Hello and welcome
to His words are Life.
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I'm Kelly Mowrer and today
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we will be reading
together from the Book of Amos.
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But first let's pray.
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Dear Heavenly Father, thank you
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that while we were
caught in the chains of inequity
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and bowed down with
the weight of guilt,
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You set us free and You
redeemed us unto yourself.
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Please teach us your ways today,
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I ask in name of Jesus, amen.
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Picking up at Amos
Chapter 5 with verse 18
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and this is the
King James Version.
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Woe unto you that
desire the day of the Lord
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to what end is it for you?
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The day of the Lord is
darkness, and not light.
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As if a man did
flee from a lion,
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and a bear met him,
or went into the house,
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and leaned his hand on the wall,
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and a serpent bit him.
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Shall not the day of the
Lord be darkness, and not light?
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Even very dark, and
no brightness in it?
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I hate, I
despise your feast days,
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and I will not smell
in your solemn assemblies.
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Though all of you
offer me burnt offerings
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and your meat offerings,
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I will not accept
them, neither will I regard
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the peace
offerings of your fat beasts.
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Take you away from me
the noise of your songs,
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for I will not hear
the melody of your viols.
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But let judgment
run down as waters,
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and righteousness
as a mighty stream.
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Have all of you offered unto me
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sacrifices and offerings
in the wilderness forty years,
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O house of Israel?
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But all of you have borne
the tabernacle of your Moloch
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and Chiun your
images, the star of your God,
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which all of you
made to yourselves.
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Therefore will I cause you to go
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into captivity beyond Damascus,
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saith the Lord, whose
name is The God of hosts.
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Continuing with Amos Chapter 6.
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Woe to them that
are at ease in Zion,
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and trust in the
mountain of Samaria,
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which are named
chief of the nations,
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to whom the
house of Israel came.
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Pass all of you
unto Calneh, and see,
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and from thence go all
of you to Hamath the great,
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then go down to
Gath of the Philistines.
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Be they better
than these kingdoms?
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or their border
greater than your border?
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Ye that put far
away the evil day,
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and cause the seat of
violence to come near.
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That lie upon beds of ivory,
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and stretch
themselves upon their couches,
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and eat the
lambs out of the flock,
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and the calves out of
the midst of the stall,
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That chant to the
sound of the viol,
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and invent to
themselves instruments of music,
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like David, that
drink wine in bowls,
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and anoint themselves
with the chief ointments,
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but they are not grieved
for the affliction of Joseph.
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Therefore now
shall they go captive
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with the first that go captive,
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and the banquet of them
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that stretched
themselves shall be removed.
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The Lord God has
sworn by himself,
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saith the Lord the God of hosts,
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I abhor the excellency of Jacob,
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and hate his palaces,
therefore will I deliver up
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the city with
all that is therein.
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And it shall come to pass,
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if there remain
ten men in one house,
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that they shall die.
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And a man's uncle
shall take him up,
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and he that burneth him,
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to bring out the
bones out of the house,
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and shall say unto him
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that is by the
sides of the house,
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Is there yet any with thee?
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and he shall say, No.
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Then shall he
say, Hold thy tongue,
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for we may not make
mention of the name of the Lord.
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For, behold,
the Lord commandeth,
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and he will smite the
great house with breaches,
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and the little
house with clefts.
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Shall horses run upon the rock?
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Will one plow there with oxen?
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For ye have turned
judgment into gall,
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and the fruit of
righteousness into hemlock.
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Ye which rejoice in a
thing of nought, which say,
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Have we not taken to us
horns by our own strength?
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But, behold, I will
raise up against you a nation,
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O house of Israel,
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saith the Lord the God of hosts,
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and they shall afflict you
from the entering in of Hemath
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unto the river
of the wilderness.
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Continuing in the
Book Of Amos Chapter 7
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and this is the
King James Version.
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Thus has the Lord
God showed unto me,
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and, behold, he
formed grasshoppers
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in the beginning
of the shooting up
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of the latter growth, and, lo,
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it was the latter growth
after the king's mowings.
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And it came to pass,
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that when they had
made an end of eating
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the grass of the land,
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then I said, O Lord God,
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forgive, I beseech thee,
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by whom shall Jacob arise?
