1211 Amos 4-6; Revelation 2:18-3:6; Psalm 130; Proverbs 29:21-22

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Amos 4-6; Revelation 2:18-3:6; Psalm 130; Proverbs 29:21-22 (Contemporary English Version)

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Amos 4-6

The Women of Samaria

The Lord said:

4 You women of Samaria

are fat cows!

You mistreat and abuse

the poor and needy,

then you say to your husbands,

“Bring us more drinks!”

2 I, the Lord God, have sworn

by my own name

that your time is coming.

Not one of you will be left—

you will be taken away

by sharp hooks.

3 You will be dragged through holes

in your city walls,

and you will be thrown

toward Harmon.

I, the Lord, have spoken!

Israel Refuses To Obey

The Lord said:

4 Come to Bethel and Gilgal.

Sin all you want!

Offer sacrifices the next morning

and bring a tenth of your crops

on the third day.

5 Bring offerings to show me

how thankful you are.

Gladly bring more offerings

than I have demanded.

You really love to do this.

I, the Lord God, have spoken!

How the Lord Warned Israel

6 I, the Lord, took away the food

from every town and village,

but still you rejected me.

7 Three months before harvest,

I kept back the rain.

Sometimes I would let it fall

on one town or field

but not on another,

and pastures dried up.

8 People from two or three towns

would go to a town

that still had water,

but it wasn’t enough.

Even then you rejected me.

I, the Lord, have spoken!

9 I dried up your grain fields;

your gardens and vineyards

turned brown.

Locusts ate your fig trees

and olive orchards,

but even then you rejected me.

I, the Lord, have spoken!

10 I did terrible things to you,

just as I did to Egypt—

I killed your young men in war;

I let your horses be stolen,

and I made your camp stink

with dead bodies.

Even then you rejected me.

I, the Lord, have spoken!

11 I destroyed many of you,

just as I did the cities

of Sodom and Gomorrah.

You were a burning stick

I rescued from the fire.

Even then you rejected me.

I, the Lord, have spoken!

12 Now, Israel, I myself

will deal with you.

Get ready to face your God!

13 I created the mountains

and the wind.

I let humans know

what I am thinking.

I bring darkness at dawn

and step over hills.

I am the Lord God All-Powerful!

Turn Back to the Lord

5 Listen, nation of Israel,

to my mournful message:

2 You, dearest Israel, have fallen,

never to rise again—

you lie deserted in your own land,

with no one to help you up.

3 The Lord God has warned,

“From every ten soldiers

only one will be left;

from a thousand troops,

only a hundred will survive.”

4 The Lord keeps saying,

“Israel, turn back to me

and you will live!

5 Don’t go to Gilgal or Bethel

or even to Beersheba.

Gilgal will be dragged away,

and Bethel will end up

as nothing.”

6 Turn back to the Lord,

you descendants of Joseph,

and you will live.

If you don’t, the Lord

will attack like fire.

Bethel will burn to the ground,

and no one can save it.

7 You people are doomed!

You twist the truth

and stomp on justice.

8 But the Lord created the stars

and put them in place.

He turns darkness to dawn

and daylight to darkness;

he scoops up the ocean

and empties it on the earth.

9 God destroys mighty soldiers

and strong fortresses.

Choose Good Instead of Evil!

The Lord said:

10 You people hate judges

and honest witnesses;

11 you abuse the poor and demand

heavy taxes from them.

You have built expensive homes,

but you won’t enjoy them;

you have planted vineyards,

but you will get no wine.

12 I am the Lord, and I know

your terrible sins.

You cheat honest people

and take bribes;

you rob the poor of justice.

13 Times are so evil

that anyone with good sense

will keep quiet.

14 If you really want to live,

you must stop doing wrong

and start doing right.

I, the Lord God All-Powerful,

will then be on your side,

just as you claim I am.

15 Choose good instead of evil!

See that justice is done.

Maybe I, the Lord All-Powerful,

will be kind to what’s left

of your people.

Judgment Is Coming

16 This is what the Lord has sworn:

Noisy crying will be heard

in every town and street.

Even farmers will be told

to mourn for the dead,

together with those

who are paid to mourn.

17 Your vineyards will be filled

with crying and weeping,

because I will punish you.

I, the Lord, have spoken!

When the Lord Judges

18 You look forward to the day

when the Lord comes to judge.

But you are in for trouble!

It won’t be a time of sunshine;

all will be darkness.

19 You will run from a lion,

only to meet a bear.

You will escape to your house,

rest your hand on the wall,

and be bitten by a snake.

20 The day when the Lord judges

will be dark, very dark,

without a ray of light.

What the Lord Demands

21 I, the Lord, hate and despise

your religious celebrations

and your times of worship.

22 I won’t accept your offerings

or animal sacrifices—

not even your very best.

23 No more of your noisy songs!

I won’t listen

when you play your harps.

24 But let justice and fairness

flow like a river

that never runs dry.

25 Israel, for forty years

you wandered in the desert,

without bringing offerings

or sacrifices to me.

26 Now you will have to carry

the two idols you made—

Sakkuth, the one you call king,

and Kaiwan,

the one you built

in the shape of a star.

27 I will force you to march

as captives beyond Damascus.

I, the Lord God All-Powerful,

have spoken!

