Daily Bible GNT October 21 Verses

A Call to Repentance

Amos 5 Listen, people of Israel, to this funeral song which I sing over you:

²Virgin Israel has fallen,

Never to rise again!

She lies abandoned on the ground,

And no one helps her up.

³The Sovereign LORD says, "A city in Israel sends out a thousand soldiers, but only a hundred return; another city sends out a hundred, but only ten come back."

⁴The LORD says to the people of Israel, "Come to me, and you will live. ⁵Do not go to Beersheba to worship. Do not try to find me at Bethel--Bethel will come to nothing. Do not go to Gilgal--her people are doomed to exile."

⁶Go to the LORD, and you will live. If you do not go, he will sweep down like fire on the people of Israel. The fire will burn up the people of Bethel, and no one will be able to put it out. ⁷You are doomed, you that twist justice and cheat people out of their rights!

⁸The LORD made the stars,

the Pleiades and Orion.

He turns darkness into daylight

and day into night.

He calls for the waters of the sea

and pours them out on the earth.

His name is the LORD.

⁹He brings destruction on the mighty and their strongholds.

¹⁰You people hate anyone who challenges injustice and speaks the whole truth in court. Teamorcd0070nnnn ¹²I know how terrible your sins are and how many crimes you have committed. You persecute good people, take bribes, and prevent the poor from getting justice in the courts. ¹³And so, keeping quiet in such evil times is the smart thing to do!

¹⁴Make it your aim to do what is right, not what is evil, so that you may live. Then the LORD God Almighty really will be with you, as you claim he is. ¹⁵Hate what is evil, love what is right, and see that justice prevails in the courts. Perhaps the LORD will be merciful to the people of this nation who are still left alive.

¹⁶And so the Sovereign LORD Almighty says, "There will be wailing and cries of sorrow in the city streets. Even farmers will be called to mourn the dead along with those who are paid to mourn. ¹⁷There will be wailing in all the vineyards. All this will take place because I am coming to punish you." The LORD has spoken.

This reading is from The Holy Bible, Today's English Version, Second Edition copyright © American Bible Society, 1992;
Old Testament copyright © American Bible Society, 1976, 1992; New Testament © American Bible Society, 1966, 1971, 1976, 1992.

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