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Amos 5-9
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Amos 5-9
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
A Lament for Israel’s Sin
5 Hear this word that I take up over you in lamentation, O house of Israel:
2 Fallen, no more to rise,
is maiden Israel;
forsaken on her land,
with no one to raise her up.
3 For thus says the Lord God:
The city that marched out a thousand
shall have a hundred left,
and that which marched out a hundred
shall have ten left.[a]
4 For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel:
Seek me and live;
5 but do not seek Bethel,
and do not enter into Gilgal
or cross over to Beer-sheba;
for Gilgal shall surely go into exile,
and Bethel shall come to nothing.
6 Seek the Lord and live,
or he will break out against the house of Joseph like fire,
and it will devour Bethel, with no one to quench it.
7 Ah, you that turn justice to wormwood,
and bring righteousness to the ground!
8 The one who made the Pleiades and Orion,
and turns deep darkness into the morning,
and darkens the day into night,
who calls for the waters of the sea,
and pours them out on the surface of the earth,
the Lord is his name,
9 who makes destruction flash out against the strong,
so that destruction comes upon the fortress.
10 They hate the one who reproves in the gate,
and they abhor the one who speaks the truth.
11 Therefore because you trample on the poor
and take from them levies of grain,
you have built houses of hewn stone,
but you shall not live in them;
you have planted pleasant vineyards,
but you shall not drink their wine.
12 For I know how many are your transgressions,
and how great are your sins—
you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe,
and push aside the needy in the gate.
13 Therefore the prudent will keep silent in such a time;
for it is an evil time.
14 Seek good and not evil,
that you may live;
and so the Lord, the God of hosts, will be with you,
just as you have said.
15 Hate evil and love good,
and establish justice in the gate;
it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts,
will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
16 Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord:
In all the squares there shall be wailing;
and in all the streets they shall say, “Alas! alas!”
They shall call the farmers to mourning,
and those skilled in lamentation, to wailing;
17 in all the vineyards there shall be wailing,
for I will pass through the midst of you,
says the Lord.
The Day of the Lord a Dark Day
18 Alas for you who desire the day of the Lord!
Why do you want the day of the Lord?
It is darkness, not light;
19 as if someone fled from a lion,
and was met by a bear;
or went into the house and rested a hand against the wall,
and was bitten by a snake.
20 Is not the day of the Lord darkness, not light,
and gloom with no brightness in it?
21 I hate, I despise your festivals,
and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
22 Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings,
I will not accept them;
and the offerings of well-being of your fatted animals
I will not look upon.
23 Take away from me the noise of your songs;
I will not listen to the melody of your harps.
24 But let justice roll down like waters,
and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
25 Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? 26 You shall take up Sakkuth your king, and Kaiwan your star-god, your images,[b] which you made for yourselves; 27 therefore I will take you into exile beyond Damascus, says the Lord, whose name is the God of hosts.
Complacent Self-Indulgence Will Be Punished
6 Alas for those who are at ease in Zion,
and for those who feel secure on Mount Samaria,
the notables of the first of the nations,
to whom the house of Israel resorts!
2 Cross over to Calneh, and see;
from there go to Hamath the great;
then go down to Gath of the Philistines.
Are you better[c] than these kingdoms?
Or is your[d] territory greater than their[e] territory,
3 O you that put far away the evil day,
and bring near a reign of violence?
4 Alas for those who lie on beds of ivory,
and lounge on their couches,
and eat lambs from the flock,
and calves from the stall;
5 who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp,
and like David improvise on instruments of music;
6 who drink wine from bowls,
and anoint themselves with the finest oils,
but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph!
7 Therefore they shall now be the first to go into exile,
and the revelry of the loungers shall pass away.
8 The Lord God has sworn by himself
(says the Lord, the God of hosts):
I abhor the pride of Jacob
and hate his strongholds;
and I will deliver up the city and all that is in it.
