Amos 8:1-12

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The Coming Day of Bitter Mourning

8 ^(A)This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit. ²And he said, ^(B)“Amos, what do you see?” And I said, ^(C)“A basket of summer fruit.” Then the Lord said to me,

^(D)“The end^[a] has come upon my people Israel;
I will never again pass by them.
³^(E)The songs of the temple^[b] ^(F)shall become wailings^[c] in that day,”
declares the Lord God.
^(G)“So many dead bodies!”
“They are thrown everywhere!”
^(H)“Silence!”

⁴Hear this, ^(I)you who trample on the needy
    and bring the poor of the land to an end,
⁵saying, “When will ^(J)the new moon be over,
    that we may sell grain?
And ^(K)the Sabbath,
    that we may offer wheat for sale,
that we may make ^(L)the ephah small and the shekel^[d] great
    and deal deceitfully with false balances,
⁶that we may buy the poor for ^(M)silver
    and the needy for a pair of sandals
    and sell the chaff of the wheat?”

⁷The Lord has sworn by ^(N)the pride of Jacob:
“Surely ^(O)I will never forget any of their deeds.
⁸^(P)Shall not the land tremble on this account,
and everyone mourn who dwells in it,
^(Q)and all of it rise like the Nile,
and be tossed about ^(R)and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?”

⁹“And on that day,” declares the Lord God,
    ^(S)“I will make the sun go down at noon
    and darken the earth in broad daylight.
¹⁰^(T)I will turn your feasts into mourning
    and all your songs into lamentation;
^(U)I will bring sackcloth on every waist
    ^(V)and baldness on every head;
^(W)I will make it like the mourning for an only son
    and the end of it like a bitter day.

¹¹“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord God,
    “when ^(X)I will send a famine on the land—
not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water,
    ^(Y)but of hearing the words of the Lord.
¹²^(Z)They shall wander from sea to sea,
    and from north to east;
they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the Lord,
    ^(AA)but they shall not find it.

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Notas al pie

Amos 8:2 The Hebrew words for end and summer fruit sound alike
Amos 8:3 Or palace
Amos 8:3 Or The singing women of the palace shall wail
Amos 8:5 An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters; a shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams

Psalm 52

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The Steadfast Love of God Endures

To the choirmaster. A Maskil^[a] of David, when ^(A)Doeg, the Edomite, came and told Saul, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”

52 Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man?
    The steadfast love of God endures all the day.
²Your ^(B)tongue plots destruction,
    like ^(C)a sharp razor, you ^(D)worker of deceit.
³You love evil more than good,
    and ^(E)lying more than speaking what is right. Selah
⁴You love all words that devour,
    O deceitful tongue.

⁵But God will break you down forever;
    he will snatch and ^(F)tear you from your tent;
    he will uproot you from ^(G)the land of the living. Selah
⁶The righteous shall ^(H)see and fear,
    and shall ^(I)laugh at him, saying,
⁷“See the man who would not make
    God his refuge,
but ^(J)trusted in the abundance of his riches
    and sought refuge in his own destruction!”^[b]

⁸But I am like ^(K)a green olive tree
    in the house of God.
I trust in the steadfast love of God
    forever and ever.
⁹I will thank you forever,
    because you have done it.
I will wait for your name, ^(L)for it is good,
    in the presence of the ^(M)godly.

Notas al pie

Psalm 52:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
Psalm 52:7 Or in his work of destruction

Colossians 1:15-28

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The Preeminence of Christ

¹⁵^(A)He is the image of ^(B)the invisible God, ^(C)the firstborn of all creation. ¹⁶For by^[a] him all things were created, ^(D)in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether ^(E)thrones or ^(F)dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created ^(G)through him and for him. ¹⁷And ^(H)he is before all things, and in him all things ^(I)hold together. ¹⁸And ^(J)he is the head of the body, the church. He is ^(K)the beginning, ^(L)the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. ¹⁹For ^(M)in him all the ^(N)fullness of God was pleased to dwell, ²⁰and ^(O)through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, ^(P)making peace ^(Q)by the blood of his cross.

²¹^(R)And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, ^(S)doing evil deeds, ²²he has now reconciled ^(T)in his body of flesh by his death, ^(U)in order to present you holy and blameless and ^(V)above reproach before him, ²³^(W)if indeed you continue in the faith, ^(X)stable and steadfast, not shifting from ^(Y)the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed ^(Z)in all creation^[b] under heaven, ^(AA)and of which I, Paul, became a minister.

Paul's Ministry to the Church

²⁴Now ^(AB)I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh ^(AC)I am filling up ^(AD)what is lacking in Christ's afflictions ^(AE)for the sake of his body, that is, the church, ²⁵^(AF)of which I became a minister according to ^(AG)the stewardship from God that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known, ²⁶^(AH)the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints. ²⁷^(AI)To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are ^(AJ)the riches of the glory of ^(AK)this mystery, which is Christ in you, ^(AL)the hope of glory. ²⁸Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that ^(AM)we may present everyone ^(AN)mature in Christ.

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Colossians 1:16 That is, by means of; or in
Colossians 1:23 Or to every creature

Luke 10:38-42

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Martha and Mary

³⁸Now as they went on their way, Jesus^[a] entered a village. And a woman named ^(A)Martha ^(B)welcomed him into her house. ³⁹And she had a sister called ^(C)Mary, who ^(D)sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching. ⁴⁰But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me.” ⁴¹But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are ^(E)anxious and troubled about many things, ⁴²but one thing is necessary.^[b] Mary has chosen ^(F)the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.”