Bible Reading for June 29

Amos 4
[1] Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria,
which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters,
Bring, and let us drink.
[2] The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come
upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with
fishhooks. [3] And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which
is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the LORD. [4]
Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring
your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years: [5] And
offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the
free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the
Lord GOD.
[6] And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and
want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith
the LORD. [7] And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were
yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and
caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the
piece whereupon it rained not withered.
[8] So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they
were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. [9] I
have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your
vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm
devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. [10] I
have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young
men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I
have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have
ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
[11] I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not
returned unto me, saith the LORD.
[12] Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do
this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. [13] For, lo, he that
formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what
is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the
high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.

Amos 5
[1] Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O
house of Israel.
[2] The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken
upon her land; there is none to raise her up. [3] For thus saith the Lord
GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that
which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.
[4] For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:
[5] But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba:
for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.
[6] Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the
house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.
[7] Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the
earth, [8] Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the
shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that
calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of
the earth: The LORD is his name:
[9] That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled
shall come against the fortress.
[10] They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that
speaketh uprightly.
[11] Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take
from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall
not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not
drink wine of them.
[12] For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they
afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the
gate from their right.
[13] Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
[14] Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of
hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken. [15] Hate the evil, and love
the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God
of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph. [16] Therefore the
LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all
streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall
call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to
wailing.
[17] And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee,
saith the LORD.
[18] Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for
you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light. [19] As if a man did
flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned
his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. [20] Shall not the day of the
LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
[21] I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn
assemblies.
[22] Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not
accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
[23] Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the
melody of thy viols.
[24] But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty
stream. [25] Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the
wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
[26] But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images,
the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves. [27] Therefore will I
cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name
is The God of hosts.

Amos 6
[1] Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of
Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel
came! [2] Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the
great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these
kingdoms? or their border greater than your border? [3] Ye that put far
away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
[4] That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches,
and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the
stall; [5] That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves
instruments of musick, like David;
[6] That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief
ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph. [7]
Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the
banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed. [8] The Lord
GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the
excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the
city with all that is therein. [9] And it shall come to pass, if there
remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.
[10] And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring
out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides
of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall
he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the
LORD. [11] For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great
house with breaches, and the little house with clefts. [12] Shall horses
run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned
judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock: [13] Ye
which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us
horns by our own strength?
[14] But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel,
saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the
entering in of Hamath unto the river of the wilderness.

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