9 If ten people remain in one house, they shall die. 10 And if a relative, one who burns the dead,[f] shall take up the body to bring it out of the house, and shall say to someone in the innermost parts of the house, “Is anyone else with you?” the answer will come, “No.” Then the relative[g] shall say, “Hush! We must not mention the name of the Lord.”
11 See, the Lord commands,
and the great house shall be shattered to bits,
and the little house to pieces.
12 Do horses run on rocks?
Does one plow the sea with oxen?[h]
But you have turned justice into poison
and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—
13 you who rejoice in Lo-debar,[i]
who say, “Have we not by our own strength
taken Karnaim[j] for ourselves?”
14 Indeed, I am raising up against you a nation,
O house of Israel, says the Lord, the God of hosts,
and they shall oppress you from Lebo-hamath
to the Wadi Arabah.
Locusts, Fire, and a Plumb Line
7 This is what the Lord God showed me: he was forming locusts at the time the latter growth began to sprout (it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings). 2 When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said,
“O Lord God, forgive, I beg you!
How can Jacob stand?
He is so small!”
3 The Lord relented concerning this;
“It shall not be,” said the Lord.
4 This is what the Lord God showed me: the Lord God was calling for a shower of fire,[k] and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land. 5 Then I said,
“O Lord God, cease, I beg you!
How can Jacob stand?
He is so small!”
6 The Lord relented concerning this;
“This also shall not be,” said the Lord God.
7 This is what he showed me: the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. 8 And the Lord said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said,
“See, I am setting a plumb line
in the midst of my people Israel;
I will never again pass them by;
9 the high places of Isaac shall be made desolate,
and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste,
and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”
Amaziah Complains to the King
10 Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent to King Jeroboam of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the very center of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his words. 11 For thus Amos has said,
‘Jeroboam shall die by the sword,
and Israel must go into exile
away from his land.’”
12 And Amaziah said to Amos, “O seer, go, flee away to the land of Judah, earn your bread there, and prophesy there; 13 but never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom.”
14 Then Amos answered Amaziah, “I am[l] no prophet, nor a prophet’s son; but I am[m] a herdsman, and a dresser of sycamore trees, 15 and the Lord took me from following the flock, and the Lord said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’
16 “Now therefore hear the word of the Lord.
You say, ‘Do not prophesy against Israel,
and do not preach against the house of Isaac.’
17 Therefore thus says the Lord:
‘Your wife shall become a prostitute in the city,
and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword,
and your land shall be parceled out by line;
you yourself shall die in an unclean land,
and Israel shall surely go into exile away from its land.’”
The Basket of Fruit
8 This is what the Lord God showed me—a basket of summer fruit.[n] 2 He said, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.”[o] Then the Lord said to me,
“The end[p] has come upon my people Israel;
I will never again pass them by.
3 The songs of the temple[q] shall become wailings in that day,”
says the Lord God;
“the dead bodies shall be many,
cast out in every place. Be silent!”
4 Hear this, you that trample on the needy,
and bring to ruin the poor of the land,
5 saying, “When will the new moon be over
so that we may sell grain;
and the sabbath,
so that we may offer wheat for sale?
We will make the ephah small and the shekel great,
and practice deceit with false balances,
6 buying the poor for silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals,
and selling the sweepings of the wheat.”
7 The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob:
Surely I will never forget any of their deeds.
8 Shall not the land tremble on this account,
and everyone mourn who lives in it,
and all of it rise like the Nile,
and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?
9 On that day, says the Lord God,
I will make the sun go down at noon,
and darken the earth in broad daylight.
10 I will turn your feasts into mourning,
and all your songs into lamentation;
I will bring sackcloth on all loins,
and baldness on every head;
I will make it like the mourning for an only son,
and the end of it like a bitter day.
11 The time is surely coming, says the Lord God,
when I will send a famine on the land;
not a famine of bread, or a thirst for water,
but of hearing the words of the Lord.
12 They shall wander from sea to sea,
and from north to east;
they shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the Lord,
but they shall not find it.
13 In that day the beautiful young women and the young men
shall faint for thirst.
