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Amos 5:18-27
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Amos 5:18-27
The Message
Time to Face Hard Reality, Not Fantasy
18-20 Woe to all of you who want God’s Judgment Day!
Why would you want to see God, want him to come?
When God comes, it will be bad news before it’s good news,
the worst of times, not the best of times.
Here’s what it’s like: A man runs from a lion
right into the jaws of a bear.
A woman goes home after a hard day’s work
and is raped by a neighbor.
At God’s coming we face hard reality, not fantasy—
a black cloud with no silver lining.
21-24 “I can’t stand your religious meetings.
I’m fed up with your conferences and conventions.
I want nothing to do with your religion projects,
your pretentious slogans and goals.
I’m sick of your fund-raising schemes,
your public relations and image making.
I’ve had all I can take of your noisy ego-music.
When was the last time you sang to me?
Do you know what I want?
I want justice—oceans of it.
I want fairness—rivers of it.
That’s what I want. That’s all I want.
25-27 “Didn’t you, dear family of Israel, worship me faithfully for forty years in the wilderness, bringing the sacrifices and offerings I commanded? How is it you’ve stooped to dragging gimcrack statues of your so-called rulers around, hauling the cheap images of all your star-gods here and there? Since you like them so much, you can take them with you when I drive you into exile beyond Damascus.” God’s Message, God-of-the-Angel-Armies.
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Amos 5:18-27
New International Version
Amos 5:18-27
New International Version
The Day of the Lord
18 Woe to you who long
for the day of the Lord!(A)
Why do you long for the day of the Lord?(B)
That day will be darkness,(C) not light.(D)
19 It will be as though a man fled from a lion
only to meet a bear,(E)
as though he entered his house
and rested his hand on the wall
only to have a snake bite him.(F)
20 Will not the day of the Lord be darkness,(G) not light—
pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness?(H)
21 “I hate,(I) I despise your religious festivals;(J)
your assemblies(K) are a stench to me.
22 Even though you bring me burnt offerings(L) and grain offerings,
I will not accept them.(M)
Though you bring choice fellowship offerings,
I will have no regard for them.(N)
23 Away with the noise of your songs!
I will not listen to the music of your harps.(O)
24 But let justice(P) roll on like a river,
righteousness(Q) like a never-failing stream!(R)
25 “Did you bring me sacrifices(S) and offerings
forty years(T) in the wilderness, people of Israel?
26 You have lifted up the shrine of your king,
the pedestal of your idols,(U)
the star of your god[a]—
which you made for yourselves.
27 Therefore I will send you into exile(V) beyond Damascus,”
says the Lord, whose name is God Almighty.(W)
Notas al pie
- Amos 5:26 Or lifted up Sakkuth your king / and Kaiwan your idols, / your star-gods; Septuagint lifted up the shrine of Molek / and the star of your god Rephan, / their idols
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