Amos 9:1-10

New American Standard Bible

God’s Judgment Unavoidable

9 I saw the Lord standing beside the ^(A)altar, and He said,

“Strike the pillar capitals so that the ^(B)thresholds will shake,
And ^(C)break them on the heads of them all!
Then I will ^(D)put to death the rest of them with the sword;
They will ^(E)not have a fugitive who will flee,
Nor a survivor who will escape.
²Though they dig into ^(F)Sheol,
From there My hand will take them;
And though they ^(G)ascend to heaven,
From there I will bring them down.
³And though they hide on the summit of Carmel,
I will ^(H)track them down and take them from there;
And though they ^(I)hide themselves from My sight on the bottom of the sea,
I will command the ^(J)serpent from there, and it will bite them.
⁴And though they go into ^(K)captivity before their enemies,
From there I will command the sword and it will kill them,
And I will ^(L)set My eyes against them for harm and not for good.”

⁵The Lord ^[a]God of armies,
The One who ^(M)touches the land so that it quakes,
And ^(N)all those who live in it mourn,
And all of it rises up like the Nile
And subsides like the Nile of Egypt;
⁶The One who builds His ^(O)upper chambers in the heavens
And has founded His vaulted dome over the earth,
He who ^(P)calls for the waters of the sea
And ^(Q)pours them out on the face of the earth,
^(R)The Lord is His name.

⁷“Are you not as the sons of ^(S)Ethiopia to Me,
You sons of Israel?” declares the Lord.
“Have I not brought up Israel from the land of Egypt,
And the ^(T)Philistines from Caphtor and the ^(U)Arameans from ^(V)Kir?
⁸Behold, the ^(W)eyes of the Lord God are on the sinful kingdom,
And I will ^(X)eliminate it from the face of the earth;
Nevertheless, I will ^(Y)not totally eliminate the house of Jacob,”
Declares the Lord.
⁹“For behold, I am commanding,
And I will ^(Z)shake the house of Israel among all nations
As grain is shaken in a sieve,
But not a pebble will fall to the ground.
¹⁰All the ^(AA)sinners of My people will die by the sword,
Those who say, ‘^(AB)The catastrophe will not overtake or confront us.’

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Footnotes

Amos 9:5 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord, and so throughout the ch

John 3:1-21

New American Standard Bible

The New Birth

3 Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named ^(A)Nicodemus, a ^(B)ruler of the Jews; ²this man came to ^[a]Jesus at night and said to Him, “^(C)Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher; for no one can do these ^[b]^(D)signs that You do unless ^(E)God is with him.” ³Jesus responded and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless someone ^(F)is born ^[c]again he cannot see ^(G)the kingdom of God.”

⁴Nicodemus *said to Him, “How can a person be born when he is old? He cannot enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born, can he?” ⁵Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless someone is born of ^(H)water and the Spirit, he cannot enter ^(I)the kingdom of God. ⁶^(J)That which has been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which has been born of the Spirit is spirit. ⁷Do not be amazed that I said to you, ‘You must be born ^[d]again.’ ⁸^(K)The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it is coming from and where it is going; so is everyone who has been born of the Spirit.”

⁹Nicodemus responded and said to Him, “How can these things be?” ¹⁰Jesus answered and said to him, “You are ^(L)the teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things? ¹¹Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(M)we speak of what we know and ^(N)testify of what we have seen, and ^(O)you people do not accept our testimony. ¹²If I told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? ¹³^(P)No one has ascended into heaven, except ^(Q)He who descended from heaven: ^(R)the Son of Man. ¹⁴And just as ^(S)Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must ^(T)the Son of Man ^(U)be lifted up, ¹⁵so that everyone who ^[e]believes will ^(V)have eternal life in Him.

¹⁶“For God so ^(W)loved the world, that He ^(X)gave His ^(Y)only Son, so that everyone who ^(Z)believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. ¹⁷For God ^(AA)did not send the Son into the world ^(AB)to judge the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him. ¹⁸^(AC)The one who believes in Him is not judged; the one who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of ^(AD)the only Son of God. ¹⁹And this is the judgment, that ^(AE)the Light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the Light; for ^(AF)their deeds were evil. ²⁰^(AG)For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light, so that his deeds will not be exposed. ²¹But the one who ^(AH)practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds will be revealed ^[f]as having been performed in God.”