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Amos 7-9

Warning Visions

(A)This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, (B)he was forming locusts when the latter growth was just beginning to sprout, and behold, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings. When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said,

“O Lord God, please forgive!
    (C)How can Jacob stand?
    He is so small!”
(D)The Lord relented concerning this:
    “It shall not be,” said the Lord.

(E)This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, the Lord God was calling (F)for a judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land. Then I said,

“O Lord God, please cease!
    (G)How can Jacob stand?
    He is so small!”
(H)The Lord relented concerning this:
    “This also shall not be,” said the Lord God.

(I)This is what he showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with (J)a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. And the Lord said to me, (K)“Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said,

“Behold, I am setting (L)a plumb line
    in the midst of my people Israel;
    (M)I will never again pass by them;
(N)the high places of Isaac shall be made desolate,
    and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste,
    and I will rise against (O)the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”

Amos Accused

10 Then Amaziah (P)the priest of Bethel sent to (Q)Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has (R)conspired against you in the midst 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 (S)Israel must go into exile
    away from his land.’”

12 And Amaziah said to Amos, (T)“O seer, go, flee away (U)to the land of Judah, and (V)eat bread there, and prophesy there, 13 but (W)never again prophesy at Bethel, for (X)it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom.”

14 Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah, (Y)“I was[a] no prophet, nor a prophet's son, but (Z)I was a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore figs. 15 (AA)But the Lord took me from following the flock, and the Lord said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’ 16 (AB)Now therefore hear the word of the Lord.

“You say, (AC)‘Do not prophesy against Israel,
    and (AD)do not preach against the house of (AE)Isaac.’

17 (AF)Therefore thus says the Lord:

“‘Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city,
    and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword,
    and your land (AG)shall be divided up with a measuring line;
you yourself shall die in an unclean land,
    and (AH)Israel shall surely go into exile away from its land.’”

The Coming Day of Bitter Mourning

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

(AL)“The end[b] has come upon my people Israel;
    I will never again pass by them.
(AM)The songs of the temple[c] (AN)shall become wailings[d] in that day,”
declares the Lord God.
(AO)“So many dead bodies!”
“They are thrown everywhere!”
(AP)“Silence!”

Hear this, (AQ)you who trample on the needy
    and bring the poor of the land to an end,
saying, “When will (AR)the new moon be over,
    that we may sell grain?
And (AS)the Sabbath,
    that we may offer wheat for sale,
that we may make (AT)the ephah small and the shekel[e] great
    and deal deceitfully with false balances,
that we may buy the poor for (AU)silver
    and the needy for a pair of sandals
    and sell the chaff of the wheat?”

The Lord has sworn by (AV)the pride of Jacob:
“Surely (AW)I will never forget any of their deeds.
(AX)Shall not the land tremble on this account,
    and everyone mourn who dwells in it,
(AY)and all of it rise like the Nile,
    and be tossed about (AZ)and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?”

“And on that day,” declares the Lord God,
    (BA)“I will make the sun go down at noon
    and darken the earth in broad daylight.
10 (BB)I will turn your feasts into mourning
    and all your songs into lamentation;
(BC)I will bring sackcloth on every waist
    (BD)and baldness on every head;
(BE)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 (BF)I will send a famine on the land—
not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water,
    (BG)but of hearing the words of the Lord.
12 (BH)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,
    (BI)but they shall not find it.

13 (BJ)“In that day the lovely virgins and the young men
    shall (BK)faint for thirst.
14 Those who swear by (BL)the Guilt of Samaria,
    and say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,’
and, ‘As (BM)the Way of (BN)Beersheba lives,’
    they shall fall, and never rise again.”

The Destruction of Israel

I saw the Lord standing beside[f] the altar, and he said:

(BO)“Strike the capitals until (BP)the thresholds (BQ)shake,
    (BR)and shatter them on the heads of all the people;[g]
and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword;
    (BS)not one of them shall flee away;
    not one of them shall escape.