14 Those who swear by Ashimah of Samaria,
and say, “As your god lives, O Dan,”
and, “As the way of Beer-sheba lives”—
they shall fall, and never rise again.
The Destruction of Israel
9 I saw the Lord standing beside[r] the altar, and he said:
Strike the capitals until the thresholds shake,
and shatter them on the heads of all the people;[s]
and those who are left I will kill with the sword;
not one of them shall flee away,
not one of them shall escape.
2 Though they dig into Sheol,
from there shall my hand take them;
though they climb up to heaven,
from there I will bring them down.
3 Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel,
from there I will search out and take them;
and though they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea,
there I will command the sea-serpent, and it shall bite them.
4 And though they go into captivity in front of their enemies,
there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them;
and I will fix my eyes on them
for harm and not for good.
5 The Lord, God of hosts,
he who touches the earth and it melts,
and all who live in it mourn,
and all of it rises like the Nile,
and sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt;
6 who builds his upper chambers in the heavens,
and founds his vault upon the earth;
who calls for the waters of the sea,
and pours them out upon the surface of the earth—
the Lord is his name.
7 Are you not like the Ethiopians[t] to me,
O people of Israel? says the Lord.
Did I not bring Israel up from the land of Egypt,
and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Arameans from Kir?
8 The eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom,
and I will destroy it from the face of the earth
—except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,
says the Lord.
9 For lo, I will command,
and shake the house of Israel among all the nations
as one shakes with a sieve,
but no pebble shall fall to the ground.
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword,
who say, “Evil shall not overtake or meet us.”
The Restoration of David’s Kingdom
11 On that day I will raise up
the booth of David that is fallen,
and repair its[u] breaches,
and raise up its[v] ruins,
and rebuild it as in the days of old;
12 in order that they may possess the remnant of Edom
and all the nations who are called by my name,
says the Lord who does this.
13 The time is surely coming, says the Lord,
when the one who plows shall overtake the one who reaps,
and the treader of grapes the one who sows the seed;
the mountains shall drip sweet wine,
and all the hills shall flow with it.
14 I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel,
and they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them;
they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine,
and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit.
15 I will plant them upon their land,
and they shall never again be plucked up
out of the land that I have given them,
says the Lord your God.
Footnotes
- Amos 5:3 Heb adds to the house of Israel
- Amos 5:26 Heb your images, your star-god
- Amos 6:2 Or Are they better
- Amos 6:2 Heb their
- Amos 6:2 Heb your
- Amos 6:10 Or who makes a burning for him
- Amos 6:10 Heb he
- Amos 6:12 Or Does one plow them with oxen
- Amos 6:13 Or in a thing of nothingness
- Amos 6:13 Or horns
- Amos 7:4 Or for a judgment by fire
- Amos 7:14 Or was
- Amos 7:14 Or was
- Amos 8:1 Heb qayits
- Amos 8:2 Heb qayits
- Amos 8:2 Heb qets
- Amos 8:3 Or palace
- Amos 9:1 Or on
- Amos 9:1 Heb all of them
- Amos 9:7 Or Nubians; Heb Cushites
- Amos 9:11 Gk: Heb their
- Amos 9:11 Gk: Heb his
Amos 5-9
New International Version
Amos 5-9
New International Version
A Lament and Call to Repentance
5 Hear this word, Israel, this lament(A) I take up concerning you:
2 “Fallen is Virgin(B) Israel,
never to rise again,
deserted in her own land,
with no one to lift her up.(C)”
3 This is what the Sovereign Lord says to Israel:
“Your city that marches out a thousand strong
will have only a hundred left;
your town that marches out a hundred strong
will have only ten left.(D)”
4 This is what the Lord says to Israel:
“Seek(E) me and live;(F)
5 do not seek Bethel,
do not go to Gilgal,(G)
do not journey to Beersheba.(H)
For Gilgal will surely go into exile,
and Bethel will be reduced to nothing.[a](I)”
6 Seek(J) the Lord and live,(K)
or he will sweep through the tribes of Joseph like a fire;(L)
it will devour them,
and Bethel(M) will have no one to quench it.(N)
8 He who made the Pleiades and Orion,(R)
who turns midnight into dawn(S)
and darkens day into night,(T)
who calls for the waters of the sea
and pours them out over the face of the land—
the Lord is his name.(U)
9 With a blinding flash he destroys the stronghold
and brings the fortified city to ruin.(V)
10 There are those who hate the one who upholds justice in court(W)
and detest the one who tells the truth.(X)
11 You levy a straw tax on the poor(Y)
and impose a tax on their grain.