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For he is small.
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The Lord repented for this,
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It shall not be, saith the Lord.
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Thus hath the Lord
God shewed unto me,
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and, behold, the Lord God
called to contend by fire,
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and it devoured the great deep,
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and did eat up a part.
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Then said I, O Lord
God, cease, I beseech thee,
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By whom shall Jacob arise?
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For he is small.
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The Lord repented for this,
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This also shall not
be, saith the Lord God.
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Thus he shewed me, and, behold,
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the Lord stood upon a
wall made by a plumbline,
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with a plumbline in his hand.
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And the Lord said unto me,
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Amos, what seest thou?
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And I said, a plumbline.
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Then said the Lord, Behold,
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I will set a plumbline in
the midst of my people Israel,
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I will not again
pass by them any more.
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And the high places of
Isaac shall be desolate,
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and the sanctuaries of
Israel shall be laid waste,
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and I will rise
against the house
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of Jeroboam with the sword.
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Amaziah the priest of Bethel
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sent to Jeroboam
king of Israel, saying,
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Amos hath conspired against thee
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in the midst of
the house of Israel,
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the land is not able
to bear all his words.
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For thus Amos saith,
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Jeroboam shall die by the sword,
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and Israel shall
surely be led away captive
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out of their own land.
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Also Amaziah said unto Amos,
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O thou seer, go, flee thee
away into the land of Judah,
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and there eat
bread, and prophesy there,
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But prophesy not
again any more at Bethel,
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for it is the king's chapel,
and it is the king's court.
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Then answered Amos,
and said to Amaziah,
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I was no prophet,
neither was I a prophet's son,
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but I was an herdman,
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and a gatherer
of sycomore fruit,
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And the Lord took me
as I followed the flock,
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and the Lord said unto me,
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Go, prophesy
unto my people Israel.
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Now therefore hear
thou the word of the Lord,
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Thou sayest,
Prophesy not against Israel,
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and drop not thy word
against the house of Isaac.
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Therefore thus saith the Lord,
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Thy wife shall be
an harlot in the city,
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and thy sons and thy daughters
shall fall by the sword,
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and thy land shall
be divided by line,
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and thou shalt die
in a polluted land,
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and Israel shall
surely go into captivity
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forth of his land.
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Continuing in Amos Chapter 8,
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this is the King James Version.
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Thus hath the Lord
God shewed unto me,
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and behold a
basket of summer fruit.
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And he said,
Amos, what seest thou?
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And I said, A
basket of summer fruit.
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Then said the Lord unto me,
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The end is come
upon my people of Israel,
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I will not again
pass by them any more.
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And the songs of the
temple shall be howlings
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in that day, saith the Lord God,
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there shall be many
dead bodies in every place,
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they shall cast
them forth with silence.
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Hear this, O ye that
swallow up the needy,
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even to make the poor of
the land to fail, Saying,
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when will the new moon be
gone, that we may sell corn?
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and the sabbath, that
we may set forth wheat,
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making the ephah
small, and the shekel great,
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and falsifying the
balances by deceit?
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That we may buy
the poor for silver,
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and the needy
for a pair of shoes,
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yea, and sell the
refuse of the wheat?
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The Lord hath sworn by
the excellency of Jacob,
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surely I will never
forget any of their works.
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Shall not the
land tremble for this,
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and every one mourn
that dwelleth therein?
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and it shall rise
up wholly as a flood,
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and it shall be
cast out and drowned,
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as by the flood of Egypt.
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And it shall come
to pass in that day,
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saith the Lord God,
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that I will cause the
sun to go down at noon,
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and I will darken the
earth in the clear day,
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And I will turn your
feasts into mourning,
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and all your
songs into lamentation,
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and I will bring up
sackcloth upon all loins,
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and baldness upon every head,
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and I will make it as
the mourning of an only son,
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and the end
thereof as a bitter day.
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Behold, the days
come, saith the Lord God,
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that I will send a
famine in the land,
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not a famine of bread,
nor a thirst for water,
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but of hearing
the words of the Lord,
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And they shall
wander from sea to sea,
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and from the
north even to the east,
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they shall run
to and from to seek
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the word of the Lord,
and shall not find it.
