Sep 30 - Amos 6-9, Obadiah 1
Amos
1Woe to you who have been wealthy in Zion, and to you who have confidence in the mountain of Samaria: aristocrats, heads of the people, who advance with a retinue into the house of Israel2Cross over to Calneh and see, and go from there into Hamath the great, and descend into Gath of the Philistines, and to the best kingdoms of these, if their limits are wider than your limits3You have been set aside for the day of disaster, and you approach the throne of iniquity4You sleep on beds of ivory, and you are lustful on your couches. You devour lambs from the flock and calves from the midst of the herd5You sing to the sound of stringed instruments; they consider themselves to have the musical abilities of David6You drink wine in bowls, and you anoint with the best ointments; and they suffer nothing over the grief of Joseph7Because of this, now they will depart at the head of those who go into captivity; and the faction of the lustful will be removed8The Lord God has sworn by his own soul, the Lord God of hosts says: I detest the arrogance of Jacob, and I hate his houses, and I will hand over the city with its inhabitants9For if there were ten men remaining in one house, even they will die10And his closest relative will steal him away and will burn him, so that he may carry the bones out of the house. And he will say to him that is in the inner most rooms of the house, "Now is there any left that still belongs to you? And he will answer, "It is finished." And he will say to him, "Be silent and do not call to mind the name of the Lord.11For behold, the Lord has commanded, and he will strike the greater house with catastrophes, and the lesser house with divisions12Can horses gallop across rocks, or is anyone able to plough with gazelles? For you have turned judgment into bitterness and the fruit of justice into wormwood13You rejoice in emptiness. You say, "Have we not, by our own strength, taken horns for ourselves?14For behold, house of Israel, I will raise up a people over you, says the Lord God of hosts, and they will crush you from the entrance of Hamath all the way to the burning of the desert
1These things the Lord God has revealed to me. And behold, the locust was formed at the beginning of the germination during the latter rains, and behold, the latter rains came after the thundering of the king2And it happened, when they had finally eaten all the grass in the land, that I said, "Lord God, be gracious, I beg you. Who will raise up Jacob, for he is little?3The Lord has been merciful about this. "It will not be," said the Lord4These things the Lord God has revealed to me. And behold, the Lord God called for judgment unto fire, and it devoured the manifold abyss, and it consumed simultaneously in every direction5And I said, "Lord God, cease, I beg you. Who will raise up Jacob, for he is little?6The Lord has been merciful about this. "And even this will not be," said the Lord God7These things the Lord revealed to me. And behold, the Lord was standing near a plastered wall, and in his hand was a mason’s trowel8And the Lord said to me, "What do you see, Amos?" And I said, "A mason’s trowel." And the Lord said, "Behold, I will place the trowel in the midst of my people Israel. I will no longer plaster over them9And the heights of the idol will be demolished, and the sanctuaries of Israel will be desolate. And I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.10And Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying: "Amos has rebelled against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to withstand all his sermons11For Amos says this: ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will be taken captive out of their own land.’ 12And Amaziah said to Amos, "You, seer, go out and flee into the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there13And in Bethel, do not prophesy any longer, because it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is the house of the kingdom.14And Amos responded, and he said to Amasias, "I am not a prophet, and I am not the son of a prophet, but I am a herdsman plucking from wild fig trees15And the Lord took me, when I was following the flock, and the Lord said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’ 16And now, hear the word of the Lord: You say, "You will not prophesy about Israel, and you will not rain your words upon the house of the idol.17Because of that, the Lord says this: "Your wife will fornicate in the city, and your sons and your daughters will fall by the sword, and your soil will be measured with a string. And you will die on polluted land, and Israel will be taken into captivity out of their land.