Therefore, though you have built stone mansions,(Z)
you will not live in them;(AA)
though you have planted lush vineyards,
you will not drink their wine.(AB)
12 For I know how many are your offenses
and how great your sins.(AC)
There are those who oppress the innocent and take bribes(AD)
and deprive the poor(AE) of justice in the courts.(AF)
13 Therefore the prudent keep quiet(AG) in such times,
for the times are evil.(AH)
14 Seek good, not evil,
that you may live.(AI)
Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you,
just as you say he is.
15 Hate evil,(AJ) love good;(AK)
maintain justice in the courts.(AL)
Perhaps(AM) the Lord God Almighty will have mercy(AN)
on the remnant(AO) of Joseph.
16 Therefore this is what the Lord, the Lord God Almighty, says:
“There will be wailing(AP) in all the streets(AQ)
and cries of anguish in every public square.
The farmers(AR) will be summoned to weep
and the mourners to wail.
17 There will be wailing(AS) in all the vineyards,
for I will pass through(AT) your midst,”
says the Lord.(AU)
The Day of the Lord
18 Woe to you who long
for the day of the Lord!(AV)
Why do you long for the day of the Lord?(AW)
That day will be darkness,(AX) not light.(AY)
19 It will be as though a man fled from a lion
only to meet a bear,(AZ)
as though he entered his house
and rested his hand on the wall
only to have a snake bite him.(BA)
20 Will not the day of the Lord be darkness,(BB) not light—
pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness?(BC)
21 “I hate,(BD) I despise your religious festivals;(BE)
your assemblies(BF) are a stench to me.
22 Even though you bring me burnt offerings(BG) and grain offerings,
I will not accept them.(BH)
Though you bring choice fellowship offerings,
I will have no regard for them.(BI)
23 Away with the noise of your songs!
I will not listen to the music of your harps.(BJ)
24 But let justice(BK) roll on like a river,
righteousness(BL) like a never-failing stream!(BM)
25 “Did you bring me sacrifices(BN) and offerings
forty years(BO) in the wilderness, people of Israel?
26 You have lifted up the shrine of your king,
the pedestal of your idols,(BP)
the star of your god[b]—
which you made for yourselves.
27 Therefore I will send you into exile(BQ) beyond Damascus,”
says the Lord, whose name is God Almighty.(BR)
Woe to the Complacent
6 Woe to you(BS) who are complacent(BT) in Zion,
and to you who feel secure(BU) on Mount Samaria,(BV)
you notable men of the foremost nation,
to whom the people of Israel come!(BW)
2 Go to Kalneh(BX) and look at it;
go from there to great Hamath,(BY)
and then go down to Gath(BZ) in Philistia.
Are they better off than(CA) your two kingdoms?
Is their land larger than yours?
3 You put off the day of disaster
and bring near a reign of terror.(CB)
4 You lie on beds adorned with ivory
and lounge on your couches.(CC)
You dine on choice lambs
and fattened calves.(CD)
5 You strum away on your harps(CE) like David
and improvise on musical instruments.(CF)
6 You drink wine(CG) by the bowlful
and use the finest lotions,
but you do not grieve(CH) over the ruin of Joseph.(CI)
7 Therefore you will be among the first to go into exile;(CJ)
your feasting and lounging will end.(CK)
The Lord Abhors the Pride of Israel
8 The Sovereign Lord has sworn by himself(CL)—the Lord God Almighty declares:
“I abhor(CM) the pride of Jacob(CN)
and detest his fortresses;(CO)
I will deliver up(CP) the city
and everything in it.(CQ)”
9 If ten(CR) people are left in one house, they too will die. 10 And if the relative who comes to carry the bodies out of the house to burn them[c](CS) asks anyone who might be hiding there, “Is anyone else with you?” and he says, “No,” then he will go on to say, “Hush!(CT) We must not mention the name of the Lord.”