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In that day
shall the fair virgins
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and young men faint for thirst.
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They that swear by the
sin of Samaria, and say,
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Thy God, O Dan, liveth, and,
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The manner of Beersheba liveth,
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even they shall fall,
and never rise up again.
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Continuing in Amos Chapter 9,
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this is the King James Version.
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I saw the Lord
standing upon the altar,
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and he said, Smite
the lintel of the door,
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that the posts may shake,
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and cut them in
the head, all of them.
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And I will slay the
last of them with the sword,
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he that fleeth of
them shall not flee away,
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and he that escapeth of
them shall not be delivered.
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Though they dig into hell,
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thence shall
mine hand take them,
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though they climb up to heaven,
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thence will I bring them down.
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And though they hide themselves
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in the top of Carmel,
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I will search and
take them out thence,
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and though they
be hid from my sight
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in the bottom of the sea,
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thence will I
command the serpent,
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and he shall bite them.
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And though they go into
captivity before their enemies,
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thence will I command the sword,
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and it shall slay them,
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and I will set mine
eyes upon them for evil,
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and not for good.
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And the Lord God of hosts
is he that toucheth the land,
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and it shall melt,
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and all that dwell
therein shall mourn,
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and it shall rise
up wholly like a flood,
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and shall be drowned,
as by the flood of Egypt.
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It is he that buildeth
his stories in the heaven,
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and hath founded
his troop in the earth,
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he that calleth for
the waters of the sea,
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and poureth them out
upon the face of the earth,
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The Lord is his name.
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Are ye not as children
of the Ethiopians unto me,
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O children of Israel?
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Saith the Lord.
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Have not I brought up
Israel out of the land of Egypt?
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And the
Philistines from Caphtor,
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and the Syrians from Kir?
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Behold, the eyes of
the Lord God are upon
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the sinful kingdom,
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and I will destroy it
from off the face of the earth,
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saving that I will
not utterly destroy
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the house of
Jacob, saith the Lord.
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For, lo, I will command,
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and I will sift the house
of Israel among all nations,
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like as corn is
sifted in a sieve,
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yet shall not the least
grain fall upon the earth.
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All the sinners of
my people shall die
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by the sword, which say,
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The evil shall not
overtake nor prevent us.
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In that day will I raise up
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the tabernacle of
David that is fallen,
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and close up the
breaches thereof,
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and I will raise up his ruins,
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and I will build it
as in the days of old.
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That they may
possess the remnant of Edom,
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and of all the heathen,
which are called by my name,
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saith the Lord that doeth this.
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Behold, the days
come, saith the Lord,
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that the plowman
shall overtake the reaper,
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and the treader of
grapes him that soweth seed,
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and the mountains
shall drop sweet wine,
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and all the hills shall melt.
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And I will bring
again the captivity
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of my people of
Israel, and they shall build
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the waste
cities, and inhabit them,
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and they shall plant vineyards,
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and drink the wine thereof,
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they shall also make gardens,
and eat the fruit of them.
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And I will plant
them upon their land,
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and they shall no more be
pulled up out of their land
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which I have given
them, saith the Lord thy God.
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Continuing in
the Book of Obadiah,
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this is the King James Version.
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The vision of Obadiah.
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Thus saith the Lord
God concerning Edom,
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We have heard a
rumour from the Lord,
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and an ambassador is
sent among the heathen,
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arise ye, and let us
rise up against her in battle.
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Behold, I have made
thee small among the heathen,
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thou art greatly despised.
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The pride of thine
heart hath deceived thee,
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thou that dwellest in
the clefts of the rock,
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whose habitation is
high, that saith in his heart.
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Who shall bring me
down to the ground?
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Though thou exalt
thyself as the eagle,
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and though thou set
thy nest among the stars,
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thence will I bring
thee down, saith the Lord.
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If thieves came to
thee, if robbers by night,
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how art thou cut off.
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Would they not have
stolen till they had enough?
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If the
grapegatherers came to thee,
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Would they not
leave some grapes?
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How are the things
of Esau searched out.
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How are his
hidden things sought up.
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Please join me again next time
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to read the
word of God. Goodbye.
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