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Amos · read by Ronald Glass
28 verses, in order. Only the verses Ronald read aloud are shown.
Amos 5
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For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: "Seek Me and live!Read from NASB1995 · A Warning to Those at Ease
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Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph."Read from NASB1995 · A Warning to Those at Ease
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Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: "There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of 'Alas! Alas!' in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.Read from NASB1995 · A Warning to Those at Ease
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There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst," says the LORD.Read from NASB1995 · A Warning to Those at Ease
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Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.Read from NASB1995 · A Warning to Those at Ease
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It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake.Read from NASB1995 · A Warning to Those at Ease
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Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it?Read from NASB1995 · A Warning to Those at Ease
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"I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.Read from NASB1995 · A Warning to Those at Ease
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Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.Read from NASB1995 · A Warning to Those at Ease
23
Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.Read from NASB1995 · A Warning to Those at Ease
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But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.Read from ESV · A Warning to Those at Ease
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Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?Read from NASB1995 · A Warning to Those at Ease
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You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves.Read from NASB1995 · A Warning to Those at Ease
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Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus," says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.Read from NASB1995 · A Warning to Those at Ease
Amos 6
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Woe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes.Read from NASB1995 · A Warning to Those at Ease
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Cross over to Calneh and see; go from there to the great Hamath; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are you better than these kingdoms? Is their territory larger than yours?Read from NASB1995 · A Warning to Those at Ease
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You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence.Read from NASB1995 · A Warning to Those at Ease
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You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.Read from NASB1995 · A Warning to Those at Ease
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You improvise songs on the harp like David and invent your own musical instruments.Read from NASB1995 · A Warning to Those at Ease
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You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you fail to grieve over the ruin of Joseph.Read from NASB1995 · A Warning to Those at Ease
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Therefore, you will now go into exile as the first of the captives, and your feasting and lounging will come to an end.Read from NASB1995 · A Warning to Those at Ease
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The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself—the LORD, the God of Hosts, has declared: "I abhor Jacob's pride and detest his citadels, so I will deliver up the city and everything in it."Read from NASB1995 · A Warning to Those at Ease
Amos 7
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Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent word to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words,Read from NASB1995 · A Warning to Those at Ease
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for this is what Amos has said: 'Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.'"Read from NASB1995 · A Warning to Those at Ease
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And Amaziah said to Amos, "Go away, you seer! Flee to the land of Judah; earn your bread there and do your prophesying there.Read from NASB1995 · A Warning to Those at Ease
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"I was not a prophet," Amos replied, "nor was I the son of a prophet; rather, I was a herdsman and a tender of sycamore-fig trees.Read from NASB1995 · A Warning to Those at Ease
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But the LORD took me from following the flock and said to me, 'Go, prophesy to My people Israel.'Read from ESV · A Warning to Those at Ease
Amos 8
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Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land— not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.Read from NASB1995 · A Warning to Those at Ease