11 For the Lord has given the command,
and he will smash(CU) the great house(CV) into pieces
and the small house into bits.(CW)
12 Do horses run on the rocky crags?
Does one plow the sea[d] with oxen?
But you have turned justice into poison(CX)
and the fruit of righteousness(CY) into bitterness(CZ)—
13 you who rejoice in the conquest of Lo Debar[e]
and say, “Did we not take Karnaim[f] by our own strength?(DA)”
14 For the Lord God Almighty declares,
“I will stir up a nation(DB) against you, Israel,
that will oppress you all the way
from Lebo Hamath(DC) to the valley of the Arabah.(DD)”
Locusts, Fire and a Plumb Line
7 This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me:(DE) He was preparing swarms of locusts(DF) after the king’s share had been harvested and just as the late crops were coming up. 2 When they had stripped the land clean,(DG) I cried out, “Sovereign Lord, forgive! How can Jacob survive?(DH) He is so small!(DI)”
3 So the Lord relented.(DJ)
“This will not happen,” the Lord said.(DK)
4 This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: The Sovereign Lord was calling for judgment by fire;(DL) it dried up the great deep and devoured(DM) the land. 5 Then I cried out, “Sovereign Lord, I beg you, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!(DN)”
6 So the Lord relented.(DO)
“This will not happen either,” the Sovereign Lord said.(DP)
7 This is what he showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall that had been built true to plumb,[g] with a plumb line[h] in his hand. 8 And the Lord asked me, “What do you see,(DQ) Amos?(DR)”
“A plumb line,(DS)” I replied.
Then the Lord said, “Look, I am setting a plumb line among my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.(DT)
9 “The high places(DU) of Isaac will be destroyed
and the sanctuaries(DV) of Israel will be ruined;
with my sword I will rise against the house of Jeroboam.(DW)”
Amos and Amaziah
10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel(DX) sent a message to Jeroboam(DY) king of Israel: “Amos is raising a conspiracy(DZ) against you in the very heart of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words.(EA) 11 For this is what Amos is saying:
“‘Jeroboam will die by the sword,
and Israel will surely go into exile,(EB)
away from their native land.’”(EC)
12 Then Amaziah said to Amos, “Get out, you seer!(ED) Go back to the land of Judah. Earn your bread there and do your prophesying there.(EE) 13 Don’t prophesy anymore at Bethel,(EF) because this is the king’s sanctuary and the temple(EG) of the kingdom.(EH)”
14 Amos answered Amaziah, “I was neither a prophet(EI) nor the son of a prophet, but I was a shepherd, and I also took care of sycamore-fig trees.(EJ) 15 But the Lord took me from tending the flock(EK) and said to me, ‘Go,(EL) prophesy(EM) to my people Israel.’(EN) 16 Now then, hear(EO) the word of the Lord. You say,
“‘Do not prophesy against(EP) Israel,
and stop preaching against the descendants of Isaac.’
17 “Therefore this is what the Lord says:
“‘Your wife will become a prostitute(EQ) in the city,
and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword.
Your land will be measured and divided up,
and you yourself will die in a pagan[i] country.
And Israel will surely go into exile,(ER)
away from their native land.(ES)’”
A Basket of Ripe Fruit
8 This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me:(ET) a basket of ripe fruit. 2 “What do you see,(EU) Amos?(EV)” he asked.
“A basket(EW) of ripe fruit,” I answered.
