Psalm 50:14-23

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¹⁴Offer God a sacrifice of thanksgiving!
Fulfill the promises you made to the Most High!
¹⁵Cry out to me whenever you are in trouble;
I will deliver you, then you will honor me.”

¹⁶But to the wicked God says,
“Why do you talk about my laws?
    Why do you even mention my covenant?
¹⁷You hate discipline, and
    you toss my words behind your back.
¹⁸You make friends with thieves whenever you see one;
    you spend your time with adulterers.
¹⁹You set your mouth free to do evil,
    then harness your tongue to tell lies.
²⁰You sit around, talking about your own siblings;
    you find fault with the children of your very own mother.
²¹You’ve done these things and I’ve kept quiet.
    You thought I was just like you!
        But now I’m punishing you;
        I’m laying it all out, right in front of your face.
²²So consider this carefully, all you who forget God,
    or I’ll rip you to pieces with no one to deliver you:
²³The one who offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving is the one who honors me.
    And it is to the one who charts the correct path that I will show divine salvation.”

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Amos 2:6-10

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A word to Israel

⁶    The Lord proclaims:
    For three crimes of Israel,
        and for four, I won’t hold back the punishment,
    because they have sold the innocent for silver,
            and those in need for a pair of sandals.
⁷    They crush the head of the poor into the dust of the earth,
        and push the afflicted out of the way.
    Father and son have intercourse with the same young woman,
        degrading my holy name.
⁸    They stretch out beside every altar
        on garments taken in loan;
    in the house of their god they drink
        wine bought with fines they imposed.
⁹    Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them,
        whose height was as tall as cedar trees,
        and whose strength was as strong as oak trees.
    I destroyed his fruit above
        and his roots below.
¹⁰Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt,
        and led you forty years in the wilderness,
        to lay claim to the land of the Amorite.

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Amos 2:13-16

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¹³So now I will oppress you,
        just like a cart is weighed down^[a]
        when it is full of harvested grain.
¹⁴Fast runners will find no refuge;
    the strong will lose their strength;
    the mighty will be unable to save their lives.
¹⁵Those who shoot the bow won’t survive.
        Fast runners won’t escape;
        those who ride horses won’t save themselves.
¹⁶The bravest warrior
    will flee away naked in that day,
says the Lord.

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Footnotes

Amos 2:13 Heb uncertain

Matthew 8:18-22

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Discussions about following

¹⁸Now when Jesus saw the crowd, he ordered his disciples to go over to the other side of the lake. ¹⁹A legal expert came and said to him, “Teacher, I’ll follow you wherever you go.”

²⁰Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens, and the birds in the sky have nests, but the Human One^[a] has no place to lay his head.”

²¹Another man, one of his disciples, said to him, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”

²²But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”

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