1These things the Lord has revealed to me. And behold, a hook to draw down fruit2And he said, "What do you see, Amos?" And I said, "A hook to draw down fruit." And the Lord said to me, "The end has come for my people Israel. I will no longer pass through them.3And the hinges of the temple will creak in that day, says the Lord God. Many will die. Silence will be thrown away in all places4Hear this, you who crush the poor and who make those in need of land to do without5You say, "When will the first day of the month be over, so we can sell our wares, and the sabbath, so we can open the grain: in order that we may decrease the measure, and increase the price, and substitute deceitful scales6in order that we may possess the destitute with money, and the poor for a pair of shoes, and may sell even the refuse of the grain?7The Lord has sworn by the arrogance of Jacob: I will not forget, even to the end, all their works8Will not the earth shudder over this, and all its inhabitants mourn, and all rise up like a river, and be cast out, and flow away like the river of Egypt9And it will be in that day, says the Lord God, that the sun will decline at midday, and I will cause the earth to become dark on the day of light10And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your hymns into lamentation. And I will put sackcloth over every one of your backs, and baldness on every head. And I will begin it like the mourning for an only-begotten son, and complete it like a bitter day11Behold, the days pass, says the Lord, and I will send a famine on the earth: not a famine of bread, nor of thirst for water, but for hearing the word of the Lord12And they will move even from sea to sea, and from the North all the way to the East. They will wander around seeking the word of the Lord, and they will not find it13In that day, beautiful virgins, and young men, will fail because of thirst14They swear by the offense of Samaria, and they say, "As your God lives, Dan," and "The way of Beer-sheba lives." And they will fall, and they will not rise up any more
1I saw the Lord standing over an altar, and he said: "Strike the hinges, and let the lintels be shaken. For there is avarice at the head of them all, and I will execute the very last of them with the sword. There will be no escape for them. They will flee, and he who flees from among them will not be saved2If they descend even to the underworld, from there my hand will draw them out; and if they ascend even to the sky, from there will I pull them down3And if they were hiding at the top of Carmel, when searching there, I would steal them away, and if they conceal themselves from my eyes in the depths of the sea, I will command the serpent there and he will bite them4And if they go into captivity in the sight of their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it will kill them. And I will set my eyes over them for harm and not for good.5And the Lord God of hosts, he touches the earth and it will melt. And all who dwell in it will mourn. And everyone will rise up like a river, and will flow away like the river of Egypt6He establishes his ascension into heaven, and he has founded his bundle on the earth. He calls the waters of the ocean, and pours them over the face of the earth. The Lord is his name7Sons of Israel, are you not like the sons of the Ethiopians to me, says the Lord? Did I not cause Israel to rise up out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines out of Cappadocia, and the Syrians out of Cyrene8Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are on the sinning kingdom, and I will wipe it from the face of the earth. Though truly, when destroying, I will not wipe away the house of Jacob, says the Lord9For behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, as wheat is sifted in a sieve. And not even one small stone will fall to the ground10All the sinners of my people will die by the sword. They say, "Disaster will not come near us, and it will not overcome us.11In that day, I will raise up the tabernacle of David, which is fallen. And I will repair the breaches in its walls, and I will restore that which collapsed. And I will rebuild it, just as in the days of antiquity12so that they may possess the remnant of Idumea and all the nations, for my name has been invoked over them, says the Lord who does this13Behold, the days pass, says the Lord, and the plower will overtake the harvester, and the treader of grapes will overtake the sower of seed. And the mountains will drip sweetness, and every hill will be cultivated14And I will turn back the captivity of my people Israel. And they will rebuild the deserted cities and inhabit them. And they will plant vineyards and drink their wine. And they will create gardens and eat their fruits15And I will plant them on their own soil. And I will no longer root them out of their own land, which I have given them, says the Lord your God
Obadiah
1The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord God to Edom: We have heard a report from the Lord, and he has sent an envoy to the nations: "Arise, and let us together rise up in battle against him.2Behold, I have made you little among the nations. You are greatly contemptible3The arrogance of your heart has lifted you up, living in the clefts of the rocks, exalting your throne. You say in your heart, "Who will pull me down to the ground?4Though you have been lifted high like an eagle, and though you have placed your nest among the stars, from there I will pull you down, says the Lord5If thieves had approached you, if robbers by night, how would you have remained unnoticed? Would they not have stolen all that they wanted? If the grape-pickers had approached you, would they not have left you at least a cluster6In what way have they been examining Esau? They investigated his secrets7They have sent you out all the way to the limit. All the men of your alliance have deceived you. Your men of peace have prevailed against you. Those who eat with you will place snares under you. There is no foresight in him8Shall I not, in that day, says the Lord, wipe away understanding from Idumea and foresight from the mount of Esau9And your strong from the Meridian will be afraid, so that man may perish from the mount of Esau10Because of the execution, and because of the iniquity against your brother Jacob, confusion will cover you, and you will pass away into eternity11In the day when you stood against him, when strangers seized his army, and foreigners entered into his gates, and they cast lots over Jerusalem: you also were just like one of them12But you shall not show disdain for the day of your brother in the day of his sojourn. And you shall not rejoice over the sons of Judah in the day of their perdition. And you shall not magnify your mouth in the day of anguish13And neither shall you enter into the gate of my people in the day of their ruin. And neither shall you also show disdain for his troubles in the day of his desolation. And you shall not send out against his army in the day of his desolation14Neither shall you stand at the exits to execute those who will flee. And you shall not enclose their remnant in the day of tribulation15For the day of the Lord is near, over all nations. Just as you have done, so will it be done to you. He will turn back your retribution on your own head16For in the manner that you drank on my holy mountain, so shall all nations drink continually. And they will drink, and they will absorb, and they will be as if they were not17And on mount Zion there will be salvation, and it will be holy. And the house of Jacob will possess those who had possessed them18And the house of Jacob will be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble. And they will be set on fire among them, and they will devour them. And there will be no remnant of the house of Esau, for the Lord has spoken19And those who are towards the South, and who are in the camps of the Philistines, will inherit the mount of Esau. And they will possess the region of Ephraim, and the region of Samaria. And Benjamin will possess Gilead20And the exiles of this army of the sons of Israel, all the places of the Canaanites all the way to Sarepta, and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Bosphoro, will possess the cities of the South21And the saviors will ascend to mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau. And the kingdom will be for the Lord