Israel Will Be Punished

6

1 Do you rulers in Jerusalem

and in the city of Samaria

feel safe and at ease?

Everyone bows down to you,

and you think you are better

than any other nation.

But you are in for trouble!

2 Look what happened

to the cities of Calneh,

powerful Hamath,

and Gath in Philistia.

Are you greater than any

of those kingdoms?

3 You are cruel, and you forget

the coming day of judgment.

4 You rich people lounge around

on beds with ivory posts,

while dining on the meat

of your lambs and calves.

5 You sing foolish songs

to the music of harps,

and you make up new tunes,

just as David used to do.

6 You drink all the wine you want

and wear expensive perfume,

but you don’t care about

the ruin of your nation.

7 So you will be the first

to be dragged off as captives;

your good times will end.

8 The Lord God All-Powerful

has sworn by his own name:

“You descendants of Jacob

make me angry by your pride,

and I hate your fortresses.

And so I will surrender your city

and possessions

to your enemies.”

9 If only ten of you survive

by hiding in a house

you will still die.

10 As you carry out a corpse

to prepare it for burial,

your relative in the house

will ask, “Are there others?”

You will answer, “No!”

Then your relative will reply,

“Be quiet!

Don’t dare mention

the name of the Lord.”

11 At the Lord’s command,

houses great and small

will be smashed to pieces.

12 Horses can’t gallop on rocks;

oceans can’t be plowed.

But you have turned justice

and fairness

into bitter poison.

13 You celebrate the defeat

of Lo-Debar and Karnaim,

and you boast by saying,

“We did it on our own.”

14 But the Lord God All-Powerful

will send a nation

to attack

you people of Israel.

They will capture Lebo-Hamath

in the north,

Arabah Creek in the south,

and everything in between.

Contemporary English Version (CEV)

Copyright © 1995 by American Bible Society For more information about CEV, visit www.bibles.com and www.cev.bible.

Revelation 2:18-3:6

The Letter to Thyatira

18 This is what you must write to the angel of the church in Thyatira:

I am the Son of God! My eyes are like flames of fire, and my feet are like bronze. Listen to what I say.

19 I know everything about you, including your love, your faith, your service, and how you have endured. I know that you are doing more now than you have ever done before.

20 But I still have something against you because of that woman Jezebel. She calls herself a prophet, and you let her teach and mislead my servants to do immoral things and to eat food offered to idols.

21 I gave her a chance to turn from her sins, but she did not want to stop doing these immoral things.

22 I am going to strike down Jezebel. Everyone who does these immoral things with her will also be punished, if they don’t stop.

23 I will even kill her followers. Then all the churches will see that I know everyone’s thoughts and feelings. I will treat each of you as you deserve.

24 Some of you in Thyatira don’t follow Jezebel’s teaching. You don’t know anything about what her followers call the “deep secrets of Satan.” So I won’t burden you down with any other commands.

25 But until I come, you must hold firmly to the teaching you have.

26 I will give power over the nations to everyone who wins the victory and keeps on obeying me until the end.

27-28 I will give each of them the same power that my Father has given me. They will rule the nations with an iron rod and smash those nations to pieces like clay pots. I will also give them the morning star.

29 If you have ears, listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.

The Letter to Sardis

3

1 This is what you must write to the angel of the church in Sardis:

I have the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. Listen to what I say.

I know what you are doing. Everyone may think you are alive, but you are dead.

2 Wake up! You have only a little strength left, and it is almost gone. So try to become stronger. I have found that you are not completely obeying God.

3 Remember the teaching that you were given and that you heard. Hold firmly to it and turn from your sins. If you don’t wake up, I will come when you least expect it, just as a thief does.

4 A few of you in Sardis have not dirtied your clothes with sin. You will walk with me in white clothes, because you are worthy.

5 Everyone who wins the victory will wear white clothes. Their names will not be erased from the book of life, and I will tell my Father and his angels that they are my followers.

6 If you have ears, listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.

Contemporary English Version (CEV)

Copyright © 1995 by American Bible Society For more information about CEV, visit www.bibles.com and www.cev.bible.

Psalm 130

(A song for worship.)

Trusting the Lord in Times of Trouble

130 From a sea of troubles

I call out to you, Lord.

2 Won’t you please listen

as I beg for mercy?

3 If you kept record of our sins,

no one could last long.

4 But you forgive us,

and so we will worship you.

5 With all my heart,

I am waiting, Lord, for you!

I trust your promises.

6 I wait for you more eagerly

than a soldier on guard duty

waits for the dawn.

Yes, I wait more eagerly

than a soldier on guard duty

waits for the dawn.

7 Israel, trust the Lord!

He is always merciful,

and he has the power

to save you.

8 Israel, the Lord will save you

from all of your sins.

Contemporary English Version (CEV)

Copyright © 1995 by American Bible Society For more information about CEV, visit www.bibles.com and www.cev.bible.

Proverbs 29:21-22

21 Slaves that you treat kindly

from their childhood

will cause you sorrow.

22 A person with a quick temper

stirs up arguments

and commits a lot of sins.

Contemporary English Version (CEV)

Copyright © 1995 by American Bible Society For more information about CEV, visit www.bibles.com and www.cev.bible.