Then the Lord said to me, “The time is ripe for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.(EX)
3 “In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord, “the songs in the temple will turn to wailing.[j](EY) Many, many bodies—flung everywhere! Silence!(EZ)”
5 saying,
“When will the New Moon(FC) be over
that we may sell grain,
and the Sabbath be ended
that we may market(FD) wheat?”(FE)—
skimping on the measure,
boosting the price
and cheating(FF) with dishonest scales,(FG)
6 buying the poor(FH) with silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals,
selling even the sweepings with the wheat.(FI)
7 The Lord has sworn by himself, the Pride of Jacob:(FJ) “I will never forget(FK) anything they have done.(FL)
8 “Will not the land tremble(FM) for this,
and all who live in it mourn?
The whole land will rise like the Nile;
it will be stirred up and then sink
like the river of Egypt.(FN)
9 “In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord,
“I will make the sun go down at noon
and darken the earth in broad daylight.(FO)
10 I will turn your religious festivals(FP) into mourning
and all your singing into weeping.(FQ)
I will make all of you wear sackcloth(FR)
and shave(FS) your heads.
I will make that time like mourning for an only son(FT)
and the end of it like a bitter day.(FU)
11 “The days are coming,”(FV) declares the Sovereign Lord,
“when I will send a famine through the land—
not a famine of food or a thirst for water,
but a famine(FW) of hearing the words of the Lord.(FX)
12 People will stagger from sea to sea
and wander from north to east,
searching for the word of the Lord,
but they will not find it.(FY)
13 “In that day
“the lovely young women and strong young men(FZ)
will faint because of thirst.(GA)
14 Those who swear by the sin of Samaria(GB)—
who say, ‘As surely as your god lives, Dan,’(GC)
or, ‘As surely as the god[k] of Beersheba(GD) lives’—
they will fall,(GE) never to rise again.(GF)”
Israel to Be Destroyed
9 I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and he said:
“Strike the tops of the pillars
so that the thresholds shake.
Bring them down on the heads(GG) of all the people;
those who are left I will kill with the sword.
Not one will get away,
none will escape.(GH)
2 Though they dig down to the depths below,(GI)
from there my hand will take them.
Though they climb up to the heavens above,(GJ)
from there I will bring them down.(GK)
3 Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel,(GL)
there I will hunt them down and seize them.(GM)
Though they hide from my eyes at the bottom of the sea,(GN)
there I will command the serpent(GO) to bite them.(GP)
4 Though they are driven into exile by their enemies,
there I will command the sword(GQ) to slay them.
5 The Lord, the Lord Almighty—
he touches the earth and it melts,(GU)
and all who live in it mourn;
the whole land rises like the Nile,
then sinks like the river of Egypt;(GV)
6 he builds his lofty palace[l](GW) in the heavens
and sets its foundation[m] on the earth;
he calls for the waters of the sea
and pours them out over the face of the land—
the Lord is his name.(GX)
7 “Are not you Israelites
the same to me as the Cushites[n]?”(GY)
declares the Lord.
“Did I not bring Israel up from Egypt,
the Philistines(GZ) from Caphtor[o](HA)
and the Arameans from Kir?(HB)
8 “Surely the eyes of the Sovereign Lord
are on the sinful kingdom.
I will destroy(HC) it
from the face of the earth.
Yet I will not totally destroy
the descendants of Jacob,”
declares the Lord.(HD)
9 “For I will give the command,
and I will shake the people of Israel
among all the nations
as grain(HE) is shaken in a sieve,(HF)
and not a pebble will reach the ground.(HG)
10 All the sinners among my people
will die by the sword,(HH)
all those who say,
‘Disaster will not overtake or meet us.’(HI)
Israel’s Restoration
11 “In that day
“I will restore David’s(HJ) fallen shelter(HK)—
I will repair its broken walls
and restore its ruins(HL)—
and will rebuild it as it used to be,(HM)
12 so that they may possess the remnant of Edom(HN)
and all the nations that bear my name,[p](HO)”
declares the Lord, who will do these things.(HP)
13 “The days are coming,”(HQ) declares the Lord,
“when the reaper(HR) will be overtaken by the plowman(HS)
and the planter by the one treading(HT) grapes.
