiously for good,
because disaster has come down ^(AG)from the Lord
    to the gate of Jerusalem.
¹³Harness the steeds to the chariots,
    inhabitants of ^(AH)Lachish;
it was the beginning of sin
    to the daughter of Zion,
for in you were found
    ^(AI)the transgressions of Israel.
¹⁴Therefore you shall give parting gifts^[b]
    to ^(AJ)Moresheth-gath;
the houses of ^(AK)Achzib shall be a deceitful thing
    to the kings of Israel.
¹⁵I will again bring ^(AL)a conqueror to you,
    inhabitants of ^(AM)Mareshah;
the glory of Israel
    shall come to ^(AN)Adullam.
¹⁶^(AO)Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair,
    for the children of your delight;
^(AP)make yourselves as bald as the eagle,
    for they shall go from you into exile.

Footnotes

Micah 1:2 Hebrew all of them
Micah 1:14 Or give dowry

2 Thessalonians 2

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The Man of Lawlessness

2 Now concerning ^(A)the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our ^(B)being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers,^[a] ²not to be quickly shaken in mind or ^(C)alarmed, either ^(D)by a spirit or a ^(E)spoken word, or ^(F)a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that ^(G)the day of the Lord has come. ³^(H)Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, ^(I)unless the rebellion comes first, and ^(J)the man of lawlessness^[b] is revealed, ^(K)the son of destruction,^[c] ⁴who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, ^(L)proclaiming himself to be God. ⁵Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? ⁶And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time. ⁷For ^(M)the mystery of lawlessness ^(N)is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. ⁸And then ^(O)the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus ^(P)will kill with ^(Q)the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by ^(R)the appearance of his coming. ⁹The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan ^(S)with all power and false signs and wonders, ¹⁰and with all wicked deception for ^(T)those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. ¹¹Therefore ^(U)God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe ^(V)what is false, ¹²in order that all may be condemned ^(W)who did not believe the truth but ^(X)had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Stand Firm

¹³But ^(Y)we ought always to give thanks to God for you, ^(Z)brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you ^(AA)as the firstfruits^[d] ^(AB)to be saved, ^(AC)through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth. ¹⁴To this he called you through ^(AD)our gospel, ^(AE)so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. ¹⁵So then, brothers, ^(AF)stand firm and hold to ^(AG)the traditions that you were taught by us, either ^(AH)by our spoken word or by ^(AI)our letter.

¹⁶Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, ^(AJ)who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good ^(AK)hope through grace, ¹⁷comfort your hearts and ^(AL)establish them in every good work and word.