(BT)“If they dig into Sheol,
    from there shall my hand take them;
(BU)if they climb up to heaven,
    from there I will bring them down.
If they hide themselves on (BV)the top of Carmel,
    from there I will search them out and take them;
(BW)and if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea,
    there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
(BX)And if they go into captivity before their enemies,
    there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them;
(BY)and I will fix my eyes upon them
    for evil and not for good.”

The Lord God of hosts,
he who touches the earth and (BZ)it melts,
    and all who dwell in it mourn,
(CA)and all of it rises like the Nile,
    (CB)and sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt;
(CC)who builds his upper chambers in the heavens
    and founds his vault upon the earth;
(CD)who calls for the waters of the sea
    and pours them out upon the surface of the earth—
(CE)the Lord is his name.

“Are you not like (CF)the Cushites to me,
    O people of Israel?” declares the Lord.
(CG)“Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,
    and (CH)the Philistines from (CI)Caphtor and the Syrians from (CJ)Kir?
Behold, (CK)the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom,
    and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground,
    (CL)except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”
declares the Lord.

“For behold, I will command,
    (CM)and shake the house of Israel among all the nations
as one shakes with a sieve,
    but no pebble shall fall to the earth.
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword,
    who say, (CN)‘Disaster shall not overtake or meet us.’

The Restoration of Israel

11 “In that day (CO)I will raise up
    the booth of David that is fallen
and repair its breaches,
    and raise up its ruins
    and rebuild it as in the days of old,
12 (CP)that they may possess the remnant of Edom
    and (CQ)all the nations who are called by my name,”[h]
    declares the Lord who does this.

13 “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord,
    (CR)“when the plowman shall overtake the reaper
    and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed;
(CS)the mountains shall drip sweet wine,
    and all the hills shall flow with it.
14 (CT)I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel,
    and (CU)they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them;
(CV)they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine,
    and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit.
15 (CW)I will plant them on their land,
    (CX)and they shall never again be uprooted
    out of the land (CY)that I have given them,”
says the Lord your God.

Revelation 3:7-22

To the Church in Philadelphia

“And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of (A)the holy one, (B)the true one, (C)who has the key of David, (D)who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens.

“‘I know your works. Behold, I have set before you (E)an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. Behold, I will make those of (F)the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie—behold, (G)I will make them come and bow down before your feet, and they will learn that (H)I have loved you. 10 (I)Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try (J)those who dwell on the earth. 11 (K)I am coming soon. (L)Hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize (M)your crown. 12 (N)The one who conquers, I will make him (O)a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him (P)the name of my God, and (Q)the name of the city of my God, (R)the new Jerusalem, (S)which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own (T)new name. 13 (U)He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’

To the Church in Laodicea

14 “And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: ‘The words of the (V)Amen, (W)the faithful and true witness, (X)the beginning of God's creation.

15 “‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. (Y)Would that you were either cold or hot! 16 So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth. 17 (Z)For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, (AA)blind, and naked. 18 I counsel you (AB)to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and (AC)white garments so that you may clothe yourself and (AD)the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, (AE)so that you may see. 19 (AF)Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent. 20 Behold, I stand at the door and (AG)knock. (AH)If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, (AI)I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. 21 (AJ)The one who conquers, (AK)I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as (AL)I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne. 22 (AM)He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’”

Psalm 131

I Have Calmed and Quieted My Soul

A Song of (A)Ascents. Of David.

131 O Lord, my heart is not (B)lifted up;
    my eyes are not (C)raised too high;
I do not (D)occupy myself with things
    too great and (E)too marvelous for me.
But I have calmed and quieted my soul,
    like a weaned (F)child with its mother;
    like a weaned child is my soul within me.

(G)O Israel, hope in the Lord
    from this time forth and forevermore.

Proverbs 29:23

23 (A)One's pride will bring him low,
    (B)but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.

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