New wine(HU) will drip from the mountains
and flow from all the hills,(HV)
14 and I will bring(HW) my people Israel back from exile.[q](HX)
“They will rebuild the ruined cities(HY) and live in them.
They will plant vineyards(HZ) and drink their wine;
they will make gardens and eat their fruit.(IA)
15 I will plant(IB) Israel in their own land,(IC)
never again to be uprooted(ID)
from the land I have given them,”(IE)
says the Lord your God.(IF)
Footnotes
- Amos 5:5 Hebrew aven, a reference to Beth Aven (a derogatory name for Bethel); see Hosea 4:15.
- 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
- Amos 6:10 Or to make a funeral fire in honor of the dead
- Amos 6:12 With a different word division of the Hebrew; Masoretic Text plow there
- Amos 6:13 Lo Debar means nothing.
- Amos 6:13 Karnaim means horns; horn here symbolizes strength.
- Amos 7:7 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.
- Amos 7:7 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain; also in verse 8.
- Amos 7:17 Hebrew an unclean
- Amos 8:3 Or “the temple singers will wail
- Amos 8:14 Hebrew the way
- Amos 9:6 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.
- Amos 9:6 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
- Amos 9:7 That is, people from the upper Nile region
- Amos 9:7 That is, Crete
- Amos 9:12 Hebrew; Septuagint so that the remnant of people / and all the nations that bear my name may seek me
- Amos 9:14 Or will restore the fortunes of my people Israel
Sirach 45:1-14
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Sirach 45:1-14
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45 1 and was beloved by God and people,
Moses, whose memory is blessed.
2 He made him equal in glory to the holy ones,
and made him great, to the terror of his enemies.
3 By his words he performed swift miracles;[a]
the Lord[b] glorified him in the presence of kings.
He gave him commandments for his people,
and revealed to him his glory.
4 For his faithfulness and meekness he consecrated him,
choosing him out of all humankind.
5 He allowed him to hear his voice,
and led him into the dark cloud,
and gave him the commandments face to face,
the law of life and knowledge,
so that he might teach Jacob the covenant,
and Israel his decrees.
Aaron
6 He exalted Aaron, a holy man like Moses[c]
who was his brother, of the tribe of Levi.
7 He made an everlasting covenant with him,
and gave him the priesthood of the people.
He blessed him with stateliness,
and put a glorious robe on him.
8 He clothed him in perfect splendor,
and strengthened him with the symbols of authority,
the linen undergarments, the long robe, and the ephod.
9 And he encircled him with pomegranates,
with many golden bells all around,
to send forth a sound as he walked,
to make their ringing heard in the temple
as a reminder to his people;
10 with the sacred vestment, of gold and violet
and purple, the work of an embroiderer;
with the oracle of judgment, Urim and Thummim;
11 with twisted crimson, the work of an artisan;
with precious stones engraved like seals,
in a setting of gold, the work of a jeweler,
to commemorate in engraved letters
each of the tribes of Israel;
12 with a gold crown upon his turban,
inscribed like a seal with “Holiness,”
a distinction to be prized, the work of an expert,
a delight to the eyes, richly adorned.
13 Before him such beautiful things did not exist.
No outsider ever put them on,
but only his sons
and his descendants in perpetuity.
14 His sacrifices shall be wholly burned
twice every day continually.
Footnotes
- Sirach 45:3 Heb: Gk caused signs to cease
- Sirach 45:3 Gk he
- Sirach 45:6 Gk him
Revelation 22
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Revelation 22
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The River of Life
22 Then the angel[a] showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb 2 through the middle of the street of the city. On either side of the river is the tree of life[b] with its twelve kinds of fruit, producing its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. 3 Nothing accursed will be found there any more. But the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants[c] will worship him; 4 they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. 5 And there will be no more night; they need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever.
6 And he said to me, “These words are trustworthy and true, for the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent his angel to show his servants[d] what must soon take place.”
