On that day, says the Lord God
I will make the sun go down at noon
and darken the earth in broad daylight.
I will turn your feasts into mourning
and all your songs into lamentation.
I will bring sackcloth upon 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.
Behold, the days are 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.
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
but they shall not find it.
In that day the fair virgins and the young men
shall faint for thirst.
Those who swear by Ashimah of Samaria
and say, "As thy god lives, oh Dan,"
and "As the way of Beersheba lives,"
they shall fall, and never rise again.
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December 31, 2011
December 30, 2011
Luke 12.10
"Anyone who speaks a word against this son of Adam will be forgiven; but for he who slanders the Holy Spirit there will be no forgiveness."
December 29, 2011
Amos 8.1-8
Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, a basket of summer fruit.
And He said, "Amos, what do you see?"
And I said, "A basket of summer fruit."
Then the Lord said to me:
The end has come upon my people Israel;
I shall never again pass by them.
The songs of the Temple shall become wailings
in that day, says the Lord God.
The dead bodies shall be many;
in every place they shall be
cast out in silence.
Hear this, you who trample upon the needy
and bring the poor of the land to an end--
saying "When will the new moon be over
that we may sell grain;
and the Sabbath,
that we may offer wheat for sale?
"That we may make the ephah small
and the shekel great
and deal deceitfully with false balances?
"That we may buy the poor for silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals,
and sell the refuse of the wheat?"
The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob:
"Surely I will never forget any of their deeds!"
Shall not the land tremble on that account,
and everyone mourn who dwells in it,
and all of it rise like the Nile,
and be tossed about, and sink again
like the Nile of Egypt?
And He said, "Amos, what do you see?"
And I said, "A basket of summer fruit."
Then the Lord said to me:
The end has come upon my people Israel;
I shall never again pass by them.
The songs of the Temple shall become wailings
in that day, says the Lord God.
The dead bodies shall be many;
in every place they shall be
cast out in silence.
Hear this, you who trample upon the needy
and bring the poor of the land to an end--
saying "When will the new moon be over
that we may sell grain;
and the Sabbath,
that we may offer wheat for sale?
"That we may make the ephah small
and the shekel great
and deal deceitfully with false balances?
"That we may buy the poor for silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals,
and sell the refuse of the wheat?"
The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob:
"Surely I will never forget any of their deeds!"
Shall not the land tremble on that account,
and everyone mourn who dwells in it,
and all of it rise like the Nile,
and be tossed about, and sink again
like the Nile of Egypt?
December 28, 2011
Luke 12.8-9
"I tell you this: everyone who acknowledges me before men, this son of Adam will acknowledge before the angels of God. But he who disowns me before men will be disowned before the angels of God."
December 26, 2011
Amos 7.10->
Then Amaziah, the Priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam King of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his words. For thus Amos has said, ''Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel must go into exile away from his land.' "
And Amaziah said to Amos, "O seer, go! Flee away to the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophecy there. But never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the King's sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom!"
Then Amos answered Amaziah, "I am no prophet, nor a prophet's son; but I am a herdsman, and a dresser of sycamore trees. And the Lord took me from following the flock; and the Lord said to me, 'Go, prophesy to my people Israel!'
"Now therefore hear the word of the Lord:
You say, 'Do not prophesy against Israel
and do not preach against the house of Isaac,'
Therefore thus says the Lord:
'Your wife shall be a harlot 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.' "
And Amaziah said to Amos, "O seer, go! Flee away to the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophecy there. But never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the King's sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom!"
Then Amos answered Amaziah, "I am no prophet, nor a prophet's son; but I am a herdsman, and a dresser of sycamore trees. And the Lord took me from following the flock; and the Lord said to me, 'Go, prophesy to my people Israel!'
"Now therefore hear the word of the Lord:
You say, 'Do not prophesy against Israel
and do not preach against the house of Isaac,'
Therefore thus says the Lord:
'Your wife shall be a harlot 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.' "
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