7 “See, I am coming soon! Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”
Epilogue and Benediction
8 I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I heard and saw them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed them to me; 9 but he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant[e] with you and your comrades[f] the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God!”
10 And he said to me, “Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is near. 11 Let the evildoer still do evil, and the filthy still be filthy, and the righteous still do right, and the holy still be holy.”
12 “See, I am coming soon; my reward is with me, to repay according to everyone’s work. 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”
14 Blessed are those who wash their robes,[g] so that they will have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by the gates. 15 Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and fornicators and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
16 “It is I, Jesus, who sent my angel to you with this testimony for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star.”
17 The Spirit and the bride say, “Come.”
And let everyone who hears say, “Come.”
And let everyone who is thirsty come.
Let anyone who wishes take the water of life as a gift.
18 I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to that person the plagues described in this book; 19 if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away that person’s share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.
20 The one who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.”
Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!
21 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all the saints. Amen.[h]
Footnotes
- Revelation 22:1 Gk he
- Revelation 22:2 Or the Lamb. 2 In the middle of the street of the city, and on either side of the river, is the tree of life
- Revelation 22:3 Gk slaves
- Revelation 22:6 Gk slaves
- Revelation 22:9 Gk slave
- Revelation 22:9 Gk brothers
- Revelation 22:14 Other ancient authorities read do his commandments
- Revelation 22:21 Other ancient authorities lack all; others lack the saints; others lack Amen
Revelation 22
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Revelation 22
New International Version
Eden Restored
22 Then the angel showed me the river(A) of the water of life,(B) as clear as crystal,(C) flowing(D) from the throne of God and of the Lamb 2 down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life,(E) bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.(F) 3 No longer will there be any curse.(G) The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him.(H) 4 They will see his face,(I) and his name will be on their foreheads.(J) 5 There will be no more night.(K) They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light.(L) And they will reign for ever and ever.(M)
John and the Angel
6 The angel said to me,(N) “These words are trustworthy and true.(O) The Lord, the God who inspires the prophets,(P) sent his angel(Q) to show his servants the things that must soon take place.”
7 “Look, I am coming soon!(R) Blessed(S) is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy written in this scroll.”(T)
8 I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things.(U) And when I had heard and seen them, I fell down to worship at the feet(V) of the angel who had been showing them to me. 9 But he said to me, “Don’t do that! I am a fellow servant with you and with your fellow prophets and with all who keep the words of this scroll.(W) Worship God!”(X)
10 Then he told me, “Do not seal up(Y) the words of the prophecy of this scroll,(Z) because the time is near.(AA) 11 Let the one who does wrong continue to do wrong; let the vile person continue to be vile; let the one who does right continue to do right; and let the holy person continue to be holy.”(AB)
Epilogue: Invitation and Warning
12 “Look, I am coming soon!(AC) My reward is with me,(AD) and I will give to each person according to what they have done.(AE) 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega,(AF) the First and the Last,(AG) the Beginning and the End.(AH)
14 “Blessed are those who wash their robes,(AI) that they may have the right to the tree of life(AJ) and may go through the gates(AK) into the city.(AL) 15 Outside(AM) are the dogs,(AN) those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
16 “I, Jesus,(AO) have sent my angel(AP) to give you[a] this testimony for the churches.(AQ) I am the Root(AR) and the Offspring of David,(AS) and the bright Morning Star.”(AT)
17 The Spirit(AU) and the bride(AV) say, “Come!” And let the one who hears say, “Come!” Let the one who is thirsty come; and let the one who wishes take the free gift of the water of life.(AW)
18 I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this scroll:(AX) If anyone adds anything to them,(AY) God will add to that person the plagues described in this scroll.(AZ) 19 And if anyone takes words away(BA) from this scroll of prophecy,(BB) God will take away from that person any share in the tree of life(BC) and in the Holy City, which are described in this scroll.
20 He who testifies to these things(BD) says, “Yes, I am coming soon.”(BE)
Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.(BF)
21 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with God’s people.(BG) Amen.
Footnotes
- Revelation 22:16 The Greek is plural.
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